2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)最新文献

{"title":"Relevance of MOOCs for training of public sector employees","authors":"Sandra Sanchez-Gordon, Tania Calle-Jimenez","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218016","url":null,"abstract":"A massive open online course (MOOC) is a type of online course that can be taken for a huge number of participants. Originally, MOOCs scope was to provide introductory university level courses to students worldwide. Currently, the MOOC model is expanding is scope to training in both private and public sectors. There are more than 30 million of public sector employees only in Latin American and Caribbean Region. Given the huge number of public employees that need to be continuously trained at regional, national, and local range, using MOOCs for training in public sector is not only a valid option but also a necessity. Among the government topics that public employees need training are public service culture, national political constitution, government structure and policies, national development plans, institutional strategy, macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, sovereign debt, regulatory and legal frameworks, and tools for public administration such as management for results. Also, in recent years, government and private organizations have recognized the importance of training their employees on space technologies that manage geographic information for the primary purpose of increase development through getting knowledge of the territory and its behavior. This paper presents four cases of use of MOOCs for public sector training. It also presents strategies to address three major challenges: enrollment, completion and web accessibility. Finally, it states some conclusion and future research.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"238 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124104480","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 study on the possibility to use Raspberry Pi as a console server for remote access to devices in virtual learning environments","authors":"Diyana Kyuchukova, Georgi V. Hristov, P. Zahariev, S. Borisov","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217968","url":null,"abstract":"During the last years many virtual laboratories have been developed, but not all of them were successfully adopted. Designing, planning and creating a virtual laboratory can be a very difficult process, which can get even more complicated if the laboratory has to provide access to real equipment. One of the most problematic steps when developing such virtual laboratories is the selection of the right access method. At the present moment of time there are many technologies that allow users to access devices remotely. One of these possible solutions is to use the Telnet/SSH protocols for remote access. Nevertheless, the use of these protocols require at least one active network interface per device, which in some cases can present a problem. There are some other drawbacks of using Telnet/SSH for remote access as well - virtual laboratories are often created with the purpose to be used in the education process, which means that the users of these systems in most cases are students. These less experienced users might accidently delete the configuration of the interface that is dedicated for the remote access, which will result in the immediate loss of connection to the device and will require administrator intervention to fix this access issue. An alternative solution to provide remote access is to use a console server. A detailed analysis on the possibilities for remote access using console servers, present them as reliable, but also as a very expensive solutions. In this paper we will investigate the possibilities to replace the expensive console servers with much cheaper devices. One such device is the Raspberry Pi - a low cost device that was developed to enhance the education process of children and students in the field of the computer sciences and their related subjects. In this paper we will investigate and compare the characteristics of the Raspberry Pi to the most widely used console servers and we will present a way to use the Raspberry Pi as a console server for remote access to telecommunication routers and switches.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127529249","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":"Promotion of self-learning by means of Open Educational Resources and semantic technologies","authors":"Janneth Chicaiza, Nelson Piedra, J. López-Vargas, E. Caro","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218024","url":null,"abstract":"Open Educational Resources (OER) have the potential to encourage self-learning and lifelong learning. However, there are some barriers that make it difficult to find the suitable information. The successful adoption of OER in processes of informal or self-directed learning will depend largely on what the learner is able to reach without a guide or a tutor. However, the OERs quality and their particular features can positively influence into the motivation of the self-learner to achieve their goals. In this paper, the authors present an approach to enhance the OER discovery by self-learners. This is designed to leverage open knowledge sources, which are described by semantic technologies. User's data and OER encoded in formal languages can be linked and thus find paths for suggest the most appropriate resources.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"494 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126969182","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":"ETL^2 - Educational tool for learning ETL","authors":"Rui Oliveira, J. V. Ramos","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218021","url":null,"abstract":"In Data Warehouse environments, the core Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) process is the most technically complex and sensitive of all: promoting its effective learning to undergraduate students is therefore a serious challenge. Despite today's industrial widespread use of ETL graphical tools, these do not comply with the needs of ETL teaching given their usage complexity and high abstraction level. Moreover, no educational tools exist focused on assisting ETL teaching. For that purpose, the paper presents an innovative educational tool. The tool's basic yet powerful features allow students to easily test concepts and also to build real-world Data Warehouse prototypes in a fast and simple fashion keeping focus on the product conceptualization without severely abstracting themselves from the background mechanisms of the ETL process. The tool has evolved in the past five years in the Decision Support Systems course of the Informatics Engineering undergraduate degree at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132399182","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":"Knowledge, Technology and Innovation (KTI): Opportunities, issues and challenges of KTI transfer between Norway and the Balkans countries","authors":"Sule YAYILGAN YILDIRIM, A. A. Arntzen, Gry Helene Stavseng, Milena Ljubicic, B. Solvang, R. Meadow, F. Dalipi","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218022","url":null,"abstract":"Several studies have shown that Knowledge, Technologies, and Innovation play an important role in fostering a country's development. Education is the backbone for a sustainable and competitive economy. Although, the Balkans as a middle-income region has experienced growth since the late 1990s, the region is still facing many challenges. Norway, through the HERD program funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is providing support to make the Balkan economy more competitive by providing mechanisms facilitating knowledge and technology building. This paper reports the experience of five funded projects. Opportunities and challenges are discussed in order to develop a general framework facilitating the economic growth in Balkan countries.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123602716","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":"Local impacts of university in supporting creativity, invention and development of innovation","authors":"T. Čorejová, M. Rostasova","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217960","url":null,"abstract":"Aim of this paper is to outline the role of universities in promoting creativity and inventions by students as one of the local effects of universities and present the results of research activities, the aim of which was to find feedback from students in this area. Filling the research objectives allow to detect and evaluate creative expressions universities and recognition environment (creative companies), in which students can after graduation his innate or acquired creative use. The curricula and the results of learning processes towards promoting creativity bring increasing levels of human capital, its skills and thus income and job opportunities in the labor market.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124871843","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":"That flipping classroom - getting engineering students to be consciously competent on their own","authors":"R. Braun, Z. Chaczko","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218040","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is inspired by the Keynote Speech which I gave at ITHET 2014 in York in September 2014. The material was very well received, and it seemed appropriate to offer it for publication in the proceedings of ITHET 2015. In preparing this Keynote Speech I was reminded of the “Spectral Lines” article by Donald Christiansen. He was a famous editor of IEEE Spectrum. The article was entitled “Do students really get it?” The 80:20 Rule: What he was really referring to was the difficulty many students in engineering have in grasping difficult threshold subjects. Some estimates suggest that the 80:20 rule applies. 20% get it, and 80% muddle through. What should we be doing about it? Does it really matter?: We still manage to produce enough technically competent engineers to push our society forward (or do we?) Can we really improve that 80:20 rule to perhaps 50:50? Is it our responsibility as educators to be doing that? Is it not perhaps the students who should be taking the responsibility for their own learning. In this paper I am going to explore how we can perhaps do it by changing our teaching style.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128734596","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":"Adaptive and intuitive interactions with socially-competent pedagogical assistant robots","authors":"M. Dimitrova, H. Wagatsuma, Gyanendra Nath Tripathi, Guangyi Ai","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218031","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a novel framework for including social competence in pedagogical assistant robots based on recent social neuroscience investigations. An educational model describing the interplay of social interaction and social observation in typical children and children with autistic spectrum conditions (ASC) is proposed. The behavioral results of a study of human gaze movements while viewing a robot tutor are briefly presented. The implications for design of adaptive and intuitive robotic tutoring systems as pedagogical assistants for typical children and children with special educational needs are discussed.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122473090","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":"Marketing EIE programmes in higher education towards students from underrepresented groups","authors":"J. Benlloch, I. Grout, L. Grindei, T. Ward","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217958","url":null,"abstract":"Widening participation in higher education has become a major concern for many higher education institutions in order to redress the imbalance that has be created where specific groups in society have over time become underrepresented within higher education. To redress this imbalance, higher education institutions need to set-up and maintain supports to attract more students from these underrepresented groups to enter mainstream higher education. These include the marketing of programmes with targeted access routes into education and to enable full participation once the student has commenced a programme of study (appropriate and targeted supports to be made available). In this paper, specific questions are asked and a review of approaches in marketing programmes and supporting students are identified and discussed. The motivation for the paper is to consider the marketing of programmes within European higher education institutions towards electrical and information engineering (EIE) programmes for students with disabilities.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127585933","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":"Researching data privacy models in eLearning","authors":"M. Ivanova, G. Grosseck, Carmen Holotescu","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218033","url":null,"abstract":"The contemporary web applications and emerging intelligent solutions for eLearning collect, process and store a big array of students' personal data. What kind of private data is used for organization of successful learning and are they protected against unauthorized use are important questions concerning students' privacy. The paper presents a data privacy model created after explorations related to the measures for security of private information in different online transactional fields including in the area of eLearning and after results summarization of students' opinion. The findings show that privacy in eLearning could be achieved through a combination of actions from student's side, third parties' side and appropriate design of educational software.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126335599","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}