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When teaching software engineering courses it is highly important to have good text books that are well-founded, up-to-date, and easily accessible to students. However, currently available text books on the market are either very broad or highly specialized, making it hard to select appropriate books for specific software engineering courses. Moreover, due to the rapidly changing subject of software...
A learning environment based on the integration of the LMS and MediaWiki components is suggested to support knowledge sharing among generations of master course students. A case study demonstrates significant raise of motivation and learning efficiency of students with sufficient professional experience as well as communication skills enhancement for all students.
E-learning technologies such as Web-CT, Blackboard, Moodle and Sakai are the common learning management systems used in teaching these days. Using technology to support group work is a more recent practice than using it for teaching material delivery. Research in preparing students to use technology for online group work especially in distance education is limited. This research is a case study that...
This paper examines the expansion of the Learning Management System (LMS) beyond the Academic Institutions' boundaries. This includes taking advantage of the rapid development of Web 2.0 technologies for advancement of e-leaning in engineering education. The exponential expansion of different internet communication methodologies and its utilisation to facilitate the teaching and learning processes...
Tens of thousands of universities are today educating students with different methods for a vast variety of majors. This paper aims to introduce Knowledge Tree (KT) as an integrated virtual structure to be used in the educational systems. A collaborative structure is utilized to define a universal curriculum for various university majors worldwide to maximize e-learning capabilities. Then, a collaborative...
The purpose of this study was to utilize Web Quests for facilitating students' listening achievement and collaborative work in a musical listening class in Taiwan. A mixed-methods study using both quantitative and qualitative approaches were be adopted. First of all, one-group posttest-only design was be developed in this study for understanding if the approach of Web Quests could assist students'...
With the introduction of web technology into foreign language teaching, more and more domestic researches have focused on the teaching method in a web environment. Based on theories of collaborative learning and the application of computer technology, this paper attempts to probe the new roles of teachers in collaborative learning of college English in a web environment. How the teacher organizes...
This paper discusses the adoption of bottom- up social software tools in formal learning environments. This is believed to enhance the learning experience of today's young generation characterized by being technology savvy and keen on social networking. As a first step towards this objective, the 3A interaction model that aims at aiding the design of personal and collaborative learning platforms is...
In this essay, we present an experience held in a subject of Civil Engineering. The activity consists of the students integrating a virtual forum, which makes possible an exchange of ideas between them and the integration of concepts through problematic raised situations. In this way, we aim to perform a collaborative work as well as to develop critical thinking, and at the same time we face the students...
Adaptive Educational Hypermedia systems (AEH) enhance learning by adaptation and personalisation. As a consequence, wide ranging knowledge and learning content are needed. Problems then emerge in the provision of suitable authoring tools to carry out the authoring process which is complex and time consuming. Based on the fact that former research studies on authoring have identified drawbacks in collaboration,...
Sharing and collaboration, keywords in current way of using the Web, are strongly present in the e-learning field, but usually not in educational content creation. There is a need that students participate even in lectures design, either by commenting, editing them or sharing notes with each other. This paper describes WikiPres - a system based on wiki engine that enables participants to create, annotate...
We have developed and deployed T-Buddy system which is a social networking platform that significantly enhances the students' comprehension of the class material by promoting collaborative learning outside the classroom setting. T-Buddy system includes an online forum for posting comments on specific research topics posted by the students as well as a socializing medium that allows students to add...
E-learning 2.0 is a term refers to the second generation of e-learning, which uses the technologies of the social Web, such as collaborative authoring and social annotation, in order to enhance e-learning environments. In this paper, we report the utilization of social Web techniques for e-learning at the University of Warwick, UK, in general; then we present MOT 2.0, an E-learning 2.0 adaptive authoring...
Collaborative learning concept is popular in autonomous learning time. But the effective measures are to be probed. Some scholars have studied it from their teaching experiences. Thus they have found some effective measures for students. In the present time, some factors have to be considered because of different students in different environment. The researcher has studied the concept of collaborative...
The Cisco networking academy proves to be a viable project in the area of education of networking professionals. All educational materials are presented in English and students are required to study in English, too. Our experience shows it is valuable for the students to have some localized curriculum handy. An official translation is extremely expensive. On the other hand, many local academies provide...
Based on Web resource, this paper used the action and evaluation methods to research teaching reform on Web-based self-directed of tourism economics in e-learning environment. The organizing and designing of teaching adopted Web-enhanced teaching mode. The experiments of our research not only supported its action plan, but also testified the feasibility, as well as collected data by class observation,...
A learning portal is a concept designed to help the self-studying process, in which the problem-based learning is emphasized. The portal collects information from many sources and arranges the content in a way that encourages self-studying. In this research, we developed a Web learning portal, where users can access the contents from anywhere at any time. The usage and the development of a video conference...
Based on the theory of educational psychology about knowledge in our mind how to be formatted and developed, the author maintains that the psychological regularities should be complied with during people learning new knowledge by means of concept map which is the instrument of primary cognition. That is, appropriate mode of WebCL should be selected in different learning environments and conditions...
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