{"title":"Enhancing learning objects recommendation using multi-criteria recommender systems","authors":"Mohammed Hassan, Mohamed Hamada","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851771","url":null,"abstract":"To achieve meaningful learning goals, both pedagogues and tutees need frequent supports on how to obtain relevant materials. Recommendation systems have been proved as important tools that assist learners in getting useful learning objects. Nowadays, various recommendation techniques are used to build a system that can find and suggests learning objects to learners. This paper proposed to use a multi-criteria recommendation technique and aggregation function approach for modeling user preferences on learning objects to improve the quality of recommendations given by the existing traditional recommendation systems. The proposed plan is to develop a neural network model and a hybrid of Genetic and Gradient descent algorithms to train the model using real datasets to learn the behavior of the inputs for accurate predictions of learners' preferences.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"24 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":"133553673","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":"Visualization of extra curriculum education for promoting active learning","authors":"Nobuyuki Ogawa, Akira Shimizu","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851778","url":null,"abstract":"For more than 15 years we have been practicing smart education using ICT-driven equipment and other educational tools with the aim of cultivating students' voluntary learning based on their own ideas. The past implementations were highly evaluated as innovative approaches in higher education and led us to several awards from academic societies for education. Considered as an advanced challenge worth ensuring accelerative promotion by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT), we are currently continuing the related research and education supported by a large budget distributed by competitive fund. In this paper, we described our efforts to visualize students' learning activities performed outside the formal curriculum. The visualizing system was established in our project for promoting active learning.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"65 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":"122406756","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":"Does lecture capturing improve learning?: A data driven exploratory study on the effectiveness of lecture capture on learning in a foundation IT course","authors":"Kai-Pan Mark, L. Vrijmoed","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851818","url":null,"abstract":"The primary objective of a foundation IT course is to equip students with necessary IT skills to facilitate problem solving in daily life, academic studies and the future workplace. As an IT educator, we always come across a high degree of digital divide among students, as exemplified by the post-course student evaluation feedback: a group of students reflected the foundation IT course as “too easy” but another group expressed as “too difficult”. Educational technology solutions, e.g., lecture capturing, have been adopted to archive the classroom delivery for subsequent review by students so that users can access the relevant contents on demand anytime and anywhere with a mobile device connected to the Internet. Educators advocate that the use of lecture capturing generally improves students' academic performance. This paper extends the discussion with another angle: how does lecture capturing improve learning? Specifically, our research questions are: 1) Do students' frequency of access and duration of watching the captured lecture directly influence the academic results? and 2) Is lecture capturing effective for all students, or only to some student groups with different academic performance? A data driven approach was used to analyze the relationship between students' academic performance, the frequency and duration of accessing the captured lecture contents. Our results suggest that lecture capturing is more effective among the mid-range achievers, and tend to have minimal effects on the two ends of the achiever scale (i.e., two extremes: the high achievers and the low achievers).","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"24 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":"127797812","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 interview study on student motivation in group-based engineering design projects","authors":"Ng Hui Hsien, E. C. Koh, A. Loh","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851838","url":null,"abstract":"Group-based design projects in engineering curriculum are generally perceived to motivate student learning. However, recent research shows that the incorporation of group-based design projects does not always result in higher student motivation. To further our understanding of how student motivation can be affected in group-based engineering design projects, our paper explores how the way such projects are set up can shape students' lived experiences. It was revealed that the main factors that can affect student motivation in group-based engineering design projects are: (1) the nature of the projects, (2) the attainability of the project goals, (3) the sense of responsibility towards team members and project, (4) the relatedness to the student community, and (5) the relevance of deliverables with respect to workplace practices. Insights from this work can be used to support the development and running of similar design courses.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"22 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":"129166607","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 an effective Virtual Field trip for e-Learning","authors":"S. Kundu","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851762","url":null,"abstract":"Field trips are fundamental to natural science courses and provide a mode for action learning where students observe the artifacts of nature created over long periods of time. Field trips enhance advanced learning skills of the students that cannot be achieved in a classroom. Field trips are constrained by availability of time and funds and by risks from weather, health and safety. As a result, we are exploring the option of deploying Virtual Field trips (VFTs), to replicate the experience of field trips without stepping outside of the classroom. This article looks through designing and dissemination of a VFT design and assesses its effectiveness as an eLearning tool, discussing ways to enhance its effectiveness and relevance.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"39 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":"128379765","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}
Natthanun Chantanurak, P. Punyabukkana, A. Suchato
{"title":"Video Recommender System using textual data: Its application on LMS and Serendipity evaluation","authors":"Natthanun Chantanurak, P. Punyabukkana, A. Suchato","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851809","url":null,"abstract":"Learning Management System (LMS) has become a tool common to teachers and students in this day and age. Students focus on the materials posted by their teachers, be they slides, lectures, class notes, or other documents. But with the massive pool of knowledge on the internet, students should be able to learn from these external resources if they can identify the useful ones. In this work, we propose an algorithm and an application that automatically search and select videos from YouTube that are relevant to the materials posted on Learning Management System (LMS). Our application is called Video Recommender System (VRS). It contains two parts; API and Document Processing. We utilized the Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) to map the documents and videos based on their metadata. The evaluation method used in this study is based on Serendipity which is designed to measure the preferable, unexpected or good-surprise outcomes. Finally, we compare the result of our algorithm to one from direct search using material titles. A/B testing revealed that our recommendations outperform the traditional search and the average Serendipity scores for VRS is 0.196 greater than that of the title search with significance.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"269 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":"121409821","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":"Teaching sustainable energy course through real world case studies, projects and simulations","authors":"D. Srinivasan","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851836","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes current and on-going effort to bring the new context of sustainable energy education to undergraduate students at the National University of Singapore. The course aims to introduce the students to the concept of modern electrical energy systems with different types of sustainable energy sources and the conceptual idea of ‘smart grid’ at a different depth. The paper also outlines the course details, structure and contents, and various strategies that were implemented to enhance student learning.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"36 9 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":"125729834","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":"Bringing the outside world in: Using mixed panel assessment of oral presentations with Electrical and Electronic Engineering students","authors":"J. Kernec, Peter Levrai, Averil Bolster","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2016.7851761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2016.7851761","url":null,"abstract":"Engineering students have been portrayed as having poor oral communication skills despite oral communication competence being a key factor in future career success. With the aim of equipping students with attributes identified as important for Engineering graduates this paper presents a research project carried out at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China in the Division of Science & Engineering with Electrical and Electronic with undergraduate students, focusing on the use of a mixed specialist and non-specialist audience for students' end of semester oral presentations assessment.","PeriodicalId":117659,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123544002","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}