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There is a strong need to make research more efficient resulting in more impactful outcomes, across the world and more so in developing countries. To improve research outcomes and impact on practitioners, effectiveness of student researchers (SRs), research supervisors (RSs) and communication of research findings need improvement. The study attempts to find out 1. Can Lean help improving these elements?...
This paper reports on an investigation into perceptions of international university lecturers and their concerns about students' social and academic motivation for learning in online learning environments. The study results suggest that pedagogic lurking is a widespread phenomenon, with some perceiving it as problematic and others as a step towards more active participation. Most interestingly, there...
With the rapid development of computer and network technology, micro-blog system provides to exchange information and proceed social life. It provides very favorable ways. Especially, how to quickly obtain information and release information, sharing of information in today's society become a research direction for a big data. In this paper, we based on Struts2, JSP, MySql, Ajax and JQuery related...
The purpose of the study was to investigate the interface design of a web-based formative assessment system. The present study was focused on question presentation and feedback design. A total of 28 college students participated in the study. Usability questionnaires were used to collect qualitative and qualitative data. The results are provided for online educators, learning management system developers,...
The flipped classroom is one of the contemporary pedagogical methods and it commonly means an instructional model that students view video lectures and practice problems as homework prior to class, and engage student-centered activities in the classroom.
This study reports on the development of a user-survey instrument for Sound for Love, an app-supported wedding activity aimed at encouraging between-guest interaction through musical co-creation. Taking activity theory as its conceptual framework, the developed survey takes into account Sound for Love users' motivations, experience value, satisfaction, and behavioral intentions. As well as its practical...
Preschoolers as digital native cannot avoid gadgets. Game applications are more accessible to them. People believe that games have a negative impact such as bad character and violence. Nevertheless, the game can be developed into a fun tool. This research aimed to design a game prototype boosting cognitive abilities for preschoolers. Prototyping and testing the game system were the method. A preschoolers'...
In the past, once a new product appearing in the market, consumers first check if the price is reasonable, if it is within their budget, if the product's functions meet their requirement, and if the appearance of the product caters to their preferences, etc. In fact, in addition to the corporate's brand image, the price, functionality and appearance will be the key success factors of product sales...
During collaborative innovation projects, interactions between actors and knowledge exchange among them have a crucial role to foster innovation. External knowledge can be integrated into the project through different practices. Thereby, to help companies to identify their best practices, it is necessary to find out where and how external knowledge is acquired, transformed and applied in order to...
Significant research efforts have been put in refining concept/requirements of novel systems innovated by experts or crowds. However, there is scarce evidence of refinement techniques developed for and/or applied to the concept/requirements of novel systems innovated with participatory design. Arguably, general idea assessment and refinement techniques can be applied to participatory innovations....
For several years, the system of RTE has been handling a steadily rising number of requests for connecting new customers with photovoltaic or wind farms. Often, that is achieved by means of a branch connection to existing lines. Branch connections to lines reduce the cost of connection, but generate constraints in respect of the maintenance of structures, since the power supply to the customer cannot...
Data hiding is the greatest need in today's computer world where computers have become home for all the sensitive and critical information. Data hiding needs to be done to prevent unauthorized access to our information. There exist different ways and software in the market for hiding data but for them we need to either purchase them or need to download them making it somewhat cumbersome task. Alternate...
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