{"title":"Designing electronic performance support system in organizational context: an activity theory approach","authors":"Rui Wang","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890584","url":null,"abstract":"EPSSs (electronic performance support systems) have been developed by many organizations during the last decade, because it reduces the cost of staff training while increases productivity and performance. Context studies are essential to the successful design of EPSSs for the following reasons: the principle underlying EPSS is to optimize the users' work environment to foster learning and performance; and since unique contextual factors in organizations may affect the usability and efficiency of EPSS, EPSS should be specifically designed to suit the particular organizational context. Activity theory provides a rich framework for studies of context. This paper discusses the use of activity theory and developmental work research as the framework and development methodology to develop EPSS in an organizational context. Based on the activity-theoretical hypotheses, a cyclic six-step development process is proposed and will be employed in the EPSS design in the context of a manufacturing plant.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122309201","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":"Dynamic visualization of concurrent object-oriented systems","authors":"C. Exton","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890640","url":null,"abstract":"Although some problems are most naturally solved by using a set of concurrent processes, it is not an easy task to give students a sound understanding of the concepts, models and practice involved in designing concurrent object-oriented software systems. Dynamic visualization can expedite the students' comprehension and understanding of concurrent object-oriented program execution. By being given the ability to explore the various threads of execution and event order of an executing concurrent program, the student can gain an understanding of the threads of control and how they relate to classes, object instantiation, object destruction, and method invocation. When considering the use of visualization for concurrent object-oriented systems, four overlapping guidelines may be contemplated: abstraction, representation, emphasis and navigation.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126149115","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":"The development of science and technology education planning in vocational and higher educational institutions","authors":"R. Shinatrakool","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890633","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"10 16","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120828340","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 and learning using instructional design","authors":"L. Uden, A. Alderson","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890569","url":null,"abstract":"Instructional design has developed as a prescriptive science based on a system approach linking basic research in the psychological processes of learning with concrete solutions to educational problems such as optimal learning retention and transfer. However, questions continue to surface as to the extent that it can be applied to help students to learn more effectively. This paper presents a case study showing how instructional design research has contributed to the teaching of and learning by computing science students at Staffordshire University. The paper begins with an introduction to instructional design research, followed by the case study showing how instructional design research has helped students to understand better what they have to learn and thus improve their coursework and examination results. It concludes with the author's plea to lecturers to adopt instructional design theories in their teaching in order to help students to know what they need to learn and how they will be assessed.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115348545","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":"Evaluation of a hybrid self-improving instructional planner","authors":"Jon A. Elorriaga, Isabel Fernández-Castro","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890587","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the evaluation results of a hybrid self-improving instructional planner based on the case-based reasoning technique. The hybrid approach involves the integration of a case-based instructional planner within existing intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) to enhance the pedagogical component with learning capabilities. Thus, the resulting ITSs become self-improving systems that exhibit two kinds of learning: learning from memorisation and learning from their own experiences.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128344937","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":"Providing a framework for learning in an open task environment","authors":"E. Kemp, R. Kemp","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890600","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching students how to perform open tasks can present problems. In a case study with a group of students learning how to evaluate multimedia interfaces, a constructionist approach was taken. They were required in groups, to produce their own multimedia teaching systems and then to evaluate those of their colleagues. The strategy helped enhance their learning but was still inadequate in some respects. The use of this technique within a more structured framework is advocated.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"4 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116860336","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":"Implements a diagnostic intelligent agent for problem solving in instructional systems","authors":"J. Chang, M. Chang, Jeng-Lun Lin, Jai-Sheng Heh","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890558","url":null,"abstract":"Problem solving is one way to present thinking style of human beings. Most problems should be solved in some particular sequences. However, no matter how smart learners may possibly make mistakes while solving a problem. In order to decrease the mistakes making and increase the learning efficiency, a diagnostic intelligent agent is implemented in this paper to achieve the goal. Such a diagnostic intelligent agent is designed based on diagnosis PSN (DPSN), which modified from PSN. This paper takes one-variable linear equation (OVLE) as an example to accomplish the experiment instructional system in which a diagnostic intelligent agent, which is so-called OVLER, is involved. By analyzing the problem solving operations and representing the problem states with graph structure, a diagnosis PSN (DPSN) is designed (Because of the page limitations, the detailed lemmas and its proofs are ignored here.) According to the DPSN, a diagnostic intelligent agent-OVLER is finally implemented in the IVC (Internet Virtual Classroom) for demonstration purpose. From the problem solving states solved by learner, OVLER will detect the factors that cause errors and lead the learners to find the true answer.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123423547","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":"Integrated tools for on-line education","authors":"C. Jesshope","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890609","url":null,"abstract":"Massey University has, for some years now, been developing and using tools for the delivery of multimedia presentations on Web sites. The key issues have been the size of the Web site and the bandwidth requirements for downloading the multimedia, which are both very small. This work is being used for the delivery of extramural, multi-campus and even internal courses using Web browsers. These practical applications of our tools in real live courses have given us insight into the requirements for online delivery. This paper describes a project, called Tile (Technology-Integrated Learning Environments), which integrates a wide range of tools for managing, designing, authoring, delivering and monitoring online education. The aim of the project is to develop an open, extensible and easy-to-use system in which a number of different tools can be integrated, sharing data on the structure and content of a given unit of educational material.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122675702","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}
S. Geertshuis, A. Bristol, M. Holmes, D. Clancy, S. Sambrook
{"title":"Learning and business: supporting lifelong learning and the knowledge worker through the design of quality learning systems","authors":"S. Geertshuis, A. Bristol, M. Holmes, D. Clancy, S. Sambrook","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890604","url":null,"abstract":"Three inter-linked research projects are described that have led to the development of electronic learning systems and the formation of generic quality measures that apply to computer based learning environments. The overriding aim of the projects is to promote lifelong learning through the empowerment of learners. The paper describes the development of a learner centred learning management system, the development of a tool that enables learners to select courses of high pedagogical quality, and finally the development of a quality system that seeks to drive the design and development of learning environments.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127851164","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 science education: a visualization and simulation perspective","authors":"A. Ichikawa, M. Mukuda","doi":"10.1109/IWALT.2000.890635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWALT.2000.890635","url":null,"abstract":"As the Internet Age comes about with the easier accessibility of data, information and knowledge, human beings have created and accumulated a holistic understanding of the society in which we live. The social significance of our decisions and behaviors is an essence of social sciences, at any level of educational institutions. As compared with natural sciences, social sciences somewhat lack maturity in instructional technology, in Japan at least. The authors focus on the visualization and simulation of cause-and-effect relations in social systems, hoping to make some progress in computer based learning environments for social science education.","PeriodicalId":208449,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies. IWALT 2000. Advanced Learning Technology: Design and Development Issues","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126906258","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}