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

{"title":"On-line air quality assessment virtual laboratory","authors":"Catalin Patrascu, D. Vatau, F. Frigura-Iliasa","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217956","url":null,"abstract":"The main subject of this paper is to present a didactic procedure and an hardware equipment used for air pollution assessment and air quality assessment, nearby a thermal power plant, based on an expert system. The architecture of the expert system, both hardware and software, is described briefly as well as the main principles of the software involved. A didactic method used for transmitting to students all this knowledge is revealed, as well as the on-line procedure for a virtual laboratory used by our students. It involves three different stages, from taking measurements, data analysis up to conclusions. At the end of this paper, some real measurements of this IT based system are presented, as the result of working with some Power Engineering students around a Romanian coal based power plant and in our laboratories.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"22 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":"126975384","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":"Structured Text simulator for PLC in learning environment","authors":"L. Palma, J. Rosas, J. Pecorelli, P. Gil","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218039","url":null,"abstract":"In the current market context, industries need to constantly remain technically competitive. Such context in which customers require personalized products force them to design better products at shorter development cycles. In this regard, the process control of manufacturing systems greatly influences these factors. A simulation tool for process automation and control is proposed, which can simulate a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) that can be programmed in Structured Text language, using multi-tasking. The simulator can be used to verify dynamical processes and controllers for discrete-event systems, discrete-time systems, and mixed systems. A description of the PLC simulation architectures and its development is provided, as well as illustrative examples.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"155 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":"128624657","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":"Improving virtual learning environments by development and integration of 3D models of real devices","authors":"Georgi V. Hristov, Diyana Kyuchukova, S. Borisov, P. Zahariev","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217969","url":null,"abstract":"When it comes to education we usually imagine a traditional one, which in most cases is conducted by lectors or educators who present the learning materials face to face with their students. With the technological progress during the last years, the things have changed - new ways for learning and teaching were born. In the present days we refer to these approaches as digital education or simply e-learning. The modern educational processes include some features of the traditional ones, but they also implement new technologies for visualization of contents and for providing connectivity and access to various resources. One of the most recent and attractive ways for providing e-learning courses is through the use of virtual laboratories. In the last years many different virtual laboratories were developed and presented including our own virtual laboratory in Telecommunication networks and systems. The purpose of this laboratory is to provide means for interaction and experiments with real communication devices, which are remotely accessed. Based on our experience and the feedback from our students about the laboratory, we have come to the conclusion that one of the drawbacks of our solution is the lack of physical interaction with the telecommunication devices. This means that the users of the virtual laboratory can take advantage of the functionality of the remotely accessed devices and they can learn how to operate them, but they do not know how the devices look like or what physical characteristics they have. We believe that obtaining knowledge about the physical structure and the hardware architecture of every system is an essential part of the educational process. In order to provide such knowledge an investigation of the modern options for providing additional visual resources and the ways to integrate this content in the virtual laboratories is required. In this paper we present an approach for visualization of the communication devices in our virtual laboratory, but the same approach can be used for visualization of different objects in every virtual learning environment. Our approach uses the most attractive and provocative way for getting realistic information about the physical structure and the architecture of the devices - the use of 3D models. In the paper we investigate the trends in the area of the 3D modelling of different objects and we provide a solution for integration of 3D content in virtual learning environments.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"35 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":"128663551","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":"Developing tailored-made online materials for academic use","authors":"B. Klimova","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217963","url":null,"abstract":"English now dominates the research world because it is the language of academic publications. Therefore, non-native English speaking academics, especially those working outside the inner circle English speaking countries, need skills of formal writing in English in order to get their research presented and published in the world's prestigious databases, such as the Web of Science, or in a journal with an impact factor. Nevertheless, as many research studies confirm, writing skills are the most difficult skills to be learned. In addition, the findings of contrastive rhetoric show that there are differences between the schemata of L2 and L1 writers in their preferred ways of organizing ideas and these also have an impact on written communication. Thus, the purpose of this article is to demonstrate how these skills of academic writing can be enhanced with the help of tailored-made materials focused on the development of these skills. The author of this article discusses the structure of these materials, their content and particularly the ways of delivering them to academic staff with respect to their needs and time constraints.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"1 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":"129675522","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":"Analysis of the usage of virtual classrooms in the National Polytechnic School of Ecuador: Teachers' perception","authors":"Myriam Peñafiel, L. Vintimilla, S. Luján-Mora, Patricio Pozo Montesdeoca","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218015","url":null,"abstract":"This paper summarizes the findings of the analysis of the usage of virtual classrooms in the Escuela Politecnica Nacional-EPN (National Polytechnic School) in Quito (Ecuador), from teachers' perspective.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"286 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":"122090458","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":"3D virtual reality experiments to promote electrical engineering education","authors":"M. T. Valdez, C. Ferreira, M. Martins, F. Barbosa","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217957","url":null,"abstract":"3D Virtual Labs are the support of learning, a tool of education in the future. Learning in a 3D environment allows greater interaction with contents in a unique way as students perceive it as being really there. Simulations are being designed, a combination of real-world environment with the information supplied by devices, where measurements can be replicated and data analyzed. This study presents a virtual scenario of a Measurements and Instrumentation laboratory.Electrical Engineering courses aim to train students to succeed in meeting the challenges within competitive and everchanging professional contexts. In order to prepare undergraduate students for ongoing success, the courses must provide effective training in the application and development of practices, typically implemented in large projects and organizations. Developing high quality engineering course units is definitely a challenging task. Courses can be provided remotely, but careful planning is required to design quality course units because problems may occur in meeting quality targets. The developments in information and communication technologies (ICT), including multimedia and internet-based education platforms, facilitate the creation of reliable solutions to these challenges. Studies show that a smart application of multimedia technologies and webbased education platforms can provide great results towards better quality of engineering courses. Many challenges on how to suitably approach the educational process have already been put forward. Higher Education institutions use multiple approaches to teaching and learning, combining a range of methods, including e-learning, videoconferencing, face-to-face teaching and hard-copy resources in course delivery. The authors present a software model for engineering, which is based mainly on the Wirefusion® software, and a virtualreality platform called VEMA. The project intends to improve the quality of teaching and learning in higher education through effective application of information technologies and the sciences of learning. 3D virtual learning environments arise as solutions to the extent that, in addition to offering features associated with communication and information sharing, they promote flexible learning spaces and moments. At the level of higher education, and in accordance with the paradigm of Bologna, virtual environments acquire special importance to allow learning beyond the classroom time and space.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"34 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":"116993552","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":"Text-mining approach for verifying alignment of information systems curriculum with industry skills","authors":"Law Sheng Xun, Swapna Gottipati, V. Shankararaman","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217959","url":null,"abstract":"Managing and developing competencies or skills are vital to professional development of an individual. Many tertiary education institutions are therefore focused on developing curriculum that will help the graduating students acquire skills that are aligned with industry practice. Industry skills frameworks such as Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) define the professionals required for an IT professional. Therefore, mapping the curriculum competencies to the industry skills framework has a dual purpose of aiding the educationists to improve the curriculum, and the students to plan the courses according to their career plan. Existing mapping methods are manual and painstaking processes. In this paper, we present an automated solution based on text analytics techniques to map the curriculum to industry framework and provide a visual based analysis to discover the strengths and weakness of the curriculum. We evaluated our solution model on an undergraduate core curriculum; Bachelor of Science (Information Systems Management) degree program BSc (ISM), offered by the School of Information Systems (SIS), Singapore Management University (SMU) and Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA).","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"8 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":"128092593","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":"Practical activities in network courses for MOOCs, SPOCs and eLearning with Marionnet","authors":"Camille Coti, Jean-Vincent Loddo, E. Viennet","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218043","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present Marionnet, a virtual network laboratory, and how it can be used in distance education (MOOC, SPOC and eLearning classes) to implement practical activities in network classes that should normally require students to have access to specific hardware. Marionnet provides virtual network equipment such as routers, switches, computers and cables, and allows users to design a whole network on a single computer. The hardware in Marionnet is virtualized and can therefore be configured like real devices, making the practical activities that are using it very realistic.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"65 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":"116456783","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":"Teaching strategy on VHDL course based on participative learning","authors":"José Miguel Montañana, Lenin-G. Lemus-Zúñiga, Arnulfo Alanis Garza, J. Benlloch","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218025","url":null,"abstract":"Learning from experience had been shown as effective learning method, for instance Confucius, (450 BC) wrote “I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”, or more recently by the psychologist David Kolb when he said on his book that “a person would learn through discovery and experience.” In our course, we follow that practical strategy on which learning is based on exploring and thinking. To motivate the students' interest had provided good results to engage students in the contents of our course. In particular, we suggest them to build their own complete embedded system, which structure and purpose is completely decided by the students. This freedom makes the students be stimulated, interested and enjoy, moving them to find the solutions they require in learning material. In this way, students feel that knowledge to acquire in the course is useful instead of just something boring to learn for an exam, but at the same time the use of that material allows them to internalize it and get new skills. But also, once the project finish makes students feel self-confident to face engineering challenges that they may find in future work. During the last years, the students achieved design and debugging skills on VHDL by facing the challenges from their own proposed system. Commonly, students go deeper in the areas when they feel interested than when teachers request them. It is because students find the relevance of the knowledge when it provide solutions to them. Also, this motivation moves students to spend more hours in the project than they use to spend in other subjects. In fact, students even decide to buy FPGA training boards to keep working at home (prices start from 36$). The elements developed by the students in their embedded systems, use to be the hardware controller for PS/2 keyboard and mouse, graphic controller, music generator with or without digital to analog converters, access to different memory modules. Provide multiple solutions based on hardware finite state machines. But also the software in that system, that use to be some kind of computer game.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"68 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":"116237184","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 a quantitative evaluation of the relationship between the domain knowledge and the ability to assess peer work","authors":"M. De Marsico, A. Sterbini, M. Temperini","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2015.7218036","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we present the preliminary results provided by the statistical modeling of the cognitive relationship between the knowledge about a topic a the ability to assess peer achievements on the same topic. Our starting point is Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives in the cognitive domain, and our outcomes confirm the hypothesized ranking. A further consideration that can be derived is that meta-cognitive abilities (e.g., assessment) require deeper domain knowledge.","PeriodicalId":174013,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"40 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":"132493251","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}