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The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming important in many areas that include health, entertainment, manufacturing, automotive, home and building automation, industrial, etc. Will it be important for education and more specifically for teaching and learning? If so, what engineering subjects would benefit the most and how effective could the IoT be for teaching and learning? Can IoT technologies and...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have attracted millions of people who are geographically dispersed. MOOCs are mainly authored in English. However, a big proportion of the participants speaks English as a foreign language. There are studies reporting that some participants struggle with understanding the language in the video lectures and are reluctant to communicate with other fellow learners...
In order to improve the management intelligent level and the level of information sharing for higher law college instructors, and improve the efficiency of management of higher law college counselors work, and promote the sharing of college counselors and educational resources and scheduling information, Higher Law College Counselors work management system is developed and designed. The system adopts...
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are signature-based software tools that provide mechanisms for detection and analysis of network intrusions. Using an experimental scenario and real traffic collected at a higher education institution in Brazil, we evaluate the performance of Snort and Suricata IDSs for detection of current Distributed Denial-of-Services attack (Slowloris). Our study has found the...
This paper presents results of a survey that explored the challenges low-income mobile users of Dhaka, Bangladesh (N = 131) face in mobile text entry. Results revealed that all users use the Bengali language at some capacity to compose text, yet many (are forced to) write with the Roman alphabet. Both feature phone and smartphone users feel that the existing text entry techniques are difficult to...
We have tested a scheme that measures the quality of education (QoE) in the network engineering program through the progress, outcomes or any evidence of the capstone project. We use simple relations based on efficiencies but weighted and with ambiguities. For this end, the performance of students are quantified through the definition of events which are actions that can help weakly or substantially...
Discussing medical concerns at various online forums is a worldwide trend that reveals how patients are becoming interested in medical education. There is a global trend of building online communities such as Patient-like-Me those patients use to learn from each other. The Internet penetration is continually increasing in developing countries in West Africa. However, there are not any existing studies...
We present a new tool to help students make use of video recordings of traditional chalkboard and whiteboard lectures. Our tool provides a compact summary of a chalkboard lecture in the form of a set of slides, and an interactive environment for electronic note-taking in real time while watching a lecture in class or during review. Key to the processing of a chalkboard video by our system is the removal...
This article relates the experience of a training process on Teaching Programming for vulnerable children and adolescents at social risk, who attend community eaters in neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city of La Plata. In these organizations, in addition to breakfast and lunch, they are offered school attendance in different subjects using the computer as a tool. Since 2007, advanced student...
This article presents a survey of the factors that indicate evasion in distance education, as well as the data mining techniques that are being used in the detection of evasion. As a methodology, we have used the systematic review, analyzing the works published in the last five years. The result indicated that there are multiple factors that influence evasion, which were systematized in four dimensions,...
This article describes SECav, an educational software developed in the context of a research project, with the aim of supporting the teaching and learning processes of a Numerical Calculus course that is taught for several courses of the Exact and Natural Sciences Faculty of the UNLPam University. SECav focuses on the numerical resolution of nonlinear equations, polynomial interpolation and approximation,...
This paper presents a case study of a university campus in Kiziba refugee camp in Rwanda. It evaluates different aspects of this university as a unique example of education in an extreme environment. The goal is to answer what accommodations, educational and technical, need to be made for a university to function in such extreme environments. In the process, field measurements were made evaluating...
It is said by a famous Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma that which understands yourself the most is not your own but the computer. It is not difficult to find that the computers will always automatically recommend something for you. How do these things come from? It is the computer system which does the statistical analysis to your Internet habits, sorts out the content you may want to browse, and finally...
This paper discusses the challenges related to the insertion of Virtual and Augmented Reality in the teaching and learning processes, considering their multidisciplinary aspect, the adherence to Web 3.0 and a scenario of possible gains and results with such an insertion. There will be pointed out the features that made VR and AR solutions with a potential big impact, despite not properly explored...
The main negative factors that are inherent to modern society are presented. A hypothesis has been put forward. It supposes that a number of fundamental factors must be added to the basis of modern economics. Here are five factors that determine the paradigm of sustainable development of society.
The paper is dedicated to the development of modern education technologies in distinct regions on the example of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The author showed that students in this region are underprivileged besides the level of average income and salary because of a lack of ordinary higher education programs and low Internet quality. The development of e-learning opportunities can increase quality...
Under the surplices of the infrastructure of the internet and because of many types of Web 2.0, a great development has happened in the services offered throughout the nets; this appeared because of plenty of huge save spaces, and high quick speed of the internet. Besides, the variable of great number of programs by which the learner can use the sets without the need of software programs. These programs...
With the popularity of smart phones, the advent of 4G network era, and the establishment of the “Internet + education” ecosystem, the mobile terminal construction witnesses the high-speed development, especially the mobile education campus APP on teaching services centered on college students. This kind of mobile interactive application provides the teachers and students with a more convenient resource...
“Internet + intelligent education” is the inevitable trend with the development of the education industry. iStudy, a Generic practice platform is a kind of practical curriculum evaluation platform for teachers and students, which combines operation, practice, evaluation, examination and item bank management with comprehensive teaching system and management system and is being accepted and enjoyed...
This paper proposes a design to implement Intelligent Examination subsystem in the Internet Plus environment, which uses structure model combining B/S and C/S, JSP technology and SSH frames. Student examination terminal facilitates automatic acquisition and maintenance of exam candidate's face image for automatic authentication of its identity, automatically obtaining examination papers' information,...
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