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The purpose of this study was to investigate how to improve the question solving mechanism to encourage students participation in learning activities through handheld mobile devices. Our proposed question solving mechanism includes question issued agent, question voting function, and message delivery agent to reduce the question solving processes and to enhance learning effect by using handheld mobile...
The use of multimedia technologies in education has enabled teachers to simulate final outcomes and assist students in applying knowledge learned from textbooks, thereby compensating for the deficiency of traditional teaching methods. Thus, it is important to examine how effective these technologies are in practical use. The current study developed online learning-teaching resource platforms using...
This paper describes a research endeavor aimed at exploring the role that technology can play in improving child literacy in developing communities. An initial pilot study and subsequent four-month-long controlled field study in Ghana investigated the viability and effectiveness of an automated reading tutor in helping urban children enhance their reading skills in English. In addition to quantitative...
Featherweight multimedia devices combine audio with non-electronic visual displays (e.g., paper). Because of their low cost, customizability, durability, storage capacity, and energy efficiency, they are well-suited for education and information dissemination among illiterate and semi-literate people. We present a taxonomy of featherweight multimedia devices and also derive design recommendations...
There is a large quantity of literature in the area of integrating information technology (IT) into the education domain. Besides those relevant to the technologies and their development, most literature in this area is from people in the education domain. There is a misunderstanding and a gap between the perceptions from people in the technology domain and people in the education domain. Those in...
This paper provides the specification for the design of an innovative mobile mathematics creativity laboratory for contemporary adolescent and adult learners. The design is based on a broad collection of philosophical principles taken from educational research. Each principle is described in turn. The practical implementation of these principles with hardware and software within a laboratory is described...
The Educational Technology Ability Standard of The Elementary and Middle School Teachers regulates the ability of educational technology that elementary and middle school teachers are supposed to possess from four dimensions: consciousness and attitude,knowledge and skills, application and innovation,social responsibility. The present paper first elaborates the significance and features of The Elementary...
This paper analyzes the applications of modern educational technologies for students with disabilities in higher special education. In recent years, modern educational technologies have been utilized rapidly in special education. When used, studentpsilas role is often to work as a user of technologies instead of the role of doer, controller or creator of a technology. The high utilization of educational...
The rapid development of network has promoted the great innovation of education, and network learning has become one of the hot points in educational technology field. Network learning is a kind of highly autonomous independent learning. Learners should have intense sense of learning responsibility and self-monitoring ability, these are key factors of effecting learning effects. Therefore, cultivating...
M-learning, another new learning model following digital learning is a new hot spot in the research domain of educational technology. As a new branch of e-learning, it has increasingly brought peoplepsilas attention. How to support learning and teaching with wireless technology and mobile equipments have become the focus of research of M-learning. This year (2008) the author try to melt M-Learning...
Educational technology has been widely applied in the English Language Teaching (ELT) in China for a long period of time. Especially since the 1990s with the development of information technology, it has become an indispensable part of ELT in Chinese colleges and universities. This paper attempts to discuss the use of educational technology in ELT through a critical survey of its advantages and potential...
At present, all the countries in the world regard bringing up teachers' professional level as the breakthrough of improving education quality. Educational technology ability is an important part of teachers' professional quality. This paper expatiates the connotation and components of educational technology ability, analyzes teaching reform ideas in training educational technology ability of normal...
A network course is a new organizational form of teaching content, while constructivism is the core theory in the field of contemporary educational technology. According to constructivism theory, knowledge is not mainly acquired by learning from teachers, but by means of meaning construction. Scene, collaboration, conversation and meaning construction are the four elements of the learning environment...
With more and more new ideas and demands of architecture, it has become an increasing problem of the architecture lag, severely affecting the quality and efficiency of the architecture. The application of modern educational technology leads to the further research on architecture education reform. The paper explores the architecture education based on modern education technology of digital and internet...
This paper is dedicated to address the new educational technologies (especially the Internet) provide big challenges to high education institutions. In contrast to traditional teaching, Distance Education (DE) is particularly enhanced by technology development. However, in Chinese context, either traditional teaching or DE has its strengths and limitations. This paper focuses on introducing a new...
Distance-learning network has now become an important way for majority of teachers to teach graduate students, and the study of the network has also been concerned about the learning performance not the learning process. This paper, the authors choose the network course "network application in education" as an actual case, by analyzing the data of the status of network, they provide a number...
With the rapid development of network education, a great variety of e-Learning systems have been set up. In the field of educational technology, the autonomous learning model has captured peoplepsilas attention more and more so that the researchers and the designers in E-learning begin to develop e-learning systems for the studentspsila online self-directed learning. The paper firstly discusses the...
Postgraduate education is not only the highest level of education, but an important part of research universities. The paper, in view of the postgraduates in economics and management of agricultural and forestry universities, investigates the specialized education of postgraduates. The paper draws conclusion through empirical analysis and suggests solutions to the problems.
This paper reports results of an ethnographic study undertaken to support the development of an educational tool for a context-aware computing project. This research looked at how teachers use an agricultural context (i.e., school gardens) to teach and how farmers learn within the context of a farm. The goal of this research was to define a set of needs that we could address in developing an educational...
The paper deals with significant technological changes in society when it moves into post-industrial age. Some of these changes have fundamental social consequences. The paper analyses the main social trends such as virtualization of the society in their interaction with newest technology trends and their influence on education. The concept of virtualization allows formulating the main feature of...
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