Having students ask and answer questions among themselves can help deepen their understanding of learning content. Tablet devices are advantageous for such application due to their portability and capability to suppor...
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(纸本)9781479999675
Having students ask and answer questions among themselves can help deepen their understanding of learning content. Tablet devices are advantageous for such application due to their portability and capability to support not only text but also images and sound. A few elementary schools in Japan have already started introducing tablet devices into the classroom. This requires making some changes to the environment, including providing an access point for the tablets to communicate with each other. To aid in the preparation for computer supported learning, we propose using an ad hoc network of tablet devices to deploy a delay tolerant network with the aim of achieving high message reachability over intermittent connections. The results of preliminary experiments show that our system can provide a high delivery rate, although its delivery speed is somewhat slow. We also created a practical application using the ad hoc network that students can use to exchange content.
One of the pressing issues in the Indian IT education today is an acute shortage of skilled teachers. While common sense says that we should use IT to do teacher training and student training, it is not clear how that...
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(纸本)9781509025046
One of the pressing issues in the Indian IT education today is an acute shortage of skilled teachers. While common sense says that we should use IT to do teacher training and student training, it is not clear how that may be done and in how many different ways the teachers can be helped. The project, described in this article, studies contextualized solutions for the improvement of IT education in Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in India. This project is being conducted at EnhanceEdu, Centre for Educational Technology and learning Sciences at the international Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-Hyderabad). This project takes an action research (AR) approach in order to design, implement, and study the impact of new support structures for teacher training. These support structures include learning materials, teaching materials, and educational technology tools such as learning by Doing (LbD) online courses, Open Education Resources, automatic assessment and small private online courses. This project is yielding important understanding in organizing teacher training programs, and searching for the best ways to use educational technology as a part of teacher training. The wider future implications include improved teacher training, improved IT education in Indian HEIs, and better equipped graduates from Indian IT universities. This paper describes the current phase and future scope of this project exploration.
Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP) and are now being used in recommendation systems. PLMs learn universal representations from large corpora and can be fine-tuned ...
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Detecting eye diseases like Glaucoma and Diabetic Retinopathy early is crucial to prevent irreversible vision loss;these conditions, characterized by optic nerve damage are recognized as leading causes of blindness. F...
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Rainfall prediction (RP) utilizing machine learning (ML) is an imperative tool for agricultural and economic practices. RP is also considered as a challenging chore in weather forecasting. An accurate RP can assist fa...
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This paper evaluates the impact on participants and members of their households of access to a free computer and internet at home. Graduates of the Computers in Homes (CiH) programme in Porirua were used for this stud...
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(纸本)9781479935918
This paper evaluates the impact on participants and members of their households of access to a free computer and internet at home. Graduates of the Computers in Homes (CiH) programme in Porirua were used for this study. This programme is a Digital Literacy initiative that operates in conjunction with the National Computers in Homes project in New Zealand. This research followed a qualitative approach using an interpretive analysis of semi structured interviews based on a conversational style [1]. The sampling method was one of purposeful selection using an "opportunist" sample [2]. The study participants were drawn from the graduates who successfully completed the CiH programme in Porirua from October 2007 to April 2011. Findings from the study have shown that the active internet users from the programme shared features of confidence, sociability, and showed enthusiasm for internet-use as an additional tool to further enhance the life of the household. learning beyond the CiH graduation was a common theme for these participants and the support they received from family and friends after graduation was a significant factor in improving their digital literacy. Based on the data gathered in this study, there is evidence that internet-use was extending some users social networks in general as well as helping them to be more established in their community.
The study first claims that learning community of practice play a significant role in the fields of virtual or online learning. But there are few evidences or knowledge so far about how school students behave in the v...
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(纸本)9781479999675
The study first claims that learning community of practice play a significant role in the fields of virtual or online learning. But there are few evidences or knowledge so far about how school students behave in the virtual learning environment in terms of learning behaviors and interpersonal interaction. APEC Cyber Academy (ACA) is an international networked learning environment designed specifically for K-12 students. The primary goal of APEC Cyber Academy is to tap in the affordances of ICT to provide learner-centered, collaborative, and internationallearning experiences to K-12 students and teachers around the world. The study incorporates ACA as the empirical study instrument. For collecting empirical data, the study administers an online international collaborative learning program on ACA. The study explores patterns of community of practice, which is a combination of participants' online learning behaviors and interpersonal interaction, in global context. Ultimately, there are two pillars with respect to the goals of the study. One of the goals is to explore the patterns in interpersonal interaction and how people engage in learning community in the virtual learning space in general. The other goal of the study is to investigate and explore differences among Students across countries in particular in terms of learning behaviors based on the aggregated data from the first pillar. The study responds abovementioned goals with empirical data and statistic measures. Results of the study confirm the asserted theoretical framework and reveal that students of various countries perform differently in terms of community of practice in virtual learning space.
Divergent thinking is the process of generating multiple solutions for a given problem, while convergent thinking is evaluating and selecting accurate solution based on constraints, assumptions, and pros and cons anal...
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(纸本)9781509025046
Divergent thinking is the process of generating multiple solutions for a given problem, while convergent thinking is evaluating and selecting accurate solution based on constraints, assumptions, and pros and cons analysis. Divergent and convergent thinking is an important thinking skill needed to generate novel or innovative solutions to a given problem. According to ABET guidelines, it is also one of the important skill to design an engineering solution to a given open problem. The training in developing both divergent and convergent thinking during multiple phases of problem solving can allow students to design a better solution. In this paper, we propose an intervention to develop divergent and convergent thinking skill through open problem solving in data structures course. The research methodology followed is Design Based Research (DBR) and the intervention proposed in this paper is operationalized and evaluated by following first cycle of DBR. A preliminary study was conducted on second year Computer engineering students to study the effects of intervention. The results show significant improvement in learners' thinking in both divergent and convergent thinking during open-problem solving.
With the rapid expansion of computer usage technology, working in social collaborative learning environment has been a common teaching and learning techniques to students. Working collaboratively can trigger deeper di...
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(纸本)9781538608920
With the rapid expansion of computer usage technology, working in social collaborative learning environment has been a common teaching and learning techniques to students. Working collaboratively can trigger deeper discussion which may lead into an argumentative debate and the development of knowledge construction in argumentation. This process is known as argumentative knowledge construction and essentially beneficial in understanding the level of students' thinking skills. However, experiencing the process is important before thinking skills can be related to it. In this study, we combine model of online discussion, argumentative knowledge construction process and 3A interaction model to see the types of argumentative knowledge construction process occur in the students' discussion in a social collaborative learning environment. Data are collected from Facebook group discussion and analyzed using content analysis technique. It is hoped that this model can illustrate a pathway to instructor on how to facilitate students' argumentative knowledge construction process especially in social collaborative learning environment and indirectly lead students' thinking skills towards the highest degree.
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