{"title":"The Effect of Using a Talking Head in Academic Videos: An EEG Study","authors":"Diana Diaz, R. Ramírez, Davinia Hernández Leo","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.89","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study designed to understand the effect of using a talking head in academic videos frequently used in video-based learning approaches, such Massive Open Online Courses. The experiment consisted of exposing participants to videos about different types of open software licenses. Each participant was exposed to 3 videos, each with a different condition: instructor always presented (talking head condition), only instructor's voice present (only audio condition), and instructor presented only at the beginning of the video (mixed condition). Dependent variables included cognitive load, and emotional states (valance and arousal) obtained with electroencephalography, a personal assessment of the difficulty of the material, personal opinion regarding the social presence and performance in a memory test. The results indicate an increase in the cognitive load in the mixed condition, which may have implications regarding the use of the talking head in the design of academic videos.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"9 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":"115783302","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":"Design of Attention-Based Recommendation Learning Mechanism in the Cloud Computing Environment","authors":"Hong-Ren Chen, Ju-Hong Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.91","url":null,"abstract":"Although there have been many past studies concerning recommendation learning, such studies have ignored that, in addition to recommending learning content to the learners for browsing and learning, the system should also observe their subsequent learning attention status. The premise of effective learning is that learners must exhibit a certain extent of attention during the learning process. The development of a cloud learning environment with an attention detection mechanism could create an attention-oriented recommendation learning service platform, through which learners would be able to learn at any time and place, and their learning state could be instantaneously observed. This would also allow the utilization of high-speed computing in a cloud computing environment and the sharing of large amounts of learning resources. Therefore, the study establishes an attention-oriented recommendation learning service system in a cloud learning environment to compare the attention differences in the learners' learning.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"41 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":"133547444","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":"Exploring Different Routes from LMS Towards PLE: A Dialectical Perspective","authors":"V. Tomberg, M. Laanpere, Hans Põldoja","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.94","url":null,"abstract":"This paper draws a big picture in order to summarize three alternative software development projects aiming at offering an technologically and pedagogically innovative alternative to the mainstream software platform used in Technology-Enhanced Learning today: institutional Learning Management Systems. The analysis follows the dialectical logic, comparing and contrasting various initiatives in creating Personal Learning Environments as a dialectical antithesis to LMS. The paper analyses three innovative PLE solutions that can be interpreted as the dialectical synthesis, that are making use of the best from the both worlds: LMS and PLE.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"14 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":"133553522","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":"Middle School English Teachers' Attitude and Motivation Towards ICT-Enabled Teaching in China","authors":"Kwan C. M. Ming, Sophia H. X. Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.143","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports the status of the use of ICT in English teaching in six middle schools in Wenzhou, China. A survey was conducted to collect the relevant data from 48 teachers. Five of them were interviewed afterward in order to know their views towards ICT-enabled teaching. The results indicated that the teachers had rather limited experience in ICT tools that support English learning. Many teachers saw ICT as a means to empower them to cover more content with their students within a shorter time span, mainly driven by the need to conform to the examination based assessment. They also believed that traditional teaching was more effective to address the current curriculum and assessment needs.","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":"133619841","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}
Jinn-Tser Lin, Wen-Ling Chen, Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang
{"title":"A Boosting Algorithm for Auto-Generating Quiz for Traffic Education","authors":"Jinn-Tser Lin, Wen-Ling Chen, Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.49","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a driving license test APP system for traffic education. The system provides learning materials and the adaptive simulation quiz. Questions in the quiz are individually generated according to the user profile and the designed boosting algorithm. The experimental result revealed that our APP system showed statistically significant better score in the driving license exam.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"101 5 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":"115736955","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":"Helping Strategy Support in Synchronous Peer Tutoring System for Children","authors":"Mengping Tsuei","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.20","url":null,"abstract":"This study described the helping tools added to the synchronous peer tutoring system for elementary students. There were 34 third-grade students in two remedial classes participating in this study for seven weeks. The results of repeated-measures analysis of variance indicated that students in the experiment group had significant learning gains. In addition, the helping strategy tools effectively improved children's mathematics performance.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"11 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":"114990623","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 Utility-Based Semantic Recommender for Technology-Enhanced Learning","authors":"Andrea Zielinski","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.120","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the design of a Knowledge-based recommender system for Technology Enhanced Learning based on Semantic Web Technologies. It uses a knowledge model for representing the current state of the learner, pedagogical strategies, and learning objects. To create a learner model, the learners' activity and progress is tracked and higher-level learner features (i.e., Didactical Factors) are extracted. For a given learner state and set of pedagogical rules, the Recommendation Engine infers learning objects that lie on the learner's personalized learning path. Furthermore, utility functions are used to compute a relevancy score for the best-fit learning objects. We describe the semantic-based recommendation approach on a conceptual level, discuss the strengths and weaknesses on the recommender framework and discuss future research.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"18 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":"123536022","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":"Effects of Gesture-Based Fitness Games on Functional Fitness of the Elders","authors":"Feng-Ru Sheu, Yun-Lin Lee, Hsiu-Tao Hsu, N. Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.35","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the evaluation of a Kinect/Motion-based game designed for the purpose of promoting physical activity among older adults. Using a convenience sample, this study followed participants in a four week exercise program which incorporated the fitness game. The effect of the system on overall functional fitness and user acceptance of the gesture-based technology were studied. Ten participants, aged 62-81, were recruited from a community activity center for the study. The Senior Functional Fitness Test developed by Ricki and Jones was used to measure overall functional fitness levels both prior to and after the intervention phase. Mann-Whitney U Test and Wilcox on Signed Ranks Test were used to analyze the results. Both tests showed that there is no significant difference in overall functional fitness between the control group and the study group. However, significant improvement was found in upper body flexibility, reaction time, and game performance. The overall results and feedback showed great potential of using gesture-based fitness system with game design.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"196 12 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":"123665784","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}
Stephen Cummins, Ian P. Davies, A. Rice, A. Beresford
{"title":"Equality: A Tool for Free-form Equation Editing","authors":"Stephen Cummins, Ian P. Davies, A. Rice, A. Beresford","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.34","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a new tool, Equality, for equation entry using free-form layout of components drawn from a palette of symbols. Our approach is designed to enable learners to easily manipulate the structure of their equations, to be functional in both desktop and mobile environments, and to minimize the amount of learning required to use the tool. We present the results of a study comparing a prototype of our approach with Microsoft Equation Editor using a desktop machine. The initial results are promising with participants reporting that the mechanism is easy to learn and an easy way to manipulate their equations. We report the results of the study and the views of the participants and identify how these will inform the future development of Equality.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"26 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":"114065925","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":"ContactJS -- A Cross-Platform Context Detection Framework","authors":"Tobias Moebert, Stefanie Lemcke, U. Lucke","doi":"10.1109/ICALT.2015.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2015.83","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers made it possible to access educational offers spatially and temporally unbounded. However, learners have different prior knowledge and preferences, and are in different situations. Contextual information can be used to adapt educational offers to the learners' individual needs and characteristics. When it comes to the detection of such information a challenge however is to address the heterogeneous landscape of devices and operating systems (and thus programming languages) that learners are using. To meet this challenge this paper presents a cross-platform context detection framework.","PeriodicalId":170914,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies","volume":"29 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":"126048369","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}