Revista Romana de Interactiune Om-Calculator

105-118

Authors: Costel Marian Ionascu, Marian Cristian Mihaescu, Paul Ștefan Popescu

Creating an e-learning platform dynamically adapting to the users' learning styles and behavior is always a challenge. In this paper we describe a conceptual model for designing a dynamically adapting e-learning platform to the users' learning styles and learning behavior based on the analyze of users' events and actions. The proposed model can generate feedback for users at the individual and group level and also assist tutors to generate their feedback to the users. The paper presents the main conditions which must be fulfilled by this design, propose a way to construct learning content that facilitate the process of users' events recording and analyzing and a set of logical steps to follow in order to apply it at the level of an e-learning platform.

147-162

Authors: Irina Toma, Cristina-Elena Alexandru, Mihai Dascălu, Philippe Dessus, Ștefan Trăușan-Matu

Vocabulary acquisition is considered one of the most important aspects of a language because it defines and constraints communication. In order to overcome this, students and teachers use various techniques meant to improve the learning process and facilitate word acquisition. Using conceptual networks that establish links to prior knowledge is an approach with proven good results. The game presented in this paper, Semantic Taboo, is a serious game that helps users enlarge their conceptual network. The game has two modes, one for teachers and one for students. In the teacher module, users have the option of adding playing cards. The theme of the card (the seed) is taken as input, while the list of taboo words is selected from the list of semantically related words provided by the ReaderBench framework. The student model has the same game principle as the traditional game, but the list of taboo words and the description of the seed help the learner acquire new words. The preliminary validation consisted of 15 users who were impressed by the game concept and its educational value.