All Outputs (10)

Flexible Ontology-Driven Educational Apps and Social Media for Learners with a Disability (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nganji, J. T., Brayshaw, M., & Gordon, N. (2022). Flexible Ontology-Driven Educational Apps and Social Media for Learners with a Disability. In P. Zaphiris, & A. Ioannou (Eds.), Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience. HCII 2022 (361-375). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05657-4_26

This paper explores how to build ontology-driven learning systems from a flexible disability-aware mentality and augment them into a learning blend that embraces social media. The approach emphasizes the use of user centered flexible software in a bl... Read More about Flexible Ontology-Driven Educational Apps and Social Media for Learners with a Disability.

Disability-aware adaptive and personalised learning for students with multiple disabilities (2017)
Journal Article
Nganji, J. T., & Brayshaw, M. (2017). Disability-aware adaptive and personalised learning for students with multiple disabilities. International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 34(4), 307-321. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJILT-08-2016-0027

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address how virtual learning environments (VLEs) can be designed to include the needs of learners with multiple disabilities. Specifically, it employs AI to show how specific learning materials from a huge repo... Read More about Disability-aware adaptive and personalised learning for students with multiple disabilities.

Collaborative hybrid agent provision of learner needs using ontology based semantic technology (2017)
Journal Article
Brayshaw, M., Nganji, J., & Gordon, N. (2017). Collaborative hybrid agent provision of learner needs using ontology based semantic technology. Lecture notes in computer science, 10296 LNCS, 341-351. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58515-4_27

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. This paper describes the use of Intelligent Agents and Ontologies to implement knowledge navigation and learner choice when interacting with complex information locations. The paper is in two parts: the fi... Read More about Collaborative hybrid agent provision of learner needs using ontology based semantic technology.

Facilitating learning resource retrieval for students with disabilities through an ontology-driven and disability-aware Virtual Learning Environment (2015)
Journal Article
Nganji, J. T., & Brayshaw, M. (2015). Facilitating learning resource retrieval for students with disabilities through an ontology-driven and disability-aware Virtual Learning Environment. International Journal of Information Retrieval Research, 5(3), 75-98. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJIRR.2015070105

Existing virtual learning environments VLEs in educational institutions are not designed with the expectation that students with disabilities will use them. Consequently, retrieving relevant information by some students with disabilities is a challen... Read More about Facilitating learning resource retrieval for students with disabilities through an ontology-driven and disability-aware Virtual Learning Environment.

Ontology-based personalisation of e-learning resources for disabled students (2015)
Thesis
Nganji, J. T. (2015). Ontology-based personalisation of e-learning resources for disabled students. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218270

Students with disabilities are often expected to use e-learning systems to access learning materials but most systems do not provide appropriate adaptation or personalisation to meet their needs.

The difficulties related to inadaptability of curre... Read More about Ontology-based personalisation of e-learning resources for disabled students.

Investigating heuristic evaluation as a methodology for evaluating pedagogical software: An analysis employing three case studies (2014)
Journal Article
Nganji, J., Brayshaw, M., Gordon, N., Butterfield, A., & Wen, L. (2014). Investigating heuristic evaluation as a methodology for evaluating pedagogical software: An analysis employing three case studies. Lecture notes in computer science, 8523 LNCS(PART 1), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07482-5_3

This paper looks specifically at how to develop light weight methods of evaluating pedagogically motivated software. Whilst we value traditional usability testing methods this paper will look at how Heuristic Evaluation can be used as both a driving... Read More about Investigating heuristic evaluation as a methodology for evaluating pedagogical software: An analysis employing three case studies.

Ontology‐driven disability‐aware e‐learning personalisation with ONTODAPS (2012)
Journal Article
Nganji, J. T., Brayshaw, M., & Tompsett, B. (2012). Ontology‐driven disability‐aware e‐learning personalisation with ONTODAPS. Campus-Wide Information Systems, 30(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650741311288797

Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to show how personalisation of learning resources and services can be achieved for students with and without disabilities, particularly responding to the needs of those with multiple disabilities in e-learning sy... Read More about Ontology‐driven disability‐aware e‐learning personalisation with ONTODAPS.

Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brayshaw, M., Nganji, J. T., Brayshaw, M., & Tompsett, B. Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT

People with visual impairments, particularly blind people face alot of difficulties browsing the web with assistive technologies such as screen readers, when websites do not conform to accessibility standards and are thus inaccessible. HTML is the ba... Read More about Describing and assessing image descriptions for visually impaired web users with IDAT.

Ontology-based e-learning personalisation for disabled students in higher education (2011)
Journal Article
Nganji, J. T., Brayshaw, M., & Tompsett, B. (2011). Ontology-based e-learning personalisation for disabled students in higher education. Innovation in teaching and learning in information and computer sciences, 10(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2011.10010001

The number of students with disabilities in UK higher education institutions increases every year. Delivering education online is becoming increasingly challenging as institutions encounter some disabilities requiring adjustments of learning environm... Read More about Ontology-based e-learning personalisation for disabled students in higher education.

Is green IT an antidote to e-waste problems? (2010)
Journal Article
Nganji, J., & Brayshaw, M. (2010). Is green IT an antidote to e-waste problems?. Innovation in teaching and learning in information and computer sciences, 9(2), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2010.09020006

Man’s negative impact on the environment due to various activities has raised serious concerns with numerous campaigns rising to protect the environment. Computer waste also contributes to damaging not only the environment, but has serious consequenc... Read More about Is green IT an antidote to e-waste problems?.