Università della Svizzera italiana

Learner models in online personalized educational experiences : an infrastructure and some experim

Mazzola, Luca ; Colombetti, Marco (Dir.) ; Mazza, Riccardo (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM004.

Technologies are changing the world around us, and education is not immune from its influence: the field of teaching and learning supported by the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), also known as Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), has witnessed a huge expansion in recent years. This wide adoption happened thanks to the massive diffusion of broadband connections and to...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Using information visualisation to facilitate instructors in web-based distance learning

Mazza, Riccardo ; Colombetti, Marco (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2004 ; 2004COM001.

The World Wide Web provides great opportunities for creating virtual classrooms of learners and instructors involved in distance education. Many software environments take advantage of the client-server communication on the Internet and support open and distance learning. Using environments called Course Management Systems (CMS), instructors can distribute information to students, produce content...