Design of Adaptive E-Learning for Logic Operations
Ahmed Abo El Fetoh Saleh, Hazem Mokhtar El-Bakry, Taghreed T. Asfour · 2010
Over the last decade, the concept of e-learning has become an important topic. E-learning today gives the student a central role in his/her own learning process. It allows students to try things out, participate in courses, tests and simulations like never before, and get more out of learning than before. In this paper, an adaptive e-learning environment for logic gates, simplification of Boolean functions and related fields is presented. The presented model generates suitable courses for each student in a dynamic form. The proposed environment is designed by integrating visual basic, flash and other effective tools. The contributions of this paper are supporting adaptive e- learning environment to improve learning and an evaluation of its use in context. learning paradigm, blended learning is found to be consistent with the values of traditional learning paradigm adopted in almost all higher education learning institutions for decades, and has the proven potential to enhance both the effectiveness and efficiency of meaningful learning experiences. In designing our model, we considered some basic principle for active construction learning model (12) including the following: 1-Learners participate in learning process effectively 2-teachers have an instructive role, instead of transmitting information in materials to learners directly. 3- Assessment procedures should be embedded in the learning process The concept of digital logic has important use in all of today's digital computers and devices. It has such a prominent role in every day life in recent digital age (13). Digital systems are used in communication, traffic control, medical treatment, space guidance, weather monitoring and other huge enterprises (15). Our proposed model can be used as an adaptive e-learning tool for active learning not for logic design course only but also for all educational courses as image processing, computational models, principles of programming languages, compiler design, and other related courses. Important topics are covered in our proposed environment. Such topics are integrated into a single environment using visual basic. So it appears to be portable, and machine independent, which makes it a useful tool for interactive and collaborative learning environment. The environment integrates several different materials to support the learners' preferred style. It includes a movie-like welcome component, an animated hyper-text introduction for the basic concepts, self assessment system, a logic gate simulator, a set of visual examples for learners' motivation. Before writing this paper, several classroom experiments were carried out for the framework as a model of adaptive active learning tool. The preliminary results were clear in improving the learners understanding, performance, and increase their motivation. It is proved that the proposed model is easy to use and attractive for learners.