{"title":"Utilizing Latent Semantic Analysis to Provide Automated Educational Support","authors":"Quoc-Viet Dang","doi":"10.1145/3141151.3141159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3141151.3141159","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional in-class methodology was developed for small classrooms of 15-20 students. Low student to teacher ratios, typically under 20 students per teacher, have been preferred and recommended to maximize student achievement, engagement, and retention from research starting in the 1970's [1] [2] [3]. Actual classroom sizes for K-12 vary depending on a variety of factors [4]. Today, some undergraduate Engineering courses consist of more than ten times that many students: some who are interested, some who just want a passing grade, and others who are not yet ready for college and do not properly prepare to study material. In fact, according to a national survey consisting of 560 colleges and universities in 2016, 20% of first-year college students had difficulty learning and getting help with coursework [5] [6]. As classroom sizes increase and varying levels of experiences of students, this situation will only exacerbate existing problems and deficiencies utilizing current teaching methodologies and tools. An automated tool that can provide similar recommendations would free up all that time and allow for more meaningful discussions. Also, students would save hours individually in terms of getting stuck, waiting for responses, and then spending time to get back to where they were later when they got stuck. This is potentially even more beneficial for students who do not typically ask questions when they get stuck, hoping that attending lecture or discussion will answer their questions. Utilizing latent semantic analysis (LSA), a natural language processing algorithm, recommendations can be created through mathematical searching and categorizing sources using singular value decomposition (SVD). The automated tool can pre-emptively suggest additional reading and viewing material, allowing the student to continue their studies without a long wait interval.","PeriodicalId":165786,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 1st International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134506965","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}
Milad Pirayegar Emrouzeh, K. Dewar, G. Fleet, Y. Bourgeois
{"title":"Implementing ICT for Tourists with Disabilities","authors":"Milad Pirayegar Emrouzeh, K. Dewar, G. Fleet, Y. Bourgeois","doi":"10.1145/3141151.3141152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3141151.3141152","url":null,"abstract":"The tourism industry plays a significant role in national and urban economies. Attracting more tourists to cities has always been a vital subject for governments. Further, people with disabilities have the potential to be a significant and growing group of tourists. This paper aims to introduce a process to design a mobile application for tourists with disabilities. As a first step, existing applications for people with disabilities were reviewed. The common features were merged and new features for a mobile application suggested. Finally, the new features were generated based on the phases of designing a mobile application.","PeriodicalId":165786,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 1st International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132268246","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":"The Impact of Work Experience on Students' Financial Behaviour","authors":"D. Nano, B. Mema","doi":"10.1145/3141151.3141162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3141151.3141162","url":null,"abstract":"Students' financial behavior has become a crucial topic for many research studies. There is a debatable issue whether work experience has a significant impact on students' financial practices. This research aimed to investigate if gaining experience can help students to display good financial behavior. The main objectives of this research were: i) firstly, to evaluate how financial literate are Albanian university students; ii) secondly, to investigate whether financial behavior differs based work experience; and iii) finally, to draw some conclusions and recommendations regarding the importance of work experience on student's financial behavior. An instrument comprised of personal characteristics and financial background is administered to 637 students from seven universities in Albania. The constituency of the survey is tested based on the dimension reduction and factor analyzing techniques. The One Way Welch ANOVA and multiple comparison tool are utilized to analyze the data. The results revealed that work experience has a positive influence on improving students' financial behavior.","PeriodicalId":165786,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 1st International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130412662","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}
Gabriel Chávez Covarrubias, Berenice Juárez López, Grace Aileen Ruiz Santoyo
{"title":"Consumer behavior regarding privacy, satisfaction and loyalty of e-Services in Mexico","authors":"Gabriel Chávez Covarrubias, Berenice Juárez López, Grace Aileen Ruiz Santoyo","doi":"10.1145/3141151.3141154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3141151.3141154","url":null,"abstract":"E-Services have gained relevance for international level, due to changes in consumer behavior. However, the Mexican context between privacy, loyalty and satisfaction hasn't been found. The investigation objective to analyze the influence of the privacy in the loyalty and the satisfaction of the e-Services consumers acquired through Internet in Mexico. The research is quantitative with causal and cross-sectional scope. The methodological design was carried out through the application of a questionnaire. The sample was selected to consumers who purchase e-Services in Mexico. Subsequently the data analysis was taken adjusting the original model, measuring adjustment indexes. Finally, the results indicate that the theoretical model have a good adjustment.","PeriodicalId":165786,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 1st International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115853927","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":"A System for Visualization and Analysis of Online Pedagogical Interactions","authors":"André Rei, Á. Figueira, Luciana Oliveira","doi":"10.1145/3141151.3141161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3141151.3141161","url":null,"abstract":"We present a system for a dynamic graphical representation of the interactions captured in educational online environments. The system goes beyond interaction between students and teachers, also addressing resource usage or any other entity for which it is possible to create a relation which binds two entities. By defining these relationships between pairs of entities in an online learning environment (Moodle, in our case) our tool creates a graph, where it is possible to apply techniques of social network analysis. This system brings up new possibilities for e-learning as a tool capable of helping the teacher assorting and illustrating the degree of participation and to find the implicit relations between participants, or participants and resources or events.","PeriodicalId":165786,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 1st International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129191258","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}
K. Boateng, Ansah Adwoa Twumwaa, Albert Mensah, Owusu-Renner Isaac
{"title":"Feasible Mobile Voting: Contextualised Interpretation of the Prospects and Difficulties in an International Tertiary Institution","authors":"K. Boateng, Ansah Adwoa Twumwaa, Albert Mensah, Owusu-Renner Isaac","doi":"10.1145/3141151.3141163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3141151.3141163","url":null,"abstract":"The place of mobile devices in elections at tertiary institutions is quite a recent development in most places. However, it is about time we established the extent of feasibility, scientifically speaking, of such a technologically-driven practice. By evoking the mixed methods approach, via the lens of the doctrinal principle of hermeneutics this study largely dwells on the key conceptualizations of security, trustworthiness, voter turnout and queuing to flesh out the implications of the feasibility of such a technological innovation. Per the findings, mobile voting holds much promise for campus politics or democracy in spite of perceptibly enduring security concerns. The paper concludes by encouraging further studies on a broader scale to establish the feasibility of mobile voting in national elections.","PeriodicalId":165786,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 1st International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130291529","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":"A Conceptual System Architecture for Motivation-enhanced Learning for Students with Dyslexia","authors":"Ruijie Wang, Liming Luke Chen, Ivar Solheim","doi":"10.1145/3141151.3141158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3141151.3141158","url":null,"abstract":"Increased user motivation from interaction process leads to improved interaction, resulting in increased motivation again, which forms a positive self-propagating cycle. Therefore, a system will be more effective if the user is more motivated. Especially for students with dyslexia, it is common for them to experience more learning difficulties that affect their learning motivation. That's why we need to employ techniques to enhance user motivation in the interaction process. In this research, we will present a system architecture for motivation-enhanced learning and the detailed process of the construction of our motivation model using ontological approach for students with dyslexia. The proposed framework of the personalised learning system incorporates our motivation model and corresponding personalisation mechanism aiming to improve learning motivation and performance of students with dyslexia. Additionally, we also provide examples of inference rules and a use scenario for illustration of personalisation to be employed in our system.","PeriodicalId":165786,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 1st International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124313178","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":"Improving Prediction of Student Performance based on Multiple Feature Selection Approaches","authors":"Cheng Ma, Baofeng Yao, Fang Ge, Yurong Pan, Youqiang Guo","doi":"10.1145/3141151.3141160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3141151.3141160","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, to provide the better education for students, there are a lot of researchers that discover the latent characteristics of students for predicting their performance. However, few existing work has explored the problem of extracting information from E-learning to get more precise and interpretable analysis. Based on the edX open data, we first predict whether the student will obtain the certificate, and take it as the criterion of student perfomance. Next, according to the requirement of the research, student features on dataset can be classified into three categories primarily, and some characters which seem umimportant intuitively have been removed already. Then, we adopt several kinds of feature selection approaches to extract important influencing student feature of the rest characters. Finally, though a few of existing classical machine learning methods, we build the model and predict student performance. The extensive experiments on the dataset of edX open platform we have conducted validated the effectiveness of predicting student performance.","PeriodicalId":165786,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 1st International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131953763","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":"Research on Fuzzy Ontology E-learning Based on User Profile","authors":"Jingfeng Shao","doi":"10.1145/3141151.3141164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3141151.3141164","url":null,"abstract":"To provide the personalized learning services for learners in the environment of E-learning, firstly, through fuzzy ontology, learning preferences and cognitive status of user was described, and the personalized learning contents were provided via E-learning recommendation system. Secondly, a method to describe user profile was proposed, domain ontology was expanded, and user preferences, interests and hobbies were described. And then, the interested learning object was provided by the recommendation system for users. Finally, as verified by experiment, the results have shown that the acquired fuzzy ontology can describe user preferences very well, and the proposed method is useful in the personalized learning services for learners.","PeriodicalId":165786,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 1st International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132762716","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":"Preservice Teachers' Conceptions of Creative Teaching through Knowledge Building Practices","authors":"Huang-Yao Hong, Pei-Yi Lin, Guo-Tsai Hung","doi":"10.1145/3141151.3141153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3141151.3141153","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined preservice teachers' conceptions about creative teaching via knowledge-building activities. It also identifies the underlying challenges/barriers faced by preservice teachers for engaging in creative teaching. The data collected were from two surveys and a follow-up in-depth interview. Findings indicate that while the participants' teaching conceptions were highly constructivist-oriented, they did not readily perceive knowledge-building activities as feasible.","PeriodicalId":165786,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 1st International Conference on E-Education, E-Business and E-Technology","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122746968","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}