E-learning Website Research Articles

Selection and ranking of E-learning websites using weighted distance-based approximation

The propagation of the web applications as E-learning websites has produced new opportunities as well as new challenges for academic organizations and individuals who are either delivering or receiving an education. The E-learning websites has become more and more popular from the last few decades due to the great benefits provided by the concept of E-learning such as study at any time and any place. Now a day, a number of organizations have developed their website to deliver the skills and the knowledge in the field of education. The rapid increase in the use of E-learning leads to the problem of E-learning evaluation and selection. The evaluation of E-learning websites might be considered from the perspective of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problems. In this research, the problem of the E-learning websites evaluation and selection is modeled as a MCDM problem. Further, for the evaluation and selection of E-learning websites, weighted distance-based approximation (WDBA) method is proposed that has a number of significant advantages over the existing ones. To validate the proposed methodology, WDBA, a comparison with the existing methodology, namely technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution is also provided.

Rancangan Sistem Aplikasi E-learning: Studi Kasus SMK Negeri 1 Pangkalpinang

Teaching and learning process in SMK Negeri 1 Pangkalpinang are still conventional, where the students and teacher activities are only conducted in classroom. Various teaching concepts and techniques have been developed to complement the conventional methods that rely solely on a one-way method of learning andteaching in the classroom. One of teaching methods is currently being developed is e-learning. E-learning is Teachers’aid in distributing their materials where they must not attend in classroom, but use internet access. It is the best way to maximized the studying time in limited rooms.E-learning could help teaching and learning process more efficient. To realize E-learning Application in SMK Negeri 1 Pangkalpinang, it can be carried out by Learning Management System (LMS) design using Moodle. Moodle (Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is one off the free LMS that can be downloaded, be utilized and be modified with a license as GPU (General Public License). The E-learning website will be used as additional discussion media for discussing unfinished learning materials, and multiple-choice exams and submitted tasks.

Penggunaan Uselearn Sebagai Metode Evaluasi Usability untuk E-Learning

This study aimed to evaluate E-learning using uselearn method. Uselearn is usability assessment method to assess E-learning from variable quality and usability. The questionnaire was given to 101 participants. The participants were given a questionnaire according with 12 dimensions of uselearn. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used to validate the result of quantitative statistic. The results obtained after processing the data using SEM formed 10 new usability dimensions namely Consistency and Functionality (CF), Error Prevention (EP), Visibility (VIS), Flexibility (FLEX), Accessibility (AC), Memorability (MEMO), Completeness (COM ), Reducing redundancy (RR), Interactivity, Feedback and Help (IFH), and Assessment Strategy (AS). From the analysis obtained the lowest usability index values for the dimensions of Interactivity Feedback and Help (IFH), Reducing redundancy (RR), Completeness (COM) and Error Prevention (EP). Improvements that can be done is to improve the appearance of the icon and menu additions, as well as setting the E-learning website.

Useful Activities for Improving the Attitudes and Characteristic of Student Groups in Programming Course

AbstractIn a programming course, lectures were given using a slideshow, and syntax and example programs from a textbook were explained. Afterward, students received worksheets with example programs and problems for practicing syntactic elements, and the professor explained the worksheets. The students then performed an exercise where they created a program based on example programs as an assignment. They were instructed to finish as much of their program as possible during class and to submit their program file and a report file over an e-learning site. They could learn either in class or through lecture slides uploaded to an e-learning site. Students' attitudes were assessed before and after the course. The attitudes and activities were analyzed with cluster analysis. Useful activities for improving the attitudes in a programming course were found by chi-square analysis of cross-tabulation of attitude and activity clusters. Principal component analysis of attitudes was conducted. Students were classified based on principal components of attitude scores. Characteristic of student groups is explained. The findings are reported in this paper.

Web-Based Cognitive Behavioral Relapse Prevention Program With Tailored Feedback for People With Methamphetamine and Other Drug Use Problems: Development and Usability Study.

BackgroundAlthough drug abuse has been a serious public health concern, there have been problems with implementation of treatment for drug users in Japan because of poor accessibility to treatment, concerns about stigma and confidentiality, and costs. Therapeutic interventions using the Internet and computer technologies could improve this situation and provide more feasible and acceptable approaches.ObjectiveThe objective of the study was to show how we developed a pilot version of a new Web-based cognitive behavioral relapse prevention program with tailored feedback to assist people with drug problems and assessed its acceptance and usability.MethodsWe developed the pilot program based on existing face-to-face relapse prevention approaches using an open source Web application to build an e-learning website, including relapse prevention sessions with videos, exercises, a diary function, and self-monitoring. When users submitted exercise answers and their diary, researchers provided them with personalized feedback comments using motivational interviewing skills. People diagnosed with drug dependence were recruited in this pilot study from a psychiatric outpatient ward and nonprofit rehabilitation facilities and usability was evaluated using Internet questionnaires. Overall, website usability was assessed by the Web Usability Scale. The adequacy of procedures in the program, ease of use, helpfulness of content, and adverse effects, for example, drug craving, mental distress, were assessed by original structured questionnaires and descriptive form questions.ResultsIn total, 10 people participated in the study and completed the baseline assessment, 60% completed all relapse prevention sessions within the expected period. The time needed to complete one session was about 60 minutes and most of the participants took 2 days to complete the session. Overall website usability was good, with reasonable scores on subscales of the Web Usability Scale. The participants felt that the relapse prevention sessions were easy to use and helpful, but that the length of the videos was too long. The participant who until recently used drugs was satisfied with the self-monitoring, but others that had already maintained abstinence for more than a year felt this activity was unhelpful and were bored tracking and recording information on daily drug use. Feedback comments from researchers enhanced participants’ motivation and further insight into the disease. Serious adverse effects caused by the intervention were not observed. Some possible improvements to the program were suggested.ConclusionsThe Web-based relapse prevention program was easy to use and acceptable to drug users in this study. This program will be helpful for drug users who do not receive behavioral therapy. After the pilot program is revised, further large-scale research is needed to assess its efficacy among drug users who have recently used drugs.

Nurses' Attitudes Towards E-Learning for E-health Education

Many studies and authors' own studies suggest that e-learning system is the solution that will establish an educational framework for e-health implementation. Therefore, it is essential in order to achieve success, to assess and evaluate the attitude of the nursing community - who are the end users - towards the possibility of implementing the 'E-learning system' as a solution to educate the nursing community. In this research, a survey captured 52 nurses' attitudes towards an on line e-learning website and showed that nurses have positive attitude.

Self-adaptive e-Learning Website for Mathematics

Self-adaptive e-Learning Website for Mathematics

Learners’ Evaluation of the Usability and Design Features of Chinese as a Foreign Language E-Learning Websites

Learners’ Evaluation of the Usability and Design Features of Chinese as a Foreign Language E-Learning Websites

P14.11 Developing sustainable, international partnerships model to build capacity in hiv and stis

Introduction Effective public health responses in prevention and management of HIV/STIs require strong human resources, focused on the development and implementation of evidence-based policies. We wished to explore how best to leverage Australian pedagogic and research skills in HIV/STIs into an Indian setting, in order to build human resource capacity. Methods An appropriate institutional partner in India was chosen on the basis of their academic track record. Financial support was obtained from the Australian Government’s aid agency. Three phases were developed: Phase 1: Stakeholder consultation and survey to establish local needs, together with pedagogic skill development at the partner institution; Phase 2: Curriculum mapping and development to reflect local educational priorities; Phase 3: Pilot delivery, followed by regional expansion. Results The University of Sydney partnered with the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), due to their focus on public health education, coupled with their technical and pedagogic expertise. 27 local faculty members of PHFI and affiliated organisations were trained in Australia and an enabling environment created by reciprocal visits and close collaboration. Forty three stakeholders from 14 Indian institutions participated in the national consultation. These included academic institutions, the National AIDS Control Organisation, NGOs and prospective participants. The preference was for a 6-month course focussing on public health aspects of HIV/STIs. To minimise costs, an e-learning site was developed using open source software and containing jointly developed content. The pilot course was delivered in 2013–2014, subsequently extended to include a regional component. A total of 53 students have successfully completed the course to date. Conclusion Clarity of purpose, careful matching of institutions and effective communication were keys to building informed partnerships. The leveraging of existing expertise, local adaptation, together with the use of open-source software has led to the development and running of a cost effective, scalable capacity-building resource. Disclosure of interest statement Australian aid agency of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia funded the project.

Impact of Health Education Course through E-Learning on the Performance among the Students of KFUPM

E-learning (EL) is the use of Information and Communication Technology like , Internet, Computer, Mobile phone, Learning Management System (LMS) and others to enhance teaching and learning activities. The great advantages of e-learning include making interactions between learners and instructors. There has been a large increase in the number of colleges and universities in the world that offer fully online courses and blended courses. The blended courses have a face-to-face component along with an online component. These courses are less costly for universities to offer and provide students with more flexibility than traditional classes. King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia has an E-learning site designed for teaching and learning using module software package. Health education is a professional field that has expanded rapidly, and emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention. Health education builds students' knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes about health. In KFUPM the students have to undergo compulsory PE classes which have a course syllabus containing health education. This study is about the student’s feedback and performance in the traditional and blended health education courses. For this study a total of 480 students (230-term 132 & 250-term 141) were selected as subjects .A questionnaire was selected on the health education for each of the four PE courses, 001, 002. 101 & 102. The students were asked to answer the questionnaire for term 132(traditional course) and 141 (blended). Besides, the performance of the students was analyzed to find the difference between the traditional group and the blended group. The results showed that the percentages of the scores of the blended group for the learning process of the all PE health education course contents were better than the traditional group. Further, the blended group had a significant performance when compared to the traditional group in all health education courses. It was concluded that the e-learning is more effective media in enhancing the performance of the students in the health education course.

Evaluation of a new eLearning platform for distance teaching of microsurgery

Online learning (or eLearning) is in constant evolution in medicine. An analytical survey of the websites of eight academic societies and medical schools was carried out. These sites were evaluated against parameters that define the quality of an eLearning website, as well as the shareable content object reference model (SCORM) technical standards. All studied platforms were maintained by a webmaster and regularly updated. Only two platforms had teleconference opportunities, five had courses in PDF format, and four allowed online testing. Based on SCORM standards, only four platforms allowed direct access without a password. The content of all platforms was adaptable, interoperable and reusable. But their sustainability was difficult to assess. In parallel, we developed the first eLearning platform to be used as part of a university diploma in microsurgery in France. The platform was evaluated by students enrolled this diploma program. A satisfaction survey and platform evaluation showed that students were generally satisfied and had used the platform for microsurgery education, especially the seven students living abroad. ELearning for microsurgery allows the content to be continuously updated, makes for fewer classroom visits, provides easy remote access, and especially better training time management and cost savings in terms of travel and accommodations.

Rancang Bangun Pembangkit Ontologi dan RDF pada Sistem E-Learning PrimagamaPlus

PrimagamaPlus adalah situs e-Learning Primagama yang berisi resource edukatif diantaranya ebook, video, berita dan artikel edukasi, serta TryOut secara Online. Situs ini sangat bermanfaat bagi siswa dalam belajar. PrimagamaPlus ingin konten yang dimiliki juga dapat dikonsumsi oleh aplikasi atau sistem lain. Oleh Karena itu Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menerapkan penggunaan teknologi web semantik agar konten pembelajaran PrimagamaPlus dapat dimanfaatkan oleh aplikasi-aplikasi lain melalui Internet. Pengembangan program menggunakan web semantik jenis RDF/XML karena skemanya dapat dibuat sendiri menggunakan RDFs dan Ontologi OWL. Library untuk pengembangan web semantik adalah DotNetRDF. Program yang dibuat berupa pembangkit ontologi dan pembangkit RDF untuk setiap konten e-Learning PrimagamaPlus. Ontologi dibuat dengan cara mendefinisikan kelas, datatype properties dan object properties yang akan digunakan untuk pembuatan RDF. Data RDF yang dibangkitkan menggunakan data ontologi sesuai dengan profil masing-masing konten e-Learning. Pembangkit RDF diset aktif saat ada penambahan, perubahan, atau penghapusan konten, agar tidak menambah aktivitas Administrator. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa aplikasi di luar PrimagamaPlus dapat lebih mudah menambang konten-konten e-Learning PrimagamaPlus. Setiap halaman PrimagamaPlus yang diakses, maka berkas RDF yang telah dibangkitkan tidak diikutkan di halaman tersebut. Yang ditambahkan hanyalah tag links yang mengacu ke lokasi berkas RDF. Hal ini memudahkan pengguna dan mesin penambang data mengakses konten karena transfer data yang relatif kecil. PrimagamaPlus, the Primagama e-Learning website has education resources consist of ebook, video, education news, article, and online tryout. This website is very useful for students when studying. PrimagamaPlus wants its learning contents can be consumed well machines or applications. So, this research purpose is to implement the use of semantic web technology so that the PrimagamaPlus learning contents can be consumed easily by those applications or machines. The software development use RDF/XML semantic web type because its schema can be costumed in RDFs and OWL ontology. The library for its development is DotNetRDF. The software feature that is built are ontology generator and RDF generator for every PrimagamaPlus e-Learning contents. The ontology is written by defining the classes, datatype properties and object properties that will be used for RDF creation. The RDF data that are created use ontology data apropriated with each e-Learning contents profiles. The RDF generator will run when there are addition, update, or deletion of the contents, so the administrator has no activity addition for this. This research shows that custom mining applications more easily to mine every PrimagamaPlus e-Learning contents. Every accessed PrimagamaPlus page, the RDF data is not added in it. The addition for the page is a links tag that has RDF data url. This condition make the users and mining applications have no transfer data difficulties when downloading the contents.

English e-learning in the virtual classroom and the factors that influence ESL (English as a Second Language): Taiwanese citizens’ acceptance and use of the Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment

Currently, the speed of knowledge innovation is accelerating with the prevalence of online learning, which penetrates the limits of both time and space. To date, studies examining English e-learning websites have rarely been conducted from the point of view of both the technology acceptance model (TAM) and information technology. In this research, we use the TAM as our basic theory to research the use of English e-learning websites. We find that (1) most English learners think that using the Internet to learn English is more convenient than using traditional methods; and (2) that most adult English learners think that using the Internet to learn English is more helpful than using traditional methods.

Optimising web usage mining for building adaptive e-learning site: a case study

An important application of web usage mining is mining web log data. We propose a new optimised technique for web mining, in the realm of an e-learning site to recommend the best links for a learner to visit the next. It optimises web mining, by partitioning the database, on the basis of the learner's knowledge level, to create a suffix tree(s) from the existing sequences of previous 'n' learners' path. To further reduce the overhead of re-mining the web patterns, we propose that a web traversal pattern should be regarded as significant, only if it qualifies the minimum threshold of length and frequency in the database. These significant patterns are added to suffixes. They are then mined, using the most efficient mining algorithm after a comparative analysis of various algorithms, to find the most frequent navigation paths for recommendation to n + 1th new learner. We conducted experiments on a real case study of an Indian e-learning site. This is verified by experiments with promising results on computational time. This speed up obtained, in web pattern mining, is a meaningful approach for building recommender based e-learning system.

IMPROVING LEARNING THROUGHPUT IN E-LEARNING USING INTERACTIVE-COGNITIVE BASED ASSESSMENT

An e-learning website is not sufficient to fully attain the results of online education. There also is a need to align the educational objectives into the design of the assessment to improve and develop cognition, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Previous studies have explored the potentials of the assessment models but few ventured into their implementation. Others only proposed and introduced conceptual frameworks. The implementation of these proposals, however, revealed that the question type in the assessment phase neglected to align their questionnaire formats into a cognitive schema. At present, the standard multiple-choice question is the most frequently used of the question type of e-learning assessments. However, if this type is the only format adopted by e-learning developers, then the potentially rich and embedded assessment of the computer platform will be given up. This paper focuses on the design of assessment questions, which is created and guided by the hierarchical Bloom cognitive taxonomy and by utilizing rich media formats. Results conducted for eighteen weeks show a dramatic increase in the academic performance of the students. Likewise, digital transcripts converted from the collected perceptions after training undergoes sentiment analysis have correlated with the student improved academic throughput.

REAL TIME ANALYSIS OF ATTRIBUTES OF AN INDIAN E-LEARNING SITE

E-learning is an evolving paradigm in the modern educational settings. For an effective e-learning, a lot of concentration should be made to understand the learner usage patterns, requirements and individual capabilities for delivering e-content. The main aim of this paper is to analyze and present the selected attributes of how learners interact with an e-learning site using a case study of an Indian e-learning portal. A quantitative survey was carried out to compile the data pertaining to learners’ profile and to derive views on the current experiences of the learners. The valuable information thus obtained will facilitate in assessing the effectiveness of the current e-learning material and predicting acceptability of adaptive environment for learners.

Key Success Factors and Evaluation Criterias of e-Learning Websites for Higher Education

Key Success Factors and Evaluation Criterias of e-Learning Websites for Higher Education

Faktor-Faktor yang Memengaruhi Perilaku Belajar Mahasiswa E-Learning

E-learning becomes one alternative for limited education infrastructure in Indonesia. So technological innovation website is used as one alternative content educational. So that the effectiveness of e-learning system should have constructivism approach when they use this system. This research aims to find variables that could influence e-learning students’ behavior when they use the system. Survey was conducted on e-learning students from Online Binus University and Indonesia Open University (UT).The result of the primary data was processedusing Wrapls 3.0 to process the structure equation model of the frame research. Ten hypotheses were proposed but only some hypotheses were valid. Variables such as motivation, digital literacy, and satisfaction affected directly to the attitude of understanding student learning, while the curriculum material product and interaction e-learning website did not influence the behavior of student e-learning attitude.

Évaluation d’un programme d’apprentissage en ligne de l’analyse du rythme cardiaque fœtal

In 2007, the French National College of Obstetricians published some recommendations concerning the Fetal Heart Monitoring (FHM) analyse, insisting on the importance of the initial and continuous education. This study deals with the evaluation of an FHM e-learning website named “e.RCF” using a pre and post assessment and a feedback form. The findings reveal a significantly greater efficiency of the “e.RCF” teaching software over the “classical” training. The impact is all the more important since the student is struggling, no matter the year of study. The questionnaire results show that they appreciate this teaching method and think “e.RCF” should integrate of their formation.

Students’ Assessment on the Usability of E-leaming Websites

The advancements in the field of information and communication technologies have offered a novel strategy to education, by switching the conventional process of obtaining and transferring knowledge. The prospects of web technology have been well recognized by educators, and the e-learning system is being heavily adopted around the world to yield the benefit of technology. However, still some challenges exist for the educational administrators to attract learners to their e-learning services.The e-learning websites should provide good usability, so that interactions oflearners can be as natural and spontaneous as possible. In this study we have considered Shackel's usability model to ascertain usability attributes and to develop questionnaire for the survey. The survey has been conducted among final year undergraduate students of South Eastern University of Sri Lanka (SEUSL). The sample includes both experienced and inexperienced users of e-learning websites. The findings reveal that experience and/or lack of experience of students do not carry much connotation in this study but confirmed that the usability attributes are vital for the natural and spontaneous interactions with e-learning web sites.