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Towards User Centric e-Learning Systems

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Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES 2002)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2512))

Abstract

Distance education technologies are expanding at an enormously rapid rate. Too often, instructional designers and curriculum developers have become captivated of the up-to-the-minute technologies without dealing with the underlying issues of learner characteristics and needs. By employing techniques that improve personalization, designers can boost e-learning systems’ efficiency even more than by using new, experimental, teaching methods, keeping the deployment costs low at the same time. One of methods is to provide users with completely personalised system. The DisCo project, described in this paper, attempts to implement new personalisation features.

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  1. Department of Management Information Systems, The Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Al., Niepodleglosci 10, 60-967, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz, Marek Kowalkiewicz & Piotr Zawadzki

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  1. Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA, 94065, USA

    Christoph Bussler

  2. Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2D-510, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974, USA

    Richard Hull

  3. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-9020, USA

    Sheila McIlraith

  4. School of Info. Technology and Elec. Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia

    Maria E. Orlowska

  5. Department of Electronic and Information Science, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Barbara Pernici

  6. Infolab, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000, LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jian Yang

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Abramowicz, W., Kowalkiewicz, M., Zawadzki, P. (2002). Towards User Centric e-Learning Systems. In: Bussler, C., Hull, R., McIlraith, S., Orlowska, M.E., Pernici, B., Yang, J. (eds) Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web. WES 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2512. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36189-8_9

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