Knowledge-Based Virtual Education [electronic resource] / edited by Claude Ghaoui, Mitu Jain, Vivek Bannore, Lakhmi C. Jain.

Just-in-Time Approach to Learning: Arguing the Case for Cost-Effective Knowledge Dissemination -- P-Dinamet: A Web-Based Adaptive Learning System to Assist Learners and Teachers -- Intelligent Agents that Learn to Deliver Online Materials to Students Better: Agent Design, Simulation and Assumptions -- Intelligent Web-Based Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning -- Using Multiagent Intelligence to Support Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning -- Intelligent Agents to Improve Adaptivity in a Web-Based Learning Environment -- Intelligent Virtual Teaching -- Developing a User Centered Model for Creating a Virtual Learning Portfolio -- A Didactics Aware Approach to Knowledge Transfer in Web-based Education.

Virtual learning plays an important role in providing academics, educators and students alike, with advanced learning experiences. At the forefront of these current technologies are knowledge-based systems that assess the environment in which such learning will occur and are adaptive by nature to the individual needs of the user. This monograph provides a wide range of innovative approaches of virtual education with a special emphasis on inter-disciplinary approaches. The book covers a multitude of important issues on the subject of "Innovations in Knowledge-Based Virtual Education ", aiming at researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government. The carefully selected contributions report on research, development and real-world experiences of virtual education such as intelligent virtual teaching, web-based adaptive learning systems, intelligent agents or using multiagent intelligence.

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