ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Online Learning Behaviors for Radiology Interns Based on Association Rules and Clustering Technique
Author: Chen, Hsing-Shun
Date: 2014-07-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Radiology,Allied Health Occupations,Online Courses,Web Based Instruction,Electronic Learning,Blended Learning,Active Learning,Teaching Methods,Student Behavior,Learning Processes,Learning Activities,Video Technology,Feedback (Response),Multivariate Analysis,Hospitals,Foreign Countries

In a hospital, clinical teachers must also care for patients, so there is less time for the teaching of clinical courses, or for discussing clinical cases with interns. However, electronic learning (e-learning) can complement clinical skills education for interns in a blended-learning process. Students discuss and interact with classmates in an e-learning collaborative environment. E-learning can assist clinical training and provides a collaborative environment, but every student has individual learning preferences on the e-learning platform. A typical platform, such as a learning management system (LMS) does not provide individual learning activities for every student. This paper clusters students into two groups: active and inactive groups. In each group, students' learning behavior patterns, i.e., the association rules for activities, are derived from the transaction data for the LMS. The cluster to which a student belongs defines the online learning behaviors, from the activity association rules. The method then provides individual preferred activities. Teachers instruct students in accordance with their aptitude, as derived from the learning behavior pattern. The cluster analysis shows that students in active group often view teaching videos after completing feedback. Students in the inactive group often view teaching materials after adding posts on a forum. [For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
E-Learning System for Design and Construction of Amplifier Using Transistors
Author: Takemura, Atsushi
Date: 2014-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Electronic Equipment,Technology Education,Undergraduate Students,Instructional Effectiveness,Design,Experiments

This paper proposes a novel e-Learning system for the comprehensive understanding of electronic circuits with transistors. The proposed e-Learning system allows users to learn a wide range of topics, encompassing circuit theories, design, construction, and measurement. Given the fact that the amplifiers with transistors are an integral part of almost all the electronic equipments, a fundamental knowledge of the design and construction of transistor circuits is highly imperative in the field of technology education. To this end, the proposed system serves as an effective educational tool for learning practical electronic circuits. The usefulness and effectiveness of the proposed system were evaluated by 10 university students in an actual class. The positive responses provided by all the students indicate the usefulness of the proposed system. [For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
Possibilities of Implementation of Small Business Check-Up Methodology in Comparative Analysis of Secondary Schools and Universities in Slovakia
Author: Štofková, Katarína
Date: 2014-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Secondary Schools,Universities,Comparative Analysis,Educational Quality,Evaluation Methods,Small Businesses,Institutional Evaluation,Information Technology

The paper is aimed to evaluate the possibility of applying new methods and tools of more effective educational processes, with an emphasis on increasing their quality especially aimed on educational processes at secondary schools and universities. There are some contributions from practice for the effective implementation of time management, such as reducing unnecessary delays, in order to increase the efficiency of education from the perspective of the provider of educational services--secondary schools and universities, as well as from the state as evaluating authority (accessibility of educational services, costs savings, time, etc.). The Small business check-up methodology can be the right and cheaper way for completing or replacement of actual monitoring system provided once per year in paper form and only in selected groups. The basic idea of this approach is to establish an appropriate system for exchange of information between individual schools and also among the state schools and institutions. The paper also deals with differentiation between quality level of schools across individual regions in Slovakia. [This contribution was undertaken, as parts of the research projects VEGA 1/1321/12, VEGA 1/0895/13, VEGA 1/0421/12, KEGA 052ŽU-4/2012. For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
Digging the Virtual Past
Author: Polymeropoulou, Panagiota
Date: 2014-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Archaeology,Computer Simulation,Computer Graphics,Computer Oriented Programs,Visual Aids

In this paper we will investigate the way that the technological progress and the Informatics contributed greatly to the field of Archaeology. There will be analyzed the terms of virtual archaeology and virtual reality in archaeology and there will be an extended reference to the applications and the computer graphics that archaeologists could use for their own scientific purposes. It will be attempted to be shown the way that computer graphics can create not only an authentic copy of an archaeological find but can function also as a useful tool of learning for new archaeologists and the broader public that is interested in the ancient past. [For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
Delivery of E-Learning through Social Learning Networks
Author: Dafoulas, Georgios A.
Date: 2014-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Delivery Systems,Electronic Learning,Social Networks,Web 2.0 Technologies,Educational Technology,Learning Experience,Technological Advancement,Technology Uses in Education,Constructivism (Learning),Pilot Projects,Online Surveys,Focus Groups,Tutors,Interviews,Observation

Over the past two decades policies and speculations have been evident about the importance of internet use including technologies in education and learning at all levels to individuals and societies. The purposes, theories and ways in which learning with technologies ought to be conceptualised and functionalised is generating an increased body of literature. With the arrival of Web 2.0 and Semantic Web however not enough is known about the ways in which these online technologies interact and may interact with student's learning experience. There are gaps in our knowledge on the role of social networking sites on student learning experiences. Social media tools have become ubiquitous. You can see our students use them all the time. Among them most popular tools are Facebook, Wiki, YouTube, bulletin board, LinkedIn, blogging, and twittering. The advancement of modern technologies tries its best to accommodate the needs from people, especially the younger generation. As educators, how can we take advantage of this momentum? With the advent of Web 2.0 tools, educators are looking to these new technological tools to examine its potential in enhancing teaching and learning. While its runaway success as a social networking tool is now renowned, the use of Facebook for educational purposes may be considered still at its infancy stage. This paper will bring together recent research findings on how learning experience of students at higher and further education level is influenced by the latest development and technological advancements of social networking sites. [For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
Educational Multimedia Profiling Recommendations for Device-Aware Adaptive Mobile Learning
Author: Moldovan, Arghir-Nicolae
Date: 2014-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Telecommunications,Technology Uses in Education,Handheld Devices,Multimedia Instruction,Video Technology,Audio Equipment,Coding,Case Studies,Rating Scales

Mobile learning is seeing a fast adoption with the increasing availability and affordability of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. As the creation and consumption of educational multimedia content on mobile devices is also increasing fast, educators and mobile learning providers are faced with the challenge to adapt multimedia type educational content in order to suit the variety of devices that are used by mobile learners. This paper proposes a solution for multimedia profiling that groups mobile devices in classes based on their resolution in order to allow for the creation of a reduced number of multimedia clip versions. This solution would support educational multimedia visualization on a large set of mobile devices. The paper also makes recommendations for each multimedia profile in terms of audio and video encoding settings. [For the full proceedings see ED557189.]
Structural Relationships between Variables of Elementary School Students' Intention of Accepting Digital Textbooks
Author: Joo, Young Ju
Date: 2014-07-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Electronic Publishing,Textbooks,Student Attitudes,Elementary School Students,Intention,Technology Uses in Education,Student Surveys,Self Efficacy,Statistical Analysis,Usability,Hypothesis Testing,Grade 3,Grade 5,Grade 4,Grade 6,Likert Scales,Foreign Countries

The purpose of this study is to explore variables affecting the acceptance of digital textbooks in the elementary school environment and provide basic information and resources to increase the intention of acceptance. Based on the above research purposes. Surveys were conducted using Google Docs targeting randomly selected elementary school students using digital textbooks. In this study, we used the measurement instruments used in the previous study, after revising according to the research environment, to measure the self-efficacy in using digital textbooks, subjective norms, observability, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and intention of acceptance. We used item parceling to avoid model misspecification and AMOS 20.0 for statistical analysis. The research results were as follows: first the observability and self-efficacy in using digital textbooks affected the perceived ease of use but subjective norms had no effect. On the other hand, the result that subjective norms do not affect the perceived ease of use is different from our initial hypothesis but is consistent with previous research by Oak (2013). Second, the results of investigating the effects of efficacy in using digital textbooks, subjective norms, observability, and perceived ease of use on perceived usefulness, self-efficacy in using digital textbooks, subjective norms, and perceived ease of use, affected perceived usefulness but observability did not provide significant effects. Third, the elementary school students' perceived usefulness significantly affected the intention of accepting digital textbooks. The results are consistent with previous studies (Davis et al., 1989; Kang &amp; Kim, 2013), suggesting that the more students utilize digital textbooks and believe that a digital textbook is helpful to increase learning outcomes, the more easily they are able to accept digital textbooks. [This work was supported by National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (2012-045331). For the full proceedings see ED557189.]
Organisation and Management of a Complete Bachelor Degree Offered Online at the University of Milan for Ten Years
Author: Milani, Manuela
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Bachelors Degrees,Online Courses,College Programs,Program Administration,Organization,Electronic Learning,Computer Science Education

This paper is aimed at presenting some reflections on organisation and management of SSRI online: an e-learning initiative started at the University of Milan (Italy) in the academic year 2004/05 and offered to students over the last ten years. The initiative consisted in implementing the online version of an already existing three-year bachelor degree (&quot;Laurea in Sicurezza dei Sistemi e delle Reti Informatiche--SSRI&quot;: A Degree on Security of Computer Systems and Networks). [For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
A System for the Automatic Assembly of Test Questions Using a No-SQL Database
Author: Shin, Sanggyu
Date: 2014-07-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Test Items,Test Construction,Databases,Electronic Learning,Evaluation Methods,Student Needs

We describe a system that automatically assembles test questions from a set of examples. Our system can create test questions appropriate for each user's level at low cost. In particular, when a user review their lesson, our system provides new test questions which are assembled based on their previous test results and past mistakes, rather than a completely random selection. By providing test question of the appropriate level, we hope to enhance the user's learning. We use MongoDB which is a no-SQL database system because the contents (test questions) are not structured. Most of test contents used in class are not structured, i.e. each question has a different structure and different selection type. Therefore, we used MongoDB system in order to structure the test questions more freely. [This work was supported in part by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX) Service Science, Solutions and Foundation Integrated Research Program. For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
Shared Cognition Facilitated by Teacher Use of Interactive Whiteboard Technologies
Author: Redman, Christine
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Technology Uses in Education,Interactive Video,Educational Technology,Teaching Methods,Computer Mediated Communication,Questioning Techniques,Discussion (Teaching Technique),Cooperative Learning,Thinking Skills,Learner Engagement,Foreign Countries,Teacher Student Relationship,Interaction,Observation,Interviews,Video Technology,Elementary School Teachers,Grade 3,Grade 6

This paper reports on a study designed to examine the dialogic processes teachers used to sustain focused discussions, using questioning techniques and Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs). IWBs and their related technologies such as plasma touch screens and projected tablets have passed through several phases of implementation as classroom objects, from initial adoption by a few enthusiasts, through the building acceptance phases, and finally a phase of maturity characterized by widespread use. This study shows that teachers who value shared collaborative learning spaces, can draw on distributed cognition, and promote sustained thinking, cognitive engagement and that this enables development and refinement of students insights. [For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
Motivation as a Method of Controlling the Social Subject Self-Learning
Author: Isaev, Andrey V.
Date: 2014-07-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Learning Activities,Student Motivation,Knowledge Level,Psychology,Emotional Response,Behavior,Independent Study

The paper substantiates inertial nature of the motivation system impact on the individual. Such exposure is a major shift from the level of motivational signs of external perception on the level of the individual internal motivation system. This approach justifies the ability to control the quality of the individual education as in the process of learning, and at its further self-learning. [For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
Designing Educational Social Machines for Effective Feedback
Author: Yee-King, Matthew
Date: 2014-07-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Feedback (Response),Communities of Practice,Case Studies,Music Education,Higher Education,Interaction,Learning Activities,Technology Uses in Education,Foreign Countries,Web 2.0 Technologies,Internet,Computer Mediated Communication,Learner Engagement,Undergraduate Students,Observation,Grounded Theory,Coding

We report on our development of an educational social machine based on the concept that feedback in communities is an effective means to support the development of communities of learning and practice. Key challenges faced by this work are how best to support educational and social interactions, how to deliver personalised tuition, and how to enable effective feedback, all in a way which is potentially scalable to thousands of users. A case study is described involving one to one and group music lessons in an on-campus, face to face, higher education context that were observed and analysed in terms of the actions carried out by the participants. The actions are described and it is shown how they can be formalised into a flowchart which represents the social interactions and activities within a lesson. Through this analysis, specific scenarios emerged where the feedback being given might not be effective, e.g. the recipient not understanding the feedback or the provision of feedback which is not specific enough. In answer to these scenarios of ineffective feedback, the requirements for a technological intervention which aims to make the feedback more effective are proposed. With this in mind, we are then able to describe a novel technological platform which has been developed as part of a large-scale European research project and which aims to support effective feedback. The platform is based around focused discussion of time based media, embedded within existing teaching activities at a research led higher education institution in the UK. We outline how it is being used in a blended learning model to support the teaching and learning of music. We reflect on the experience of developing techniques and systems for enabling communities of e-learning and describe our evaluation methodology which involves several, ongoing case studies and approximately 400 users in its current phase. [The work reported in this paper is part of the PRAISE project which is funded under the EU FP7 Technology Enhanced Learning programme. grant agreement number 318770. For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
Factors Influencing the Acceptance of E-Learning Adoption in Libya's Higher Education Institutions
Author: Benghet, Mahfoud
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Higher Education,Electronic Learning,Technology Integration,Foreign Countries,Barriers,Cultural Influences

The growing influence of technologies on all aspects of life, including the education sector, requires developing countries to follow the example of the developed countries and adopt technology in their education systems. Libya has been able to boost its economic and educational position over the years, and this brings it to the concern of applying modern methods of learning into its Higher Education (HE) system. E-Learning has been advocated by several university professors and researchers as one of pertinent method in the education system in the current society context of busy schedules and dual responsibilities of adult learners. However, due to many cultural, governmental and technological reasons, the state of e-Learning in Libya's HE has not been to an adequate level. This paper aims to shows the outcomes of several studies, which discover the effect of national and international ethos and methods to education on the usefulness of manipulating, applying and utilizing e-Learning schemes and machinery in Libya's Higher Education institutions. The writers have advanced an inquiry form, which was finished by ripe Libyan students registered for PhD educations in the United Kingdom, who are also permanent professors at the Universities of Tripoli, Garyounis, El-Zawia and Aljabal-Algharbi. The measurable and qualitative inquiry of the replies show numerous complications connected to the utilization of e-Learning and, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Libyan universities. [For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
Fostering Critical Thinking Skills in Students with Learning Disabilities through Online Problem-Based Learning
Author: Flynn, Kathleen
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Critical Thinking,Thinking Skills,Learning Disabilities,Problem Solving,Teaching Methods,Online Courses,College Students,Foreign Countries,Content Analysis,Student Journals,Video Technology,Semi Structured Interviews,Ethnography,Case Studies,Statistical Analysis,Qualitative Research

As a pedagogical approach, problem-based learning (PBL) has shown success for average and gifted students (HmeloSiver, 2004) and there are numerous incentives for its implementation in online learning environments (Savid-Baden, 2007; Chernobilsky, Nagarajan, &amp; Hmelo-Silver, 2005). However, little research has been conducted regarding the impact of problem-based learning on higher order thinking skills of students with learning disabilities studying in online learning environments. This study examines the effects of an online problem-based learning course on critical thinking skills of university students with learning disabilities. Students participating in the study will be taking their first course in an online Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Drawing on triangulation, this study includes a content analysis of reflective journals, a video analysis of a problem-based learning objective (PBLO) and semi-structured interviews with repertory grids, to observe the presence or absence of critical thinking skills among students with learning disabilities in an online PBL course. [For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]
Technology and Motor Ability Development
Author: Wang, Lin
Date: 2014-12-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Video Games,Psychomotor Skills,Exercise,Motor Development,Technology Uses in Education,Physical Activities,Surveys,College Students,Kinetics,Human Body,Majors (Students)

As a new member joining the technology family, active video games have been developed to promote physical exercise. This working-in-progress paper shares an ongoing project on examining the basic motor abilities that are enhanced through participating in commercially available active video games. [For the full proceedings see ED557181.]
Using Tablet PCs in Classroom for Teaching Human-Computer Interaction: An Experience in High Education
Author: da Silva, André Constantino
Date: 2014-12-00
Type: Reports - Evaluative
Subjects: Computer Uses in Education,Teaching Methods,Handheld Devices,Interaction,Information Science,Telecommunications,Man Machine Systems,Computer Software,Technology Uses in Education,Educational Technology,Foreign Countries

The use of computers in the teaching and learning process is investigated by many researches and, nowadays, due the available diversity of computing devices, tablets are become popular in classroom too. So what are the advantages and disadvantages to use tablets in classroom? How can we shape the teaching and learning activities to get the best of this technology? To try to answers these questions we offered a course in a classroom equipped with tablets and made some observations that are relevant in this context. We offered one pilot course about Human-Computer Interaction employing the Tablet PCs in classroom. This article presents this experience and some insights perceived after reflection on the action. We conclude the needs to change the teaching and learning activities when adopt tablets in classroom to get the advantages of this device and minimize the disadvantages: tablets can motivate students but can be a distract tool too. [For the complete proceedings see ED557181.]