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In the context of globalization and the emergent “knowledge society,” the concept of building a learning society has been proposed in China and lifelong learning has been adopted as a common educational organizing principle for the 21st century. Adult education, as one form of lifelong learning, is under rapid development. Adult learners are very different from school students in learning styles due...
The purpose of this work is to present empirical data from a case study on the cognitive processes in the context of a web-based argumentation activity in a computer science course. Students used the iArgue web tool for argumentation and their interactions were structured by a collaboration script. The micro script supported argumentation and faded out while prompts reminded peers to check the validity...
In this work, we present a teachable moment in the context of a physical computing and prototyping course held at our university. We tried to investigate how different brainstorming methods affected the ideation phase of a project. To do this, we conducted an experiment in which we separated teams and gave them three different ideation methods: Post-Its®, creative thinking (mind mapping) and a physical...
Performance analysis is a common issue in the musical field, especially for instrument teachers and musicologists. That is why we present in this paper an ontology (technical aspect) and a descriptive model (pragmatic aspect) to allow music teachers and students to create semantic annotation on musical performances. As such, we start by studying recorded piano lessons and analyze the required concepts...
The paper is directed by constructivism theory, combined by the practical characteristic of programmer courses, brings forward an “incomplete” assistant teaching system, and expatiates on the ideology, model and overall design of this system. The practice proves that the “incomplete” assistant teaching system based on the constructivism is a new approach to improve teaching quality.
While social mobile sites such as Twitter and Facebook have opened new possibilities for human interaction, these applications have barely begun to tap the wellspring of potential for collaborative learning with social media. Although many applications encourage people to be persistently aware of what friends and acquaintances do or care about, rarely do they foster a persistent sense of “doing” or...
The use of cases in teacher education is not a new phenomenon, with early records of case methods dating from the beginning of the last century. However, the rapid expansion of information and computer technologies over the past decade has influenced case construction and use in profound ways. Written cases are now being integrated with video and other textual forms to create sophisticated hypermedia...
We build a Student-Partner mobile English learning system. We go deep into the campus to do English learning by portable of the mobile. The system offer the GPS function, campus map, camera, messaging, tracking and recording. Students can post the message or add the multimedia which he explore to the device. In the mobile, user can off-line to post the message. In addition, we design two activities,...
An adaptive ecology m-learning framework applied for national parks is proposed in this paper. The traditional ecology guiding service uses static web page or fixed placard to prompt and provide ecology information to learners. It can not provide adaptive learning anytime and anywhere. Learners can not obtain real-time ecology guiding information and have a good adaptive learning based on learners'...
With the rapid development of science and technology, the integration of modern information technology and English curriculum in China universities has been an inevitable trend, which will have great effects and significance on the process of educational technology as well as foreign language teaching reform. This paper makes further exploration of main definitions, significance, characteristics as...
Learning objects (LO) and learning object repositories are becoming widespread in various forms on the Internet. This paper explores the terminology and definitions of learning objects and the use of metadata providing a comparison of the different LO terminology and definitions that are in use. In particular the paper categorizes definitions: LOs that could be anything; LOs that could be anything...
There is an increasingly number of worldwide available content on the Web, which could be reused to support learning processes. However, Web content is getting more and more structured as multimedia files and reusing it implies on using the whole file, which limits its applicability and the return on investment of its development. So, an interesting approach is the segmentation of content, structuring...
The blended learning can be defined as integration between the traditional training and E-learning. In a context where the student is at the centre of the training process, the tools used to bring the knowledge and professional competence must be most appropriate for every kind of learning path. The mere summation of both traditional and up-to-date approaches however is not sufficient to face with...
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