Student Models Review and Distance Education

The current chapter is a review of the variety of student models that have been reported in the literature. The chapter can virtually be divided in two parts: The first part outlines a number of typical examples of student models that have been developed in order to indicate why these models have been developed, what are their uses and the achievements of student models in education. The second part discusses how the student models can be useful in distance education, what are the criteria for testing the applicability of such models and finally reports student models that may apply in asynchronous distance education

E-Learning and Multimedia Databases

E-learning covers the variety of teaching and learning approaches, methodologies and technologies supporting synchronous or asynchronous distance education. While distance education is a concept typically used by conventional institutions of education to mean remote access and delivery of instruction, the concept of e-learning broadens the scope to all instances of learning using Web-mediated learning. The scope includes realizing learning organizations (Garvin, 1993), achieving knowledge management (Beccerra-Fernandez; Gonzalez & Sabherwal, 2004; Aussenhofer, 2002) and implementing organizational training.