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Opinion these days is considered vital to attract probable customers; hence e-commerce websites are facilitating the existing customers to share their experiences about the products they have used. The dawn of e-commerce business has resulted into some firms, which post reviews that are carefully designed to influence the opinion of prospective customers. Review sites provide an open platform for...
Adaptive open learning technology provides adaptive methods of interacting with the technology used in open learning. Since most of online learning systems are computer-based, adapting the keyboard for people with special needs will be of great effectiveness. This article presents an adaptive keyboard technology based on Morse code that will enable users with physical disability or functional limitations...
An engineering graduate needs to master a number of important skills: problem solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, etc. In this paper we describe how a course in computer security, taught in the Computer and Information Engineering programme at Uppsala University, has been developed over a period of three years. The aim is to better develop the engineering competencies of students,...
The use of information devices in educational settings has been increasing over the years. We propose a learning support system that is an expansion of the original Kinect system. The proposed expansion has been implemented using the Kinect motion capture system to recognize “air characters” written by the body actions of learners and is used in this study for practicing Japanese letters expressed...
Corpora have become bigger, better and more numerous, and their interfaces are quicker, simpler and freely available for use on any computer. At the same time, user manuals and teaching materials have been created to support the technology. The technological and pedagogical aspects of corpus-based language learning are equally important, but the previous research has been weighted towards the creation...
Essay standards are generally determined by teachers' subjective opinions. The tacit knowledge requires choosing correct type of communication media and picking a suitable knowledge transfer mechanism. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to reduce the subjectively in feedback to student essays. The quasi-experimental method is used. The result shows that teaching strategies in writing can enhance...
In this paper we report on the operation and results of a pilot trial on the use of Science-Fiction Prototyping (SFP) as a means to motivate students to engage with STEM and language learning courses. In particular we describe two case studies. The first was conducted in Shijiazhuang University, China, and involved approximately 102 students following a course aimed at improving their English language...
This paper proposes the use of digital ink, along with task analysis techniques as an enhanced method to assess individuals. The use of digital ink for evaluation purposes allows access to additional data, beyond the actual written answers. Such information may be used to complement and enrich assessments, as well as allowing automatic data analysis techniques to be used on the stored data. This work...
The connection between philology and technology is no longer considered unusual. The use of technology is being adopted in foreign language learning. In this context, the author wishes to present the good practice of using computers in teaching English as a foreign language. The article thus gives detailed examples of this use while teaching different language skills: reading, writing, speaking and...
Over the past forty years, significant research has been done on story/narrative generation in which the computer is the author. Many existing systems generate stories by filling in a template or copying an analogous story (and changing the time, place, etc.) or by prompting the user to provide a start to the story. Very few systems generate variable stories without these techniques. While it is impossible...
We present GQBE, a system that presents a simple and intuitive mechanism to query large knowledge graphs. Answers to tasks such as “list university professors who have designed some programming languages and also won an award in Computer Science” are best found in knowledge graphs that record entities and their relationships. Real-world knowledge graphs are difficult to use due to their sheer size...
This paper attempts to adapt WebQuest mode into the English writing teaching. By an empirical research into a class of 47 students studying tourism management since the year 2010 in the faculty of tourism and airline service of an institute of higher vocational education in China, this paper finds that WebQuest mode of English writing teaching is generally accepted by students and this mode exerts...
With their wide application in the Web 2.0 era, blogs have drawn increasing attention of educators and teachers in educational circle. More and more teachers use them as a pedagogic tool in instruction. This paper describes how a class blog can be integrated into the study of Comprehensive English Course for English majors in China in an attempt to provide an out-of-class space for language practice...
Knowledge, Skills, Ability (KSA) is a model necessary for the successful performance of any individual in a given job. It is usually used to assess the capabilities of a prospective applicant. In this paper, we report our experience with senior undergraduate students in an IT seminar course to conduct research and write publishable papers. We will also show how KSA has been applied to the course learning...
This paper discusses a story builder shell-a computer system designed to make it easy for parents and carers of young people with autism to write “stories” that might help the people in their care. User centered design was adopted in the development process which involves specialized teachers for autistic children from the local schools at York. The user-based evaluations of the software provide positive...
Based on previous research, there are about 5% of the population in Thailand who have learning disabilities. Therefore assistive technology will be a tool to help improve or change the ability of students with learning disabilities. Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Institute in Thailand suggests that technology to support students with learning disabilities in Thailand is still...
The literature review (LR) is a complex reading-writing task. It is arguably the most challenging and daunting element in project reports for the novice writer. Typically, the undergraduate engineering student first encounters the literature review in the capstone project. This paper shares a reading-writing tool, termed the summary-comparison matrix (SCM). The SCM is a data organizer that helps students...
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Chinese calligraphy curriculum by means of video annotation. We adopted quasi-experimental design to conduct a learning experiment. The subjects are 66 sixth grade students from three classes in Taipei city, and they were divided into three groups including one experiment group accepting video annotation method, one control group accepting...
Computer-driven analytics are becoming increasingly essential to various disciplines. Written language in particular has received a great deal of attention, and many tools now exist to gather information about compositions. This research has resulted in Internet search programs, translators, and computerized narrators. However, analytics have yet to be rigorously applied to the field of academic writing...
Stroke-density based elastic meshing method can not only absorb the deformations of stroke in different handwritings but also avoid the non-uniform width of strokes which caused by using a nonlinear normalization method. In view of existing situation that the stroke density functions do not consider the distribution of strokes in diagonal direction, the stroke-density based vertical-horizontal elastic...
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