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Plagiarism is a serious problem identified amongst research community. Plagiarism has been around for centuries, but with the use of Internet and easy access to material in electronic format has made it easier to plagiarize materials of others. On the other hand plagiarism detection is now as easy as plagiarizing a document. There are a number of anti-plagiarism software available either freely or...
The author played a role of the leader in a research project by the National Diet Library of Japan in 2012/2013, whose title is "Issues and Perspectives on Reference Services in Libraries of Japan." In that paper, he discussed the characteristics and "emerging trends" of reference services in the current context of public, academic, special, and national libraries, using the results...
Today, search engines play a vital role in accessing the online content. However, the data in the webpages are not clearly perceived by search engines. As a result, it provides a lot of irrelevant data with little desired information. In addition, it takes a lot of time in searching the appropriate result. By studying the online educational needs of Indian school children, we aim to retrieve appropriate...
Technology has created a number of ethical dilemmas that institutions at all educational levels must face, since the extended use of ICT and mobile devices in education has made easier the copy of other people's work. This study aims to explore teachers' views on plagiarism and cheating. Results are presented from a sample of 46 Greek secondary education teachers and show that more than half of the...
The proliferation of Internet and technology triggered exponential growth in adoption of e-learning by many organizations worldwide. E-learning offers many benefits including ease of access, availability, re-usability and rich learning resources. With advances is technology, learning methods and objects have evolved from conventional text based content to multimedia and interactive knowledge objects...
Plagiarism and cheating are critical issues that jeopardize quality assurance in higher education. When it comes to e-learning and m-learning, fair use of information becomes even more crucial. This case study is an attempt to imprint academics' knowledge, beliefs and strategies regarding plagiarism and cheating. It was found that most of academics were well informed but they did not spend time in...
Motivating students to learn mathematical concepts and assessing their performance and understanding in an adequate and timely manner are constant concerns for instructors of mathematics. Web-based systems provide an important, flexible instructional tool that can be used for any kind of learning at any time. Our goal here is to introduce and discuss two of the main web-based homework systems available...
African educational systems in general and Nigerian in particular rely extensively on the traditional face-to-face pedagogical approach to information dissemination with its attendant drawbacks. These include (but are not limited to) limited reach; need for physical contact; and a high cost of acquisition of materials. The advent of the internet and telecommunication has offered a better and faster...
The purpose of this study is to explore the acceptance of Tablet PCs in K-12 education among parents and communities. Because of the obstacles and controversies existed in world-wide "One Tablet PC per Child" projects, the authors used the Technology Acceptance Model to identify the potential factors that may influence the acceptance of Tablet PCs from the perspectives of parents and communities,...
Making violent threats towards minorities like immigrants or homosexuals is increasingly common on the Internet. We present a method to automatically detect threats of violence using machine learning. A material of 24,840 sentences from YouTube was manually annotated as violent threats or not, and was used to train and test the machine learning model. Detecting threats of violence works quit well...
The rapid development of economic society puts forward higher requirements for English talents. Currently, the English education in colleges and universities stays in the onefold teaching mode, the teaching efficiency is low, and the students do not have good English comprehensive application ability. Based on the network multimedia technology, college English teaching mode of constructivism can be...
We propose an approach for addressing the challenges and meeting the needs of industrial networking education. The approach is based on using open source resources, key networking technologies, and an experimental framework to revolutionize the way industrial networking ought to be taught at higher learning institutions around the world. Based on the approach a new type of industrial networking course...
Implementation of a new technology such as e-Book in primary schools in one of the state in Malaysia gives new experience and challenges in Malaysian education field. The study aims to determine the students' skills of using e-books, to identify their levels of understanding of e-book use and their purpose of using e-Books. The data was gathered using questionnaire from the primary school students...
Attainment of a degree is a key predictor of success in the workforce. In the United States, twenty percent (20%) of high school students drop-out before graduation. Individuals who lack workforce readiness skills face a lifetime of lost income, benefits, and job opportunities. The National Educational Technology Plan (NETP), put forth by the United States Department of Education, calls for a reinvention...
Generations that are currently receiving their education and those yet to come should get prepared for everyday interaction with information and communication technology. European Parliament and the Council of the European Union included digital competence in key competencies which each person needs to possess in order to adapt to the rapidly changing world. Their definition of digital competence,...
At the University of Rijeka the theoretical knowledge is mainly transferred by the traditional model consisting of professor explaining material to a group of students in front of a blackboard. We believe that this model dates from the period of the industrial revolution when it was necessary to educate large number of people to work on new machines, but there was no technology for more efficient...
Learning Management Systems (LMS) including Moodle and Blackboard are now almost ubiquitous in many K-12 and Higher Education institutions. They represent a suite of technologies, tools, and processes that, when implemented and utilised skillfully, can have a very positive impact on the ability to provide a quality teaching and learning environment. The University of New South Wales (UNSW), School...
Line up with the technology that many universities have reported an increase in the use of online educational tools worldwide. Therefore, the use of e-Learning systems is a success factor of any institution, and the main point is whether e-Learning is effective or not. By filling the gap of limited research, this study will help to identify whether existing online education system effectively helps...
The need of improving the education quality is insparable from the strategic role of teachers. One potential solution to develop the teachers quality is the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). In this paper, we propose a Digital Learning — Lesson Study (DL-LS) that is an implementation of Lesson Study — a teacher learning method through the study of teaching and learning process...
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