{"title":"Read/Write Lectures: Fostering Active Participation and Increasing Student Engagement in the Lecture Hall","authors":"Kai Michael Höver, M. Hartle","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.144","url":null,"abstract":"In technology-enhanced lectures, the support of student engagement during lectures is still rudimentary compared to that of educators. Yet, participation and active learning are key factors for learning success. By applying the Web 2.0 paradigm of active participation to lectures, students become actively involved as both consumers and producers of learning resources. Based on a survey of related work, we propose a system that facilitates active participation and contribution to increase student engagement.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126473186","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":"Smart Timetable Plate for Classroom","authors":"Yuan-Chih Yu, Shing-chern D. You, Dwen-Ren Tsai","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.157","url":null,"abstract":"Classroom usually has a timetable plate embedded on the wall near the front door. However, the only purpose for displaying classroom’s timetable cannot fulfill the future digital classroom requirement. They need more automatic, integrated, and intelligent functionality in the classroom environment. Besides, the vision of future smart classroom is to select sustainable technology solutions that have the possibilities of dramatically improving the instructional delivery process and to engage the student in their learning experience. Therefore, the aspiration for providing more intelligent capability will go back to the improvement of classroom environment itself. Within the classroom, how to create a smart space is our goal. By means of introducing smart timetable plate, we can create a new use case for the application of smart classroom. The creative model not only bring the new style school living but also encourage the reform of traditional classroom environment.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"20 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126227771","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 Mobile Learning System for Syndromic Surveillance and Diagnosis","authors":"Jingyu Zhang, D. Levy, Shiping Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.20","url":null,"abstract":"As hand-held devices become popular in society, the demand for mobility is extended to teaching and learning purposes. This paper presents the design and implementation of a mobile learning system for syndromic surveillance and diagnosis. This system can assist farmers and veterinary students to study surveillance and diagnosis of farm animal diseases in the field. In this paper, we present a mobile problem-based learning method used for designing the diagnosis learning system. We also describe our solution to the limitation of storage capacity of hand-held devices. We also present how the design is implemented as portable software that can be deployed onto a large range of mobile phones and other hand-held devices.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134125536","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. Acampora, M. Gaeta, F. Orciuoli, Pierluigi Ritrovato
{"title":"Exploiting Semantic and Social Technologies for Competency Management","authors":"G. Acampora, M. Gaeta, F. Orciuoli, Pierluigi Ritrovato","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.86","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.86","url":null,"abstract":"In an enterprise context, competencies are often dispersed across different teams. A specific need within the enterprise could not be satisfied only because of a lack of awareness about real competencies owned by employees. The aforementioned problem involves two main critical aspects: the difficulty to manage employees' competencies in order to constantly keep them up-to-date and the ability to agilely share employees' profiles across the organization in order to support competency finding. This work proposes an approach to relax the above critical points by integrating a semantic web-based educational system within a social network system applied to the enterprise context. The integration glue is provided by using and harmonizing several existing upper ontologies also furthering semantic interoperability.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134139291","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}
Zacharias Lekkas, N. Tsianos, C. Mourlas, Panagiotis Germanakos, G. Samaras
{"title":"Implementing Psychological Parameters in a Web-Based Appraisal System","authors":"Zacharias Lekkas, N. Tsianos, C. Mourlas, Panagiotis Germanakos, G. Samaras","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.103","url":null,"abstract":"For many years people have been trying to measure differences between individuals. Over the course of time, a combination of developments in statistical know-how and the evolution of thought within psychology enabled the refinement of measures, and subsequently the assessment of more specific factors in the field of individual differences like different kinds of ability, affect and personality. This knowledge has been used in many areas within psychology and at the same time the advancement of technology has enabled the development of web-based appraisal systems that measure specific factors relevant to specific situations. This paper presents the theory behind a web-based assessment system and some first experimental results that will lead to the design of the web environment.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126588038","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 Audio Book Platform for Early EFL Oral Reading Fluency","authors":"Kuo-Ping Liu, Cheng-Chung Liu, Chih-Hsin Huang, Kuo-Chun Hung, Chia-Jung Chang","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.34","url":null,"abstract":"Oral reading fluency is essential to overall reading achievements and repeat reading has been found to be an effective strategy for oral reading fluency. Choral reading is the most authentic use of repeated readings in the EFL primary grades. However, teachers have neither sufficient time nor adequate expertise to deal with non-fluent readers. Hence, challenges with oral reading fluency and motivation have long been considered a common characteristic for teacher and students. Hence, this study proposed a one-to-one Audio Book Platform incorporating repeated reading strategy and record-play function. An intact sample of two classes of the sixth graders in Taiwan were randomly assigned and treated as experimental group and control (choral reading) group. An empirical study is conducted to assess whether there are differences in the effectiveness of enhancing oral reading fluency. A questionnaire elicited information concerning motivation included (1) anxiety, (2) intrinsic goal orientation, (3) extrinsic goal orientation, (4) task value, and (5) self-regulation is also conducted. Although no significant difference was uncovered in oral reading fluency and motivation, the findings could serve as some general principles for researchers who would like to experiment with one-to-one repeated reading in similar contexts.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133538372","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}
P. Fan, Hsueh-Wu Wang, Wei-Hsien Wu, Su-Ju Lu, Min-Chung Ke, H. Wu
{"title":"An Online Collaborative Learning Platform with Annotation on Figures","authors":"P. Fan, Hsueh-Wu Wang, Wei-Hsien Wu, Su-Ju Lu, Min-Chung Ke, H. Wu","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.41","url":null,"abstract":"The proposed platform is a multi-user web-based annotation system which allows users to make annotations on specified area of a figure to facilitate discussions on figure or graph. With the help of tree-like hierarchy annotations, which are organized in a tree structure, user can facilitate in-depth discussions on the same topic, or create new issues. By way of the proposed learning environment, many fields of collaborative learning concerning figures, graphs, multimedia animations are feasible online.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133270849","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":"Fade-out and Peer Monitor Techniques in Tools for Scripted Argumentation: Evaluation Results from a Case Study","authors":"Yannis N. Bouyias, S. Demetriadis, A. Karakostas","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.93","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we present empirical data on the impact of implementing (a) micro-script fade-out and (b) peer monitoring techniques in the context of a web-based argumentation activity in a computer science course. We used the iArgue tool which is a web tool for argumentation incorporating collaboration scripts to structure peer interaction. Additionally, it supports fade-out and peer-monitoring techniques. During the activity students followed the phases of a jigsaw script while micro script support on argumentation faded-out and prompts were activated to remind students to check the validity of their partners’ contributions (peer-monitor). Our results demonstrate the feasibility of incorporating argumentation in computer science courses and provide useful information for improved design of fade-out and peer monitoring techniques to support students’ argumentation.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133301982","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}
Yoonsook Lee, Hyunoh Doh, Haanwoong Choi, Jaehyuk Cha
{"title":"Similarity Contents Selection Mechanism for Learner's Device Using Delivery Context Ontology and Rules","authors":"Yoonsook Lee, Hyunoh Doh, Haanwoong Choi, Jaehyuk Cha","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.155","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, learners use not only PC but also their own mobile devices for e-learning. For this, author should make various versions of learning contents for device specification and learning management system provides suitable contents for device specification. To select suitable contents for learner's devices, previous researches propose contents selection method that describe suitability score for each attributes and it is hard to express author's intention. Also, it is hard to select learning contents that reflect changed user preference during learning time. In this research, we add user preference on the contents selection method to select suitable contents among various versions contents that has same learning context. Also we use ontology and rules for description of profiles and various intentions. We prove proposed method has similar search performance with previous method.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132289114","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":"CARDS: A Metamodel Approach to Aggregate Outcomes of Learning Tools","authors":"E. Lorenzo, M. Verdejo","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.50","url":null,"abstract":"CARDS, a metamodel engine to describe and aggregate complex educational content is presented. A Java library and a web interface are available to developers in order to reify or wrap diverse tool outcomes in a declarative way. Data interoperability between heterogeneous tools is facilitated acting CARDS models like an Interlingua among them","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132766208","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}