Methods and applications for advancing distance education technologies: international issues and solutions

Title Page......Page 2
International Editorial Review Board......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 7
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 12
Preface......Page 22
Acknowledgment......Page 27
Automatic Digital Content\nGeneration System for\nReal-Time Distance Lectures......Page 28
E-World:\nA Platform for the Management of\nAdaptive E-Learning Processes......Page 36
An Efficient and Effective\nApproach to Developing\nEngineering E-Training\nCourses......Page 52
A SCORM Compliant\nCourseware Authoring Tool for\nSupporting Pervasive Learning......Page 67
An Ontology-Based e-Learning\nScenario......Page 90
Adaptive Synchronization of\nSemantically Compressed\nInstructional Videos for\nCollaborative Distance Learning......Page 99
Refining the Results of\nAutomatic e-Textbook\nConstruction by Clustering......Page 114
Chinese Brush Calligraphy\nCharacter Retrieval and\nLearning......Page 123
Grounding Collaborative\nLearning in Semantics-Based\nCritiquing......Page 133
Improving the Usefulness of\nLearning Objects by Means of\nPedagogy-Oriented Design......Page 147
Adaptive Animation of Human\nMotion for E-Learning\nApplications......Page 161
eWorkbook:\nAn On-Line Testing System with Test\nVisualization Functionalities......Page 172
Choosing MOODLE:\nAn Evaluation of Learning Management\nSystems at Athabasca......Page 194
Enhancing the IMS QTI to\nBetter Support Computer\nAssisted Marking......Page 201
Streaming of Continuous\nMedia for Distance Education\nSystems......Page 217
How Did They Study at a\nDistance?\nExperiences of IGNOU Graduates......Page 243
Ubiquitous Computing\nTechnologies in Education......Page 257
An eLearning Portal to Teach\nGeographic Information\nSciences......Page 261
A Changed Economy with\nUnchanged Universities?\nA Contribution to the University\nof the Future......Page 273
Rationale, Design\nand Implementation of\na Computer Vision-Based\nInteractive E-Learning System......Page 295
Supporting Learners’\nAppropriation of a Web-Based\nLearning Curriculum......Page 315
Development of a Web-Based\nSystem for Diagnosing Student\nLearning Problems on English\nTenses......Page 351
Inhabited Virtual Learning\nWorlds and Impacts on\nLearning Behaviors in Young\nSchool Learners......Page 369
Research and Practice of\nE-Learning in Canada 2008......Page 383
Compilation of References......Page 391
About the Contributors......Page 418
Index......Page 432