{"title":"Emerging Educational Technologies for Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Current Perspectives and Future Directions","authors":"Bo Zhang, Nigel Robb, L. Goodman","doi":"10.1145/3173519.3173520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3173519.3173520","url":null,"abstract":"Emerging technologies, such as virtual worlds, virtual reality, and augmented reality, may have the potential to facilitate cross-cultural collaboration between students from schools and universities in different countries and cultures. Due to the increase in internationalization in education, the development and implementation of such technologies is now required. However, as yet, the particular challenges and future opportunities associated with the use of such technologies has not been fully investigated. We have conducted interviews with teachers in Ireland and China, to establish their perspectives on the use of of emerging technologies, their current practice, and their future needs and hopes. We found that both teachers had experience with the use of emerging technologies, but only the teacher in China was based in a school which implemented such technologies formally, and this was only in recent years. Novelty was identified as a major reason why students would be expected to embrace emerging technologies in the future. The teacher in China also pointed out potential challenges relating to the availability of high-speed internet in parts of China. We suggest that future research should investigate the perspectives of teachers in Ireland, China, and other countries, on the use of emerging technologies for cross-cultural collaboration, in order to develop a more detailed understanding of the specific needs and challenges such international digital collaboration will bring about.","PeriodicalId":313480,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125586098","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}
Zhixiong Yue, Yinghao Jiang, Dong Pan, Zongwei Luo
{"title":"An End-to-end Tag-based Recommendation System for Verbal Reasoning Questions","authors":"Zhixiong Yue, Yinghao Jiang, Dong Pan, Zongwei Luo","doi":"10.1145/3173519.3173530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3173519.3173530","url":null,"abstract":"Developing a verbal reasoning question recommendation system is an ideal way to help the GRE® test takers improve their verbal reasoning abilities by practicing questions more efficiently. As there are a great number of verbal reasoning practice questions and limited practice time for test takers, it is impossible to practice all kinds of questions at the same time. Personalized referral systems should be built based on the characteristics of specific respondents, and forming professional recommendation systems for different questions. Based on the examinee's current practicing accuracy and fallible difficulties, we propose an End-to-end Tag-based Recommendation System (ETRS) for task takers to optimize practice effect. Code of this paper can be found on https://github.com/Oliver-Q/ETRS-for-Verbal-Reasoning-Questions.","PeriodicalId":313480,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131589572","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":"Cellular Automata DEVS: A Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization Environment","authors":"Chao Zhang, H. Sarjoughian","doi":"10.1145/3173519.3173534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3173519.3173534","url":null,"abstract":"Cellular Automata (CA) models are represented as a collection of independent dynamical cells having some specific spatial relationship to each other. These tessellation automata can have simple to complex behaviors due to both individual cell behaviors as well as their interactions. Code debugging, supported by advanced software development tools, is needed for developing CAs owing their complex dynamics to cells that have non-trivial event handling and timing. As such, it is useful to debug models during simulation through step-by-step examination of any number of cells using rich control and visualization means. In this paper, we show the CA-DEVS framework where cell and Cellular Automata models are derived from atomic and coupled Parallel DEVS models. This framework uniquely supports visualizations using run-time generation of input, output, and state linear and superdense time trajectories as well as run-time spatial animation with playback. Multimodal visualization capabilities allow examining behavior of any number of cells independent of any other cell. We describe some key parts of the architectural design of the CA-DEVS and highlight some ongoing and future research.","PeriodicalId":313480,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126234283","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}
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