This paper presents pedagogical experiments conducted using MessageGrid, a web-based system that enables instructors to interact electronically with their students, and Tablet PCs. These combined technologies make act...
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(纸本)9781424419692
This paper presents pedagogical experiments conducted using MessageGrid, a web-based system that enables instructors to interact electronically with their students, and Tablet PCs. These combined technologies make active learning a reality in the classroom while maintaining the necessary pace of the course. All students, including those who are reluctant to participate in class, are able to share their work and receive feedback from the instructor. The goal of this research is to measurably improve the success of at-risk students in a first-year engineering course, which can ultimately improve retention. We examine the outcomes of using MessageGrid to allow students to "go public" with their work, demonstrating their mastery of course material. Because this is easily implemented using a Tablet PC, and can be done anonymously through the use of MessageGrid, students overcome their fears associated with making this "commitment." Grades on assignments related to topics taught with and without Tablet PCs are compared, as well as student responses to questions related to how they understand course materials.
web-based instruction has become an increasingly important aspect of higher education. It represents new possibilities for teachers to structure, represent, adapt and integrate various learning content and materials t...
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(纸本)9781906638221
web-based instruction has become an increasingly important aspect of higher education. It represents new possibilities for teachers to structure, represent, adapt and integrate various learning content and materials to be accessed and learned by their students. However, there still remains a huge area of research regarding individuals' differences in terms of their preferences on web-based technological environment, The study presented in this article aims at investigating how students' characteristics affect their learning preferences on the visual elements that are provided by web-based instructions. For this study, visual elements are those visual screen design elements which provide linear and non-linear instruction, orientation and navigation information in web-based instructional programs. 58 students volunteered to take part in the study. They were undergraduates from Brunel University. They had to learn a programming topic known as Extensible Hypertext Mark-up Language (XHTML) using a web-based instructional program with visual elements. A Cognitive Style Analysis (CSA) test was performed to classify students as either Field Dependent (FD) or Field Independent (FI) or Field Mixed (FM). Level of domain knowledge of the subject content for each student was also recorded, A semi-structured interview was performed at the end of the experiment to provide evidence for the students' preferences on the given web-based instructional program. The findings suggest that the students' preferred visual elements available for linear or non linear instruction depends on their personal characteristics such as cognitive styles and domain knowledge of the content. The findings also revealed that low domain knowledge of the subject content and FD students depended a lot on some of the visual elements available for orientation and navigation information in the tutorial. The implications of these results are further discussed in this paper. This measure would be worthy of future
ABET Engineering Criteria (EC) 2000 specify that engineering colleges and universities must ensure all students understand their professional and ethical responsibilities upon graduation. This paper will discuss the s...
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(纸本)0780383907
ABET Engineering Criteria (EC) 2000 specify that engineering colleges and universities must ensure all students understand their professional and ethical responsibilities upon graduation. This paper will discuss the strategies used in developing and teaching an online engineering ethics class developed in part to meet this requirement. web-based instruction can provide the opportunity to bridge both distance and cultural gaps, which makes it uniquely suited to connect engineering ethics communities both in the United States as well as globally. In addition, the effectiveness of this web-based approach in teaching ethics will be discussed as well as how this approach can be extended to include international student representation.
Ethical tasks faced by researchers in science and engineering as they engage in research include recognition of moral problems in their practice, finding solutions to those moral problems, judging moral actions and en...
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Ethical tasks faced by researchers in science and engineering as they engage in research include recognition of moral problems in their practice, finding solutions to those moral problems, judging moral actions and engaging in preventive ethics. Given these issues, appropriate pedagogical objectives for research ethics education include (1) teaching researchers to recognize moral issues in their research, (2) teaching researchers to solve practical moral problems in their research from the perspective of the moral agent, (3) teaching researchers how to make moral judgments about actions, and (4) learning to engage in preventive ethics. If web-based research ethics education is intended to be adequate and sufficient for research ethics education, then it must meet those objectives. However there are reasons to be skeptical that it can.
Personalization has been widely used in web-based instruction (WBI). To deliver effective personalization, there is a need to understand different preferences of each student. Cognitive style has been identified as on...
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Personalization has been widely used in web-based instruction (WBI). To deliver effective personalization, there is a need to understand different preferences of each student. Cognitive style has been identified as one of the most pertinent factors that affect students' learning preferences. Therefore, it is essential to investigate how learners with different cognitive styles interact with WBI programs. This paper presents an empirical study, which examines the effects of cognitive styles on students' learning patterns and the effects of learning patterns on their learning performances. Riding's cognitive style analysis was used to identify the students' cognitive styles. Data mining, especially a clustering technique, was used to analyze the results. It was found that field independent students frequently used an alphabetical index whereas field dependent students often chose a hierarchical map. Such learning patterns also have great effects on their performance, especially for field dependent students.
This paper presents the findings of a national study that examined the perceptions of faculty with web-based teaching experience concerning the effectiveness of web-based instruction as compared to face-to-face instru...
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Lifelong learning (LLL) has gained an important place in the agendas of national and international organizations and the education policies of countries with globalization and digitalization in education. Even though ...
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Lifelong learning (LLL) has gained an important place in the agendas of national and international organizations and the education policies of countries with globalization and digitalization in education. Even though there is a large body of research regarding lifelong learning tendency, web pedagogical content knowledge, attitude towards web-based instruction, and usage of information searching-commitment strategies in the web environment of teachers and prospective teachers, there is not a study on the correlation between them and their effect on lifelong learning tendency. This study aims to analyze the effect of web pedagogical content knowledge, attitude towards web-based instruction, and usage of information searching-commitment strategies in a web environment on lifelong learning tendency and their explaining ratio. For this aim, eight hypotheses were developed and four scales were used to collect data: web pedagogical content knowledge, attitude towards web-based instruction, usage of information searching-commitment strategies in a web environment, and lifelong learning tendency. 346 prospective teachers participated in the research. A relational descriptive model was used and exploratory factor analyses of scales were done via SPSS 24.0 software. For the confirmatory factor analyses of scales and the structural equation modeling, AMOS 24.0 software was put to use. The most remarkable finding is that web pedagogical content knowledge, attitude towards web-based instruction, and usage of information searching-commitment strategies in a web environment are important predictors of prospective teachers' lifelong learning tendencies.
Research examining learner control of adult web-based instruction has been inconsistent, showing both positive and negative effects on learning outcomes. In addition, the specific implementation decisions made across ...
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Research examining learner control of adult web-based instruction has been inconsistent, showing both positive and negative effects on learning outcomes. In addition, the specific implementation decisions made across studies that are labeled "learner control" often differ dramatically. The purpose of the present study was to provide a theoretical framework by which to understand objective learner control and to empirically test it. In this study, a nine-dimensional hierarchical framework of objective learner control was developed from an extensive literature review. This framework includes instructional control (skip, supplement, sequence, pace, practice, and guidance control), style control (i.e., control of aesthetic training characteristics), and scheduling control (time and location control). Hypothesized effects were tested meta-analytically. Findings suggested that (1) types of learner control are almost always confounded in experimental learner control research;(2) objective learner control is not a multidimensional construct but instead of a set of related design choices;(3) across types, learner control is generally effective in skill training but varies greatly in knowledge training and in terms of reactions;and (4) sequence control is the only type that generally does not harm either learning or reactions across contexts. Given the significant confounding present in most of the literature, learner control researchers are recommended to isolate specific control features. Practitioners should identify specific targeted outcomes and choose features according to those goals. This is the first study to propose and test a theoretically derived framework of objective learner control, providing a roadmap for research and state-of-the-art practice.
This article looks at learning styles of library and information science (LIS) students. Felder and Solomon's “Index of Learning Styles” was administered to 108 LIS students between 2001 and 2002. These results ...
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The wide application of Information and Communication Technologies offers great opportunities for the innovation of education, especially in universities. There are varieties of resources on the Internet, which teache...
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(纸本)9783037858646
The wide application of Information and Communication Technologies offers great opportunities for the innovation of education, especially in universities. There are varieties of resources on the Internet, which teachers can use for their teaching, assimilating into the curriculum and into teaching methods. based on constructivism learning theory, this paper centers on the advantages of practicing the web-based instruction by comparison to the traditional one. The "media centers", a web-based learning enviroment, has been set up for students to learn as a platform for their after-class review, for their individulized instruction, for their collaborative learning and for exchanging educational resources among teachers. The notes of the Internet-assisting instruction is also discussed to emphasize that the new instruction is a useful complement not replacement to conventional teaching. So it is pointed out that the Internet should become a necessary supplementary for teaching and learning in university as the input resources and the output tools.
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