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Under the surplices of the infrastructure of the internet and because of many types of Web 2.0, a great development has happened in the services offered throughout the nets; this appeared because of plenty of huge save spaces, and high quick speed of the internet. Besides, the variable of great number of programs by which the learner can use the sets without the need of software programs. These programs...
In responding to the rising emphasis placed on the issue of interdisciplinary collaborative learning in professional education, this study aims to explore the relationships among three presences- cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence in Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework in the interdisciplinary project-based learning (IPBL) through the collaborative technology-google applications...
The purpose of this study is to examine university students' viewpoints and attitudes of using mobile applications for their English study. With the development of information and communication technology, various intelligent mobile applications have been used in English language learning and teaching. Smartphone applications have shown great potentials for effective instructional tools due to their...
The emergence and advancement of Information Communication Technologies have transformed facilitation and content delivery in higher education worldwide. The Pacific region is no exception, the most commonly owned used tool amongst the people are the mobile phones. The extensive use of mobile phones in the Pacific is making a niche of its own in the education landscape. This paper explores the readiness...
In January of 2013, a prop maker/puppeteer in US Pacific Northwest collaborated with a carpenter in South Africa to produce the world's first home-created, 3D printed hand. They spread the word of their effort via a video on YouTube and released the designs as open source. In May of 2013, an RIT professor, inspired by the video, created a simple Google Map mashup to link people who needed similar...
Digital competence is the set of knowledge, skills and attitudes that should be acquired by all people in order to ensure critical and creative use of ICT and digital media for the purpose of achieving goals related to work, learning and/or leisure. In order to make learning and teaching effective, all teachers should become familiar with the following digital competence areas: information (e.g. identify,...
Sticky learning refers to learning that is retained by a learner over a long period of time. Explanatory analogies are often used by good teachers to explain complex concepts in a sticky manner. Such analogies explain an unfamiliar target concept by mapping it onto a more familiar source concept. However, the use of analogies in teaching and learning often relies on the imagination of individual teachers...
In recent years the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and digital technologies have changed the way in which teaching is delivered and learning is assessed. In this paper, we propose a methodology for evaluating the following: learning, using the results obtained by students using the SIENA SOCIAL tool; problem solving, using simulators; and finally, continuous evaluation.
This paper describes an educational experience in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) teaching in architecture with a double objective: (1) implement a peer-review exercise to promote critical thinking through the evaluation of the work of fellow students, and (2) explore the capacity of the group to assess the exercise with the support of a rubric. In addition to the outline of the...
There is now a need to become the studies related to the new teaching-learning models, especially models using web tools such as educational support. The classic models over the years have become obsolete, in addition to this, the new generations are subject to a means quite different from the existing environment when they were created. The use of Web X.0 tools to intervene part of the teaching and...
Explanatory analogies help learners in learning complex target concepts by mapping them onto more familiar source concept(s). Typically, multiple analogies are available for target concepts, though a limited number of them need to be recommended to the learner to reduce cognitive load during learning. While recommending explanatory analogies, it is essential that the learner be familiar with the source...
Computer science has a wide variety of applications in a wide variety of fields. Yet computer science education focuses primarily on the theoretician's perspective. We believe that if a variety of perspectives are brought in during learning, learners' intrinsic motivation can be increased, and learning computer science can be made more engaging and personalized. In this work-in-progress paper, we...
The impact of digital technologies in education is a subject of extreme controversy among researchers. This article is within the scope of the characterization of the profile of this new students, intensive user of digital technologies in their various platforms (PCs, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, digital games). Theories have been proposed in order to conceptualize the profile of this "new...
There is a trend in Thai education that many students prefer having an extra class. However, private tutors have to pay a fee in a high price to recommendation agencies in order to find students. For this reason, we have designed and developed a system called “FindMyTutor” on the Android operating system for students and tutors for free of charge. This system includes essential functions for recommendation...
This paper describes cyber crime and violation of copyright. All the copyright laws that ha ve to be obeyed in the real world apply to the virtual world as well. The problem arises when people violate these laws, whether they are aware of it or not. One of the primary causes is th e lack of awareness of the existence of copyright law. A group of 110 examinees, of different sex, age, education level...
The paper discusses the significance of Information and Communication Technologies in the Educational sector. With the emergence of ICT's, there has been a rapid change in the way information is exchanged and how people communicate. There has been lot of innovative tools and ways of gathering and sharing information that would have been seem impossible few years back. Digital literacy has become a...
Widespread use of portable and mobile devices requires drastic changes in the ways the educational and training organizations deliver a courseware. The new paradigm of xLearning (where x= using any device for learning) incorporates courseware and services enabled by emerging Internet technologies in use today. This paper provides insight into the significance of the cloud and connectivity. New ways...
In this work, a set of Information and Technology based tools are presented. These techniques are designed to improve the development of an Integrated Project to be used in the new Bachelor Degree of Mechanical Engineering in Spain. A method of peer-review is proposed which is intended to offer the professor a wider point of view over the student learning process. Furthermore, this method will make...
The Arabic language is used by a significant percentage of the world's population. Furthermore, beyond personal and public communication within the Arab countries, the Arabic language is becoming very important on the Internet. Numerous documents, resources and applications rely on the language to reach the Arabic speaking audiences. Thus the Arabic language is striving to take its place among the...
The main aim of this study is to determine whether respondents are in the presence of the flow experience and evaluate the quality of the answers given by students who participated in an higher education collaborative environment considering also who have used desktops or laptops. For this study, data was collected through a survey and through Google Groups, applying the five dimensions of the flow...
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