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Lectures and little emphasis is on student involvement. To enhance the skills of the students/learners they need to be involved in the learning process. This paper describes the use of Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) in an engineering and management college in Andhra Pradesh, India. Though POGIL has been developed and validated extensively over the last 15 years in the US, it is quite...
In order to acquire infrequent events as new ideas and evaluate the ideas quantitatively, it is necessary to know how people create and refine ideas and to model creating and refining process. In this paper, we focused on relations between thinking time and writing time in handwriting, and proposed to model the relation by externalization, classification, relation, transportation and systematization,...
When new faculty arrive for a new position at a college or university, they are typically flooded with information on all the "things to know and do" before the start of their first semester. They often participate in orientation sessions that give them snapshots on human resources, research protocol, departmental requirements, getting a computer account, using the library, using the course...
The Project to Integrate Technical Communication Habits (PITCH) is being implemented in the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven across seven engineering and computer science undergraduate programs. PITCH develops written, oral and visual communication skills in students starting in the very first semester and continuing through all four years of each program. Communication...
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...
Engineering education is difficult in an international program with all courses in English language, for foreign students with no English as first language or official language in their countries, in a host country with a third language. In our research we want to know if the levels of inventiveness of those students are not significantly different than the rest of the students and not a factor for...
Among the key professional competences of future engineers the most attention is devoted to their abilities for critical analysis of the offered information, putting forward and refuting a hypothesis, establishing cause-and-effect relationships, arguing, and estimating. The paper deals with the actual technologies of students' critical thinking development. A study conducted at Kazan Volga Region...
Educational toy has an important role in improving educational performance of slow learner children especially at the preschool level. This paper draws on a study of SOBATAKA implementation for the preschool children who were having dyslexia and very weak performance in mathematics - in recognizing, counting and writing number from 1 to 10. The reasons why SOBATAKA was designed and the process of...
The research team has leveraged the research conducted in recent Natural Language Processing studies and designed a computerized marking mechanism for marking students' short-answers based on the semantic meaning of those answers. An open access Auto marking web service has been developed to provide short-answer marking service for everyone. Auto marking service is also a self-sustainable complete...
In the next generation of learning environment, a tablet PC with a stylus pen can be a learning tool. In this paper, a framework for learner centered question generation on the tablet PC is proposed. The framework is based on a learner's actions and context of an expository text. In assisting active learning, three different types of questions can be generated according to the learner's marking actions...
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...
In this work is proposed a writer identification approach based on graphometrical and forensic features. The proposal replies to an off-line system, where the handwriting is provided before to perform the analysis. An Artificial Neural Network is used as classifier and after the decision fusion module, the system reaches up to 94.6% of success rate for a own database composed by 100 users with 10...
Teaching the discipline of requirements engineering (RE) is slowly establishing at universities within the software engineering curriculum. While several studies have shown that case study-based education was more efficient in RE, many teachers are still reluctant to change their teaching style, and stay with classical lectures and complementary exercises. These courses often fail to relate the different...
It is a unique experience for the students and the teachers during the undergraduate research. The students benefit a lot as they are introduced to the analysis, critical thinking and technical aspects of the given research problem. Also this serves as one of the great ways of effective learning. For a teacher, it is a great satisfaction as this is one of the tools of effective teaching. The research...
The result of the research of the educational effect of Kanji (Chinese character) learning system is described in this thesis. Kanji learning system was made so that the grade-schooler and the foreigner in the living in Japan may study kanji joyfully and efficiently. An existing system is composed of the client Application program and the Server Application program. The client application program...
Recently, Assurance case has been used in order to improve system and software dependability. However, assurance case is difficult to write because of risk and safety standards have not been commonly defined, and plenty of risks are domain specific risk that arouses depending on the combinations of components and implementations. It is hard to assess and cover all of the risk at developing assurance...
This research proves that in an undergraduate Basic Digital Technology course, communication between teachers and students can be increased through the use of feedback comment sheets, which is effective in performing conceptual teaching. With the use of conceptual teaching, students become more active towards learning, gaining intrinsic motivation and confidence as they communicate more with the teacher...
The larger screen size, mobility, sensing and multi-touch input features of Android or iOS based devices like the iPad or Android tablet PC offer many exciting opportunities for real-life edutainment applications. An example is the learning of Chinese, especially to write Chinese characters in correct stroke sequences, that is typically considered as a difficult task to most foreigners. In this work,...
This paper presents design guidelines for implementing a free-selection peer review protocol. "Free-selection" (FS) refers to the ability of students freely access all available peer work and choose which of them to read and review. A series of two studies on the free-selection protocol has provided evidence on the efficiency of the method. In the First study, the FS protocol was compared...
This paper presents a mining tool that is able to extract graphs from texts, and proposes their use in helping students to write summaries. The text summarization method is based on the use of the graphs as graphic organizers, leading students to further reflect about the main ideas of the text before getting to the actual task of writing. An experiment carried out demonstrated that the tool helped...
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