Trends In E-learning Research Articles

Analytical assessment process of e-learning domain research between 1980 and 2014

Applying some methods to reduce the time and expenditures of training is inevitable in existing circumstances. Many educational organisations have realised the importance of Electronic Learning (E-learning) and tried to use this approach in leveraging their academic classes. As research in e-learning domain has become one of the most important and interesting subjects, observation in emerging and fading trends of e-learning is a need for the scholars and industry professionals who are interested to study and work in the field. This paper has triggered the investigation and depicting of scientific trends in e-learning by using two scientometric methods named burst detection and clustering analysis. By applying two mentioned methods, the hot topics were identified in the field of e-learning.

Analytical assessment process of e-learning domain research between 1980 and 2014

Applying some methods to reduce the time and expenditures of training is inevitable in existing circumstances. Many educational organisations have realised the importance of Electronic Learning (E-learning) and tried to use this approach in leveraging their academic classes. As research in e-learning domain has become one of the most important and interesting subjects, observation in emerging and fading trends of e-learning is a need for the scholars and industry professionals who are interested to study and work in the field. This paper has triggered the investigation and depicting of scientific trends in e-learning by using two scientometric methods named burst detection and clustering analysis. By applying two mentioned methods, the hot topics were identified in the field of e-learning.

The use of mobile learning application to the fundament of digital electronics course

A new trend in e-learning is known as Mobile Learning. Learning through mobile phones have become part of the educative process. Thus, the purposes of this study are to develop a mobile application for the Fundament of Digital Electronics course that consists of number systems operation, logic gates, and Boolean Algebra, and to assess the readiness, perceptions, and effectiveness of students in the use of mobile devices for learning in the classroom. This research uses Research and Development (R&D) method. The design used in this research, by doing treatment in one class and observing by using Android-based mobile application instructional media. The result obtained from this research shows that the test has 80 % validity aspect, 82 % of the user from senior high school students gives a positive response in using the application of mobile learning, and based on the result of post-test, 90, 90% students passed the exam. At last, it can be concluded that the use of the mobile learning application makes the learning process more effective when it is used in the teaching-learning process.

Microlearning an Evolving Elearning Trend

Abstract This article is analyzing the meanings of the micro-learning trend, as they have emerged and developed over the last few years. Exploring how the term micro-learning is used to organize and order a set of pedagogical and technological phenomena and concepts in new and interesting ways, it is brought into focus the most popular and widely used learning management platforms that embrace this concept.

Applying and Augmenting Deep Reinforcement Learning in Serious Games through Interaction

Serious games belong to the most important future e-learning trends and are frequently used in recruitment and training. Their development, however, is still a demanding and tedious process, especially when regarding reasonable non-player character behaviour. Serious games can generally profit from diverse, adaptive behaviour to increase learning effectiveness. Deep reinforcement learning has already shown considerable results in automatically generating successful AI behaviour, but its past applications were mainly focused on optimization and short-horizon games. To expand the underlying ideas to serious games, we introduce a new approach of augmenting the application of deep reinforcement learning methods by interactively making use of domain experts’ knowledge to guide the learning process. Thereby, we aim to establish a synergistic combination of experts and emergent cognitive systems to create adaptive and more human behaviour. We call this approach interactive deep reinforcement learning and point out important aspects regarding realization within a novel framework.

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Integration of information communication technologies, enhancing students’ motivation and adding to personalized learning, into higher education is challenging but beneficial. It is particularly acute in the field of foreign language learning which requires language competence formation along with knowledge of grammar patterns, vocabulary specificity and reproductive skills in listening, reading, speaking and writing. The given article reflects the current trends of e-learning of foreign languages to providing insights of teaching and learning practice, theoretical literature review and empirical data gained by students’ opinion polls in NRU HSE Nizhniy Novgorod branch. Both advantages and shortcomings are analyzed and the comparison of the traditional classroom education and innovative is carried out. Recent trends in e-learning of foreign languages, use of various tools and numerous techniques are considered. Key words: Gamification, Wiki sites, e-learning requirements, personalized learning.

Trends in e-learning - technological and pedagogical solutions: an overview of the Round Table hold within the framework oof Youth Scientific Conference Kliments' Days 2017

This report presents the trends for the future development of e-learning and an overview of the Round Table on Trends in e-learning - technological and pedagogical solutions are outlined, held within the framework of the Youth Scientific Conference Kliment’s days 2017, 16-17 November 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria at the Faculty of Biology of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. The main objectives and guidelines for discussion of the organized event are outlined. Key conclusions and summaries are presented regarding future trends and perspectives in the implementation of e-learning.

Trends in e-Learning: Impacts of Social Mobile Technologies on Information Behavior, Formal Learning and the Educational Market

Trends in e-Learning: Impacts of Social Mobile Technologies on Information Behavior, Formal Learning and the Educational Market

IT Trends and Practices for E-Learning Development in Higher Education

This study focuses on hot, key and top recent trends of e-learning and its developments and the A proper diagram of these eLearning trends is designed for the universities which may keep a sharp look out for the short coming future particularly in higher education. The elements and quality approach of E-Learning are evaluated and Quality Assurance processes are set up. A framework for E-Learning Quality Assurance is designed in order to continue interest and investment in online learning. The results show postgraduate adult students can increase their learning path dramatically in an environment when provided information is only essential information enough to understand a concept; non-ambiguity, clearness and simplicity are the key factors. Predicting future hot trends and having a frame work for QA might be helpful in having successful in E-Learning processes in higher education.

Teaching Research Methods and Statistics in eLearning Environments: Pedagogy, Practical Examples, and Possible Futures.

Generally, academic psychologists are mindful of the fact that, for many students, the study of research methods and statistics is anxiety provoking (Gal et al., 1997). Given the ubiquitous and distributed nature of eLearning systems (Nof et al., 2015), teachers of research methods and statistics need to cultivate an understanding of how to effectively use eLearning tools to inspire psychology students to learn. Consequently, the aim of the present paper is to discuss critically how using eLearning systems might engage psychology students in research methods and statistics. First, we critically appraise definitions of eLearning. Second, we examine numerous important pedagogical principles associated with effectively teaching research methods and statistics using eLearning systems. Subsequently, we provide practical examples of our own eLearning-based class activities designed to engage psychology students to learn statistical concepts such as Factor Analysis and Discriminant Function Analysis. Finally, we discuss general trends in eLearning and possible futures that are pertinent to teachers of research methods and statistics in psychology.

E-LEARNING: TRENDS AND STEPPING STONES

Acceleration of exchange of educational information its constant updating requires incorporating innovative educational products based on informational communications in educational system. Students who are mostly digital natives use information communication technologies more frequent and willingly compared to teaching staff. Consequently it calls for urgent measures to be taken to satisfy contemporary students’ emerging needs. Integration of information communication technologies, enhancing students’ motivation, adding to personalized learning, into higher education is challenging but beneficial. It is particularly acute in the field of foreign language learning which requires language competence formation along with knowledge of grammar patterns, vocabulary specificity and reproductive skills in listening, reading, speaking and writing. The given article reflects the current trends of e-learning of foreign languages, providing insights of teaching and learning practice, providing theoretical literature review and empirical data gained by qualitative and quantitive research methods, by students’ opinion polls in NRU HSE Nizhniy Novgorod branch in particular. Both advantages and shortcomings are analyzed and the comparison of the traditional classroom education and innovative one is carried out. Recent trends in e-learning of foreign languages, use of various tools such as wiki sites, educational platforms, Massive Online Open Courses, Gamification, flipped classrooms and other inspiring techniques are considered.

Current Trends in E-Learning and Future Scenario

E-Learning is an emerging methodology of modern education. It is gradually growing very fast for last two decades in the education sector. All the university, schools and companies started offering online courses to satisfy the student needs, and to improve employee effectiveness. E-Learning can deliver more value at very less cost than any other traditional mode of education. This advantage is attached with high-operating leverage for e-Learning companies, should translate them into elevated margins and returns on capital in the industry. E-Learning provides more advantage and user friendly even though it has disadvantages. There are many issues that remain to be resolved including problems with assessment, plagiarism and high drop-out rates encountered at E-Learning. The findings released by the MIT-Harvard MOOCs collaboration are also known as edX with a University of Pennsylvania study that concluded only 4 percent of people who register for online course actually finished them. E-Learning provide classes as recorded lectures, E-Books, Blogs, Wikis etc. but it do not concentrate on the learner’s perception. On considering these issues it is forward for research which is discussed as further. By the way the course will be getting more effective in psychological perceptive of learner and it will create an effective teaching and learning process. This study is based on the current trends of E-Learning and its future scenario towards the research process on educational technology. The scope of the e-learning has spread its root wide and depth in all educational institutions varies from schools to colleges and even in organisation for training and development for their employees. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5p484

How to identify e-learning trends in academic teaching

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to introduce methodology and findings of a trend study in the field of e-learning. The overall interest of the study was the analysis of scientific e-learning discourses. What comes next in the field of academic e-learning? Which e-learning trends dominate the discourse at universities? Answering such questions is the basis for the adaptation of service strategies and IT-infrastructures within institutions of higher education.Design/methodology/approach– Which e-learning formats dominate the current scientific discourse? To answer this question, a trend study based on a content analysis was performed. The abstracts of 427 scientific articles of leading German-speaking e-learning conferences Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft and E-Learning-Fachtagungen der Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GMW and DeLFI) – published from 2007 to 2013 – were examined. A category scheme was derived from the Horizon Report. The category scheme then was gradually expanded and adapted to the data material during the investigation.Findings– This paper found that the detailed analysis of the frequency distribution over the seven years reflects the intensity of scientific discussion towards e-learning trends within the investigation period, and conclusions about the didactical or technical potentials of innovations can be drawn because both conferences are different in terms of their objective. The authors also classified the life stages of selected innovations based on the Gartner hype cycles, and the striking findings of the study will be formulated in the form of assumptions, which reflect the development potential of learning management, mobile learning, virtual worlds, e-portfolio, social media and Massive Open Online Courses in German Higher Education.Research limitations/implications– Only abstracts of the selected contributions were investigated. Errors in the category allocation due to unclear terminology cannot be excluded. Organisers of the investigated conferences often define the (main) topics. This influenced the spectrum of represented topics overall, as well as the focus of individual contributions. The above-presented study was conducted at German-speaking conferences and, therefore, reflects the situation in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. No conclusions about actors or institutional relationships can be made, in contrast to the original assumptions of discourse analysis. The categorial classification of contributions does not allow any conclusions about the quality of the discourse.Originality/value– The study shows how proceedings of scientific conferences can be used for trend studies. It became clear that discourse analytical studies can be used complementary to other methods of future studies. The advantage of this methodology lies mainly in the easy access to the text material, as conference proceedings are mostly available online. In addition, the analysis of large amounts of data (or texts) can be greatly facilitated by use of digital technologies (e.g. by automatic analysis of keyword). This paper makes an important contribution to the diffusion of digital media in higher education.

Knowledge Level Assessment in e-Learning Systems Using Machine Learning and User Activity Analysis

Electronic Learning has been one of the foremost trends in education so far. Such importance draws the attention to an important shift in the educational paradigm. Due to the complexity of the evolving paradigm, the prospective dynamics of learning require an evolution of knowledge delivery and evaluation. This research work tries to put in hand a futuristic design of an autonomous and intelligent e-Learning system. In which machine learning and user activity analysis play the role of an automatic evaluator for the knowledge level. It is important to assess the knowledge level in order to adapt content presentation and to have more realistic evaluation of online learners. Several classification algorithms are applied to predict the knowledge level of the learners and the corresponding results are reported. Furthermore, this research proposes a modern design of a dynamic learning environment that goes along the most recent trends in e-Learning. The experimental results illustrate an overall performance superiority of a support vector machine model in evaluating the knowledge levels; having 98.6%of correctly classified instances with 0.0069 mean absolute error.

New Educational Trends Connected with the Development of Media and Innovative Technologies – A Few Reflections on the Future Perspectives on Learning and Teaching

The article traverses the new trends, selected methods and directions that are present in school and out of school education. The author analyzes the Polish examples and tries to relate them to the reality of the world education. Today's society is called 'information society', 'knowledge society' and but also 'network society'. The development of the media and new technologies has caused that today's teacher and student of all ages can enjoy a variety of tools to improve communication, gathering information and learning. The purpose of reflection is to identify what are the coming major trends in e-learning and education generally that will make an impact upon education in Poland (key issues: mobile learning; use of transmedia storytelling and WebQuest in education; gamification; new assessment tools such as e-portfolios and badges; blended learning as a method of learning; TED and Khan Academy as an educational sources; MOOC; OER; flipped classroom; The Learning Analitics). DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n4p232

Mapping the Evolution of eLearning from 1977–2005 to Inform Understandings of eLearning Historical Trends

While there have been very limited studies of the educational computing literature to analyze the research trends since the early emergence of educational computing technologies, the authors argue that it is important for both researchers and educators to understand the major, historical educational computing trends in order to inform understandings of current and future eLearning trends. This study provides the findings of an analysis of 2,694 journal articles published between 1977 and 2005 in four major, international educational computing journals. It provides the platform for a subsequent analysis for the period 2006–2014 and beyond, as future educational computing research is published. The journal articles analyzed were categorized according to their research themes. Subsequently, clustering analysis, multi-dimension scale analysis, and research diversity analysis were performed on the categorized results to explore the research trends. The research literature analysis confirmed that there were identifiable evolutionary trends dating from 1977, and, importantly, the analysis highlighted that each key breakthrough in technology was accompanied by increased educational research about those technologies to inform educational practices. Importantly, two major driving forces of the historical trends identified were technologies and pedagogical approaches. The paper concludes with explanations of how these trends from 1977–2005 have shaped the current focus on Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) needed for effective current and future eLearning.

The Trend of e-Learning in the Education for Health Care Workers

The Trend of e-Learning in the Education for Health Care Workers

Web Usage Mining for Building an Adaptive e-Learning Site: A Case Study

Recent trends in adaptive e-learning, incorporate the use of data mining techniques, to deliver learning according to learners' requirements. In this paper, web usage mining is realized as a case study on an Indian e-learning site. The objective of this paper is the analysis of the web log data of an eLearning system and the deduction of useful conclusions. The web mining process consists of data collection, preprocessing, applying data mining techniques, followed by pattern analysis. It would help in identifying those interaction sequences which are most or least frequent and to explore how to reorganize placement of content and assessments on the basis of usage and learner assessment data, thereby making an e-learning site adaptive to deliver tailored e-content, as required by the learner.

Blended Learning - Its Challenges and Future

Abstract Nowadays, the trend of e-learning is increasing day by day and one of the tools to implement this concept is through Blended Learning. This paper gives the overview of the concept of Blended Learning from different perspectives such as the Holistic Perspective, te Educational Perspective, the Pragmatic Perspective, the Corporate Training Perspective and the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Perspective. It also describes the various blended learning strategies. This paper also discloses the methods used in Blended Learning such as the synchronous instructional method and the asynchronous instructional method, which will help the readers to select the best instructional method. Besides this, the paper also reveals the dimensions of the blended learning approach i.e. blending offline and online learning, self-paced blending and live blending, collaborative learning, and blending structured and unstructured learning. This paper also describes the areas where this technique is beneficial, along with the challenges faced by this technique such as technical Challenges, organizational challenges and instructional design challenges. Then the Blended Learning process is described in terms of its various advantages. Factors that promote successful blended learning are also mentioned in this paper. Finally, some recommendations are suggested for future research.

The e-Learning Trends of Higher Education in Kazakhstan

Abstract Development of higher education in Kazakhstan follows the general trends of global education system. In 2011, Kazakhstan has launched the project of the Ministry of Education of Science “E-Learning System”. The most content-rich, attractive structure of information delivery for organization teaching process are the websites of some higher schools, but by the start of 2012-2013 academic year, there are available higher schools which do not have own websites, or access to their websites is limited, or some websites are being reconstructed. Higher schools of the Republic which do not have their own libraries are connected to the Republican Inter-University E-Library (RIEL), and also they offer access to other electronic libraries presented in the Internet. In recent years Kazakhstan is conducting works on implementation of technologies of electronic, virtual education. If in 2009 over 28 universities offered distance learning technology, then by September 2012 the distance learning is being offered on websites of about 50 higher schools of Kazakhstan. Today there is a need for collaboration of IT specialists and experts in developing virtual research laboratories at universities. Electronic (virtual) research laboratories contribute to the formation of innovative research and education environment in higher schools.