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Malawi Children's Village (MCV) operates a secondary school of approximately 560 students in Mangochi, Malawi, and its strategic goal is to add computer studies into its curriculum. The first step to achieving this goal is for MCV to establish and sustain a teachers-only computer lab. This case study examines the process by which a team of volunteers identified this as the first step, the team's recommendations...
Many web-based online learning systems focus more on textual and/or image based content delivery without including experiment systems, or if included they are usually operated under pre-defined conditions, such as fixed scenarios and pre-determined delivery orders. These limitations hinder personalized learning and collaboration between students and discourage student engagement. To circumvent these...
Prior work showed that in 2001 and 2003, workers in America who used spreadsheets or databases, and who did programming, earned 9 to 13% more than similar workers who did not use spreadsheets nor did programming. Such a fact, if still true, could help motivate workers to do programming and/or to create spreadsheets. This paper presents a study replicating these analyses using 2012 data. The results...
As mobile computing is becoming more and more popular, the security threats to mobile applications are simultaneously increasing explosively. Most malicious activities hack the user's private information, such as contact and location information, hijack the user's transactions and communications, and exploit the confidential enterprise data stored in mobile databases or in cache on mobile devices...
In this paper we present a reference architecture for ETL stages of EDM and LA that works with different data formats and different extraction sites, ensuring privacy and making easier for new participants to enter into the process without demanding more computing power. Considering scenarios with a multitude of virtual environments hosting educational activities, accessible through a common infrastructure,...
The interest on effective strategies to improve the learning process increased over the years. The usual practice is to know the characteristics of a student and how those can affect the learning style. The style describes how learners collect, select, interpret, organize and store information. This paper overviews the application of learning styles and how those affect the teaching of introductory...
Learning analytics (LA) leverages learner-related data to generate reliable and factual information for the purpose of enhancing decision making in higher education, workplace and schools. Therefore, we have envisioned the need for a learning analytics system for a consortium of Nigerian universities that could serve as a tool for academic advising. The system should be able to offer advice at several...
Data sharing through Cloud technology is one of the most powerful new computer science concepts of the past few decades. As such, developing powerful and easy-to-use tools for incremental learning and application of shared data concepts is an important endeavor. My work focuses on using MIT App Inventor, a popular blocks-based mobile application development tool for teaching computational thinking...
The aim of our study is to investigate ERP project critical success factors (CSFs) with a focus on higher education institutes (HEIs). We conducted a systematic literature review to identify specific CSFs affecting HEIs' project outcome. Building on these results, we led several interviews within selected German HEIs. Overall, there is little literature dealing with the HEIs' CSFs, but nearly all...
Medicai and healthcare study programmes cover various curricula consisting of many theoretically focused courses and clinical teaching training. Curriculum attributes usually contains thousands of requirements on the form of knowledge and skills which fully define a complete graduate profile. It is not humanly possible to go through the entire curriculum or to imagine how the individual courses, learning...
This article is addicted to the analysis of the main components of informational environment in the universities. The authors provide the characteristics of the chief documents load at universities. It is proposed the informational and analytical systems to be used in order to manage the informational and documental environment at the University.
Attendance is a very important factor for many educational institutions in South Africa. The conventional approach of manually taking and managing attendance records is daunting for both the registrar and the registrant. There are existing techniques aimed at providing attendance identification and registry. However, most of these techniques fall short of some very important factors such as scalability,...
Educational Data Mining is a prominent area to explore information in educational fields using data mining algorithms. In this paper we have used few learning algorithms to effectively rate the faculty belonging to an educational institute on the basis of feedback submitted by the students. Our proposed model uses sentimental analysis and machine learning classifier algorithms for capturing the emotions...
With the development of network technology, the design for the automatic generative system of examination papers that is based on web has become a trend. In order to reduce the burden on teachers and avoid duplication of work, we design the system to automatically generate test papers. It is based on a constantly updated examination question bank system, according to the teachers' demands, which can...
Recommendations systems represents a tool or a technology that tries to predict the items that might be of an interest to the user, and they could be considered the programming tools or technologies used for serving recommendations which represent the most suitable items served to the user to choose from, which could be a product, a service, or the topic in which this paper tries to implement within...
The science laboratory class is a key class in some universities. They learn a wide range of knowledge rather than specialized ones. To deepen knowledge in limited time, we propose a new method for database course. Students learn the basic knowledge from textbook. For difficult point, they can return to videos on MOOC websites. If there are still problems, they may discuss with teacher and classmates...
“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...
With the development of internet and information technology, educational informatization is increasingly focusing on the use of modern technology to provide powerful teaching assistance. Learning resources intelligent recommendation is essential in Smart Education. The paper proposes two aspects of recommendation strategy. First is the basic recommendation strategy, which includes teaching process,...
This paper extends an application named “EAider” on student affairs management, including academic affairs and non-academic affairs. It breaks the traditional way of thinking and applies the latest technologies to manage the collection and distribution of students' information. Moreover, it integrates multiple functions and eases the load of instructors and teachers. The application features in its...
Onomatopoeia is a generic name for onomatopoeia and mimetic words. Using onomatopoeia can express the behavior and state of things in more detail, widening the range of communication. However, learning onomatopoeia has been a difficult task for Japanese learners. There are several existing studies aiming at a support with onomatopoeia learning, while no platform is available to help learners find...
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