ethanporcaro/eric-fulltext-meta huggingface dataset:
Practice of Organisational Strategies of Improving Computer Rooms for Promoting Smart Education Using ICT Equipment
Author: Ogawa, Nobuyuki
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Information Processing,Equipment,Active Learning,College Faculty,Acceleration (Education),Foreign Countries,Classrooms,Higher Education,Computers,Computer Networks,Computer Peripherals,Access to Computers

This paper describes our concrete efforts to improve the functions of the computer rooms in the Information Processing Center from among several organisational strategies which can assume a large role in the next-generation education, while examining the practice of active learning by the faculty in all classes using ICT equipment. We implemented the strategies to rapidly introduce smart education including e-Learning into all subjects of our college by improving the functions of the computer rooms, increasing the number of the computer rooms, and linking with the &quot;Acceleration Program for University Education Rebuilding (AP)&quot; which is being promoted as a collegewide project. Also, based on the circumstances leading to the increase in the number of the computer rooms, we conducted an aggregate analysis of use of the increased computer rooms and utilized the results for promoting smart education. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Breaking the Gendered-Technology Phenomenon in Taiwan&apos;s Higher Education
Author: Wang, Ya-Hsuan
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Gender Differences,Higher Education,Foreign Countries,Interviews,Educational Policy,Discourse Analysis,Qualitative Research,Femininity,Masculinity,Information Technology,Individual Characteristics,Family Relationship,Role Models,Social Support Groups,Age Differences,Majors (Students),Student Attitudes,Career Choice,College Students,Single Sex Colleges,Sex Role

Addressing the policy of gender mainstreaming in response to the gendered-technology phenomenon, this study aims to explore the contemporary change of the gender-technology relation. Drawing the female discourses on technology, gender, and success, this study collected qualitative data by individual interviews from 28 women in technology who were asked about their experiences of doing technology, doing gender and performing femininity or/and masculinity. This paper demonstrates women success in relation to their gender identity and gender-technology discourse of gendered technology. Based on the cross-generation females' accounts on their context of family, schools and society, this paper explores how female technologists constitute their gender role and how they articulate the formation of gendered technology phenomenon. It concludes a vase-breaking theory that elite female technologists can break gender boundary by individual characteristics, masculinity, family support, school empowerment from female role-model and single-gendered school, and social support from university. Although mostly the female co-constructed and deconstructed simultaneously the gendered technology, there is seen changing culture among three generations that younger generation get more advantages on gender mobility by breaking gender boundary. There is also a phenomenon of elite female develops technology well by appropriating all sorts of resources and eventually gender mobility is achieved with the help from men and women so that they have broken the strict boundary of gendered technology. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Development of a Framework for MOOC in Continuous Training
Author: Amado, Carolina
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Models,Online Courses,Foreign Countries,Professional Continuing Education,Training,Teacher Education,Information Technology,Higher Education,Distance Education

Inserted in the area of education in the field of specialty of the technologies of information and communication in the education, the focus of this research is the production of knowledge about the MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) within the educational community, through the formulation of a conceptual framework for the continuous training. The accelerated expansion and spread of digital technologies has made the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) a mass distribution of knowledge, providing access to a more open and flexible education. Nevertheless, being a relatively recent phenomenon, it is still not considered properly or excessively clarified, thus motivating us to carry out this study, seeking to know this reality more deeply. Thus, the focus of the future study is to develop a framework for MOOC in the context of continuing teacher education. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Exploring Characteristics of Fine-Grained Behaviors of Learning Mathematics in Tablet-Based E-Learning Activities
Author: Yeung, Cheuk Yu
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Mathematics Instruction,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Handheld Devices,Telecommunications,Computer Oriented Programs,Student Behavior,Elementary School Students,Problem Solving,Classification,Mathematics Achievement,Data Collection,Data Analysis,Teaching Methods,Student Surveys,Student Attitudes

Attributes of teaching and learning contexts provide rich information about how students participate in learning activities. By tracking and analyzing snapshots of these attributes captured continuously throughout the duration of the learning activities, teachers can identify individual students who need special attention and apply different pedagogical actions to them. This paper describes the results of the work-in-progress study in exploring characteristics of fine-grained behaviors of learning mathematics in tablet-based e-learning activities. An experimental platform called SkyApp is built. Through SkyApp, teachers can create e-learning activities and track learning records of students after the delivery of the activities. SkyApp supports capturing, storing and analyzing of fine-grained behaviors of students. Pilot tests have been done in two primary schools for eight months. The review of the tests demonstrates the potential in performing learning analytics. By applying clustering algorithms on multiple learning metrics of marks, time and number of attempts for students in solving mathematics questions, classification of students by learning characteristics of performance and engagement can be formulated. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
The Key to Success in Electronic Learning: Faculty Training and Evaluation
Author: Matthews, Warren
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Faculty Development,Higher Education,College Faculty,Learning Theories,Adult Students,Labor Force Development,Technology Integration,Teaching Methods,Student Needs,Faculty Evaluation,Andragogy

Over the past thirty years, higher education for adult students has emerged to help prepare the labor force for the 21st century in a world of globalization. At the same time, there have been massive advances in computing and the internet that provide many tools useful in higher education. Most universities now offer some form of electronic learning (EL), and many offer complete EL degree programs tailored for the working adult student. Now it is essential that managers of these new educational programs act to select and train faculty to fit the special needs of the adult student. More importantly, program managers need to use the new technology and learning theory to monitor program delivery and insure their program goals are achieved. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Ontology-Based Learner Categorization through Case Based Reasoning and Fuzzy Logic
Author: Sarwar, Sohail
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Student Characteristics,Profiles,Courseware,Electronic Learning,Computer System Design,Program Validation,Data Processing,Cognitive Style,Learning Strategies,College Students

Learner categorization has a pivotal role in making e-learning systems a success. However, learner characteristics exploited at abstract level of granularity by contemporary techniques cannot categorize the learners effectively. In this paper, an architecture of e-learning framework has been presented that exploits the machine learning based techniques for learner categorization taking into account the cognitive and inclinatory attributes of learners at finer level of granularity. Learner attributes are subjected to a pre-processing mechanism for taking into account the most important ones out of initial attribute set. Subsequently, couple of machine learning techniques namely Fuzzy Logic and Case Based Reasoning was employed on attributes selected for learner categorization. To best of our knowledge, these techniques have not been employed so far in learner categorization with quality of data and adaptivity while targeting semantic web. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
E-Learning Research and Development: On Evaluation, Learning Performance, and Visual Attention
Author: Rüth, Marco
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Eye Movements,Research and Development,Online Courses,Visual Perception,Attention,Evaluation

Digital learning is becoming a prevalent everyday human behavior. Effective digital learning services are integral for educational innovation and constitute competitive advantages for education businesses. Quality management in e-learning research and development is thus of utmost importance and needs both strong conceptual and empirical underpinnings. On the one hand, this work delineates a new model that conceptualizes main critical issues in e-learning research and development projects. The model will foster substantial progress in evaluation and theory development of digital learning. On the other hand, the evaluation of how central features of digital learning services affect learning is indispensable. Here, empirical studies will investigate three key stages of learning: the initial situation, the learning procedure, and the assessment procedure. With regard to the initial situation, how do existing learner characteristics relate to learning performance in digital learning modules? Second, how do visual features of the digital learning content affect the visual attention, cognitive load, and learning performance of the users? Third, how do additional information in textual feedback affect the learning performance in digital multiple-choice quizzes? Overall, this work presents a new model for the systematic evaluation of e-learning and investigates key learning stages to illustrate the importance of developing evidence-based guidelines. Turning both approaches into common practice in e-learning research and development will substantiate theory development, quality management, and project success. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Intercultural Sensibility in Online Teaching and Learning Processes
Author: Torras, Eulalia
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Cultural Awareness,Teaching Methods,Online Courses,Learning Processes,Intercultural Communication,Cultural Pluralism,Higher Education,Masters Programs,Graduate Students,Human Resources,Cultural Differences,Acculturation,Foreign Countries,Business Schools,Foreign Students,Qualitative Research,Observation

Attention to cultural diversity is a necessity for online higher education in management. Beamer (2004) postulated the Model of Intercultural Sensitivity to conceptualize the intercultural competence dimensions that can develop. The Complementary, Intercultural Learning Model (Beamer, 2016) emphasizes the importance that students are able to encode and decode the differences in messages emitted by people of various cultures. The aim of this research is to analyze the verbalization of intercultural content of online students participation and their learning products for an online masters in human resources direction. The content of participation and the learning products of 108 participants based on the system of categories proposed by the Model of Intercultural Sensitivity and enriched by Intercultural Learning Model has been analyzed. The most frequent category found is adaptation, so cultural difference is the state in which the experience of another culture yields perception and encourages behavior appropriate to that culture. [This paper has been written in the framework of the research supported financially by OBServatory, International Observatory on Online Higher Education in Management by OBS Business School. For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Why Do Learners Choose Online Learning: The Learners&apos; Voices
Author: Ilgaz, Hale
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Foreign Countries,Adult Students,Distance Education,Online Courses,Qualitative Research,Instructional Design,Preferences,Undergraduate Students,Graduate Students,Expectation,Student Surveys

Offering many advantages to adult learners, e-Learning is now being recognized--and preferred--by more and more people, resulting in an increased number of distance learners in recent years. Numerous research studies focus on learner preferences for online learning, with most converging around the individual characteristics and differences, if not the features of the technology and pedagogy used. For Turkey, the situation is also similar, with the number of adult learners who prefer online learning increasing each year due to several reasons. The result of this is an increase in the number of online programs offered by many universities. Hence, this research study has been conducted to reveal the prevailing factors causing learners to choose online learning. Through this qualitative research regarding online learners in a state university, it is found that having a full time job, accessibility and flexibility, individual responsibility, effective time management, physical distance, institutional prestige, and disability are the common factors for under graduate and graduate learners in their preference for online learning. Awareness of these factors can support the stakeholders while designing e-Learning from both technological and pedagogical points of view. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Personalization of Learning Activities within a Virtual Environment for Training Based on Fuzzy Logic Theory
Author: Mohamed, Fahim
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Virtual Classrooms,Learning Activities,Individualized Instruction,Computer Simulation,Theories,Logical Thinking,Electronic Learning

Virtual Environments for Training (VET) are useful tools for visualization, discovery as well as for training. VETs are based on virtual reality technique to put learners in training situations that emulate genuine situations. VETs have proven to be advantageous in putting learners into varied training situations to acquire knowledge and competencies, especially when these situations are taking place in uncontrolled circumstances, or when they are dangerous, unrealizable, or expensive to establish in reality. However individual learners find it difficult to select suitable activities for their particular situations because there is no personalized service to respond to the user needs. The solution is to generate learning activities based on learner's profile. Yet, a learner's profile may contain uncertain data (such as the desired level of difficulty, etc). This paper presents an attempt to introduce the concepts of fuzzy set theory the design of an online educational module. Such a module can deal with uncertainties in the knowledge acquisition, representation and decision making. The fuzzy logic principles are used to create the learner profile and to provide the appropriate learning activities to each learner according to his/her profile. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Enhancing Intercultural Competence of Engineering Students via GVT (Global Virtual Teams)-Based Virtual Exchanges: An International Collaborative Course in Intralogistics Education
Author: Wang, Rui
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Cultural Awareness,Engineering Education,Case Studies,Foreign Countries,International Cooperation,Course Descriptions,Computer Simulation,Computer Mediated Communication,Intercultural Communication,Feedback (Response),Universities,Student Attitudes,Course Content,Computer Software,Teaching Methods,College Students,Teamwork

In order to enhance the intercultural competence of engineering students, an international collaborative course in intralogistics education was initiated and realized between the Technical University of Munich in Germany and the Tongji University in China. In this course, students worked in global virtual teams (GVTs) and solved a concrete case study in the field of intralogistics in a virtual setting via modern communication tools. This paper introduced the course in detail and reported lessons learned from conducting the course and student feedback. The findings of this study suggested that teaching using GVT-based virtual exchange is effective in improving intercultural competence of engineering students. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Mobile Learning on the Basis of the Cloud Services
Author: Makarchuk, Tatyana
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Telecommunications,Handheld Devices,Educational Technology,Technology Uses in Education,Integrated Learning Systems,Internet,Information Management,Higher Education,College Faculty,College Students,Information Dissemination,Teaching Methods,Shared Resources and Services

Spreading of interactive applications for mobile devices became one of the trends of IT development in 2015-2017. In higher education mobile applications are being used to advance the productivity of professors and students, which raises the overall quality of education. In the article SkyDrive, GoogleDisk mobile applications' features for group academic activities with the help of mobile devices are described. Integration technology of cloud services and education management system is described. The article includes an example of educational content management system building in frames of master's semester (September-December 2016). [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Game Changer for Online Learning Driven by Advances in Web Technology
Author: Kaul, Manfred
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Reports - Evaluative
Subjects: Electronic Learning,Technological Advancement,Internet,Foreign Countries,Models,Computer Oriented Programs,Electronic Publishing,Books,Higher Education

Almost unnoticed by the e-learning community, the underlying technology of the WWW is undergoing massive technological changes on all levels these days. In this paper we draw the attention to the emerging game changer and discuss the consequences for online learning. In our e-learning project &quot;Work &amp; Study&quot;, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, we have experimented with several new technological approaches such as Mobile First, Responsive Design, Mobile Apps, Web Components, Client-side Components, Progressive Web Apps, Course Apps, e-books, and web sockets for real time collaboration and report about the results and consequences for online learning practice. The modular web is emerging where e-learning units are composed from and delivered by universally embeddable web components. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Information Literacy in the 21st Century: Usefulness and Ease of Learning
Author: Fidalgo, Patricia
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Information Literacy,Privacy,Computer Security,Information Security,Teacher Education,Teaching Methods,Foreign Countries,Undergraduate Students

This study of teachers in training in UAE addresses Information Literacy skills including ease of learning, usefulness and instructional preferences. Most teachers in training found that IL skills are both useful and ease to learn. Multiple instructional strategies were preferred by the teachers in training. The study also shows that although most teachers in training found IL skills easy to learn there are areas such as online safety and privacy that they want to learn more about. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]
Scanner Based Assessment in Exams Organized with Personalized Thesis Randomly Generated via Microsoft Word
Author: Teneqexhi, Romeo
Date: 2017-07-00
Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Subjects: Testing,Computer Assisted Testing,Test Items,Test Construction,Test Scoring Machines,Multiple Choice Tests,Answer Sheets,Courseware,Foreign Countries

Exams assessment is one of the most tedious work for university teachers all over the world. Multiple choice theses make exams assessment a little bit easier, but the teacher cannot prepare more than 3-4 variants; in this case, the possibility of students for cheating from one another becomes a risk for &quot;objective assessment outcome.&quot; On the other hand, even when the exams are organized with multiple-choices, the time for student's outcome takes up relatively too much time. We have developed a platform which tries to eliminate the time-range and is appropriate for big-sized classrooms testing. It works as follows: The teacher prepares for every exam-question, a JPG file, in simple words precisely an e-picture, preferably with the same dimensions for all photos. It is easy to make use of sniping tool from windows. Let us consider the exam-paper will contain 60 questions/exercises (can be up to 100). Every student will have all these 60 questions/exercises in his/her thesis, in a uniquely personalized version, but randomly ordered by computer. This means that every thesis/exam-paper has the corresponding unique solution key for the outcome, and only the computer knows it, by using the same combine logic with every generated variant of exam-paper. Consequently, the teacher prepares 60 JPG photos which are saved in USB memory stick folder. With this USB, teacher presents to the faculty secretary (printing center) the number of students he/she has and the folder where the photos are stored in the relevant USB. An operator, at teacher's presence, automatically generates and prints 60 different versions of the exam-papers, using Microsoft Word with a special macro code written in Visual Basic in order to design the proper page making. The secretary also prints a personalized answer sheet, with a student photo for everyone. It is very important for e-students, because minimum time is needed for student's authentication during exams. All answer-sheets are automatically scanned via &quot;SEKRETAR&quot; software (Copyright Romeo Teneqexhi, ZSHDA) and the outcome is generated immediately after the exam procedures. The process could also be handled by the secretary, but it can be used by the teacher himself in the exam classroom. The teacher only needs a laptop and a simple scanner in exam classroom. For the future, we plan to substitute this laptop-scanner-system with the teacher's smart phone. All the above services and provisions can be offered to all teachers by logging to a web platform. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]