2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)最新文献

{"title":"Teaching and learning perspective on system development in large teams","authors":"Z. Chaczko, R. Braun","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671065","url":null,"abstract":"This paper covers aims and objectives, the approaches, shared experiences and issues faced in teaching and learning of the ICT Analysis and ICT Design pair of subjects within the core block of ICT Engineering courses at the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in Australia. Both practice based subjects, synthesize into a coherent whole, teaching and learning components of all subjects in the ICT Engineering curriculum. One of the main goals of the ICTA and ICTD pair is to close the gap between the students' individualistic tendencies, unplanned and unbudgeted efforts, as well as uncoordinated actions that often characterize teaching and learning approaches to engineering subjects. Additionally, modern industry expects from engineering graduates both leadership skills and team based skills in the development of complex systems. This includes the ability to work in well-planned, process driven, budgeted and coordinated environment. Fundamentally, the course's subjects are adaptive and evolutionary; however, the key challenge is to keep a fine balance between academic concerns and fast changing industry needs.","PeriodicalId":261564,"journal":{"name":"2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131878419","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":"Empowering IT education in rural India","authors":"K. Devi, M. Krishna, V. Muralidharan","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671049","url":null,"abstract":"Education is a basic necessity and a portal for betterment. The use of technology in education has had a positive impact on the students, educators, as well as the educational system as a whole throughout the country. But due to the poor economic condition, many rural areas are not capable of affording the modern innovative education technologies developed by computer systems. This has brought an urban-rural digital divide affecting the student strengths in building their career based objectives. In order to attain career based objectives at their higher education phase collaborative education management systems would help them. The existing education management systems are not reachable to the rural areas due to various factors like lack of infrastructure, maintenance cost, lack of expertise, etc. This motivated us to investigate the technology advancement aiming for empowering IT education in Indian rural education system. The establishment of collaborative education management systems on cloud can help the management in elevating the problems and in providing new service models which in turn stimulate growth and reduce costs. The main theme of this paper is to propose an approach for building cloud based collaborative education management systems abstracting the features of cloud computing. Also the paper presents a view on the proliferation of cloud computing technology for rural education system development in India.","PeriodicalId":261564,"journal":{"name":"2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"51(2) 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130007435","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":"Applying Knowledge, Skills and Abilities in undergraduate research seminar course","authors":"Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671016","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge, Skills, Ability (KSA) is a model necessary for the successful performance of any individual in a given job. It is usually used to assess the capabilities of a prospective applicant. In this paper, we report our experience with senior undergraduate students in an IT seminar course to conduct research and write publishable papers. We will also show how KSA has been applied to the course learning outcomes.","PeriodicalId":261564,"journal":{"name":"2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122379201","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-answer or/and multiple-choice test? Comparison of research results","authors":"I. Šimonová","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671023","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the research comparing open-answer and multiple-choice test results monitoring learners' knowledge of English tenses. The research sample consisted of 295 participants. The research was held at the Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. The results proved slightly higher test scores in the multiple-choice test but the difference in comparison to the open-answer form was not significant.","PeriodicalId":261564,"journal":{"name":"2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125953641","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":"A narrative inquiry into professional identity construction of university EFL teachers in China: A case study of three teachers based in community of practice","authors":"Yuhong Jiang, Huizi Min, Yan Chen, Z. Gong","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671002","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, The present study tries to explore three aspects concerning teacher professional identity construction and answer three questions: 1. How do university EFL teachers in China understand their professional identity? 2. How do university EFL teachers in China construct their professional identity in community of practice? 3. How do the teachers differ in the process of shaping and constructing their professional identity? The university EFL teachers who participate in the present study are from a key comprehensive university in Chongqing, China. They are divided into three groups and categorized as novice teachers, developing teachers and experienced teachers. According to the investigation, academic identity, teacher identity and institutional identity compose these university EFL teachers' professional identity, among which institutional community where teachers work together and teaching community involving the interaction between teachers and students are of great significance in the construction of EFL teachers' professional identities. Furthermore, the results indicate that collaborative and caring institutional community help to enhance novice teachers' sense of belonging and awareness of development, and the emotional motivation and resources support from the institution, colleagues and institution leaders' positive feedback help the teachers a lot in developing an integrated professional identity. The results also suggest that teachers participating in this study have shown stronger awareness of teacher identity, followed by academic identity, while institutional identity is rather implicit. Meanwhile, some problems in Chinese university EFL teachers' professional identity construction are revealed in the present research. For instance, young teachers report that they feel helpless in construction of their academic identity; the Assessment System is both motivation and pressure; insufficient cooperation in teaching and academic research between teachers; and the peripheral teachers' need of chances of being involved in the community of practice. Finally, some suggestions are given to university teachers, teacher educators and institutional leaders.","PeriodicalId":261564,"journal":{"name":"2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127924536","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":"Intelligent assessment and content personalisation in adaptive educational systems","authors":"K. McCusker, J. Harkin, Shane Wilson, M. Callaghan","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671025","url":null,"abstract":"E-learning is commonplace within many educational institutions often providing a generic learning environment with uniform learning provision. Students have different learning styles, skills and needs which dictate the way in which they learn. Current adaptive educational systems fail to fully address this issue where practical aspects of a discipline are taught e.g. engineering education. Therefore this paper presents a novel adaptive educational system which consists of an intelligent assessment and content personalisation function which extends learning assessment approaches (learning styles and student activity data) beyond traditional adaptive educational systems. This novel adaptive educational system includes game based learning which is facilitated through an integrated virtual world, addressing the significant lack of game based learning in adaptive educational systems. This paper presents a blueprint for future adaptive educational systems which incorporate both assessment and personalisation for integrated virtual learning environments and game based learning with experimental results of learning style adaptation provided.","PeriodicalId":261564,"journal":{"name":"2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129179274","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":"A virtual stock exchange simulator for education and training","authors":"Z. Chaczko, R. Braun, Arman Jizan","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671009","url":null,"abstract":"The use of an open-source, virtual stock exchange simulators can be seen as a viable alternative for various learners to train trading practice without risking loses of real funds. At present, there is a shortage of suitable tools that could allow entry level users to engage in a real market trading after gaining a certain degree of confidence from practicing in a both very practical and safe environment. Topics covered in this paper, include shared experiences, challenges as well as common issues related to the design and development of a StockET simulation tool for training and education. The developed open source simulation tool is a robust and highly usable solution that can be used for multiple purposes.","PeriodicalId":261564,"journal":{"name":"2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130263129","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":"A web-based solution to collect, manage and analyse Auditory Brainstem Response data","authors":"Z. Chaczko, Samuel Kirkpatrick, R. Braun","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671012","url":null,"abstract":"Auditory neuroscience often involves the collection of experiment data from test subjects in the form of non-invasive Auditory Brainstem Responses (ABR). These ABRs are most often used to gauge a subjects hearing threshold. Although rarely; they can be analysed further. Research into ABRs has shown that the presence of brain damage or tumours may be detectable. This can be achieved if large amounts of ABRs are collected and compared. However many laboratories around the world do not keep the data as it is difficult to store and analyse, and sometimes only used for threshold analysis. This results in a huge amount of wasted data and opportunity. The goal of this project was to develop and build a web-based system to collect, manage and analyse ABR data for hearing research. The project was run as an iterative process based on the eXtreme-Programming (XP) methodology. It involved very close contact with the client laboratory. Onsite weekly meetings, demonstrations and experiments were attended to help understand the problem domain. A continuous analysis, design and integration cycle coupled with automated testing and deployment was used throughout the project. Where possible all key aspects of XP development were adhered to and the project managed in this fashion. The final OpenABR system was deployed to a cloud server and is being used by the client laboratory. It has several unique features that no other system of its type possesses. Its dynamic database interface allows scientists the flexibility and reliability they cannot get from standard databases. Future work would focus on expanding the dynamic database interface, integrating more analysis including heuristics and trying to include new data types such as imaging results.","PeriodicalId":261564,"journal":{"name":"2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"935 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132322199","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 flexible assessment of higher education with 360-degree feedback","authors":"María del Carmen Calatrava Moreno","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671041","url":null,"abstract":"Quality management procedures at higher education institutions tend to use industrial quality models to demonstrate effective performance. Such models evaluate resources and results, but fail to address the quality of the educational processes. In this paper we provide an overview of the most common quality management frameworks used in higher education institutions and discuss their application, strengths and shortcomings. Furthermore, we present the conceptual basis of a flexible assessment methodology inspired by the 360-degree feedback, that aims to circumvent the shortcomings of the previous frameworks while providing additional possibilities for result analysis.","PeriodicalId":261564,"journal":{"name":"2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130377047","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":"Performance evaluation of academic-document writing process using software reliability models","authors":"Takashi Doi, T. Okuda, T. Ideguchi, X. Tian","doi":"10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET.2013.6671030","url":null,"abstract":"In Japan, university education has been required to teach university students \"technical writing skill\" as well as \"basic scholastic achievement\" and \"specialized knowledge\" by the progress of globalization. By focuses on making of the manuscript co-authored in the university laboratory, this paper discusses an improvement of technical writing skill. We educate the technical writing skill of the student as we improve the quality of the study by the academic-document writing process. The problems of this process do not advance on scheduled to depend on the skill of the student. In this paper, we will consider the method of document production support, by representing document production as a software reliability growth model. Also, we will make it a realistic model in order to add incomplete correction to document writing process.","PeriodicalId":261564,"journal":{"name":"2013 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"85 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120871616","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}