This study demonstrates that nearly one-half of marketing students do not embrace web-based instructional (WBI) tools for learning in traditional classrooms, and that heavy and light users differ on important characte...
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This study demonstrates that nearly one-half of marketing students do not embrace web-based instructional (WBI) tools for learning in traditional classrooms, and that heavy and light users differ on important characteristics. Heavy users expressed higher satisfaction with classes using WBI tools, and rated both their competency and perceived learning higher than did light users. Students at all usage levels ranked “e-mail to instructor,” “class readings on the web,” and “tests online” as highly beneficial but used them less than once a month: an opportunity gap for professors. This paper also offers a category-based classification of WBI tools for future research.
21st century classrooms call for teachers to integrate technology into their instructional practices. This requires the ability and willingness to combine technological, pedagogical and content knowledge. The main pur...
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21st century classrooms call for teachers to integrate technology into their instructional practices. This requires the ability and willingness to combine technological, pedagogical and content knowledge. The main purpose of this study is to investigate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pre-service teachers' perceptions of their self-efficacy regarding web Pedagogical Content Knowledge (W-PCK) and attitudes towards web-based instruction. Turkish adapted version of W-PCK scale (Horzum, 2011) originally developed by Lee and Tsai (2010) was used as the data collection instrument. The survey was administered to 120 EFL pre-service teachers studying at a Turkish state university. The results showed that pre-service EFL teachers attained high scores on the web-general knowledge and web Pedagogical Knowledge subscales while lower scores were measured in web Communicative and web Pedagogical Content Knowledge sub-scales. The participants' level of general self-efficacy regarding W-PCK was positively correlated with their attitudes towards web-based instruction. No significant gender or year level differences were observed. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
There is an overall consensus on the importance of laboratory work that exposes the students to broader and more practical issues of industrial control systems, such as their implementation by distributed computer sys...
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There is an overall consensus on the importance of laboratory work that exposes the students to broader and more practical issues of industrial control systems, such as their implementation by distributed computer systems (DCSs) and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). However, setting up appropriate laboratory facilities to serve this purpose is expensive. For this reason, an interactive learning environment has been developed around the concept of the electronic book. The architecture of the environment allows the integration of hypertext with simulators of DCS, PLC, and process operation. The simulators are specially designed to serve an application-oriented, teaching approach, which involves the student in the simulation setup and the running of the application. They are able to simulate not only the execution of the software that realizes the regulatory control algorithms but also the start-up and emergency control strategies of an industrial process, the manual, automatic, and cascade modes of controller operation, and the man-machine interface of a DCS- or PLC-based control system;The applications on which the teaching of DCS and PLC-based control system implementation is based are the interactive advanced control of a distillation column and the pH control of a reactor solution.
The option of obtaining education over networks is quickly becoming a reality for all those who have access to the Internet and the World Wide web (WWW). However, at present, network-based education (NBE) over the WWW...
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The option of obtaining education over networks is quickly becoming a reality for all those who have access to the Internet and the World Wide web (WWW). However, at present, network-based education (NBE) over the WWW and the Internet in general faces a number of pitfalls. The problems range from inadequate end-user quality of service (QoS), to inadequate materials, to shortcomings in learning paradigms, and to missing or inappropriate student assessment and feedback mechanisms. In this paper, we discuss some major issues that, although mostly solved for NBE, still face web-based education (WBE). These include the required workflow-oriented technological and quality of service support. In discussing the issues, we use examples from a wide-area NBE/WBE system called NovaNET and a WEE system called web Lecture System (WLS). We recommend that WEE system developers construct operational user (workflow) profiles before building their content and interfaces. Our experience is that, especially for synchronous WEE systems, user-level round-trip keystroke delays should not exceed about 250 ms and the overall availability of the system (including network-related service failures) should be at least 0.95. We also suggest that a successful WEE system will have a sound auto-adaptive knowledge assessment component, a "virtual" laboratory capability, and a set of strong collaborative functions. Until WEE systems match teacher/instructor and student workflows both technologically (as an appliance) and pedagogically, WEE, except in its most primitive form, will not be an effective educational tool.
The efficacy of individual components of an online course on positive course outcome was examined via stepwise multiple regression analysis. Outcome was measured as the student's total score on all exams given dur...
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The efficacy of individual components of an online course on positive course outcome was examined via stepwise multiple regression analysis. Outcome was measured as the student's total score on all exams given during the course. The predictors were page hits, discussion posts, and discussion reads. The vast majority of the variance of outcome was accounted for by total page hits. Participation in discussion had little to no effect on performance as measured by outcome on exams. The results were double cross-validated with a sample chosen from another class. There was no shrinkage, indicating that the equations derived from the two samples were very reliable. (C) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
In this paper, a novel environment is described that provides 24-h-a-day access to a web-based lab for the remote control of different didactic setups. The control of an inverted pendulum is used to demonstrate the us...
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In this paper, a novel environment is described that provides 24-h-a-day access to a web-based lab for the remote control of different didactic setups. The control of an inverted pendulum is used to demonstrate the use of such an environment. The main attributes of this web-based lab are: 1) the on-line interactivity with the didactic setup, 2) the possibility of defining different experiments by using parameter files, and 3) the open architecture of the environment which allows easy development of new experiments with other didactic setups. The structure of this web-based lab not only provides students with quantitative information feedback but also allows visual supervision. Now, a remote-controlled camera plays an important role within a remote experimentation environment with mobile parts. Students can handle the camera on-line, just as they can control the didactic setup over the Internet.
web-based instruction shows great promise toward enriching the student learning experience. One particular area of interest is providing tutorial material and practice problems online so that classroom lecture time ca...
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web-based instruction shows great promise toward enriching the student learning experience. One particular area of interest is providing tutorial material and practice problems online so that classroom lecture time can be better utilized., However, the time and cost to develop full tutoring systems can be prohibitive. The project presented in this paper shows that low-cost online modules can be developed to complement existing course delivery methods. The key to the design is limiting the type of tutoring and focusing on instructional challenges involving the repetition of concepts that are introduced in the course lectures. For introductory programming courses, these challenges primarily involve the difficulties inherent in learning the syntax of a particular programming language and gaining sufficient familiarity with programming concepts, such as loops, conditional statements, and simple algorithms. The set of online modules was developed to reduce the need for repetition of these concepts during lectures. Thus, students benefit as they can gain knowledge and comprehension of these concepts at their own pace as they actively engage the tutorials and self-check exercises. The modules were used as an enhancement for an introductory programming course taught in C++ to first-year university students, some of whom had little or no programming experience. Feedback from students and instructors shows that the modules were useful and aided student learning.
The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, is deploying a flexible learning scheme for selected pilot courses in engineering education. In such a scheme, traditional lectures and writt...
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The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, is deploying a flexible learning scheme for selected pilot courses in engineering education. In such a scheme, traditional lectures and written exercises are combined with additional web-based learning resources. The main objective of this initiative is to sustain the evolution from traditional teaching to active learning and to better integrate the increasing number of educational resources available online. In engineering education, a key activity to sustain the learning process is hands-on experimentation carried out using either simulation tools or real equipment. This paper describes how a collaborative web-based experimentation environment has been introduced at the EPFL for providing more flexibility to students performing laboratory experiments in automatic control, biomechanics, and fluid mechanics. It particularly describes the eJournal, a web service integrated in the proposed learning environment that enables the collection and sharing of preparatory notes and experimental results with both peers and teaching assistants.
Microwave engineering often involves extensive circuit analysis and design, typically requiring precise calculations. To expedite the handling of complicated design calculations, a web-based design tool named Microwav...
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Microwave engineering often involves extensive circuit analysis and design, typically requiring precise calculations. To expedite the handling of complicated design calculations, a web-based design tool named Microwave Engineering Solutions (MES) was developed as a graduate student project in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at North Dakota State University (NDSU), Fargo, and is described in this paper. JavaScript, PHP, and Perl were used to develop MES, which consists of three design tools: 1) FilTech-a design tool for analog filters, 2) LMatch-a design tool for impedance matching, and 3) MicroLines-a design tool for striplines and microwave network analysis. MES is used by Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) students studying various aspects of electromagnetics and is freely available on the web via the link at http://***/similar to ronelson/MESLink/***.
dThis study investigated college students' personal choices for taking web-based courses and whether their self-efficacy for the course content and technological components would predict their performance in on-li...
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dThis study investigated college students' personal choices for taking web-based courses and whether their self-efficacy for the course content and technological components would predict their performance in on-line sections of a class. Students (n = 122) who enrolled because they enjoyed web-based learning environments or were curious about web courses had higher self-efficacy and better class performance than students who enrolled solely because of course availability. Data are also presented regarding the relationships between self-efficacy, on-line course activity, and the formation of cyber-learning communities. These results are discussed with regard to their implications for educational research and applications for web-based instruction. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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