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Online education is evolving at a fast pace thanks to novel technology-mediated learning environments: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), gamified learning, intelligent tutoring systems, citizen-science communities, informal learning groups are blossoming everywhere as novel opportunities for teachers and learners. However, the educational effectiveness of these solutions has to be proved and technological...
Assessment feedback, which is an important factor in student learning development, has been a source of dissatisfaction for many years. The technology used in universities such as Gradebook does not allow the tracking of student engagement with their feedback. In general, engagement is mainly reported via observation or students' self-report. This paper presents results from using a prototype application...
Team-based learning (TBL) is a form of student-centered active learning which will help to develop various professional skills, problem solving, interpersonal team skills, and self-directed independent learning. The success of TBL approach depends on its design comprising Team formation, Project identification and distribution, monitoring the progress, maintaining open discussion in every phase and...
Health apps focused on inciting behavior change are becoming increasingly popular. Nevertheless, many lack underlying evidence base, scientific credibility and have limited clinical effectiveness. It is therefore important that apps are well-informed, scientifically credible, peer reviewed and evidence based. This paper presents the use of the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) to assess the quality of...
With the development of concept and practice, which includes strategy of "smart of the earth", smart of city and smart public services, human society going into a smart times. In the severe employment situation, the pressure of employment has been intensified on university students, Chinese universities should also follow the development of the times, thinking about the new ways and ideas...
Among the Organized crime, Human trafficking hold third place where as the first and second or drug and weapon trade across the globe. Human trafficking is a shame on Humanity. As per the report of Human Rights commission of India over 40,000 children are reported missing every year of which 11000 are untraced [1][2]. Another statics report saying 80% of human trafficking is done for sexual exploitation...
The diagnosis and management of Diabetes is often a complicated process. The complications especially increases during the month of Ramadan wherein Muslim patients are obliged to observe fasting. Recent mobile health technologies are increasingly used in improving the self-management of chronic diseases such as diabetes and several studies have proven its efficiency. Further, research has shown that...
The educational context is experiencing in the last years a decisive shift towards novel pedagogical trends aimed at improving both learning quality and teaching methodologies. Online scientific experimentations represent one of these new paths. Indeed, they promise to combine the educational benefits from "learning-by-doing" approaches, which foster a deeper understanding in theoretical...
The need to shift from traditional teaching perspective to novel learning paradigms, mobile computing and experiential coursework is nowadays so relevant that both educators, curriculum designers and institutions must cope with these innovations, by progressively absorbing them into their programs. In such a scenario, we firmly believe that the actual pervasivity of mobile devices amongst learners...
Offering upper-level courses for the population that lives in remote areas, like the Amazon, is a huge challenge due to the difficulties of access and the low development level. To address this challenge, the Center for Distance Education (CDE) in Federal University of Amazonas, implemented an educational project that provides distance courses in graduate and undergraduate degree in these places using...
This research shows the development and implementation of a profiling and exchange system in mobile devices applied to a SOA architecture in a Telehealth center in Colombia. The service is directly targeted at profiling the user with a continuous monitoring of variables to generate health monitoring alarms: amount of kilocalories expend and consumed, heart activity, diets, education, among others...
Feedback has long been a challenge for both staff and students. Despite all the innovative methods and practices, feedback continues to be a significant cause of student dissatisfaction. Most studies involving students' access to feedback have relied on what students said they did using surveys, interviews and focus groups. This paper shows how one of MyFeedBack's features was used to investigate...
Healthcare plays a significant role within a Smart city environment. Technology provides unprecedented opportunities to improve the delivery, effectiveness and quality of care an individual receives. This work focuses on the personalisation of Public healthcare services for services users, via the provision of mHealth applications. This paper describes the design considerations for developing a cloud-based...
The use of mobile technologies in education has increased the amount of tools that can be used for pedagogical purposes. However, the introduction of these technologies comes with challenges that require from attention. The first of them is concerning with the limitations that these devices have in features when compared with laptop and desktop computers, naming the screen size, performance and memory...
The M-learning has become a new learning mode after E-Learning. The appearance of the emerging strategic industry—Internet of Things(IOT) will undoubtedly bring new opportunities to the M-learning mode. This paper starts from the functions of IOT and the current situation of M-learning, discusses the M-learning mode which is under Internet of Things and purpose a IOT-ML mode introducing PP (pull and...
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