Evolution of Teaching and Learning Paradigms in Intelligent Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction to the Evolution of Teaching and Learning Paradigms

   • Raymond A. Tedman, Debra K. Tedman

   Pages 1-6

3. Why Designers cannot be Agnostic about Pedagogy: The Influence of Constructivist Thinking in Design of e-Learning for HE

   • Miguel Baptista Nunes, Maggie McPherson

   Pages 7-30

4. Problem-Based Learning in an e-Learning Environment: A Case Study at Griffith University School of Medicine

   • Raymond A. Tedman, Heather Alexander, Robert Loudon

   Pages 31-45

5. Educational Ontologies Construction for Personalized Learning on the Web

   • Apple Wai Ping Fok, Horace Ho Shing Ip

   Pages 47-82

6. Sequencing in Web-Based Education: Approaches, Standards and Future Trends

   • Sergio Gutiérrez, Belardo Pardo

   Pages 83-117

7. From Dungeons to Classrooms: The Evolution of MUDs as Learning Environments

   • Brian M. Slator, Otto Borchert, Lisa Brandt, Harold Chaput, Kellie Erickson, Gabriel Groesbeck et al.

   Pages 119-159

8. The Development of an Approach to Learning Within the Middle Schooling Paradigm

   • Debra Tedman

   Pages 161-181

9. Applying Data Mining Techniques to e-Learning Problems

   • Félix Castro, Alfredo Vellido, Àngela Nebot, Francisco Mugica

   Pages 183-221

10. Data Mining of Virtual Campus Data

    • Alfredo Vellido, Félix Castro, Terence A. Etchells, Àngela Nebot, Francisco Mugica

    Pages 223-254

11. Technology and Pedagogy – How to Learn Technique

    • Riitta Penttinen, Sari Minkkinen

    Pages 255-283

12. Authoring and Management Tools for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems: The AHA! Case Study

    • Paul De Bra, Natalia Stash, David Smits, Cristóbal Romero, Sebastián Ventura

    Pages 285-308

Teaching and learning paradigms have attracted increased attention in the last few years. Improved access to high speed Internet services and the massive increase in popularity of the Internet have paved the way for alternative but effective approaches in teaching and learning. This book on the evolution of teaching and learning paradigms in intelligent environment presents the latest ideas pertaining to educational pedagogy. The authors have recognised the role of constructivist thinking in teaching and learning plus the importance of providing a wide range of mental resources to encourage cognitive growth in students. Electronic learning or e-learning is rapidly transforming the teaching and learning environments of tertiary education facilities, further moulding the educational pedagogy to match the virtual digital modes of commu- cation favoured by teenagers during their secondary education. Teachers need to recognise that while technology should empower the learning process it is important not to neglect educational issues during the systematic analysis and design of the technologies for specific learning purposes. Recent advances in e-learning have emphasised the importance of personalised learning ontology or customising of learning material and activities to provide a personal environment for each learning activity. This means adapting the learning content, its sequencing and maybe some aspects of the learning process so that it can be adapted to different users with different capabilities. This push for personalised learning has also focused upon the need for refining data mining methods to classify e-learning problems e. g.

• Intellligence-centred domain
• Pedagogy
• Standards
• Technology
• construction
• data mining
• education
• evolution
• hypermedia
• learning
• medicine
• ontology

• School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

  Lakhmi C. Jain

• School of Medicine, Griffith University Medicine and Oral Health Centre, Brisbane, Australia

  Raymond A. Tedman

• Kings Christian College, Reedy Creek, Australia

  Debra K. Tedman

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