{"title":"A reverse engineering approach to teach biology students mathematical complexity in ecology: Interdisciplinary teaching connects mathematical literacy and outdoor practice","authors":"P. Silapachote, A. Srisuphab, S. Srikosamatara","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2014.7062605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2014.7062605","url":null,"abstract":"Mathematics has long held a prominent spot in common core competencies. Rapid advances in information and communication technology literacy have gained it recognition as an essential skill in the 21st century. Mastering both is a challenge, as is teaching them. Integration with other disciplines, addressing STEM education, makes this even more challenging. Tackling this dilemma, we adapt cooperative learning and co-teaching schemes. Hands-on class activities effectively convey an understanding of a complex model without equations. Computer simulations promote visual comprehensions for highly dynamic systems. In our course, general ecology for biologists, mathematical complexity is a crucial element required for transitioning from the real world to the world of numbers pertaining both linear and non-linear relationships. We designed indoor activities to initiate analytical thinking and to extend appreciations of outdoor experiences to abstract reasoning in numerical terms and computer models. Our approach fulfills the objectives of guiding biology students to construct scenarios reflecting complex interactions among organisms in the natural world. They overcame their primarily negative mindset, feeling intimidated by mathematics and uncomfortably unfamiliar with computer technology. To evaluate our teaching method, students were asked to qualitatively write an after action evaluation. They expressed enjoyment in their learning. Though struggling at times, the experience was very rewarding and worthwhile. Students came to a realization of the importance of mathematics and information literacy skills, while drawing appreciation and awareness from outdoor experiences. Besides, we quantitatively analyzed students' performance, which effectively serves as a guideline for adjusting our course contents for the next offering of this subject.","PeriodicalId":230734,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130927967","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}
Irwan Alnarus Kautsar, S. Kubota, Y. Musashi, K. Sugitani
{"title":"Redefining Data Provider: The REST approach To solve Indonesia Lecturer administrative problems","authors":"Irwan Alnarus Kautsar, S. Kubota, Y. Musashi, K. Sugitani","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2014.7062614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2014.7062614","url":null,"abstract":"Directorate General Higher Education Institution of Indonesia (DGHEI), request lecturers to provide data or report their academic activities as evidence of them. Lecturers needs to make a portfolio or other document specified by DGHEI. From now on we will call this administrative issues. These issues are becoming a problem when the DGHEI requests these reports from the Lecturers to be updated in the DGHEI Systems in a specific time frame. The present paper discusses the problems that appear in the current system. Some of the problems that Lecturers face are: DGHEI Information Systems service unavailability. As a result of this analysis, a new methodology is proposed in order to solve these issues and others. The new approach, using REST (Representational Sate Transfer) to provide the lecturer data in a distributed manner, allowing sharing capabilities to the current system.","PeriodicalId":230734,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133303565","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}
H. Hirose, Y. Aizawa, Yoshiko Tokusada, Kazuhisa Noguchi
{"title":"Dually adaptive online IRT testing system with application to high-school mathematics testing case","authors":"H. Hirose, Y. Aizawa, Yoshiko Tokusada, Kazuhisa Noguchi","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2014.7062595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2014.7062595","url":null,"abstract":"The item response theory (IRT) provides us not only the abilities of examinees but also the difficulties of items. Adaptive testing using the IRT selects the most appropriate items to examinees automatically, resulting in more accurate ability estimation and more efficient test procedures than the conventional testing. However, the item parameters remain constants even if the features of the examinees change. To overcome this situation, we use the dually adaptive online IRT testing system, where “dually adaptive” means that one is targeted to the adequate item selection and the other is targeted to the adjustment of the difficulty values for items. We have applied this method to the high-school mathematics testing case, and we have found that the system works well.","PeriodicalId":230734,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"222 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115531283","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":"Implementing Outcomes-Based in Electronics Engineering of Batangas State University: Motivations, processes, challenges","authors":"D. G. D. Ronquillo, T. A. Ronquillo","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2014.7062579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2014.7062579","url":null,"abstract":"The implementation of Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) to engineering programs in the Philippines had been reflected as one important reforms in the country's higher education. The Philippines initiated to be a member nation of Washington Accord (WA) through the Philippine Technological Council (PTC). Batangas State University became the first government-subsidized university to respond with the Electronics Engineering (ECE) program placed at the forefront of OBE implementation in this institution. Radical modifications transpired in the different academic and institutional processes. This paper targets to discuss the motivations, processes, challenges that this humble university experienced and is still facing in its OBE journey.","PeriodicalId":230734,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128744868","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":"Investigation of the utilisation of social networks in e-learning at universities","authors":"S. Azam, F. Wang, Jason Ng","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2014.7062583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2014.7062583","url":null,"abstract":"Over the years universities have considered to use social networks for learning purposes as most of their students now engage on them. However, questions on the impact social networks would have on learning and how they can be utilised further for more effective teaching and learning are still unclear. To solve these questions, an in-depth investigation has been conducted to understand the benefits and drawback of social network features available for students. The investigation results show that students strongly believe that social network features will help enhance learning and the key ways of utilising such features have been suggested.","PeriodicalId":230734,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126957352","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":"QTiME - A new paradigm for 21st century learning","authors":"Bala Ajjampur, K. Prasad","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2014.7062643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2014.7062643","url":null,"abstract":"21st century Learning is learning in a knowledge era. Change is necessary to foster new ways of learning to address 20th century shortcomings in learning that mostly catered to the traits of Gen-X. A transition is required to deal with the traits of Gen-Y. Global access to educational content at any time has diminished the functions of schools as information deliverers. To foster non-assessment based learning, there is a need to provoke learning in multiple dimensions. QTiME learning is such a framework formulating learning dimensions, quadrants and steps that are simplistic, universal, actionable, cyclical and continuous - a paradigm shift.","PeriodicalId":230734,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132091689","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":"Students' perception in the use of self-made YouTube videos in teaching Mathematics","authors":"I. Faye","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2014.7062629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2014.7062629","url":null,"abstract":"This work examined the use of self-made YouTube videos by lecturers in teaching Mathematics. A few studies have emphasized the importance of bringing YouTube in the classroom. A lecturer may use YouTube videos available on Internet or create his own videos as teaching materials. The purpose of this work is to study students' perceptions and preferences between these two options. A sample of 213 first year students completed a survey on their perceptions of the use of YouTube videos that were created by their lecturers. The study also included students' perceptions on the preferred length of video lectures of topics in Mathematics. The results confirmed that YouTube is commonly used by students and showed that videos created by their lecturers are preferred to videos found on Internet. The study suggested the use of videos with length less than 15 minutes for each topic in Mathematics.","PeriodicalId":230734,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126457411","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":"Requirements engineering education using expert system and role-play training","authors":"Taichi Nakamura, Un Kai, Yuki Tachikawa","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2014.7062566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2014.7062566","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a method for use in requirements engineering education in a university, and based on 3 principles. (1) A type of expert system, which accumulates business domain knowledge related to the customer's business field, and answers learners' question on behalf of the customer is necessary. (2) Group-work role-play training is essential to elicit customer's real requirements and analyze them from various points of view. (3) A software agent system to monitor learner's behavior during role-play training, and act as an advisor in giving timely advice to learners is necessary. Learners who have no practical experience in defining requirements may follow a recommended procedure to elicit requirements and analyze them. In order to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method, we have implemented an exercise for corporate workers and fourth undergraduate students. Requirements modeling skill level of the students was increased to the same skill levels of the corporate workers by using proposed method. The students got to understand the importance of the requirements and get them into shape.","PeriodicalId":230734,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121517929","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":"Facilitating a personalized learning environment through learning analytics on mobile devices","authors":"V. Tam, E. Lam, Y. Huang","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2014.7062580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2014.7062580","url":null,"abstract":"Many learning analytics techniques to capture the learner's real-time responses are computationally intensive for running on mobile devices. In this paper, we propose a personalized learning platform named the PETAL facilitated by an efficient learning analytics application to detect learners' level of attentiveness and the proximity of their eyes to mobile devices and then alert learners to be more attentive or to keep acceptable distance from a device. Data privacy is guaranteed by password-protected accounts. Being the first attempt, a prototype of our PETAL application is carefully built and evaluated on Android tablets, with many promising directions for future extensions.","PeriodicalId":230734,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116573677","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":"Study of motivational constructs, learning orientations and goals affecting engineering students' learning process","authors":"A. Vohra, Hegde Akash Achut, A. Loh, W. Tan","doi":"10.1109/TALE.2014.7062625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2014.7062625","url":null,"abstract":"Engineering is perceived to be a challenging course for many students. Their achievements are related to the efforts spent in pursuing their learning objectives. Their efforts are a function of their motivation and rewards. Inappropriate motivation does not promote autonomy and mastery. This paper presents the findings of a study of the interplay between motivational constructs, learning orientations and goals setting affecting students in the electrical and computer engineering program. Expectancy and value related motivations are explored using the Naylor-Pritchard-Ilgen theory of motivation. Results from this study can be used to encourage students to adopt more productive learning behaviors.","PeriodicalId":230734,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121752569","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}