Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / This thesis critically analyzes the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) within higher education and examines SCORM's limitations within a realistic application environment versus within a theoretical/conceptual platform. The thesis also examines environments better suited for implementation of SCORM technology. In addressing the research questions, it was discovered that from the current standards set forth by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), SCORM is not well suited for higher education. SCORM technology will prove of greater utility within the Navy Training environment than in higher education. In their effort to share information, higher education institutions would benefit more from a Content Management System in conjunction with a Learning Management System. Subsequent chapters addressed the limitations of SCORM, provided a comparison of the applicability of SCORM within the separate domains of naval Education and Training, and provided a prototype of a Content Management System for institutions of higher learning. / Lieutenant Commander, Hellenic Navy / Lieutenant, United States Naval Reserve

This dissertation titled Content management systems and their implementation focuses in its theoretical part on the terms content and content management. Then it defines particular types of content management systems and their functions, both the general ones and the specific ones for particular types of systems. It also focuses on the using of particular terms in the field of content management systems and it defines some differences in their interpretation. In the theoretical part it also describes how the organization applying the project approach to implementing of content management systems as from requirements setting through the selection criteria for comparing and selecting the appropriate system. The output of the practical part is the selection of suitable web content management system for Vyšší odborná škola a Obchodní akademie Chotěboř. The practical part is an analysis of requirements, determination of appropriate criteria for the selection system, a comparison of systems based on these criteria, cost-benefit analysis and feasibility study.

The topic of this Master's degree thesis is Copyright aspects in creation of webpages. The reason for this topic was especially in general economic significance of webpages in this age, which is very often without appropriate consequences in contractual practice of its creation. The author realizes that problematic of the webpages creation brings whole range of legal issues so he has to focus on creation of the one part of webpages to make beneficial academic and legal practice outcomes. Author's decision was to deal with content management system, which is in his opinion the most important part of the majority of current webpages. It was necessary to lay down an elementary terminology in the beginning of the thesis in order to comprehend all legal issues in essential technical context. Another reason is that some legal conclusions required also non-legal (technical) knowledge. Following chapter of the thesis analyzes legal nature of webpages in respect of technical context. The fourth chapter is core of the thesis and deals with analysis of content management system's legal nature as computer program and with its creation in copyright perspective. First of all this chapter provides analysis of the requirements that the computer programs have to fulfill in order to obtain the copyright protection. Moreover...

O presente trabalho apresenta uma proposta para a criação de um ambiente web colaborativo responsável pela troca das melhores práticas de planejamento de aulas utilizadas pelos especialistas e educadores, agrupados pelo que chamaremos de artefatos pedagógicos ou padrões pedagógicos, considerados a menor unidade divisível de uma aula. O planejamento será pautado pelo conceitual de design instrucional, que proporciona o encadeamento de forma simplificada e em ordem cronológica de todos os conteúdos previstos a execução de um curso ou de uma disciplina. Com a utilização da ferramenta em ambiente compartilhado (web), será mostrado que o efetivo planejamento de um simples objetivo de aprendizagem ou até mesmo a de um conteúdo mais amplo, por intermédio da apresentação linear e cronológica de todos os artefatos pedagógicos, levará à uma visão geral e completa da composição dos assuntos abordados. Neste momento, será possível visualizar por intermédio de relatórios, dentre as funcionalidades da própria ferramenta, o formato de matriz de design instrucional, um dos produtos essenciais da fase de planejamento de um curso. Para a criação dos artefatos pedagógicos de forma compartilhada será utilizado um protótipo de interface gráfica conduzido por conceitos de arquitetura de informação e usabilidade. Com o objetivo de transformar o protótipo em uma ferramenta, na fase de implementação será utilizada a estrutura de um sistema de gerenciamento de conteúdo, capaz de simplificar esta etapa extremamente complexa. A aplicação por meio do estudo de caso será feita através de uma disciplina do curso de pós-graduação, com foco nas tecnologias de ensino de engenharia, ilustrando a contribuição do presente trabalho e dando condições de um real e efetivo resultado da metodologia utilizada. A sua efetiva consolidação será obtida pelo estabelecimento de uma avaliação de reação aplicada entre o grupo de alunos do referido estudo de caso. / This paper presents , in relation to new forms of teaching and learning , a proposal for the creation of a collaborative web environment responsible for the exchange of best practice techniques for classroom used by educators and experts , grouped by which we will pedagogical patterns or pedagogical artifacts , and grounded in the concepts of \" instructional design \" , which can be considered as a structure that provides to the heterogeneous audience, since experts in education and technology and students interested in a particular subject to plan a simplified form and measurable their respective courses , modules , and related disciplines . With the use of the tool in a shared environment will be shown that the effective planning of a single learning object or even a broader content, through linear and chronological presentation of all educational artifacts will lead to an overview and complete the composition of the subjects covered, coming to provide in one aspect of the tool itself, the format of an instructional design matrix, one of the key products of the planning phase of a course. For the creation of educational artifacts in a shared way, will be used a graphical interface prototype concepts outlined by information architecture and usability, and its last one implementation in a development framework designed for what we call content management system. The application, by case study, will be taken through a course in the graduate with a focus on teaching engineering technologies, illustrating the contribution of this work and giving conditions for a real and effective result of the methodology used, consolidated by the establishment of a reaction evaluation performed between the group of students of that case study.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-05-09T13:07:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabio Rodrigues dos Santos_.pdf: 7109958 bytes, checksum: 136a6e535dbd26994aa6dbd702767b78 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-09T13:07:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabio Rodrigues dos Santos_.pdf: 7109958 bytes, checksum: 136a6e535dbd26994aa6dbd702767b78 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-26 / IFRR - Instituto Federal de Educação Ciências e Tecnologia de Roraima / Um agente conversacional é capaz de interagir com usuários em linguagem natural, imitando o diálogo realizado entre seres humanos. Entretanto, a necessidade de trabalho manual por parte dos autores de conteúdo para a construção da sua base de diálogos não o torna muito atrativo para ser integrado a websites. Seria possível facilitar a criação de novos diálogos e automatizar a atualização dos mesmos usando como base os recursos disponibilizados pela Web Semântica para integrar o agente conversacional a um Sistema de Gerenciamento de Conteúdo Web (SGCW) de forma que seu conteúdo seja aproveitado. O trabalho aqui proposto descreve o modelo para utilização de informações de SGCW’s em agentes conversacionais com auxilio da web semântica, denominado Eduardo. O principal diferencial está na automatização da atualização dos diálogos, pois os mesmos são extraídos do SGCW para uma base de dados de triplas, que são consultadas para geração dos diálogos, caso haja alguma atualização na base do SGCW, basta refazer os procedimentos que já foram automatizados, para que os diálogos sejam atualizados, evitando assim o trabalho manual de edição dos arquivos escritos em linguagem AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language). Foi desenvolvido um protótipo deste modelo, que permite a integração dinâmica de conteúdo com um Agente Conversacional. O protótipo foi avaliado quanto à capacidade de gerar as informações necessárias para os diálogos, acessando as páginas Web e representando seu conteúdo nos formatos RDFa e AIML. Em um segundo momento, ensaios de interação foram realizados com usuários nos componentes do Agente Conversacional, para avaliar sua funcionalidade, aceitação e demais aspectos uso. / A conversational agent is able to interact with users in natural language, imitating the dialogue held between humans. However, the need for manual labor by the authors content for the construction of dialogues base makes the not too attractive to be integrated into websites. It would be possible to facility the creation of new dialogues and automate the update them using as a basis the resources provided by the Semantic Web to integrate conversational agent to a Web Content Management System (WCMS) so that you content is used. The work proposed here describes the model for use of WCMS’s information in conversational agents with semantic web aid, called Eduardo. The main difference is in automating the update of dialogues, as they are extracted from WCMS for a triple database, which are referred to generation of dialogues, if there is any update on the basis WCMS, just redo the procedures that have been automated so that the dialogues are update, thus avoiding manual labor editing of files written in AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language). It developed a prototype of this model which allows dynamic content integration with a conversational agent. The prototype was evaluated for ability to generate the information necessary for the dialogue, accessing the Web pages and their content representing in RDFa and AIML formats. In a second step, interaction assays were performed with users in the components of conversational agent to assess its functionality, acceptance and other aspects of use.

This thesis focuses on the area of competitive intelligence with the emphasis on new possibilities and opportunities in relation to modern social networks. First it gives general analysis of the current state of competitive intelligence market as a whole and then deals with individual major leaders and their products, thus providing detailed overview of this business segment. It also discusses the possibilities of using social networks and other social or soft sources for competitive intelligence. Practical part of the thesis then demonstrates the theoretical knowledge on a real life CI project, which took place in early 2012 in cooperation with experts from IBM, including some interesting results and findings in appendix. The whole chapter can be used as a reference model for future projects with similar goals.

O presente trabalho apresenta uma proposta para a criação de um ambiente web colaborativo responsável pela troca das melhores práticas de planejamento de aulas utilizadas pelos especialistas e educadores, agrupados pelo que chamaremos de artefatos pedagógicos ou padrões pedagógicos, considerados a menor unidade divisível de uma aula. O planejamento será pautado pelo conceitual de design instrucional, que proporciona o encadeamento de forma simplificada e em ordem cronológica de todos os conteúdos previstos a execução de um curso ou de uma disciplina. Com a utilização da ferramenta em ambiente compartilhado (web), será mostrado que o efetivo planejamento de um simples objetivo de aprendizagem ou até mesmo a de um conteúdo mais amplo, por intermédio da apresentação linear e cronológica de todos os artefatos pedagógicos, levará à uma visão geral e completa da composição dos assuntos abordados. Neste momento, será possível visualizar por intermédio de relatórios, dentre as funcionalidades da própria ferramenta, o formato de matriz de design instrucional, um dos produtos essenciais da fase de planejamento de um curso. Para a criação dos artefatos pedagógicos de forma compartilhada será utilizado um protótipo de interface gráfica conduzido por conceitos de arquitetura de informação e usabilidade. Com o objetivo de transformar o protótipo em uma ferramenta, na fase de implementação será utilizada a estrutura de um sistema de gerenciamento de conteúdo, capaz de simplificar esta etapa extremamente complexa. A aplicação por meio do estudo de caso será feita através de uma disciplina do curso de pós-graduação, com foco nas tecnologias de ensino de engenharia, ilustrando a contribuição do presente trabalho e dando condições de um real e efetivo resultado da metodologia utilizada. A sua efetiva consolidação será obtida pelo estabelecimento de uma avaliação de reação aplicada entre o grupo de alunos do referido estudo de caso. / This paper presents , in relation to new forms of teaching and learning , a proposal for the creation of a collaborative web environment responsible for the exchange of best practice techniques for classroom used by educators and experts , grouped by which we will pedagogical patterns or pedagogical artifacts , and grounded in the concepts of \" instructional design \" , which can be considered as a structure that provides to the heterogeneous audience, since experts in education and technology and students interested in a particular subject to plan a simplified form and measurable their respective courses , modules , and related disciplines . With the use of the tool in a shared environment will be shown that the effective planning of a single learning object or even a broader content, through linear and chronological presentation of all educational artifacts will lead to an overview and complete the composition of the subjects covered, coming to provide in one aspect of the tool itself, the format of an instructional design matrix, one of the key products of the planning phase of a course. For the creation of educational artifacts in a shared way, will be used a graphical interface prototype concepts outlined by information architecture and usability, and its last one implementation in a development framework designed for what we call content management system. The application, by case study, will be taken through a course in the graduate with a focus on teaching engineering technologies, illustrating the contribution of this work and giving conditions for a real and effective result of the methodology used, consolidated by the establishment of a reaction evaluation performed between the group of students of that case study.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of web supported statistics education environment for graduate level students. The aim was to develop a web support system to ease the graduate students&#039 / understanding of statistical concepts. This study also examined the perceptions of the students about web supported instruction. Although there are some studies conducted about technology aided statistics education, they are insufficient in the amount according to other areas. Besides these few studies were conducted mainly among lower grades. There is a need to find out and overcome students&rsquo / learning difficulties about statistical concepts in graduate levels. The intention of the study was to construct a web support system for traditionally offered Educational Statistics course in order to decrease both instructor and students efforts to communicate, present, reach and use the resources. The subjects of the study were 21 graduate students of Educational Statistics course offered. None of the subjects was offered an on-line course before. The study used both quantitative and qualitative measurements to analyze the effectiveness of the site and perceptions of the users. The results of the study indicated that there was an improvement in students&rsquo / achievement related to educational statistics through web supported instruction. Besides, the perceptions of the students were collected with interview questions about the functions and usability of the system. The highly positive perceptions of the students showed that, it is necessary for the students to have such a course support system. The framework was developed not only support for traditionally offered courses, but also support for lifelong learning processes. The researcher believed that the study revealed the most realistic usage pattern of a course support system. The results can be used by the instructors in order to offer the best web support system with minimum effort. Moreover, the proposed system can be used in any learning content management systems without the need for technical knowledge.

In the Internet era, more and more courses are taught through a course management system (CMS) or learning management system (LMS). In an asynchronous virtual learning environment, an instructor has the need to beware the progress of discussions in forums, and may intervene if ecessary in order to facilitate students¡¦ learning. This research proposes a discussion forum activity flow tracking system, called FAFT (Forum Activity Flow Tracer), to utomatically monitor the discussion activity flow of threaded forum postings in CMS/LMS. As CMS/LMS is getting popular in facilitating learning activities, the proposedFAFT can be used to facilitate instructors to identify students¡¦ interaction types in discussion forums. FAFT adopts modern data/text mining techniques to discover the patterns of forum discussion activity flows, which can be used for instructors to facilitate the online learning activities. FAFT consists of two subsystems: activity classification (AC) and activity flow discovery (AFD). A posting can be perceived as a type of announcement, questioning, clarification, interpretation, conflict, or assertion. AC adopts a cascade model to classify various activitytypes of posts in a discussion thread. The empirical evaluation of the classified types from a repository of postings in earth science on-line courses in a senior high school shows that AC can effectively facilitate the coding rocess, and the cascade model can deal with the imbalanced distribution nature of discussion postings. AFD adopts a hidden Markov model (HMM) to discover the activity flows. A discussion activity flow can be presented as a hidden Markov model (HMM) diagram that an instructor can adopt to predict which iscussion activity flow type of a discussion thread may be followed. The empirical results of the HMM from an online forum in earth science subject in a senior high school show that FAFT can effectively predict the type of a discussion activity flow. Thus, the proposed FAFT can be embedded in a course management system to automatically predict the activity flow type of a discussion thread, and in turn reduce the teachers¡¦ loads on managing online discussion forums.

Die Erstellung von Lerninhalten ist einer der wichtigsten Prozesse im E-Learning. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt einen Ansatz zur Wiederverwendung von Lerninhalten der zum einen die Kosten des Erstellungsprozesses verringern kann und zum anderen effektive Methoden zur Verwaltung aufzeigt. Basis des Ansatzes ist ein vierstufiges Content-Modell (Assets, Lernmaterialien, Lernmodule und Veranstaltungen), welches die Lerninhalte anhand der Granularität aufteilt. Dieses Modell berücksichtigt dabei aktuelle E-Learning-Standards bezüglich der Inhalte und der Metadaten, wodurch eine systemunabhängige Wiederverwendung möglich ist. Zur Verarbeitung von generischen Repräsentationen, wie Materialien im XML-Format, wurde das Konzept der Templates aufgegriffen und um die so genannten Content-Varianten erweitert. Diese ermöglichen die Präsentation von verschiedenen Ausprägungen der Materialien, beispielsweise bezüglich des Ausgabeformates, der Sprache, des Schwierigkeitsgrades von Aufgaben oder der Version. In der Arbeit wird weiterhin ein entsprechendes Konzept zur Systementwicklung einer Lernplattform aufgezeigt. Dieses ist insbesondere durch die Aufteilung in verschiedene Teilsysteme gekennzeichnet, welche eine flexible Konfiguration und Platzierung anhand der Anforderungen an die Wiederverwendung ermöglicht. / The preparation of learning content is one of the most important process in E-Learning. This thesis shows an approach to reuse learning content. On the one hand the costs of the creation process can be reduced and on the other hand effective methods for administration are pointed out. Starting point of the approach is a four-level content model (assets, learning materials, learning modules and seminars), which divides learning contents on the basis of granularity. This model considers thereby current E-Learning-standards concerning content and metadata, whereby an open reuse is possible. For the processing of generic representations, like materials in the XML format, the concept of the Templates was taken up and extended by the content variants. These make the presentation of different developments of the materials possible, for example concerning the output format, the language, the degree of difficulty of tasks or the version. Further this thesis pointed out an appropriate concept for the system development of a learning platform. This is in particular characterized by the partitioning into different subsystems, which makes possible a flexible configuration and placement concerning to the requirements to the reuse.