Studying stress on e-Learning users

• Author(s): Carneiro, Davide ; Gonçalves, Sérgio ; Novais, Paulo ; Neves, José
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/26587
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Stress; Behavioural analysis; Moodle; e-Learning
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Serie : Lecture notes in computer science, ISSN 0302-9743, vol. 8154 E-Learning, much like any other communication processes, has been significantly shaped by technological evolution. In its original form, e-Learning aimed to bring the education closer to people, making it more modular and personalized. However, in reality, we observe that it represents a separation between student and teacher, simplifying this relationship to the exchange of ”text-based messages”, leaving aside all the important contextual richness of the classroom. We are addressing this issue by devising a contextual layer for e-Learning platforms. Particularly, in this paper we describe a solution to convey information about the level of stress of the students so that the teacher can take better and more informed decisions concerning the management of the learning process.