Adaptivity through the Use of Mobile Agents in Web-based Student Modelling

Kinshuk Kinshuk; Hong Hong; Ashok Patel

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 1, No. 3 (2002) pp. 55–64

Web-based learning environments are becoming part of mainstream education. The research in web-based, individualized instruction has evolved quite a bit. Additionally, there are many prototype systems available that incorporate student models to...

Topics: Internet, Distance Education, Information Communication Technologies, Learning Management Systems, Communication

A student model for web-based intelligent educational system

Binglan Han; Dr Kinshuk; Ashok Patel

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 656–657

This paper describes the structure, functionality, and implementation of a student model used for web-based domain independent educational system. It is designed to take advantage of Internet based group inferencing while providing adaptivity in...

Role of human teacher in web-based intelligent tutoring systems

Kinshuk ; Ashok Patel; Reinhard Oppermann; David Russell

Journal of Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning Vol. 6, No. 1 (2001) pp. 26–35

The advent of the Internet as a global communication medium has brought about a new focus on an area of research in designing intelligent tutoring systems (ITS), that has not been adequately considered so far mainly due to the localised nature of...

An Initial Framework of Contexts for Designing Usable Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Ashok Patel; David Russell; Kinshuk ; Reinhard Oppermann; Rossen Rashev

Information Services & Use Vol. 18, No. 1 (1998) pp. 65–76

Discussion of context focuses on the various contexts surrounding the design and use of intelligent tutoring systems and proposes an initial framework of contexts by classifying them into three major groupings: interactional; environmental,...

Application of Mobile agents in Web-based Learning environment

Hong Hong; Dr Kinshuk; Xiaoqin He; Ashok Patel; Chris Jesshope

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 778–783

Web-base learning environments are strongly driven by information revolution and the Internet, but they have a number of common deficiencies, such as slow access, no adaptivity to individual student, limitation by bandwidth, and so on. This paper...

Topics: Learning Management Systems, Educational Technology, Distance Education

Cognitive Trait Model for Persistent Student Modelling

Taiyu Lin; Dr Kinshuk; Ashok Patel; Hong Hong

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2144–2147

The existing student modelling approaches have mainly focused on modelling student's competence state on a specific domain. This paper provides a new model, called Cognitive Trait Model (CTM) that supplements performance-based student models by...

Topics: Cognition, Students

A Framework based Approach for Intelligent Multimedia in Education

Dr Kinshuk; Hong Hong; Ashok Patel; Chris Jesshope

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 967–968

This paper describes an approach for multimedia representation within the intelligent educational systems to facilitate better domain competence acquisition by the learners. The implementation of the approach is dependent on the educational...

Topics: Multimedia