{"title":"Teaching undergraduate algorithms with case studies and quizzes in interactive tutorials","authors":"Weidong Huang, Jing Luo, M. Huang","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386057","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of algorithms is a core component of Computer Science for undergraduate students. Many of innovative teaching methods have been proposed in the literature and practiced in classrooms aiming to help students learn the subject effectively. This paper reports on our experience in teaching advanced data structures and classic computer science algorithms for year 2 students. For three consecutive years, we practiced a different teaching approach each year. The details of each approach are provided and discussed. By comparing students' learning performance, we found that teaching undergraduate algorithms with case studies and quizzes in interactive tutorials is relatively more beneficial for effective teaching and learning. We conclude the paper with a short summary and future work.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114657529","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}
T. Staubitz, Hauke Klement, Jan Renz, Ralf Teusner, C. Meinel
{"title":"Towards practical programming exercises and automated assessment in Massive Open Online Courses","authors":"T. Staubitz, Hauke Klement, Jan Renz, Ralf Teusner, C. Meinel","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386010","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a phenomenon presenting the prospect of free high class education to everybody. They bear a tremendous potential for teaching programming to a large and diverse audience. The typical MOOC components, such as video lectures, reading material, and easily assessable quizzes, however, are not sufficient for proper programming education. To learn programming, participants need an option to work on practical programming exercises and to solve actual programming tasks. It is crucial that the participants receive proper feedback on their work in a timely manner. Without a tool for automated assessment of programming assignments, the teaching teams would be restricted to offer optional ungraded exercises only. The paper at hand sketches scenarios how practical programming exercises could be provided and examines the landscape of potentially helpful tools in this context. Automated assessment has a long record in the history of computer science education. We give an overview of existing tools in this field and also explore the question what can and/or should be assessed.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115838028","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":"Embedd \"Art\" and \"inclusion\" into the STEM education","authors":"Woo Kam Tim, L. C. Yin","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386051","url":null,"abstract":"The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) aims to engage undergraduate students in making contributions to the community as well as create and facilitate educational and leadership opportunities. Undergraduate students are encouraged to utilize their engineering knowledge and technology knowhow innovatively in projects contributing to the society. We collaborate with School of Business and School of Science and faculty from School of Humanity and Social Science to design an undergraduate courses series to embed engineering knowledge and service leadership into an experiential learning course.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123007215","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 architecture of Information Management System through cloud computing according to Thai Qualifications Framework for Higher Education","authors":"T. Rodmunkong, P. Wannapiroon, P. Nilsook","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386041","url":null,"abstract":"This research presents the architecture of Information Management System through cloud computing according to Thai Qualifications Framework for Higher Education. The result of research has been found that the architecture of Information Management System through cloud computing according to Thai Qualifications Framework for Higher Education has seven essential elements as follows 1) TQF as a Service System 2) TQF as a Service DPS 3) TQF as a Service IMS 4) TQF as a Service Report 5) Feedback 6) Cloud Computing Technology and 7) Users. All elements are coordinate working with each other for facilitating of documentary management system curriculum in according to Thai Qualifications Framework for Higher Education. The seven elements are the implementation, store, collection, communication, control and follow up, knowledge sharing and information accessing among administrator, instructor and student of education quality assurance section or internal and external related parties in educational institution including other related institutions such as the office of the basic education commission and the office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment. The evaluation result regarding congruity of the architecture of Information Management System through cloud computing according to Thai Qualifications Framework for Higher Education from eleven experts was appropriate at the highest level.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116515639","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}
Yonghe Zhang, Weichen Jia, Chunying Zhu, Ying Song
{"title":"EVOV: A video recommendation system to support sustainable vocabulary learning","authors":"Yonghe Zhang, Weichen Jia, Chunying Zhu, Ying Song","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386013","url":null,"abstract":"Learning vocabulary is both critical and boring for many EFL (English as foreign language) learners and one major difficulty is the lack of suitable context for learning new words. Although videos can provide a rich context for learning vocabulary, it often takes more time than textual media to learn. This paper presents the EVOV system which is to exploit the role of video in vocabulary learning with the human-interaction mechanism and recommendation engine. This system models vocabulary learning as an evolutionary process. It involves watching videos, reviewing vocabulary, learner modeling and individualized recommendations. This paper introduces the core modules of EVOV and demonstrates how it supported vocabulary learning through video in an efficient and sustainable way.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114926336","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":"Creation of knowledge portal using latest IT tools and mobile content delivery system: Work in progress","authors":"L. Anantharaman","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386053","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in Information technology have made delivering eContent easier to Subject Experts and to publish on the web with minimal technical skills and assistance. The development of multimedia e-learning content is no more labor intensive process, requiring a team of web designers and developers responsible for the technical development of these resources, thereby limiting its widespread adoption. Tools such as Adobe Captivate, Camtasia, Snap, Articulate, Lectora etc provide an easy way of developing econtents. This exercise has triggered the idea of creating a Knowledge System for an Industry, namely Leather Industry. Digital libraries are large organized collection of digitized objects comprising of texts, images, graphs and in technological term referred as \"BIG DATA\". Well defined digital library software has the potential to disseminate this information worldwide through internet technologies and the analysis of this BIG DATA is referred as \"BIG DATA ANALYTICS\". The emergence of worldwide web makes the unprecedented volumes of data freely available to the entire society. This helps in building a knowledge Portal. This is an approach paper to illustrate the content development for a few aspects in Leather Industry taking advantages of tools available and schematic diagram of Knowledge portal for Industry.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134534536","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 methods of engineering practice course for senior undergraduate students","authors":"Xinyan Fan, Junhe Zhou, M. Tong","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386026","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching methods of engineering practice course for electronic information engineering specialty is researched. Engineering practice education is meaningful to train excellent engineer and professional talent. Three aspects of improvement on practice education are reported including flipped classroom, video and microlecture, invited expert lecture, and simulated international conference. The students generally express that learning effect and interest are increased.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122374411","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":"Cooperative cultivation mode for excellent engineer training program: Exploration and practice in NJUPT","authors":"Jianhua Shen, Liang Zhou, Chonghu Cheng, Fei Li, Haitao Zhao","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386040","url":null,"abstract":"The continuously deepening of higher education reform and rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) brings an urgent requirement for engineering education in China. Excellent Engineer Training Program (EETP) is an important engineering education plan to explore novel university-enterprise cooperation based cultivation method. This paper presents a comprehensive study on the exploration and practice of cooperative cultivation mode for EETP in NJUPT, which has achieved remarkable results.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126192081","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":"Work in progress: On the training method for the research ability of engineering graduate students","authors":"M. Tong, Guochun Wan, Jie Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386058","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays China's policy of encouraging mass entrepreneurship and innovation is widely known, a new round upsurge of pioneering enterprises has gained wide public attention. Under this background, how can we improve the graduate education quality and make the potential students stick to scientific research rather following the trend is what we should consider seriously. In this paper, we put forward the idea of building training base of future academic masters aiming at solving the problems in graduate education.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123480105","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}
Jeff K. T. Tang, Tin-Yung Au Duong, Yui-Wang Ng, Hoi-Kit Luk
{"title":"Learning to create 3D models via an augmented reality smartphone interface","authors":"Jeff K. T. Tang, Tin-Yung Au Duong, Yui-Wang Ng, Hoi-Kit Luk","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2015.7386050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2015.7386050","url":null,"abstract":"The ordinary way of creating 3D models (a.k.a. 3D modeling) requires people to sit in front of the computer for a long time working with professional software. The license fees of these software are expensive, and it is very time consuming and not easy to learn. Teachers sometimes find difficult to teach students the concept of 3D modeling because the newbies need to spend a lot of time to familiarize with the tool interface beforehand. In this paper, we introduce a mobile application that assists students to learn 3D modeling skills and concepts. We provide a natural modeling style with the aid of Augmented Reality (AR). Through a smartphone user interface, the user builds a model with primitive blocks in a \"bottom-up\" manner like \"LEGO\" bricks. These blocks are visualized on the printed marker cards that allow users to manipulate (rotate, translate, etc.) them in the same way of manipulating real building blocks. User studies have been conducted and we have identified some aspects that help people to model 3D objects.","PeriodicalId":216649,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"17 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120889988","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}