Today's technology-enhanced learning practices cater to students and teachers who use
many different learning tools and environments and are used to a paradigm of interaction …

One of the main difficulties during the design of collaborative learning activities is adequate
group formation. In any type of collaboration, group formation plays a critical role in the …

This article presents research works in which a cultural adaptation method and a knowledge-
based advisor to help instructional designers in considering cultural variables during the …

This paper describes the achievements of an innovative eight-year research program first
introduced in Mizoguchi and Bourdeau (2000), which was aimed at building a theory-aware …

Abstract Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are complex multimodal systems with rich
verbal and nonverbal repertoires. There human-like appearance raises severe expectations …

Intelligent educational systems currently use ontological knowledge modeling for their
expert component. The associated semantics of the ontological languages allow for …

The interoperability of educational systems, encouraged by the development of
specifications, standards and tools related to the Semantic Web is limited to the exchange of …

Many instructional design models have been proposed and their benefits are evident.
However, there is lack of a common and formal notation to describe the product of the …

At one time, computers that could understand learning and instructional theories seemed
only a dream, yet recent advances in ontological engineering have enabled this dream to …

Most recent literature holds that objectivist and constructivist theories are polar opposites on
a continuum that should be combined. This quantitative, descriptive study explored whether …