Juan Ramón Pérez

Adaptation in current e-learning systems

One key element to consider when developing e-learning systems is the adaptation of the system to the cognitive characteristics of the students. However, making this adaptation is not a simple process; it implies the study and conjunction of technical and pedagogical aspects. This article was written from the point of view of a designer who, without being an expert on the cognitive elements, tries to design e-learning systems that include an adaptation for them. This article attempts to provide the answers to some design questions as a starting point to further develop e-learning platforms.

Feijoo.net: an approach to personalized E-learning using learning styles

This paper proposes a model of adaptation called Feijoo.net. Feijoo. net is a system which adapts contents and the presentation of these contents to the learning style of each student. In this model, contents are separated from their presentation on the Web. Feijoo.net is focused on university students. The main goal is to get an adaptation model of the learning of each student following the directives proposed by the cognitive psychology and pedagogy.

Voice interactive classroom: best practices and design strategies

This paper provides an insight into the process of developing comprehensive voice‐enabled and interoperable learning services. We provide a background on the Voice Interactive Classroom, a service‐oriented architecture that enables cross‐platform multichannel access to Internet‐based learning. Strategies and practices for designing, developing, documenting and evaluating service‐oriented applications are also presented, which allow aural access to existing e‐learning platforms. In addition, we summarise the development of four voice‐enabled learning services and report the findings obtained from evaluating their usability and didactic effectiveness. This research is intended to facilitate students and practitioners with planning, implementing and evaluating their own solutions. Copyright

A development web environment for learning programming languages

This paper proposes an environment for the teaching of program languages in a web environment. We consider that the student has to do exercises when he is learning a programming language; these tasks cause extra difficulties in conventional web environments. To remove these difficulties we propose an application that we have called DWE (Development Web Environment); the core is a language compiler integrated in the web application. Along with this compiler there are other modules to help the student while hes developing the programs; to obtain this we try to facilitate the communication teacher - student and student - student and we try to use the experience from all users in a group.

Designing Case Studies for the Voice Interactive Classroom

In this paper we present a design of case studies for a service-oriented middleware named Voice Interactive Classroom, which allows providing aural access to existing e-learning platforms. This research provides an insight into the process for designing, developing, documenting and evaluating research cases studies based on the middleware. In addition, we summarise the development of three voice-enabled learning services which address the experimental aspects of the design process. This research is intended to provide students and practitioners with indications they can use to plan, implement and evaluate case studies based on the proposed solution.

RSS-Based Learning Using Audio

Specifications such as RSS feeds are opening a new channel of communication for Internet-based learning, which gives a decentralized view of web resources while maintaining the privacy of teachers and students who are consulting the information. This philosophy can be used to create personalized learning tools in which users can take control of resources they want to have access to. In this regard, RSS is XML-based, which makes it easy to complement visual access with audio interfaces, adapting the feeds to different educational contexts and learning styles. This paper discusses the use of feed syndication to create personalized feed readers accessible in visual and voice formats.

A case study of the adaptation of problem-based learning for programming subjects

This article describes a case study of the adaptation of the problem-based learning (PBL) method for a programming subject. For this study, we focused in a web programming subject which is part of the academic programme for the Computer Science degree at the University of Oviedo. Taking as base previous implementations of PBL by other universities, we propose a method adapted to programming learning. This article analyses pros and cons resulted from applying this method in the web programming course, as well as results obtained from the study, including comparative grade distribution and appreciations from lecturers and students.

Adaptable contents visualization (VIC)

VIC is the item inside the e-learning tool PWGD which is addressed to the student, it interacts with him or her, as well. Currently available tools are mainly focussed on teachers, helping them whereas the student can only watch the contents provided by the teacher and in the same way the teacher arranged them. This application aims to make learning easier, in order to do that subject contents will be shaped according to the learning habits of the student. The application follows the pattern Model-View-Ruler, which allows splitting contents and shape, so contents will be adapted to different shapes.

IOWA: intuitive-use oriented webtool for the creation of adapted contents (in an E-learning environment)

In this paper, we propose to include adaptation, in particular to the learning styles, to traditional e-learning systems in order to get a new application which adapts its contents to the user instead of being the user who adapts his habits to what the system requires. We also present the Intuitive-use Oriented Webtool for the creation of Adapted contents (in an e-learning environment), a.k.a. IOWA, an application which allows teachers to create adapted contents which will be showed later to students depending on the style they belong to.

Adaptive interactive dialogs through the web: addressing user's interaction requirements dynamically

Addressing the interaction requirements of the users of a web site at its the design stage seems to be an impossibly task as there are too many cognitive, perceptive and motive factors involved. If a web site pretends to be usable for dozens or even hundreds kinds of different users, it must be generated dynamically, depending on the interaction requirements of the current user.