SMILE Maker - An Intelligent Learning Environment for Problem Solving

Svetoslav Stoyanov

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) p. 1832

This poster introduces SMILE Maker - a web-based tool supporting ill-structured problem solving activities of students involved in problem-based learning. SMILE Maker stands for Solution, Mapping, Intelligent Learning Environment. It is both a...

SMILE: Intelligent Learning Environment Accumulating Personal Styles of Users

Svetoslav Stoyanov; Neli Stoyanova

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 974–975

This poster presents some design solutions of building a web-based intelligent learning environment, called SMILE Maker. It accumulates some of the individual constructs such as learning styles, problem solving styles, learning locus ofcontrol and...

An Agent-Oriented Approach for Ideational Support in Learning—Integration and Impact

Lora Aroyo; Svetoslav Stoyanov; Piet Kommers

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 10, No. 3 (1999) pp. 389–400

This paper provides results from research work done in respect to the application of agent technology within educational settings. It focuses on problem solving, information handling issues and idea generation. It is based on two research system...

Agent-Based Instructional Design Model for Cognitive Mapping

Lora Aroyo; Svetoslav Stoyanov; Piet Kommers

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) pp. 482–487

This article is purposed to present an intelligent agent-based instructional design model on the subject of cognitive mapping strategy. It is a further conceptualisation of the rational behind the existing SMILE-Maker tool. SMILE-Maker is a...

Topics: eLearning

SMILE Maker: A Web-Based Tool for Problem Solving

Lora Aroyo; Piet Kommers; Svetoslav Stoyanov; Ivan Kurtev

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 1006–1011

This paper focuses on the purposes, theoretical model and functionality of the SMILE Maker - a web-based problem-solving tool. From instructional design point of view, an attempt to established a balance between constructivism/ instructivism,...

Topics: Instructional Design, Interaction

Cognitive Mapping as a Learning Method in Hypermedia Design

Svetoslav Stoyanov

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 8, No. 3 (1997) pp. 309–323

The effectiveness of cognitive mapping is defined operationally in the terms of general beneficial, differential, and compensation effects. The contribution of the concept mapping method will mainly be discussed in the context of student assignments ...