Novel Developments in Web-Based Learning Technologies: Tools for Modern Teaching

✍ Scribed by Nikos Karacapilidis

• Publisher: IGI Global snippet
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 430
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The proper exploitation of Web-based technologies towards building responsive environments is highly critical. Novel Developments in Web-Based Learning Technologies: Tools for Modern Teaching addresses diverse conceptual, social, and technical issues in the modern era's broad learning and teaching concepts. This significant reference provides professionals, researchers, and practitioners with up-to-date research in developing innovative and more effective learning systems by using Web-based technologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 19
Virtual Communities of Practices in Higher Education: Which Processes and Technologies? Evidence from a Case Study......Page 30
Exploiting Virtual Environments and Web 2.0 Immersive Worlds to Support Collaborative e-Learning Communities......Page 49
Web Technologies and E-Learning Strategies for New Teaching Paradigms......Page 75
Teaching Dimension in Web-Based Learning Communities......Page 88
Management of Lecture Time: Using the Web to Manipulate Extrinsic Cognitive Load......Page 98
Onsite and Online Students’ and Professors’ Perceptions of ICT Use in Higher Education......Page 112
Profiling Group Activity of Online Academic Workspaces: The Hellenic Open University Case Study......Page 147
A Method of Building Learner Model in Personalized E-Learning......Page 162
OrPAF: an Environment for Adaptive Hypermedia Courses in the Semantic Web Context......Page 188
E-Learning with Wikis, Weblogs and Discussion Forums: An Empirical Survey about the Past, the Presence and the Future......Page 203
Social Tagging and Learning: The Fuzzy Line between Private and Public Space......Page 228
Some Key Success Factors in Web-Based Corporate Training in Brazil: A Multiple Case Study......Page 240
A Virtual World Environment for Group Work......Page 262
Reading Comprehension as a Competence to Digital Media Expert Performance......Page 274
Implementation of Efficient Proactive Computing Using Lazy Evaluation in a Learning Management System......Page 287
EVAWEB V2: Enhancing a Web-Based Assessment System Focused on Non-Repudiation Use and Teaching......Page 294
SOA-Frameworks for Modular Virtual Learning Environments: Comparing Implementation Approaches......Page 306
Towards Automated Specifications of Scenarios in Enhanced Learning Technology......Page 323
Bridging the Gap between Instructional Design and Double-Loop Learning......Page 334
The Implementation of a Server-Based Computerized Adaptive Testing on Mobile Devices (CAT-MD)......Page 345
Integrating Awareness Mechanisms in Web-Based Argumentative Collaboration Support Environments......Page 356
Compilation of References......Page 370
About the Contributors......Page 408
Index......Page 420