ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Elemental Learning as a Framework for E-Learning
Author: Dempsey, John V.
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Electronic Learning,Models,Instructional Design,Classification

Analysis of learning outcomes can be a complex and esoteric instructional design process that is often ignored by educators and e-learning designers. This paper describes a model of analysis that fosters the real-life application of learning outcomes and explains why the model may be needed. The Elemental Learning taxonomy is a hierarchical model composed of two primary types of learning: (a) elemental learning composed of actual and simulated elements; and (b) synthetic learning, composed of procedural understanding, conceptual understanding, and related knowledge. The importance of iteration and intuition in learning analysis is also discussed. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
System for Automatic Generation of Examination Papers in Discrete Mathematics
Author: Fridenfalk, Mikael
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Automation,College Mathematics,Item Banks,Test Items,Mathematics Tests,Distance Education,Computer Assisted Testing,Grading,Computer Science Education,Foreign Countries

A system was developed for automatic generation of problems and solutions for examinations in a university distance course in discrete mathematics and tested in a pilot experiment involving 200 students. Considering the success of such systems in the past, particularly including automatic assessment, it should not take long before such systems are widely used in higher mathematics education. The goal of this paper is to encourage such development by sharing some of the experience that was gained along the way in the implementation and application of such system. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
Challenges of Mongolian E-Learning and an Improvement Method of Implementation
Author: Baigaltugs, S.
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Electronic Learning,Internet,Student Needs,Integrated Learning Systems,Cooperation,Readiness,Student Surveys,Student Attitudes,College Students,Computer Uses in Education

The Internet has brought about, a revolution in education, more precisely with regards to online learning. Online education has helped remove many barriers which traditionally hindered access to education due to its relatively low price and high flexibility in how and when courses and paces courses are taught. In this study, we carry out a survey of the need of e-learning for students at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology to find out about their learning preferences. E-learning, if used effectively can help address the many short-comings of the traditional education methods as well as the inherent problems the classroom teacher is faced on a daily basis with a classroom of learners with different learning. We therefore propose a model for e-learning that provides adaptive tutoring using technology-enhanced learning. An important aspect of Learning Management Systems is their ability to offer collaboration tools to build a community of learners. The aim of this document is to provide support for the cost-effective use of e-learning technology and content in education and training by setting out a national framework for the education system. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
Direction of Contents Development for SMART Education
Author: Park, YoungSun
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Educational Policy,Electronic Publishing,Foreign Countries,Elementary Secondary Education,Information Technology,Online Systems,Electronic Learning,Educational Development,Course Content,Online Courses

The aim of this study is to suggest a direction of developing SMART education contents for its effective implementation by analyzing the status of educational informatization policies in Korea. Korean government has built the information and communication infrastructure, and provided teachers and students with various kinds of contents. And, in preparation of the SMART education which will be implemented in all elementary, middle, and high schools in 2015, the government plans to develop digital textbooks and supply contents of cyber home learning system, Edunet, and private companies by linking digital textbooks. In order to realize the merits of the SMART education to the maximum, it is necessary to develop practical and participatory contents per level of student abilities and suggest them to students. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
Critical Factors in Mobile Learning: A Quasi-Systematic Review
Author: Rodrigues, Sergio Assis
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Electronic Learning,Online Searching,Literature Reviews,Search Engines,Internet

The advance of mobile industry and research has expanded e-learning in order to support an efficient and effective educational process. However, the promised benefits are as much attractive as the existing difficulties and barriers. In this paper, we intend to identify and summarize the critical factors in mobile learning through a quasi-systematic review. Preliminary results are grouped on categories defined in previous studies accomplished by the researchers. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
Learning Portfolio as a Service--A Restful Style
Author: Hu, Shueh-Cheng
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Portfolios (Background Materials),Portfolio Assessment,Electronic Publishing,Internet,Computer Software,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Information Management,Integrated Learning Systems

Learning portfolios play a critical role in fostering learning and assessing learning achievement. For easy access and more efficient processing, various electronic portfolio systems have being developed and receiving widespread adoption. Contemporary electronic portfolio systems are designed and developed proprietarily, such that the limited functionalities of each system are available to particular users only, and it is difficult to integrate them due to diverse access interfaces. However, just like other pedagogy support systems, e-portfolio systems must be renovated continuously to make them adapt to the ever-changing learning contexts and meet diverse requirements from teachers, educators, and administrators. Besides, to facilitate sharing and consolidating resources from different e-portfolio systems, it is of great importance to build easy-accessible as well as open e-portfolio systems. In consideration of the necessary agility, versatility, and accessibility, the present work proposed the concept of learning portfolio as a service and realized it with a restful styled approach. This article describes the design rationales and implementation of the learning portfolio as a service system, and analyze its impact on educational facets. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
Using Facebook as a Virtual Classroom in a Public University in Mexico City
Author: Batista, Miguel Angel Herrera
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Social Media,College Students,Computer Mediated Communication,Integrated Learning Systems,Foreign Countries,Electronic Learning

Since Information and Communication Technologies have been developed, many changes have taken place in society. Social Networks certainly have changed communication habits, especially among young people. Nowadays, Social Networks are used as a communication system every day. In most countries, university students use this communication and interaction media to share information, images, videos, music, etc. but essentially, they use Social Network to socialize. In Mexico, probably more than 90% of the students between 17 and 25 years old have their own Facebook space. In this way, almost every student in the university knows how to use the social network, especially Facebook, nevertheless, none of them knows how to use virtual classrooms like Moodle, for example. This is a big problem for universities which are interested in using virtual classrooms. That is the case of Metropolitan Autonomous University, in Mexico City that is interested in using Moodle to support academic activities. That is why we decided to change the paradigm: if we can't take students to virtual classroom, we can take classroom to students. In this way we empowered Facebook as a virtual classroom. In this paper we describe our experience in using Facebook, no just as a communication media, but as a real virtual classroom, in a public university in Mexico City. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
Towards a Trust Model in E-Learning: Antecedents of a Student's Trust
Author: Wongse-ek, Woraluck
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Trust (Psychology),Models,Learning Activities,Reputation,Outcomes of Education,Students

When a student is faced with uncertainty in the trustworthiness of a learning activity to meet their intended learning goals, it may cause a student to have a state of anxiety and a lack of confidence in the teaching activity. A student's trust in the teaching agents' ability to provide an appropriate teaching activity is needed to reduce the student's uncertainty. In this paper, we present a conceptual trust model for an e-learning transaction. The trust model quantifies how much of the student's trust should be given to a teaching activity by using a learning outcome-based trust and a reputation-based trust technique. A possible utility of a teaching activity is estimated in order to calculate the degree of a student's trust in an outcome-based trust technique. It is hoped that the trust model presented in this paper could help a student choose the trustworthy material without any recommendation from an expert. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
An Italian Social Learning Experience in High Schools
Author: Pieri, Michelle
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Foreign Countries,High Schools,Socialization,Learning Experience,High School Students,Computer Uses in Education,Cooperative Learning,Case Studies

This work focuses on an experience of social learning realized in six Italian high schools in the 2012-2013 academic year. In this experience we used ThinkTag Smart, a new learning platform, to train 400 students. After an introduction concerning Information and Communication Technologies in Italian schools, this contribution will describe the ThinkTag Smart platform and will also focus on the experience, underlining particular aspects connected to the social construction of knowledge. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
A Comparative Study of E-Learning System for Smart Education
Author: An, SangJin
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Educational Resources,Supplementary Reading Materials,Textbooks,Electronic Publishing,Information Technology,Teaching Methods,Online Systems,Foreign Countries,Usability

Korean government aims to implement SMART education nationwide, so it is planning many ways to provide digital learning contents. There are some ways of distributing digital contents, and each way has its own characteristics. Edunet is a nationwide system for providing educational resource. Cyber Home Learning System is a regional service which offers supplemental learning materials. E-textbook provides electronic textbooks which are actually used at learner's real class. Digital Textbook uses the latest smart device and technology. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages so it needs to choose a different spreading method depending on the e-learning environment. And through the modularization of contents, it needs to recycle digital contents. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
How Does the &quot;Digital Generation&quot; Get Help on Their Mathematics Homework?
Author: van de Sande, Carla
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Homework,High School Students,Mathematics Instruction,Internet,Comparative Analysis,Help Seeking,Educational Resources,Technology Uses in Education,Generational Differences,Student Surveys,Statistical Analysis

Homework is a daily activity for at least twelve years of most students' school experience, and every assignment requires the time, energy, and emotional engagement of all those involved. Traditionally, students seeking homework help could refer to their class notes and textbooks, or ask their friends, tutors, and, perhaps, as last resort, their parents. Now, however, the Internet has greatly extended the set of resources to which students have ready access. By going online, students can read tutorials, watch videos, and even seek personalized homework help from a large community of others in online forums. Students who are currently in high school have grown up with computers, mobile devices, and other technologies that make Internet access a convenience, if not an expectation. Given their exposure to technology, together with an expanded pool of readily available resources, how do students today seek help on their homework? In particular, what resources (digital versus non-digital) do they favor and to what extent? This paper documents how a large population of USA high school students seeks help on their mathematics assignments. Comparisons between students in remedial, core, and advanced courses are also made. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
Evaluation of Visual Computer Simulator for Computer Architecture Education
Author: Imai, Yoshiro
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Computer Simulation,Teaching Methods,Cooperative Learning,Programming,College Students,Electronic Learning,Essays,Correlation,Tests,Scores,Visual Stimuli,Instructional Effectiveness,Visualization,Foreign Countries,Statistical Analysis,Computer Science Education,Student Attitudes,Qualitative Research

This paper presents trial evaluation of a visual computer simulator in 2009-2011, which has been developed to play some roles of both instruction facility and learning tool simultaneously. And it illustrates an example of Computer Architecture education for University students and usage of e-Learning tool for Assembly Programming in order to realize effective and efficient ICT-based Practical Information Education. Evaluation for the visual simulator has been carried out not only as an instruction facility but also as a self-learning tool. The simulator can be used by teachers in their classroom lectures as well as by students for their making reports (essays). Such evaluated results are based on viewpoints from instruction of internal structure and behaviour in vonNeumann computer, Assembly Programming exercise, some essays by students with the simulator, and relationship between student's examination scores and usage of the simulator. The second half of the paper describes how to organize multiple server system for collaborative learning with the visual simulator. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
Effects of Facebook Tutoring on Learning English as a Second Language
Author: Wang, Chang-hwa
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Foreign Countries,English (Second Language),Second Language Instruction,Second Language Learning,Social Media,Elementary School Students,Student Attitudes,Positive Attitudes,Conventional Instruction,Electronic Learning,Academic Achievement,Social Networks,Instructional Design,Questionnaires,Learning Motivation,Learning Strategies,Statistical Analysis,Learning Activities

Social media use has become increasingly embedded in everyday life. Among various social media, Facebook is a highly interactive virtual social communication tool and it has become increasingly popular on college campuses. Research results have indicated that Facebook could be an effective platform for informal learning. However, most of current studies in the educational use of social media seem to pay more attention on college students or adults. This study, however, explored the effects of Facebook tutoring on learning English as a second language for children. 60 elementary students from a supplementary English tutoring program were evenly divided into Facebook tutoring group and traditional classroom teaching group. Instructional strategies of communication, collaboration, and information sharing were given to both groups. The results indicated that children who participated in the Facebook tutoring generally exhibited a positive attitude toward this new type of learning experience. The learning achievement for the Facebook group was also significantly higher than the traditional classroom group. It is concluded that provided with proper strategies, both student's learning attitude and learning achievement were positively affected by the Facebook tutoring. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
Using a Techno-Scepticism Framework to Evaluate the Perception and Acceptance of a New Online Reading List
Author: Sultany, Ajmal
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Higher Education,Electronic Learning,College Faculty,Teacher Attitudes,Educational Technology,Negative Attitudes,Computer Attitudes,College Students,Student Attitudes,Reading Lists,Online Systems,Misconceptions,Focus Groups,Positive Attitudes,Correlation,Statistical Analysis,Qualitative Research,Computer Software

There has been an exponential growth of e-learning in the UK Higher Education. However, there is a growing opinion that e-learning practitioners are not critical enough and that they should adopt a more techno-negative or techno-scepticism approach when implementing new e-learning tools. In this paper we use a techno-scepticism framework to assess the evaluation of a newly implemented online reading list at our UK Higher Education Institution. In particular, we look at the &quot;The Myths about E-Learning in Higher Education&quot; (see EJ872751) proposed by Njenga and Fourie (2010). We present qualitative and quantitative evaluation data collected from the focus groups which shows that the students have a very positive perception of this newly implemented online reading list and believe that it will improve their academic experience. Furthermore, as the student focus groups also produced rich data which deal with the students' experience of e-learning in general, five of the myths of e-learning that relates to the student experience are used to framework these discussions. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
Student Experiences on Interaction in an Online Learning Environment as Part of a Blended Learning Implementation: What Is Essential?
Author: Salmi, Laura
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Online Courses,Qualitative Research,Student Surveys,Business Administration Education,Adult Students,College Students,College Faculty,Teamwork,Electronic Publishing,Web Sites,Blended Learning,Interaction,Educational Objectives,Teacher Student Relationship

Interaction and community building are essential elements of a well functioning online learning environment, especially in learning environments based on investigative learning with a strong emphasis on teamwork. In this paper, practical solutions covering quality criteria for interaction in online education are presented for a simple implementation using standard generally available tools. The solutions are evaluated on the basis of student experiences reported in writing in response to a qualitative survey given to adult university business students. In student responses, the importance of an active online presence by instructors was emphasised, as well as the availability of team meeting platforms. Blogs were seen as an effective way to support learning. Face-to-face interaction, both between students and between students and instructors, was seen as less important than expected. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
E-Learning Software for Improving Student's Music Performance Using Comparisons
Author: Delgado, M.
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Computer Software,Music Education,Music Activities,Performance,Computer Uses in Education,Artificial Intelligence,Models,Mathematics,Computation

In the last decades there have been several attempts to use computers in Music Education. New pedagogical trends encourage incorporating technology tools in the process of learning music. Between them, those systems based on Artificial Intelligence are the most promising ones, as they can derive new information from the inputs and visualize them in several meaningful ways. This paper presents an application of machine learning to music performance which is able to discover the similarities and differences between a given performance and those from other musicians. Such a system would help students to better learn how to perform a certain piece of music, allowing them to compare with other students or master performers. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]
Understanding Children's Museum Learning from Multimedia Instruction
Author: Alwi, Asmidah
Date: 2013-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Children,Museums,Learning Processes,Multimedia Instruction,Electronic Learning,Preferences,Cognitive Style,Web Based Instruction,Pretests Posttests,Quasiexperimental Design,Exhibits,Conventional Instruction,Comparative Analysis,Educational Benefits,Outcomes of Education,Visualization,Scores,Teaching Methods,Item Response Theory,Data Analysis,Physical Environment,Instructional Effectiveness,Foreign Countries

The use of multimedia instructions for online learning has become very common particularly with the advances of the Internet technology. Consequently museums around the world utilize such information and communications technology (ICT) tools in order to provide richer learning experiences for their visitors. This paper discusses a study that investigated the relationship between multimedia instructional formats with individual cognitive learning preferences in a museum learning environment. A total of 91 school children age between 10 to 12 years old were randomly assigned into treatment groups based on their cognitive learning ratio. We employed a pre-test post-test quasi experimental design to reveal that general performance of the children exposed to the physical museum exhibits is better than the online museum environment. Although single cognitive learning preferences were evaluated, our findings suggest that analytics perform better than the wholists when exposed to the physical exhibits; whilst the result is reversed for the online exhibits environment. Verbalisers were found to be better than visualisers in the physical museum context. Yet they were found to have slight differences when compared to visualisers in an online environment. Our findings on the combined cognitive styles (CCS) show that the analytics-visualisers' mean scores were different between physical and online exhibits, compared to the other three CCS. [For the full proceedings, see ED562127.]