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

Mahbubur Syed, Mahbubur Syed1605663425, 9781605663425

The emerging field of advanced distance education delivers academic courses across time and distance, allowing educators and students to participate in a convenient learning method.
Methods and Applications for Advancing Distance Education Technologies: International Issues and Solutions demonstrates communication technologies, intelligent technologies, and quality educational pedagogy as the most essential requirements for advancing distance education for both teaching and learning. A significant research collection for the advancement of distance learning initiatives, this Premier Reference Source assists academicians, practitioners, and researchers in finding answers to important issues needing addressed for a successful distance education.

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Table of contents :
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
Generation System for
Real-Time Distance Lectures……Page 28
E-World:
A Platform for the Management of
Adaptive E-Learning Processes……Page 36
An Efficient and Effective
Approach to Developing
Engineering E-Training
Courses……Page 52
A SCORM Compliant
Courseware Authoring Tool for
Supporting Pervasive Learning……Page 67
An Ontology-Based e-Learning
Scenario……Page 90
Adaptive Synchronization of
Semantically Compressed
Instructional Videos for
Collaborative Distance Learning……Page 99
Refining the Results of
Automatic e-Textbook
Construction by Clustering……Page 114
Chinese Brush Calligraphy
Character Retrieval and
Learning……Page 123
Grounding Collaborative
Learning in Semantics-Based
Critiquing……Page 133
Improving the Usefulness of
Learning Objects by Means of
Pedagogy-Oriented Design……Page 147
Adaptive Animation of Human
Motion for E-Learning
Applications……Page 161
eWorkbook:
An On-Line Testing System with Test
Visualization Functionalities……Page 172
Choosing MOODLE:
An Evaluation of Learning Management
Systems at Athabasca……Page 194
Enhancing the IMS QTI to
Better Support Computer
Assisted Marking……Page 201
Streaming of Continuous
Media for Distance Education
Systems……Page 217
How Did They Study at a
Distance?
Experiences of IGNOU Graduates……Page 243
Ubiquitous Computing
Technologies in Education……Page 257
An eLearning Portal to Teach
Geographic Information
Sciences……Page 261
A Changed Economy with
Unchanged Universities?
A Contribution to the University
of the Future……Page 273
Rationale, Design
and Implementation of
a Computer Vision-Based
Interactive E-Learning System……Page 295
Supporting Learners’
Appropriation of a Web-Based
Learning Curriculum……Page 315
Development of a Web-Based
System for Diagnosing Student
Learning Problems on English
Tenses……Page 351
Inhabited Virtual Learning
Worlds and Impacts on
Learning Behaviors in Young
School Learners……Page 369
Research and Practice of
E-Learning in Canada 2008……Page 383
Compilation of References……Page 391
About the Contributors……Page 418
Index……Page 432