Clifford De Raffaele, Serengul Smith, O. Gemikonakli
{"title":"Teaching and learning queueing theory concepts using Tangible User Interfaces","authors":"Clifford De Raffaele, Serengul Smith, O. Gemikonakli","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851794","url":null,"abstract":"Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) have emerged in the past years as effective computing platforms that intertwine digital information and visualization with physical interactivity. Whilst successfully capitalizing on these properties within primary education to engage and educate children in an entertaining manner, TUI systems have seen limited deployment in more complex scenarios. To this end, this paper investigates the aptness and effectiveness of implementing TUI systems to enhance teaching and learning within higher educational institutes in order to aid the understanding of complex and abstract concepts. The proposal augments mere simulation processes by developing a table-top architecture to allow the real-time interaction and visualization of queuing theory concepts. The paper describes the deployment of the TUI framework within an undergraduate computer networks degree whereby the quantitative effectiveness of this system is assessed from a teaching and learning perspective within an engineering pedagogy.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127517955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neng Wan, Hehong Fan, Zhifang Dong, Meng Zhang, Lihua Ye, Qilong Wang, Chen Li, Xuefei Zhong
{"title":"Benefits of embedding student research training projects in an engineering introductory seminar course","authors":"Neng Wan, Hehong Fan, Zhifang Dong, Meng Zhang, Lihua Ye, Qilong Wang, Chen Li, Xuefei Zhong","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851791","url":null,"abstract":"To better realize the project based learning, student research training projects (SRTP) are implemented into a engineering introductory seminar course. Our two years' teaching experience on two classes with and without the project showed that embedding a real SRTP project could be more benificial than a traditional course project. The real project enhanced effectively the students' motivation and confidence. It is also good for achieving higher level of students' final work. Good post-course influence was also observed. It is suggested that students should let to choose freely the project that they were really interested by themselves. More importantly, their projects should be supported with some kinds of formal style, such as SRTP.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126117834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing a multilanguage blended learning system for Thai agricultural science students","authors":"P. Taechatanasat, L. Armstrong, P. Nilsook","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851783","url":null,"abstract":"This study proposes the design of a new learning system based on Multilanguage and blended learning strategies. The multilanguage blended learning system (MBLS) is an integrated LMS technology with translation technology. The MBLS was designed for students who were restricted by an English language barrier in acquiring new knowledge. The purpose of MBLS was to assist students in improving students' learning through the use of multilanguage blended learning environment (MBLE). Freeware software which included Moodle 2.7, Google Chrome web browser, Google Dictionary Chrome 4.0.2 and Imtranslator, has been used for designing MBLS. It is expected that the MBLE may facilitate, engage, and motivate students in learning content from the English medium instruction. The MBLS can also be extended to deliver content in languages other than English.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123447340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative assessment method between neural network & rubric","authors":"Punyapat Chanpet, K. Chomsuwan","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851833","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to design and develop to an E-portfolio assessment system on Project-based learning approach to teaching and learning oriented assessment. The researcher considered 60 pre-service senior teachers from two classes in university particularly on instruction media courses. The control group comprised 30 pre-service teachers who used E-portfolio system and analytic rubric assessment that was a coherent set of criteria for students' work. It included descriptions of levels of performance quality on the criteria. The experimental group comprised 30 pre-service teachers that served as who used E-portfolio system and neural network assessment. Neural Networks was a model of the work of human brain by using computer. It made computer as clever as the human learning, and trained to classify the data mining in E-portfolio. Experimental results indicate that the E-portfolio assessment system has no significant effect on pre-service teacher achievement, positive effect on self-learning. In addition, rubric assessment and neural network assessment of project-based learning achievements produced different results.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"59 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129905266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chi-Un Lei, Elizabeth Oh, Emily Leung, D. Gonda, Xinyu Qi, Ruby Leung, T. T. Kwok, Y. A. Yeung, Ray Lau
{"title":"Scale Out Teaching, Scale Up Learning: Professional development for e-teaching/learning","authors":"Chi-Un Lei, Elizabeth Oh, Emily Leung, D. Gonda, Xinyu Qi, Ruby Leung, T. T. Kwok, Y. A. Yeung, Ray Lau","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851805","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in technology is revolutionizing the way we think and behave. As young digital natives come with a new way of learning, we, as educators, need to approach education from a new angle. In order to assist teachers with the transition from traditional teaching to engaging online teaching, Technology-Enriched Learning Initiative (TELI) in The University of Hong Kong has designed a blended-learning professional development course titled, “Interactive Online Learning”. In this paper, we describe how we used blended learning and learning analytics to foster engagement and demonstrate possibility and practicality of DIY online teaching.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130333125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting more than grades out of supplemental instructions: Examining the effect of coaching styles on undergraduate students' entrepreneurial intentions and creativity","authors":"Yik-Kiu Lee, C. Sue-Chan, Ray Tak-yin Hui","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851793","url":null,"abstract":"Despite a 21st century world in need badly of entrepreneurial and innovative spirits, how much undergraduate education can provide to nurture entrepreneurs and innovators in our future leaders and young professionals remains questionable, especially in East Asian societies which inherited a 1,400 some years of exam-taking tradition from Imperial China, such as Hong Kong. Examining a sample of 1,492 leader-student dyads participating in a peer-assisted learning scheme offering supplemental instruction in course content over a semester with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), we found that facilitation coaching behaviors bring students benefits beyond grades, namely arousing their entrepreneurial intention and enhancing their creativity; whereas guidance coaching behaviors may suppress their creativity. In addition, we hypothesize that students' self-regulation reinforces their coaches' behavioral influences on their entrepreneurial intention and creativity. Results show some support to our hypotheses.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126226178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development and evaluation of a self-learning support system for Patent Act suited to the current state of intellectual property education in engineering departments","authors":"T. Akakura, Takatoshi Ishii","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851781","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a model of the problem-solving process for learning Patent Act, noting that legal texts can be expressed as logical structures. We also develop a learning support system for engineering students that uses this model.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115970960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An extended perspective on cybersecurity education","authors":"J. Addae, M. Radenkovic, Xu Sun, D. Towey","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851822","url":null,"abstract":"The current trend of ubiquitous device use whereby computing is becoming increasingly context-aware and personal, has created a growing concern for the protection of personal privacy. Privacy is an essential component of security, and there is a need to be able to secure personal computers and networks to minimize privacy depreciation within cyberspace. Human error has been recognized as playing a major role in security breaches: Hence technological solutions alone cannot adequately address the emerging security and privacy threats. Home users are particularly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats for a number of reasons, including a particularly important one that our research seeks to address: The lack of cybersecurity education. We argue that research seeking to address the human element of cybersecurity should not be limited only to the design of more usable technical security mechanisms, but should be extended and applied to offering appropriate training to all stakeholders within cyberspace.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130168132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facilitating student and staff engagement across multiple offshore campuses for transnational education using an immersive video augmented learning platform","authors":"S. Nikolic, W. Li","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851774","url":null,"abstract":"Opportunities in transnational education have been growing across the higher education sector. The incentive for institutions to explore opening offshore satellite campuses includes access to more students and building the institutions reputation across the globe. A number of risks are also associated with transnational education, especially in terms of quality. It is important that students across all campuses receive the same high standard of education. That is, students at offshore campuses should not be placed at a disadvantage compared to students studying at the institutions main campus. This paper explores the possibility of providing students from offshore campuses better access to teaching staff from the institutions main campus. An immersive video augmented platform called iSee is used to simultaneously connect students from Singapore and Malaysia with teaching staff in Wollongong. The students undertook an exam revision session using video avatars in a virtual lecture theatre. The pilot showcased the opportunities of implementing this technology to improve student engagement and reduce academic workload. It also reinforced the need for more research in the transnational education field to ensure the same graduate outcomes are being achieved across campuses.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132713273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Phanomchoeng, R. Chancharoen, S. Kwanmuang, K. Maneeratana
{"title":"Successive build up lab for learning mechatronics","authors":"G. Phanomchoeng, R. Chancharoen, S. Kwanmuang, K. Maneeratana","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851777","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of mechatronics consists of mechanical, electronic, control and computer systems. To help students understand the concepts and enhance their competency, a successive build up (SBU) lab was used in the course. The SBU lab involved 10 different experiments executed in sequence. Each experiment required different skills and a small task to complete it. Student groups were selected to conduct only one experiment based on their experience to enhance their expertise. The combined results from each group led to the creation of a complete machine, the H-bot plotter. After the lab, students could understand each fabrication step of the machine and their effort could be applied to subsequent real applications. Moreover, this approach prevented students copying the results from previous year's labs and helped instructors to easily evaluate the students' work.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128269187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}