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Programming course is a fundamental and compulsory course in Information Technology field such as Informatics and Computer Science department. But many undergraduate students face difficulties to comprehend the basic concept of logic and algorithm in programming. Programming course is normally taught in classroom and also by using e-learning. But e-learning based on LMS (Learning Management System),...
Etextbooks offer the potential to change the way faculty teach and students learn. One approach to providing etextbooks enables faculty to custom tailor traditional "flat" paper textbooks from major publishers by embedding videos and annotating them with comments. We conducted a lab study in which participants read a chapter in a computer networking book either in paper form, or using an...
This paper explores the effectiveness of various video based learning methods. In recent years the flipped classroom has emerged as an innovative teaching-learning process. In a flipped classroom, study materials are made available to students for self learning before class starts and class hours are utilized for student teacher interaction in a variety of ways. In this research work we experiment...
In Information System development, users play an important role in providing input in the development process. This includes both user requirement gathering and evaluation phases. This paper presents the later which is the perception of curriculum designers who have tested the curriculum design information system during the evaluation phase and provide their feedback to further enhance the system...
MOOC as a type of online education, it integrates the connectivity of social networking, and a collection of freely accessible online resources. Now the online education has entered Post-MOOC era, when various types of online education emerge and improve the development of education. In this paper, we present a new hybrid learning mode based on the concept of MOOC, CH-SPOC, which is applicable for...
Open Education is changing the educational paradigm. The consolidation of the OpenCourseWare initiative, supported by the top universities of the World, and the revolution generated in the recent years through the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses, present a new educational scenario for teachers, students and institutions. This new environment has furthered the use of e-learning, not only because...
In this paper, a new subjective assessment system for video quality is proposed to acquire accurate assessment result, which consists of three assessment methods. In addition, a combined screening strategy is presented to ensure the final result's reliability. The reliability of the assessment result proved to be promoted after introducing multiple methods of assessment and screening strategies.
In this study we focus on the influence of the voice of a speech corpus on the quality of text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Therefore, we selected a set of attribute scales which consists of items related to the 5 perceptual quality dimensions of TTS systems and of items which are used in studies concerning the likeability of voices. We selected 5 different voices of the TTS systems IVONA and ACAPELA...
Under the background of diversified social function and rich information, college students can think more actively and independently. Therefore, the traditional teaching mode cannot meet the needs of cultivating their creative thinking and innovative ability. However, the development of the modern computer information technology provides college students with an information platform to communicate...
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...
In China, bilingual teaching is a new issue occurred during the period of social and economic rapid development accompanied with its raising global position. In the bilingual teaching experiment process, new methods, such as introducing bilingual textbook, step by step and learning new knowledge on the basis of reviewing the material learned, were adopted to improve students' English proficiency level...
Animated Pedagogical Agent (APA) is getting more attention and being implemented in various instructional applications regardless of learning disciplines. APA helps improve user learning experience and thus enhances and increases the effectiveness of the courseware. Studies also showed that learner's emotion have a tremendous effect in one's cognitive process. This paper discusses the pilot study...
In recent years many projects have applied multimedia technology to support dissemination and new modality of digital museum resources access to meet the knowledge and interests of different users needs. Linked open data technology suggest to rethink access to digital cultural heritage resources and their dissemination in different contexts. This paper presents the results of project to develop learning...
This paper presents the design and implementation of a web-based application aiming at the digitization, management, long term preservation and dissemination of musical cultural heritage. The architecture of the application is modular consisting of a digitization layer that provides all the necessary digitization services to the expert and an information system layer that supports multimedia management...
Lecture capture is a term referring both to learning materials based on recordings of live lectures as well as software and hardware support systems enabling lecture recording and reproduction. As lecture captures are today becoming more and more valued learning materials, there is a strong need for quality yet simple to use lecture capture systems supporting their creation. In this paper we describe...
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...
Computer Based Instruction is no longer uncommon in the education arena in Malaysia. This instructional approach has been applied in the process of teaching and learning for many subjects, but little was applied to sports subject. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a multimedia sports courseware in teaching movement skills, which will be developed based on the Simpson's Psychomotor...
With the rapid development of technology, e-learning pretends to be more useful and popular in education. E-learning can be used in or out of the classroom. Courseware is becoming a well known form of e-learning in present days. It helps to convert the conventional process of learning and teaching towards e-learning. Different educational organizations are providing their resources to all through...
This article, by teaching site, analyses the connotation and motivation of the information flow about digital teaching practice, and presents the digital teaching mode base on the information flow of. The model is according to the main line by the information flow control and the information flow of supporting services, and tightly integrated by knowledge flow and information flow, and has a good...
E-Learning becomes widely spread in the past few years because it enables learner to participate in anytime, anyplace personalized training. Designing rich E-Learning environment is an important factor to enhancing the effectiveness of web based education. Therefore the necessity of evaluating the web based E-Learning content is arising. The evaluation of E-Learning content is beneficial for learner...
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