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Towards User Centric e-Learning Systems

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

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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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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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