Web Interact: An e-Learning Support System

  • Authors:
  • Chima Adiele;Christina E. Adiele;Mohiuddin Rana

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Lethbridge, Canada;Lethbridge Community College, Canada;University of Lethbridge, Canada

  • Venue:
  • WI-IATW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Internet-enabled technology has given impetus to elearning as choice educational environment for millions of learners. E-learning presents new opportunities for institutions to cost-effectively expand access to education and attract a culturally-diverse student population. Despite positive strides made in e-learning, the drop out rate of students remains high. Most educators attribute this negative trend to lack of interactivity among students. This paper presents an enterprise-wide e-learning support system, called Web Interact System (WebIS). WebIS provides a platform for both intra- and inter-institutional interactivity among learners. The system leverages an existing interactivity model to dynamically measure the interactivity of learners. We provide a prototype of the proposed system and discuss some of its services.