Reem A. Alamer, Hind M. Al-Otaibi, Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa
{"title":"L3MS: A Lightweight Language Learning Management System Using Mobile Web Technologies","authors":"Reem A. Alamer, Hind M. Al-Otaibi, Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.13","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design and development of a Lightweight Language Learning Management System (L3MS) using Mobile Web technologies and APIs. The system aims at allowing language students to view and download learning content on their own mobile phones and to perform interactive tasks designed by the teacher. The usability of the developed system was evaluated and the results revealed a generally positive attitude towards using the system and high usability rates from both the teacher and students.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"296 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124239552","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 Conductive Chemistry Online Argumentation Courseware with Website Exploring Support","authors":"Kai-Yi Huang, Yi-Lin Cheng, H. She, Yu-Ren Lin","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.101","url":null,"abstract":"There is considerable disagreement among researchers about chemistry learning approach. Some have been said to demonstrate an individual advantage, some a social advantage. While there is a great deal of general literature on this field, however, the specific web-based conductive learning is relatively unexplored. We proposed a Chemistry Online Argumentation Courseware (COAC) for enhancing 10th grade students' learning with website exploring conductive components where senior high school students can easily navigate the embedded website links and create effective scientific arguments. The purpose of this paper is to report on an investigation of learners' online argumentation activity. Answers were sought to the question: how does the website exploring strategy influence students' argumentation performance on our conductive COAC. Qualitative results suggested that both Individual and Social group learners had significant improvements in their argumentation ability with the support of website exploring. This study further suggested that the benefit of website exploring argumentation-strategies instruction to the Individual group learners in the chemistry course, they improved fast enough to attain the same progress as the collaborative learners regarding argumentation-based learning. The findings of this study could serve as some general principles for teachers who would like to improve students' website learning strategy use.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116294707","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. Sun, Tingru Cui, Kuan-Ching Li, Dongming Xu, Shiping Chen, Jun Shen, William W. Guo
{"title":"Towards Bringing Adaptive Micro Learning into MOOC Courses","authors":"G. Sun, Tingru Cui, Kuan-Ching Li, Dongming Xu, Shiping Chen, Jun Shen, William W. Guo","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.26","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we illustrate a proposal with regard to providing learners adaptive micro learning experiences, which can be fulfilled within fragmented time pieces. The framework of our system is demonstrated, while it aims to deliver customized micro learning contents taking into account learners' specific demands, learning styles, preference and context.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"370 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114787293","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 Formative Assessment Ontology for Students' Lab Reports in Lab Book","authors":"Hakim Mokeddem, C. Desmoulins, R. Chalal","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.67","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of a formative assessment ontology, called Onto Note F, that enables teachers to add a formal semantics to formative feedback annotations they put on students' lab reports in Lab Book system. It is linked to a learning domain ontology enabling teachers to give formative feedbacks to students on expected lab work tasks. Onto Note F is developed following a rigorous methodology, from teachers' requirements to the ontology implementation in Memo Note annotation tool. Its implementation in Memo Note permits to provide new features that can help teachers to annotate students' lab report easily and to identify common errors.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114865447","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":"Systematic Fusion of Gesture Sensors for Practical Learning in Virtual Environments","authors":"M. Weise, Raphael Zender, U. Lucke","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.47","url":null,"abstract":"The combination of body gesture recognition and virtual reality opens a broad field of possibilities for practical and activity-oriented learning scenarios based on virtual simulations. Many educational projects address this potential by using specific gesture sensors to interact with virtual artefacts in 3D learning environments. Unfortunately, most of these projects are stand-alone developments for dedicated use cases. A systematic approach for sensor integration is currently missing. This paper presents the development and use of a framework for a systematic integration and even fusion of different gesture sensors for innovative, mixed-reality learning scenarios. Thus, developers of learning applications will be enabled to create interactive virtual environments without the time-consuming familiarization with each sensor hardware and SDK. This leads to a reduced time-to-market as well as a higher transferability.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131394192","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 Domain-Specific Modeling Specification of Visual Instructional Design Languages: A Moodle Experimentation","authors":"Aymen Abedmouleh","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.45","url":null,"abstract":"Despite of the growing development of learning technologies into education, designing learning scenarios and exploiting them for setting up a learning situation is still a complex task. The Visual Instructional Design Languages (VIDL) and their dedicated graphical editors have been identified as important conceptual tools for achieving more creative design solutions within a design process. In this article we propose the application of Domain-Specific Modeling tools for specifying and developing VIDLs and editors dedicated to specific Learning Management Systems. An experimentation concerning the Moodle LMS is illustrated and discussed.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131452680","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}
Janosch Zbick, Isabella Nake, M. Milrad, M. Jansen
{"title":"A Web-Based Framework to Design and Deploy Mobile Learning Activities: Evaluating Its usability, Learnability and Acceptance","authors":"Janosch Zbick, Isabella Nake, M. Milrad, M. Jansen","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.97","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the efforts carried out related to the design and development of a web-based framework that allows designing, deploying and executing mobile data collecting applications. Furthermore, it also allows analyzing and presenting the data that is generated during the mentioned process. The fact that the framework is completely web-based provides a platform independent execution of the mobile application on any mobile device with a web-browser. As a result that the whole life-cycle of creating, executing and discussing a mobile learning activity is implemented in pure web-based manner separates this work from similar efforts. In the course of this work, the current state of development of two of the components, the authoring tool and the mobile application is presented. This framework was introduced to teachers in an activity to follow up an initial study. On the basis of a workshop with teachers, we performed an explorative study regarding the technology acceptance and usability of two components of the proposed framework. The results are discussed and analyzed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133420090","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":"Social Analytics Framework to Boost Recommendation in Online Learning Communities","authors":"Yanyan Li, Haogang Bao, Yafeng Zheng, Zhinan Huang","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.100","url":null,"abstract":"Online learning communities have become an important place serving informal learning due to the prevalence of online social networking services during the past few years. This paper proposes a social analytics framework aiming to boost recommendation service catering for the different learning demands of learners. Based on the traditional collaborative filtering approach, this study focuses on constructing topic-specific user credibility network by considering social relations and user behaviors. Both direct and indirect connections evidence from social analytics provide complementary information to construct user trust network. Regarding the topic-specific user credibility network, two features including influence and expertise are also computed to refine the credibility value between users. Furthermore, the performances of learners were further investigated in terms of longevity and centrality that could be referred when selecting suitable people for recommendation.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128834213","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":"Using an Automatic Approach to Classify Reflective Language Learning Skills of ESL Students","authors":"G. Cheng, J. Chau","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.82","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports and discusses on a project about designing a digital tool to support Chinese undergraduate students in reflecting on their English language (L2) learning experience. The tool namely ACTIVE was developed primarily based on a classification framework called A-S-E-R and Latent Semantic Analysis. It can automatically classify reflective L2 learning skills into four elements with each divided into four hierarchical levels. This paper begins by presenting the background of the study, followed by the details of methods of automatic classification and performance evaluation. The results of the project indicate that the computer-generated ratings for students' reflection are comparable to human ratings.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"368 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124621909","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":"Intelligent Tutoring System for Voice Conversion in English","authors":"Deepika P. Vinchurkar, M. Sasikumar","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.147","url":null,"abstract":"Effective systems for teaching languages like English has always been in demand, and is an active area of research. This paper discusses a system for tutoring the grammatical voice conversion aimed at students in the age group of 12 to 16 years. One major concern in such systems is in generating adequate range of sentences for teaching and evaluation. We use a sentence generation mechanism, based on a template structure, for this purpose. Use of template structure helps in generation of a large number of meaningful and grammatically correct sentences. Another concern is to assess the student response correctly, to identify the error and provide proper feedback. Our system addresses this through a carefully designed set of knowledge bases. Currently the system can handle the conversion for simple sentences in almost all common tenses, this is being extended to handle more complex sentences. A pilot study has been conducted to test the utility of the system, and the results are very positive.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129875371","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}