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Web-based Tele-Learning System

Mr. Cheung Kwok Wai, Benny

Miss Tang Wing Yan, Jovi

 

Web-based educational systems, or "tele-learning systems" are receiving more and more attention, because of the explosive growth of the Internet and World Wide Web. However, such kinds of self-study systems still lack several aspects, compared to a real life classroom setting and so suffer from their passive nature. They are often dull and plodding and leave students unmotivated. Unlike human teachers, these systems are not able to know individual students, to identify students' learning problems and to provide tailored aids to specific students.

This system establishes a student information repository that provides storage of learning and interaction history of each individual student who uses a web-based teaching system. Based on such repository, a Web-based teaching system is able to provide several novel features:

  1. Active, i.e. the system is like a human teacher, who monitors the student's activities and gives different guidance for different students,
  2. Reactive, i.e. the system perceives student's learning history and responds in a timely fashion,
  3. Pro-active, i.e. the system does not simply act in response to the students; it is able to exhibit goal-directed behaviour by taking the initiative interactively.

 

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