{"title":"A Social Network Analysis Perspective on Student Interaction within the Twitter Microblogging Environment","authors":"K. Stepanyan, Kerstin Borau, C. Ullrich","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.27","url":null,"abstract":"This paper summarises the analyses of participant interaction within the Twitter microblogging environment. The study employs longitudinal probabilistic social network analysis (SNA) techniques to identify the patterns and trends of network dynamics. It explores the associations of student achievement records with the observed network. The results indicate tendencies towards: [i] reciprocal interaction, and [ii] adoption of a selective approach in communication over time, implying that students tend to communicate with fewer peers over time. The evaluations that examine achievement score attributes indicate [iii] network homogeneity and popularity effects associated to achievement scores – suggesting greater interaction among students of similar levels and more attention to higher achieving students.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"41 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":"127405446","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":"Offering Early Success Experiences in Software Construction: Experiences Teaching Dynamic Website Development to High School Girls","authors":"M. Rosson, Hansa Sinha, Tisha Hansford, J. Mahar","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.133","url":null,"abstract":"In spite of comparable levels of computer access and use by males and females at home and school, women continue to be underrepresented in careers and education related to the computer and information sciences. In this paper, we describe outreach activities taking place within the wConnect project, a research effort aimed at building a developmental learning community of women in which members at different levels of sophistication support each other at different stages of their education and careers in computing and related fields. More specifically, we report on a series of hands-on workshops that were designed and delivered by undergraduate members of the community to high school girls. We describe the design and conduct of the workshop activities, the girls’ reactions, our own reflections and implications for future work.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"62 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":"114325438","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}
Yuan Xun Gu, Raymond Koon Chuan Koh, V. Chen, H. Duh
{"title":"Facilitating Learning Interests Through Mobile Information Visualization","authors":"Yuan Xun Gu, Raymond Koon Chuan Koh, V. Chen, H. Duh","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.92","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.92","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a mobile approach for ambient learning is presented. As an example of the concept, modeling is done to deliver educational content on weather phenomenon to schoolchildren. Information visualization techniques are utilized to present an alternative approach of knowledge delivery that could be considered to be beyond conventional classroom based teachings. The concept is demonstrated with the ‘Interactive Weather Information System’ (IWIS) platform. During the user tests, the effectiveness of the proposed method on knowledge conveyance was evaluated. Usability tests showed that IWIS serves as a good stimulus to captivate the learning interests of the target user group (children from 10 to 12 years old). In addition, the new issues that surfaced could be used as design considerations or factors in subsequent research work in this area.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"118 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":"117352137","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":"Towards an Enhanced Approach for Peer-Assessment Activities","authors":"M. Al-Smadi, C. Gütl, F. Kappe","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.181","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we will address an enhanced approach for online peer-assessment where new features of candidate answer marking have been used. Students are capable to select specific parts from the candidate answer and mark them as correct, wrong, or irrelevant. Special colors are used to tag the selected part of the candidate answer in order to help students giving a reasonable final score and to provide visual feedback for the answer owner. A web based tool has been developed, an experiment was conducted and valuable results have been found.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"27 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":"121912146","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}
A. Litchfield, L. E. Dyson, Marijke Wright, Sojen Pradhan, Barbara Courtille
{"title":"Student-Produced Vodcasts as Active Metacognitive Learning","authors":"A. Litchfield, L. E. Dyson, Marijke Wright, Sojen Pradhan, Barbara Courtille","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.160","url":null,"abstract":"Pod and vodcasts are increasingly used in international higher education. Most are produced by faculty either to replace the traditional lecture or to provide an alternative source of lecture material for students to listen to at convenient times. In contrast this paper examines the learning outcomes achieved when students’ produce vodcasts as an assigned task. When producing the vodcasts students’ were no longer 'time poor' often aiming only for a Pass. They were highly motivated and involved in activities designed to address the learning objectives and engaged in active metacognitive learning. The students were involved in peer learning developing research, teamwork and communication understandings and skills, all desirable professional attributes. Evaluation of the pilot of the student-produced vodcast assignment indicates that there was very high engagement and that the learning outcomes achieved were outstanding. Student pre-and-post assignment self-assessment surveys indicate they learnt significantly in the stated assignment objectives of (1) improved awareness of IT careers - 29% to 70% good awareness - and (2) improved skills in multimedia communication - 27% to 49% good video recording and 16% to 51% good multimedia editing skills.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"241 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":"120850220","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":"Playing Games on the Screen: Adapting Mouse Interaction at Early Ages","authors":"J. E. Agudo, Héctor Sánchez, M. Rico","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.142","url":null,"abstract":"Technology is changing the way today’s children learn. Based on our experience in the development of educational software for children, it is our belief that computer interaction should consider the factors that affect children´s cognitive abilities and take an active part in the realm of the methodological process of hypermedia design. Departing from the results of a preliminary study with pre-school children, serious difficulties regarding mouse interaction when playing computer games are detected, mainly in the movements requiring more complex psychomotor abilities, such as double click and interactions leading to dragging the cursor. The evaluation reports on the need to adapt the mouse interaction to children´s cognitive development, from point-and-click to drag-and-drop, and the suitability of introducing intermediate variations adapted to young learners’ needs.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"28 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":"124112381","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}
I. Azevedo, Adela Ortiz, C. V. Carvalho, Rui Seiça, E. Carrapatoso
{"title":"Applying and Reusing Knowledge in a Repository","authors":"I. Azevedo, Adela Ortiz, C. V. Carvalho, Rui Seiça, E. Carrapatoso","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.44","url":null,"abstract":"Using automatic extraction of keywords and semi-automatic creation of domain ontologies it is possible to achieve a richer description of learning resources, with positive effects on subsequent searches. Based on this concept, we developed a repository named TREE - Teaching Resources for Engineering Education, to efficiently store and provide access to learning and scientific resources and as a service to preserve and disseminate intellectual property in the Engineering community. The TREE repository is based on open source tools and free Web services. In this paper we describe the TREE repository and how it uses Semantic Web technologies to improve search and retrieval of learning objects.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"04 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":"129853064","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":"Combining Dialogue and Semantics for Learning and Knowledge Maturing: Developing Collaborative Understanding in the Web 2.0 Workplace","authors":"Andrew Ravenscroft, Simone Braun, Tobias Nelkner","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.55","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores how we can support the development of collaborative understanding through a recent formulation of learning through knowledge maturing in the ‘Web 2.0 workplace’. Knowledge Maturing is a concept that is the subject of a large-scale EC Integrated Project, and in this paper we focus on, demonstrate and verify the conceptual and technical underpinnings that emphasise the role of dialogue and ontological semantics within the maturing process. So this paper: introduces the concept of knowledge maturing, describes a prototype application realising knowledge maturing through linking dialogue and semantics, examines this concept through re-thinking Vygotskian ideas, and, presents an initial evaluation along with a summary and some implications.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"49 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":"127143697","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":"Learning Math and Statistics on the Cloud, Towards an EC2-Based Google Docs-like Portal for Teaching / Learning Collaboratively with R and Scilab","authors":"Karim Chine","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.120","url":null,"abstract":"The Elastic-R portal allows educators and students to easily allocate, use and manage cloud resources and to work on the cloud, from standard web browsers, with the most commonly used statistical and mathematical environments such as R and Scilab. Elastic-R enables collaboration and resources sharing as well as interactive local or remote teaching sessions. Elastic-R is also a platform and provides frameworks and tools that make it easy for educators to create their own cloud-based e-Learning tools.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"26 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":"127209810","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":"Enhancing Educational Metadata with Mobile Assisted Language Learning Information","authors":"P. Zervas, D. Sampson","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2010.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2010.79","url":null,"abstract":"During the past years, technological advancements have significantly influenced Language Learning by providing teachers and students with access to a large amount of digital language learning resources. Additionally, the growth of mobile communications industry has led to the development of a new approach to Language Learning called Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL). On the other hand, digital educational resources and activities are typically organized as Learning Objects and supported by Educational Metadata, they are stored in Learning Objects Repositories (LORs) facilitating efficient search, retrieval and re-use among different educational communities. Although the IEEE LOM Standard is used for describing educational resources with metadata, it is beyond its scope to directly support the description of characteristics related with MALL. In this paper we target addressing this issue, that is, to propose an IEEE LOM Application Profile that can be used for tagging educational resources suitable for Language Learning and supported by Mobile and Wireless Devices.","PeriodicalId":166491,"journal":{"name":"2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"53 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":"131085033","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}