Personal learning environments or their acronym PLEs are understood as a set of tools, resources, connections, and activities that each person regularly uses for learning. This study examines the PLE approach in a university setting, evaluating its i...
The common understanding of e-learning has shifted over the last decade from the traditional learning objects portals to learning paradigms that enforces constructivism, discovery learning and social collaboration. Such type of learning takes place o...
This paper presents a comprehensive systematic review of personalized learning software systems. All the systems under review are designed to aid educational stakeholders by personalizing one or more facets of the learning process. This is achieved b...
Reinforcement learning (RL), a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), is becoming more popular in a variety of application fields such as games, workplaces, and behavioral analysis, due to its ability to model complex decision-making through interac...
24 May 2020
Spain is one of the countries with the greatest influx of immigrants and, specifically, of unaccompanied foreign minors (UFMs). The educational and social inclusion of unaccompanied foreign minors poses both a challenge and a threat to current policy...
This work describes an educational experience in which personal learning environments (PLEs) were created as a tool for the acquisition of subject contents in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) areas. For this, the same meth...
13 July 2020
The aim of the present study was to predict the variables that facilitate integration of unaccompanied foreign minors (UFM) and to develop personal learning environment (PLE) questionnaire dimensions with respect to social integration of UFM. Methods...
Background: The aim of the present study was to evaluate teachers’ opinions on the use of Personal Learning Environments (PLE) for the development of students’ intercultural competences. Methods: This investigation carried out a thematic...
The effective use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the discussion surrounding its educational contributions in formal settings are key elements in the analysis of personal learning environments (PLE). The aim of this study was t...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching and learning processes have experienced significant changes. Higher education institutions in Taiwan employed crisis intervention measures to instantly implement unified learning methods such as online t...
This paper presents the results of the analysis of the personal learning environments (PLE) used individually and in groups by fifth grade primary education students. The main objective was to determine if the use of mobile technologies in the studen...
We are living through a cultural transition, characterized by technological disruption and the erosion of the modern ideology, which are redefining the behavior of citizens in their physical and digital spaces. Virtuality emerges as a new human dimen...
Contemporary society is going through a cultural transition that leads to new conceptions about the ways in which human beings organize socially and communicate. This process of deep social and cultural transformations is characterized by a technolog...
As students’ affective states can differ between learning that occurs in traditional classrooms when compared with learning that takes place in extended reality and immersive learning environments, it is important to examine the role of affecti...
E-learning content and participants in the learning process are usually annotated with metadata. Complicated metadata models are necessary for organizing personalized learning, so an ontological metadata representation is used. Since ontologies repre...
Thanks to the drastic proliferation of the Internet, e-learning has been recognized as an effective medium for various kinds of aggressive learners. However, due to the deficiencies of tutoring and guiding functionalities in current learning platform...
Most people are using their smartphones daily and carry them all the time. Therefore, mobile learning applications can be integrated in daily routines to make learning a part of daily life. While numerous mobile learning applications exist, each with...
This article presents a sustainable, system-level approach to personalized practical learning in digital education environments based on tightly integrating formal models of practical tasks and artificial intelligence technologies. The authors resolv...
The dominant narrative casts large language models (LLMs) as a low-cost realization of Bloom’s two-sigma tutor: patient, always available, personalizing at scale. Self-paced online learning, the fastest-growing segment of higher and continuing...
With the increasingly prominent demand for building energy efficiency and occupant-centric design, accurate and reliable personal thermal comfort models (PTCMs) are playing an important role in various residential and energy applications (e.g., build...
Adaptation through Artificial Intelligence (AI) creates individual-centered feedback strategies to reduce academic achievement disparities among students. The study evaluates the effectiveness of AI-driven adaptive feedback in mitigating these gaps b...
This paper aims to summarize recent trends in the field of intelligent education and build on the research findings to propose a conceptual model of an intelligent educational environment (IEE) along with possible applications. A bibliometric analysi...
The transformation of university libraries into learning commons has highlighted the importance of informal learning spaces (ILSs). However, the mechanisms through which spatial elements influence learning experiences remain underexplored, particular...
Students use technology in various ways to learn. The differences in their learning goals and needs make it challenging for teachers to be more engaged in designing educational tasks, assisting, and coping with their students learning. This paper int...
Technology acceptance is essential for technology success. However, individual users are known to differ in their tendency to adopt and interact with new technologies. Among the individual differences, personality has been shown to be a predictor of...
In recent years, many research studies have focused on personalized e-learning. One of the most crucial parts of any learning environment is having a learning style that focuses on individual learning. In this paper, we propose an approach to persona...
In intermittent convective cooling environments created by split air conditioners, the dynamic nature of the environment poses challenges to traditional steady-state thermal comfort models in predicting human thermal comfort. Therefore, this study pr...
Smart classrooms leverage intelligent and mobile technologies to create highly interactive, student-centered environments conducive to personalized learning. However, measuring students’ personalized learning experiences in these technologicall...
In the digital age, the personalization of learning has become a critical priority in education. This article delves into the cutting-edge of educational innovation by exploring the essential role of ontology-based knowledge representation in transfo...
The rapid developments in early 2020 with the emergence of COVID-19 have led humanity into unexpected situations with significant implications at all levels. In trying to cope with the urgent need for distance education, the Greek educational communi...
Limited study time constrains university EFL vocabulary learning, so efficiency should be evaluated alongside accuracy. A web-based multimodal environment was developed that uses a large language model for contextualized drills and tutoring, text-to-...
Personal Thermal Comfort models consider personal user feedback as a target value. The growing development of integrated “smart” devices following the concept of the Internet of Things and data-processing algorithms based on Machine Learn...
Active student involvement and instruction through experience in everyday contexts are pedagogical approaches suitable to promote inquiry-based learning and improve learners’ cognitive skills. Nevertheless, many university and postgraduate cour...
Assuming the positive impact of Information and Communication Technologies on learning of students with Intellectual and Developmental Difficulties and considering the articulation of the public system and the particular and cooperative system of sch...
Recently, wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) has attracted a lot of attention as a useful index for measuring heat strokes even when core body temperature cannot be available for the prevention. However, because the WBGT is only valid in the vicinity...
6 February 2023
The pandemic necessitated teaching competencies that allow public health (PH) students to be immediately workforce ready. The shift to virtual learning provided an ideal time to consider pedagogies focused on applied learning opportunities, such as p...
Effective building energy prediction is essential for optimizing energy management, but existing models struggle with data scarcity and sensor heterogeneity across different buildings. Conventional approaches, including centralized and transfer learn...
Background: The aim of the present study was to validate and develop the dimensions of the Personal Learning Environments (PLE) questionnaire with regards to the social integration of unaccompanied foreign minors (MENA), in addition to analyzing its...
Personalized or precision education (PE) considers the integration of multimodal technologies to tailor individuals’ learning experiences based on their preferences and needs. To identify the impact that emerging multimodal technologies have on perso...
We describe a master’s level chemistry education course that was designed to support STEM education by strengthening the E component with an engineering approach. Engineering approach is a method of conducting projects systematically similar to...
Among the numerous learning management platforms, Moodle is free, open-source software supporting expanding and modularized system functions and services to facilitate online courses or online resources and interactive activities. This study enhanced...
This study compares university students’ approaches to learning and experiences with the teaching–learning environment in general and during online studying as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines students’ learning profiles and how student...
Sustainable development is a desirable, global challenge that is as complex as it is necessary. While individual actions are positive, effective progress must start from a collective commitment. In line with this, recent research points to an urgent...
Smart living, an increasingly prominent concept, entails incorporating sophisticated technologies in homes and urban environments to elevate the quality of life for citizens. A critical success factor for smart living services and applications, from...
23 June 2020
Promoting age-friendly environment is one of the appropriate approaches to support quality of life toward ageing populations. However, the information regarding age-friendly environments in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Plus Thre...
There is a worldwide concern for young children’s online safety and a growing necessity for e-safety skills to be taught to children from a young age as part of formal schooling. The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate the effectiv...
30 August 2022
Recent psychological research shown that the places where we live are linked to our personality traits. Geographical aggregation of personalities has been observed in many individualistic nations; notably, the mountainousness is an essential componen...
Reliable personnel detection in underground mines is essential for safe intelligent mining, but uneven illumination, dust occlusion, thermal interference, and cross-modal parallax can degrade RGB-T perception. We propose an Environment-Driven Fusion...
A personalized framework for smart home automation is introduced, utilizing machine learning to predict user activities and allow for the context-aware control of living spaces. Predicting user activities, such as ‘Watch_TV’, ‘Sleep...
Urban ecosystem services (ESs) are increasingly recognized as critical determinants of residents’ quality of life and well-being. This study develops a data-driven demand–supply matching framework to integrate ES concepts into community-l...
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