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This paper describes a method for extracting the search contexts on the basis of the analysis of search history data such as viewed Web pages, search queries, and bookmarks during collaborative exploration activities. There are many opportunities for collaborative exploration in the form of cooperative work at educational organizations such as universities. It is quite significant for collaborative...
Responsive Real-Time Collaborator with Audio Channel, or simply, RTCollaborator, is a user- friendly web application using a responsive layout web design that supports voice and text chat and also has a shared board tool. The application allows users to draw on the board, make flowchart diagrams and see each other's changes, drawings and writings at real- time.
The understanding of the Mexican Energetic Reform as an immediate application of the acquired knowledge in the Electricity and Magnetism Course at Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Ciudad de México (Tec de Monterrey - CCM) is presented. Hybrid learning activities were designed to fully exploit and transform the classroom experience. Ethical reflections and citizenship discussions added an out-of-the-box...
In this article we show how Principal Component Analysis can determine if a course design provides class activities that drive students to improve their skills and get good grades. We also show how this type of statistical analysis can simplify course design by determining if certain activities and feedback instruments measure the same thing.
A preliminary exploratory and predictive model to correlate the academic performance of a sample of 96 students enrolled in different basic engineering courses with cognitive and social constructs is presented. The model integrates several dimensions regarding Multiple Intelligences, Self-Regulation skills and Learning Styles constructs. The exploratory study is carried out with three statistical...
Recommendation systems is used for the purpose of suggesting items to purchase or to see. They direct users towards those items which can meet their needs through cutting down large database of Information. A various techniques have been introduced for recommending items i.e. content, collaborative and association mining techniques are used. This paper solves the problem of data sparsity problem by...
On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee, it gives me a great pleasure to welcome you to the 2015 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT 2015). I am honored and privileged to be the General Chair of the Organizing Committee of this Conference that is jointly organized by Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) and IEEE - Jordan Section.
News has, in this day and age, transformed primarily into a digital format with leading newspapers and news agencies having a significant online presence. The speed at which news reaches the reader notwithstanding, the proliferation of blogs and microblogs to deliver specialized content has become the order of the day. Even highly engaged users tend to disengage with a website when the content they...
We have investigated the design of a secure collaboration platform to support real-time information sharing across professional and organizational boundaries in the context of emergency animal disease response. The platform integrates cross-organisational eAuthentication and eAuthorisation technologies to enable access control of shared data resources between geographically distributed experts in...
New distribution channels like music streaming platforms paved way for making more and more diverse music available to users. Thus, music recommender systems got in the focus of research in academia as well as industry. Collaborative filtering-based recommender systems have been proven useful, but there is space left for improvements by adapting this general approach to better fit to the music recommendations...
Collaborative filtering recommender systems (CFRSs) are critical components of existing popular e-commerce websites to make personalized recommendations. In practice, CFRSs are highly vulnerable to "shilling" attacks or "profile injection" attacks due to its openness. A number of detection methods have been proposed to make CFRSs resistant to such attacks. However, some of them...
Rating aggregation is critical to the quality control of recommendation systems and its effectiveness is a deep concern of all users. However, there are some problems in existing recommendation systems. For example, some of the raters from certain source are much more stringent than others, leading the phenomena that some entities with better quality are rejected. In this paper, we propose a novel...
Measuring "similarity" has been established as afundamental problem and has been widely studied. In thispaper we propose a novel approach for establishing similarityin context of citation network. With the rapidly growing sizeof academic literature, the problem of finding similar researchpapers has become a challenging task. Research papers in acitation network often form communities based...
Finding appropriate adslots to display ads is an important step to achieve high conversion rates in online display advertising. Previous work on ad recommendation and conversion prediction often focuses on matching between adslots, users and ads simultaneously for each impression at micro level. Such methods require rich attributes of users, ads and adslots, which might not always be available, especially...
In this paper, we provide an overview of two Computer Science for High School teacher training workshops, offered at Fairfield University in 2012 and 2013. These professional development programs offered the skills necessary to integrate Google Apps education and interactive, metaphor-based computer games tools into middle and high school curricula, to help students learn computer science and engineering...
We have investigated whether Agile practices can be applied as a pedagogical approach to derive benefit in the areas of encouraging students to take responsibility for their learning (self managed learning), continuous improvement through reflection, alternative approaches for grading, increased engagement by learners, and more effective data collection and assessment of outcomes. Agile is an umbrella...
The purpose of this proposed mini-workshop is to connect our research in conceptual change [Collaborative research: Getting Engineers to Talk Across Disciplines, EEC 1129447] to instructional practice. Our research suggests that one potential indicator of students' conceptual understanding across several engineering disciplines is their use (or misuse) of language. During this mini-workshop participants...
Success within the distance learning paradigm typically requires a strong intrinsic motivation on the part of the learner. This motivation needs to be matched with effective delivery of engaging course content. Developing an active engagement environment for deep learning is a nontrivial task as the instructor is not physically present. To address the concern in an online/blended delivery model, we...
In 2007, Borrego published her groundbreaking work “Conceptual difficulties experienced by trained engineers learning educational research methods”[1] that described five conceptual difficulties engineering faculty encountered as they began to learn about rigorous research in engineering education. Since Borrego's research was published the engineering education departments have been formed and a...
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