Shinobu Hasegawa

A learning management system based on the life cycle management model of e-learning courseware

The main issue addressed here is how to help graduate students obtain advanced scientific and technological knowledge by Web-based self-directed learning. Our approach is to propose a life cycle management model of e-Learning courseware, which promotes the design of learning management systems. In this paper, we also describe a framework for the learning management system based on the model using SCORM, which is becoming a global standard in developing learning management systems.

An e-Learning Library on the Web

The main topic addressed in this paper is how to help learners select some instructive hypermedia-based learning resources according to their learning contexts from the Web. Our approach is to provide a digital library for web-based learning called e-Learning Library, which includes learning resource repository, local indexing, and adaptive navigation support. This aims to promote their learning with diverse learning resources involving a certain topic.

AN INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN MODEL AND CRITERIA FOR DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING ONLINE VIRTUAL LABS

The purpose of this work is to propose a general instructional design model to teach students in faculty of education, especially in department of educational technology how to design and develop online virtual labs in a common way. We have made analyses of previous instructional design models and related studies in regard to the virtual labs to specify diverse features of the proposed model. It was found that the online virtual labs have no conventional instructional design model, especially for designing and developing stages and also no common shape and components. Based on these results, we have reached to a new suggestion model which guides the students in refinement of the future learning environment using recent technology. In this paper, we also present a list of criteria for designing and developing the online virtual labs.as a modern principles for directing designing process of online virtual labs environments to become instructional products. We have made a derivation of these criteria from previous studies related to the virtual labs, e-Learning technologies and some miscellaneous technological resources in educational technology. These criteria would provide the students with educational and technological guidelines to produce the online virtual labs with high quality and efficiency.

Adaptive Postviewer for Constructive Learning in Hyperspace

Self-directed learning in hyperspace requires learners to monitor their navigation process involving knowledge construction, which they have carried out so far, since what and how they have learned becomes hazy as the navigation progresses. Although the reflective monitoring is an important activity in the self-directed learning, it is hard for them to keep it during navigating pages. The main issue addressed here is how to support the reflective monitoring. Our approach to this issue is to provide learners with the postviews of their knowledge construction adapted to their navigation process. Following the idea of adaptive postviewing, we have proposed an adaptive postviewer for self-directed learning with existing web-based resources. It generates page postviews and knowledge map, which display information suitable for their reflective monitoring to promote the constructive learning in hyperspace.

Recommendation and diagnosis services with structure analysis of presentation documents

The main topic addressed in this paper is how to help novice researchers compose and improve their presentation documents by means of presentation heuristics shared by the members in a laboratory. The key idea is to propose a framework of presentation structure, which represents semantic roles of and relations among presentation slides included in the documents with metadata. Following the framework, this paper introduces a machine learning technique for automatically analyzing a typical presentation structure as presentation heuristics from the repository of the documents accumulated in the laboratory. This paper also demonstrates interactive Web services that recommend the metadata to be attached to the documents newly composed, and that diagnose the presentation structure of the documents by comparison with the presentation heuristics.

Adaptive Navigation Path Previewing for Learning on the Web

The main issue addressed in this paper is how to help learners plan a navigation path in existing web-based learning resources, which is an important process of self-directed learning in hyperspace. Our approach to this issue is to provide learners with the adaptive preview of a sequence of web pages as navigation path. Following the idea of path previewing, we have developed an assistant system. The system displays an overview of a web page selected by learners from a hyperspace map, by extracting information from the HTML document file related to the navigation path-planning context. It also enables learners to transform a sequence of previewed pages into a navigation path plan.

A navigation path planning on the Web

The main issue addressed in this paper is how to help learners navigate in existing Web-based learning resources. Our approach to this issue is to provide learners with a space, in which they can see through WWW pages to plan a navigation path in a learner-centered way. We describe an assistant system for the navigation path planning, which is composed of a hyperspace map, page previewer and path previewer. The page previewer generates an overview of each WWW page in the map by extracting representative information from the HTML file. The path previewer helps learners make a sequence of the pages previewed as a navigation path plan. These facilities help learners decide which page to visit and plan a navigation path without visiting hyperspace.

Improving concentration through picture selecting game based on kinect sensor for student with intellectual deficiencies

This study aims to implement Kinect sensor as a learning medium to increase concentration of children with intellectual deficiencies. The research method used was single subject research. The design of the research was carried out in particular time of period according to the needs and progress of student. Rehabilitation process itself normally was conducted in 5 sessions. The result of this research, the use of Kinect sensor has a large possibility to become an effective learning medium to increase the concentration of children with intellectual deficiencies.

A Presentation Support Service Using Presentation Semantics

The main topic addressed in this paper is to support researchers and students to make, share, and reuse their presentation documents. The presentation documents are well-organized information for their research. However, it is not so easy to share and reuse such documents since the semantic structure of the documents are not explicitly represented. In order to resolve this issue, we propose a presentation semantics model which represents roles and relations among the presentation objects in the presentation document. We also introduce a presentation support service for editing the presentation semantics and for designing a new presentation document as a Web 2.0 service.

A local indexing for learning resources on WWW

Learning with existing Web-based resources has become popular and important, particularly as the realization of lifelong and distance learning. However, many resources do not usually have a clear description of what kind of learners should use them, what kind of learning goal can be achieved, and so forth, which makes it difficult for learners to select appropriate Web-based resources. We have accordingly proposed a framework for reorganizing existing Web-based learning resources with indexes representing their characteristics, which consist of “How To Learn” indexes in addition to conventional “What To Learn” indexes, in order to build a learning resource database. This framework supports a new approach called local indexing, which allows instructors to assess indexes of the resources from their own points of view. This paper also describes a support for the local indexing and its preliminary evaluation. The results of this evaluation suggest that the local indexing support enables instructors to simply and consistently find out how learning resources should be learned.