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This research paper aimed at analyzing 1) the concept of information literacy in the 2008 Basic Education Core Curriculum of Thailand; 2) the teaching and learning of information literacy in basic education; and 3) the roles of teacher-librarians in the development of information literacy in basic education. Documentary research mainly the 2008 Basic Education Core Curriculum and related research...
Education informatization promotes the co-construction and sharing of educational information resources. While, the co-construction and sharing of high quality educational resources still have many problems, including resource quantity shortage, resources unbalanced construction, and the unsustainable development of resources. Traditional mechanisms for co-construction and sharing didn't describe...
For several years, education has undergone numerous problems, which led researchers to focus on this issue, trying to enable the difficulties encountered during the learning process. Research on the Computer-based learning environments (CBLE) aims to meet challenges as school failure, dropout and the learners groups heterogeneity. Within the context of a remote collaborative activity, the tutor is...
Facebook is a social network very popular among University students for purposes of self-presentation. As social networks support the sharing of ideas, can we facilitate collaborative learning in Facebook? We designed a Facebook app that supports scripting of learners' interaction and the construction of arguments in Facebook. In an empirical study with 128 undergraduate teacher trainees, we investigated...
The final report of the World Commission on the Environment and Development, also known as the Brundtl and Report, defines sustainable development as" development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Subsequent international efforts such as the Rio de Janeiro Conference in 1992, the publication of Agenda 21,...
In recent years, we have observed a rising interest in studying the effects of Web 2.0 technologies on student learning. We learned that human behavior can be influenced by personal and environmental factors as in Bandura's concept of "reciprocal causation." For business statistics students, we implemented online discussions to extend student involvement beyond the walls of the classroom...
The paper discusses the issue of setting up international joint and double-degree programs in Russian universities. Along with widely accepted benefits, such collaborations face important challenges. The paper analyzes the opportunities of collaborative programs for Russian higher professional education and makes recommendations on overcoming some barriers in their implementation.
The importance and benefit of group work is nowadays widely recognized and acknowledged in education. Group work can be supported by online shared workspaces that allow group collaboration. However, the e-assessment of group work remains an issue. Most of the existing strategies rely on intra-group peer assessment to evaluate individual contribution to group work. We propose an alternative by introducing...
The article emphasizes that general cultural competence makes a competitive graduate student who is in demand on the job market and who can successfully realize their potential in various fields. In this article an attempt is made to determine a system of general cultural competencies as part of the formation of engineering competencies. The system of general cultural competence consists of objective,...
The Eye-C program was instituted to enable a collaborative IC design effort among different universities in the Philippines. This paper presents the impact of the program on the member universities' curriculum during and after its implementation. A post-implementation review by member universities is then presented to further highlight the Eye-C program as the first of a series of steps to enhance...
The major aim of this research was to develop new instructional materials and strategies to support engineering students, who are not electrical engineering majors, to learn electric circuit concepts. The study focused on activity Phase #3 of the Work in Progress paper presented at the 41st Frontiers in Education conference. The implementation of this phase included: (1) implementing enhanced guided-notes...
Today's e-learning systems meet the challenge to provide interactive, personalized environments that support self-regulated learning as well as social collaboration and simulation. At the same time assessment procedures have to be adapted to the new learning environments by moving from isolated summative assessments to integrated assessment forms. In this paper an integrated model for assessment (IMA)...
The recent shift to outcomes based accreditation in Canadian engineering undergraduate education has introduced challenges in assessing student learning. The Terenzini-Reason Comprehensive Outcomes model provides the framework for organizing the assessment plan at one university. In particular, the use of eLumen™ outcomes management software to facilitate data collection and analysis of learning outcomes...
This study investigated computer supported collaborative learning in the Web-based learning environment designed using the constructivist Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach. One group of students was exposed to the constructivist PBL Web-based learning whilst another group was exposed to traditional PBL learning approach. A lecture-based teaching was given to another group. Thus, a quasi-experimental...
A distributed collaborative search problem refers to find more than one partners to work together for accomplishing several tasks. So far, various strategies have been developed to solve such problems, whereas it is often required that all entities (e.g., people) act with blindness (e.g., random strategies) or a certain fixed rule (e.g., flooding strategies and degree-based local strategies). However,...
With the widespread diffusion of social network platforms, e-vendors can now use social network information to provide personalized services to their consumers. Nonetheless, the accuracy of social network-based personalization remains uncertain, as compared to that of traditional personalization approaches. Drawing on social influence and similarity attraction theories, this study compares social...
e-Learning offers many opportunities to fulfill universities' general quality principles for learning and teaching as pointed out in their strategy papers. But to strengthen the role of e-learning as an “enabler” for quality in higher education it must be guaranteed that e-learning itself fulfills certain quality requirements.
Collaboration and coordination is the basis for multiagents to establish relations and to form group agent, departmental agent and organizational agent. Collaboration and coordination has many in common with knowledge sharing. They all need the sharing of knowledge or information to accomplish knowledge tasks with collaboration. This article researches into the model of Collaboration and coordination...
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is one of the six main participating institutions in the eMadrid excellence network, as well as its coordinating partner. In this paper, the network is presented together with some of the main research lines carried out by UC3M. The remaining papers in this session present the work carried out by the other five universities in the consortium.
The net generation of students have characteristics which make them well-suited for participating in open source projects including being comfortable with information technologies, using IT as a form of communication, desiring to work in groups, a desire to do social good, and being fascinated by new technologies. The nature of open source projects where communities of developers from around the world...
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