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Learning by Doing: How to Develop a Cross-Platform Web App
Authors: Q. Huynh Minh , Ghimire Prashant 
Published: October 2017

As mobile devices become prevalent, there is always a need for apps. How hard is it to develop an app especially a cross-platform app? The paper shares an experience in a project involved the development of a student services web app that can be run on cross-platform mobile devices. The paper first describes the background of the project, the clients, and the proposed solution. Then, it focuses on the step-by-step development processes and provides the illustration of written codes and techniques used. The goal is for readers to gain an understanding on how to develop a mobile-friendly web app. The paper concludes with teaching implications and offers thoughts for further development.

A revised version of this paper was published in the journal Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, Volume 14, 2015
Beyond Research Productivity: Matching Productivity Measures to Institutional Mission
Authors: Bartholomew Patricia 
Published: October 2017

Aim/Purpose: The aim of this paper is to develop a unified methodology inclusive of the three primary areas of faculty responsibility (teaching, research, and service) to calculate departmental productivity that fills the gap in methodological bench-marking tools for overall faculty productivity.

Background:	A disproportionate number of departmental and faculty productivity indices in higher education rely solely on research. Productivity in other areas of faculty workload areas, like teaching and institutional and community service, are either measured separately or ignored all together – even when those activities are institutionally mandated. This does a disservice to those who work in those institutions and skews incentives.

Methodology: This paper utilizes a unified methodology inclusive of the three primary areas of faculty responsibility (teaching, research, and service) to calculate depart-mental productivity in five disparate departments (English, Biology, Mathematics, Sociology, and Computer Science) common to two universities with differing missions (teaching and service).

Findings: The results reveal the bias inherent in relying solely on research as a proxy for overall productivity in institutions that have differing missions.

Recommendations for Practitioners: Utilizing better metrics informs higher education administrators, promotes better decision-making, and allows incentives to re-align with desired outcomes.

Recommendation for Researchers: This paper recommends combing all aspects of faculty workload into a single benchmark index to better measure departmental productivity.

Future Research: Further research into improving this simple index is warranted and would include how to account for quality and other facets of productivity.
Encouraging Accountability in Instructional Staff Selection: Experience of One University’s Journey to Creating a Simplified Staffing Model
Authors: A Carrier Carol , Wilhelmson Nancy 
Published: October 2017

Aim/Purpose: Appointment systems in today’s universities must now accommodate not only traditional tenured/tenure track faculty (TTTF) but a broad array of other professionals who collectively, are often labeled “contingent faculty” and who share the university’s teaching responsibilities for both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Background: Regardless of appointment type, providing institutional clarity on available appointment choices and their preferred use was meant to promote consistently across units and reduce confusion and misunderstanding.

Methodology	: This paper used a case study approach.

Contribution: This paper detailed the process used to arrive at a system for classifying teaching personnel in a complex, multi campus system. It demonstrated how faculty and administration closely partnered to bring about this new system.

Findings: A new classification system was implemented that brought more clarity to important roles that were formerly less well defined.

Recommendations for Practitioners	: Establish strong rationale for beginning this work on classification and then create a partnership between the administration and the faculty to work out the details of the new approach.

Recommendation for Researchers:	Once a system is created, follow up on the implementation of that new system from the perspective of the faculty incumbents in the system but also those who administer the system.

Impact on Society: Higher education systems prepare our future scientists, educators, writers, medical personnel, along with many other professionals. Creating systems that adequately attract, retain and reward the individuals who teach in these systems, regardless of their titles, will be essential to sustaining that future workforce.

Future Research: Examine the trends in staffing structures across major universities to discern similarities and differences.
Cognition to Collaboration: User-Centric Approach and Information Behaviour Theories/Models
Authors: M Aydin Alperen 
Published: October 2017

Aim/Purpose: The objective of this paper is to review the vast literature of user-centric in-formation science and inform about the emerging themes in information behaviour science.

Background:	The paradigmatic shift from system-centric to user-centric approach facilitates research on the cognitive and individual information processing. Various information behaviour theories/models emerged.

Methodology: Recent information behaviour theories and models are presented. Features, strengths and weaknesses of the models are discussed through the analysis of the information behaviour literature.

Contribution: This paper sheds light onto the weaknesses in earlier information behaviour models and stresses (and advocates) the need for research on social information behaviour.

Findings: Prominent information behaviour models deal with individual information behaviour. People live in a social world and sort out most of their daily or work problems in groups. However, only seven papers discuss social information behaviour (Scopus search).

Recommendations for Practitioners	: ICT tools used for inter-organisational sharing should be redesigned for effective information-sharing during disaster/emergency times.

Recommendation for Researchers:	There are scarce sources on social side of the information behaviour, however, most of the work tasks are carried out in groups/teams.

Impact on Society: In dynamic work contexts like disaster management and health care settings, collaborative information-sharing may result in decreasing the losses.

Future Research:	A fieldwork will be conducted in disaster management context investigating the inter-organisational information-sharing.
Intelligent Agents for Dynamic Optimization of Learner Performances in an Online System
Authors: KAMSA Imane , ELOUAHBI Rachid , EL KHOUKHI Fatima 
Published: October 2017

Aim/Purpose: To identify and rectify the learning difficulties of online learners.

Background:	The major cause of learners’ failure and non-acquisition of knowledge relates to their weaknesses in certain areas necessary for optimal learning. We focus on e-learning because, within this environment, the learner is mostly affected by these vulnerabilities due to the lack of direct contact with the teacher, who would be able to point out the learner’s difficulties and help to rectify them.

Methodology: The research sample was 49 learners enrolled in an online course. We focused on three cognitive factors: language, memory, and reasoning. We propose an approach to optimize learners’ performances based on two intelligent agents that model the role of a teacher: the “detector agent” and the “rectifier agent”.

Contribution: The intelligent agents beneficially contribute to e-learning enrichment and the development of cognitive skills and solidification of knowledge acquisition. This is achieved by strengthening the memory, the assimilation of lessons by improving language skills, and the reinforcement of problem solving by developing reasoning and analysis capacity.

Findings: The results show that the proposed approach efficiently detects the weaknesses of learners and resolves them intelligently.

Future Research:	The approach toward e-learning performance can be improved by focusing on other factors and intelligent agents that can improve the yield for learners and more effectively optimize system operation for their perceived needs.
Medical Community of Inquiry: A Diagnostic Tool for Learning, Assessment, and Research
Authors: Nave Rachel , Ackerman Rakefet , Judy Dori Yehudit 
Published: October 2017

Aim/Purpose: These days educators are expected to integrate technological tools into classes. Although they acquire relevant skills, they are often reluctant to use these tools.

Background:	We incorporated online forums for generating a Community of Inquiry (CoI) in a faculty development program. Extending the Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) model with Assessment Knowledge and content analysis of forum discourse and reflection after each CoI, we offer the Diagnostic Tool for Learning, Assessment, and Research (DTLAR).

Methodology: This study spanned over two cycles of a development program for medical faculty.

Contribution: This study demonstrates how the DTLAR supports in-depth examination of the benefits and challenges of using CoIs for learning and teaching.

Findings: Before the program, participants had little experience with, and were reluctant to use, CoIs in classes. At the program completion, many were willing to adopt CoIs and appreciated this method’s contribution. Both CoIs discourse and reflections included positive attitudes regarding cognitive and teacher awareness categories. However, negative attitudes regarding affective aspects and time-consuming aspects of CoIs were exposed. Participants who experienced facilitating a CoI gained additional insights into its usefulness.

Recommendations for Practitioners	: The DTLAR allows analyzing adaption of online forums for learning and teaching.
Recommendation for Researchers: The DTLAR allows analyzing factors that affect the acceptance of online fo-rums for learning and teaching.

Impact on Society	: While the tool was implemented in the context of medical education, it can be readily applied in other adult learning programs.

Future Research: The study includes several design aspects that probably affected the improve-ment and challenges we found. Future research is called for providing guidelines for identifying boundary conditions and potential for further improvement.
Factors Affecting Re-usage Intentions of Virtual Communities Supporting Cosmetic Products
Authors: Ho Chien-Ta , Yang Jhong-Min , Chen Wei-Ting 
Published: October 2017

Aim/Purpose:	This study uses a cosmetic virtual community (VC) as the research context and the UTAUT model as the theoretical structure aim to explore factors affecting the re-usage intentions of VC members.

Background:	The Internet use rate of VC was up to 50%, thereby implying that VC gained the attention of Internet users. Therefore, operating a VC will be an effective way to communicate with customers. However, to maintain an existing member is more efficient than creating a new one. As such, understanding determinants of VC members’ re-use intentions becomes important for firms.

Methodology: Through an online survey, 276 valid responses were gathered. The collected data were examined by performing confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modelling procedures, as well as the moderator analysis.

Contribution: This study shows the importance in the context of online cosmetics-related VC, which was rarely explored before. We provide issues for future research, despite the accumulated academic literature related to UTAUT and VC.

Findings: Results show that only performance expectancy and social influence significantly affecting re-usage intentions and only gender has moderating effects on the path from performance expectancy to VC re-use intention and from trust to VC re-use intention.

Recommendations for Practitioners	: This study found that users emphasized performance expectancy most of all. A cosmetic product-related VC should introduce products abundantly, offer useful information, and help people accomplish tasks quickly and productively.

Recommendation for Researchers:	Future researchers may use our findings to conduct further positivist research in the area of social influence using different subjects and research contexts.
The Impact of a University Experience Program on Rural and Regional Secondary School Students: Keeping the Flame Burning
Authors: Penman Joy , Thalluri Jyothi 
Published: October 2017

[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]

Aim/Purpose	: The uptake of university by regional students has been problematic for various reasons. This paper discusses a program, initiated by a South Australian regional university campus, aimed at attracting regional students into higher education.

Background: A qualitative descriptive approach to study was used to determine the value of the program on participating students and school staff. Year 10 students from Roxby Downs, Port Augusta and Port Lincoln high schools were invited to participate in a two-day regionally-focussed school-university engagement program that linked students with the university campus and local employers.

Methodology: A survey was administered to determine the impact of the program. Perceptions about the program by school staff were gathered using a modified One-Minute Harvard questionnaire. While 38 Year 10 students and 5 school staff members participated, 37 students and 3 staff evaluated the program.

Findings: The findings revealed that the majority of the students would like to attend university, but financial and social issues were important barriers. The students learned about the regional university, what it can offer in terms of programs and support, and the employment prospect following university. The school staff benefited by developing a closer relationship with students and becoming better informed about the regional university.

Recommendation for Practitioners:	One way by which university uptake may be increased is to provide similar immersion programs featuring engagement with employers, our recommendation to other regional universities. In increasing the levels of education, individuals, communities and the society in general are benefited.
Assessing the Affordances of SimReal+ and Their Applicability to Support the Learning of Mathematics in Teacher Education
Authors: Hadjerrouit Said 
Published: October 2017

[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology]

Aim/Purpose: Assess the affordances and constraints of SimReal+ in teacher education

Background:	There is a huge interest in visualizations in mathematics education, but there is little empirical support for their use in educational settings

Methodology: Single case study with 22 participants from one class in teacher education. Quantitative and qualitative methods to collect students’ responses to a survey questionnaire and open-ended questions

Contribution: The paper contributes to the understanding of affordances and constraints of visualization tools in mathematics education

Findings: The visualization tool SimReal+ has potential for learning mathematics in teacher education, but the user interface should be improved to make it more usable for different users. Teachers need to consider technological and pedagogical affordances of SimReal+ at the student, classroom, and mathematics subject level

Recommendations for Practitioners: Address technological and pedagogical affordances of SimReal+

Recommendation for Researchers:	Improve the design of SimReal+ to make it technologically and pedagogically more usable

Impact on Society: Understand the affordances and constraints of visualization tools in education

Future Research: Implement a next cycle of experimentation with SimReal+ in teacher education to ensure more validity and reliability
Improving Information Technology Curriculum Learning Outcomes
Authors: L Anderson Derrick 
Published: October 2017

[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InfoSci)]

Aim/Purpose: Information Technology students’ learning outcomes improve when teaching methodology moves away from didactic behaviorist-based pedagogy toward a more heuristic constructivist-based version of andragogy.

Background: There is a distinctive difference, a notable gap, between the academic community and the business community in their views of the level of preparedness of recent information technology program graduates. An understanding of how Information Technology curriculum is developed and taught along with the underpinning learning theory is needed to address the deficient attainment of learning outcomes which lies at the heart of this matter.

Methodology	: The case study research methodology has been selected to conduct this empirical inquiry facilitating an in depth exploration within its real-life context. The subject of analysis is two Information Technology classes which are composed of a combination of second year and third year students; both classes have six students, the same six students.

Contribution: It is the purpose of this research to show that the use of improved approaches to learning will produce more desirable learning outcomes.

Findings: The results of this inquiry clearly show that the use of the traditional behaviorist based pedagogic model to achieve college and university IT program learning outcomes is not as effective as a more constructivist based andragogic model.

Recommendations for Practitioners	: Instruction based purely on behaviorism or constructivism does a disservice to the typical college and university level learner. The correct approach lies somewhere in between; the most successful outcome attainment will be the product of incorporating the best of both.

Impact on Society: Instructional strategies produce learning outcomes; learning outcomes demonstrate what knowledge has been acquired. Acquired knowledge is used by students as they pursue professional careers and other ventures in life.

Future Research: Learning and teaching approaches are not “one-size-fits-all” propositions; different strategies are appropriate for different circumstances and situations. Additional research should seek to introduce vehicles that will move learners away from one the traditional methodology that has been used throughout much of their educational careers to an approach that is better suited to equip them with the skills necessary to meet the challenges awaiting them in the professional world.
Students’ Attention when Using Touchscreens and Pen Tablets in a Mathematics Classroom
Authors: Chen Cheng-Huan , Chiu Chiung-Hui , Lin Chia-Ping , Chou Ying-Chun 
Published: October 2017

Aim/Purpose: The present study investigated and compared students’ attention in terms of time-on-task and number of distractors between using a touchscreen and a pen tablet in mathematical problem-solving activities with virtual manipulatives.

Background: Although there is an increasing use of these input devices in educational practice, little research has focused on assessing student attention while using touchscreens or pen tablets in a mathematics classroom.

Methodology: A qualitative exploration was conducted in a public elementary school in New Taipei, Taiwan. Six fifth-grade students participated in the activities. Video recordings of the activities and the students’ actions were analyzed.

Findings: The results showed that students in the activity using touchscreens maintained greater attention and, thus, had more time-on-task and fewer distractors than those in the activity using pen tablets.

Recommendations for Practitioners: School teachers could employ touchscreens in mathematics classrooms to support activities that focus on students’ manipulations in relation to the attention paid to the learning content.

Recommendation for Researchers:	The findings enhance our understanding of the input devices used in educational practice and provide a basis for further research.

Impact on Society: The findings may also shed light on the human-technology interaction process involved in using pen and touch technology conditions.

Future Research: Activities similar to those reported here should be conducted using more participants. In addition, it is important to understand how students with different levels of mathematics achievement use the devices in the activities.
A Knowledge Management IT Tool: An Investigation within a Marketing Introductory Course
Authors: Li Shang Ly Samie , G Saade Raafat 
Published: October 2017

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this study is to shed light on how students learn within an environment tailored to knowledge creation.

Background:	We build on Nonaka, Toyama, and Konno’s three key elements: SECI model, Ba, Leadership as well as current knowledge management researchers critiques and improvements.

Methodology: Based on an introductory marketing course, we used an in-house web based learning tool (peer-to peer) to capture score performances and perception surveys. The analysis was conducted through an exploratory factor analysis (EFA).

Contribution: This study shed light on current knowledge management critiques by providing measures at the micro-level and community level.

Findings: Perceptions of adaptability and usefulness change positively over time, while students’ repeated practice prepares them for different styles of questions as their performances increases over time.

Recommendations for Practitioners: Organizations can understand how employees create knowledge through exchange of ideas, feedback, and common goals. Supervisor can understand their employees better and employees can gain a sense of control on their work.

Recommendation for Researchers:	The ability to capture information over time on the human and community level within a system allows further research to shed light on different variables of knowledge creation in the field.

Impact on Society	: An appreciation of the mechanism of knowledge creation can encourage organization to become more innovative and focus on people rather than material.

Future Research: Measures such as the engagement level, the personality level, and compatibility level within a community to create knowledge are to be explored.