Kunal Kadam, Rucha Ganu, Ankita Bhosekar, S. Joshi
{"title":"American Sign Language Interpreter","authors":"Kunal Kadam, Rucha Ganu, Ankita Bhosekar, S. Joshi","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.45","url":null,"abstract":"There is currently an abundance of software in the market that is used to help teach people sign language. This software is very effective; however it is very difficult to know if you are making correct hand gestures. It is quite tedious to learn from the software hence making them less user friendly. In our paper we are discussing an effective use of glove for implementing an interactive sign language teaching programme. We believe that, with the use of glove, signs can be made with more accuracy and better consistency. Having a glove also would enable us to practice sign language without having to be next to a computer. The sign language glove seems to be very useful to aid in communication with the deaf. We believe that such a translator could be an effective teacher to those who want to learn sign language.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"377 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134455171","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":"Pedagogical Analysis of Content Authoring Tools for Engineering Curriculum","authors":"Anita S. Diwakar, M. Patwardhan, S. Murthy","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.15","url":null,"abstract":"Developing customized and interactive learning material for engineering curriculum by teachers, in order to meet individual requirements of students can enhance the teaching-learning process. A number of available content authoring tools have been classified according to various dimensions. However, selecting the appropriate authoring tool is a difficult task for instructors, in the absence of selection criteria aligned with instructional goals. Considering the goal of creating educational content, the classification criteria for authoring tools need to emphasize on the teaching-learning perspective. In this paper, we analyse content authoring tools on the basis of their pedagogical features. We propose selection criteria based on the principles derived from learning theories and best teaching-learning practices which contain dimensions of pedagogy, technology and usability. We apply the criteria to some of the existing content authoring tools and identify three tools which satisfy the criteria. We then present data on teachers' perspective about the effectiveness of these tools for their teaching practice.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133511527","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 of Nonlinear Control System Using -'nonlintool'","authors":"P. Shah, J. Patel","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.32","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents MATLAB based Graphical User Interface (GUI) tool, 'nonlintool'. The tool is useful for learning of analysis and design procedures of nonlinear control system. The tool offers user friendly computational platform for nonlinear control system comprises of almost all type of nonlinearities. It aims to provide quick and effective means of learning of nonlinear system. Popular methods for stability investigation of nonlinear system like- Describing Function (DF) and Phase Plane Trajectory (PPT) are covered in the proposed tool. Several relevant examples of analysis and design of nonlinear control systems are presented to demonstrate capability of the tool.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125170746","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":"Visual Maps for Collaborative Spoken Tutorial Development","authors":"Pranita Gopal, Nancy Varkey, K. Moudgalya","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.61","url":null,"abstract":"Spoken Tutorials are interactive, multimedia based, multilingual learning aids to learn IT skills and to bridge the digital divide. With low entry barriers, it is proving to be a tool that helps learners across India breaking the barriers of time, space and availability of good instructors. Creation of this low cost teaching-learning aid is a lengthy process due to stringent quality control measures. This paper puts forth a strategy of using Visual Maps as a precursor activity for creating Spoken Tutorials as a collaborative development process without compromising on the quality of the tutorials and by speeding up the process of creation.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132800269","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":"Mapping Large Educational Websites to Interactive DVDs","authors":"Swati Ittan, Gaurav Paruthi, W. Thies","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.46","url":null,"abstract":"In areas lacking computers and Internet connectivity, one promising strategy for delivering electronic educational content is to utilize common household technologies such as TVs and DVD players. Recent work has demonstrated that it is possible to leverage the interactive features of DVD players to provide an (offline) Internet browsing experience, using the remote control for search and navigation. However, until now it has not been documented how to overcome the engineering challenges in mapping large numbers of interactive menus to a single DVD. This paper offers the first description of such a tool. We have applied this tool to burn over 257,000 screens of Wikipedia content to an interactive DVD, for use by low-income communities.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"217 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115572297","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":"Tutoring and Expert Modules of Intelligent Tutoring Systems","authors":"V. M. Ramesh, N. J. Rao","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.52","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent Tutoring Systems are systems which provide direct customized instruction to students. An Intelligent Tutoring System consists of four modules. This research concentrates on two of the modules, namely, the Tutoring Module and the Expert Module, analyzes tutoring systems which contribute to the design of these modules. The study identifies the issues which have not been addressed in previous contributions.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131376492","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}
Nakhat Nasreen AzizulHaq, Gamal Ahmed Ahmed Abdullah Alawi
{"title":"Synchronous Online Teaching Based on Digital Library Technologies (Text, Audio, Video) in Relation to Effectiveness and Efficiency","authors":"Nakhat Nasreen AzizulHaq, Gamal Ahmed Ahmed Abdullah Alawi","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.47","url":null,"abstract":"This study concentrates upon synchronous online teaching using multimedia and different softwares. This paper analyses the relationship between online teaching by the means of digital library techniques and effectiveness & efficiency of learners using digital libraries as virtual means. Three models, which can explain online teaching on digital library techniques, are established and tested. UsingLISREL8.80 program, it explained 57% of reading activities, 46% of listening activities, and 35% of watching activities of the learners (using digital library techniques), with good models fit. The subjects make use of the multimedia in full time and multi-tasks such as searching, browsing, downloading (audio and video), copying text, listening and watching audio & video, reading, writing, extracting and abstracting information. They also use chat room for more discussions in the category of online collaborative and finally report their information in different styles through assignments, projects on WWW, or face-to-face in the classroom..","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130653176","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":"Open Access to European Academic Courses Supported by the ASK-CDM-ECTS Tool","authors":"D. Sampson, P. Zervas","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.13","url":null,"abstract":"Within the context of the emerging Open Academic Courses Initiatives, the issue of explicitly describing an academic course is raised. Nevertheless, existing Initiatives do not share a common conceptual model for describing their academic courses. The main drawback of this approach is that these descriptions impede inter initiative comparison and exploitation of academic courses by students and course tutors. The Course Description Metadata (CDM) specification has been proposed as a way to describe academic courses in a common format. Within the context of European Higher Education, CDM specification has been influenced by the European Credit Transfer Accumulation System (ECTS). As a result, an application profile of the CDM specification has been developed referred to as CDM-ECTS. Despite these efforts, it appears that there are not software tools that allow authoring of academic courses descriptions following the CDM-ECTS application profile. Thus, in this paper we target to address this issue by introducing a web-based tool, namely ASK-CDM-ECTS.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126715533","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":"Comparison of English versus Hindi Medium Students for Programming Abilities Acquired through Video-Based Instruction","authors":"Yogendra Pal, Sridhar V. Iyer","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.30","url":null,"abstract":"Acquisition of programming skills is a key aspect of computer science curricula. Students who have studied in their local language have significant difficulty in acquiring programming skills through English medium instruction. Given the known benefits of local language instruction, one approach to tackle this problem is to record the lectures and provide translated videos to such students. As yet, there is no experimental data on the effect of teaching programming using translated videos, on student achievement. In this paper, we report our findings from a study of three groups of students learning programming by watching 3-hours of video lectures on introductory programming. One group of Hindi medium students watched the videos in English while a similar group watched the corresponding Hindi videos. As a baseline, one group of English medium students watched the English videos. We found that the difference between the three groups on post-test achievement was not significant.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121636022","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}
Frederick Ako-Nai, Qing Tan, Frédérique C. Pivot, Kinshuk
{"title":"The 5R Adaptive Learning Content Generation Platform for Mobile Learning","authors":"Frederick Ako-Nai, Qing Tan, Frédérique C. Pivot, Kinshuk","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.22","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitous mobile computing and the advances in wireless telecommunication networks have encouraged significant growth of mobile learning in recent years. Since mobile learning can take place at anytime and anywhere, there is an advantage to integrate the real world objects into learning contents. Mobile devices have characteristics that include location awareness and hardware diversity. Thus, there are needs and opportunities to provide mobile learners with adaptive learning experience. To implement adaptive mobile learning, it is essential that the learning contents are context sensitive to be retrieved through the adaptation mechanism built in the learning management system. In this paper, an adaptive learning content generation platform is presented. We adopted the 5R adaptation framework to provide the mobile learning system the capability of providing the right content to the right learner, through the right device, in the right location, and at the right time. We provide an example to demonstrate how to use the platform to create adaptive learning contents.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121835343","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}