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Competitiveness of the graduates of engineering education programs is an important criterion in the evaluation of the quality of education acquired in the university. The high level of fundamental and professional competencies of a young engineer is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the successful employment at the modern labour market. During an interview with a university graduate the...
With the growing acceptance of the role of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in teaching and learning, it is expected that recent graduates from teacher education would be adequately prepared to integrate the ICTs into their teaching. Nonetheless, research and anecdotal evidence show that many newly qualified teachers feel under-prepared to teach with the technologies. This paper explores...
A theatre production of a play illustrating the functionality, social and ethical aspects of robots helping with aspects of elderly care was presented at a residential care home. The audience consisted of mainly elderly residents and carers. The residents suffered from various physical and mental disabilities which impaired their ability to provide responses through standard questionnaires. Therefore,...
Agile teams advocates face-to-face conversation, frequent communication and close collaboration between team members in order to work together as one team. In distributed software development, however, separation through space, time and culture affects the ability of the members of a distributed team to work together as one team. Through a Grounded Theory study that involved 55 participants from 38...
A classic way to choose a supplier is through a bidding process where tenders from competing companies are evaluated in relation to the customer's requirements. If the customer wants to hire an agile software developing team instead of buying a software product, a new approach for comparing tenders is required. In this paper we present the design of such a new approach, the Scrum Code Camp, which...
Knowledge management (KM) is key to the success of any software organization. KM in software development has been the center of attention for researchers due to its potential to improve productivity. However, the knowledge is not only stored in repositories but is also shared in the office space. Agile software development teams use the benefits of shared space to foster knowledge creation. But it...
Distributed Agile Development is gaining prevalence in the global software engineering field. However establishing and negotiating common ground across geographical, temporal and cultural borders can be a challenging process for distributed team members. This paper reports on early findings of one case study and investigates how common ground or mutually shared understanding takes place within one...
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 goal of the research is to pursuit high quality content in the learning management system (LMS). This paper starts from exploring influence factors on the content quality in a LMS by interviewing teachers. Then, the theory of planned behavior is referred to develop a new model for content quality on LMS. There are 11 possible categories with 28 variables unearthed which are facilitating condition,...
Transnational bioscience entrepreneurs (TBEs) accelerate not only the economic, but also the cultural, political, and social development of their host and sending countries. Today, the ease with which TBEs shuttle between American, Chinese, and Taiwanese cultures and resolve intractable workplace norms such as haphazard research, inadequate quality control, insular attitudes, and misguided regulations...
This paper describes the methodology component of a funded project which has brought together faculty on technical communication and the learning sciences from our campuses in the US and the Middle East. The goal of the project is to research, develop and disseminate in classrooms and local workplaces online modules aimed at improving professional communication practices. In order to understand such...
This paper employs self-determination theory in social psychology to examine the autonomous and controlled aspects of researchers' motivations for engaging in technology transfer collaboration. Based on in-depth interviews and a questionnaire survey of senior researchers from leading research institutes, this study indicated that researchers were drove by hybrid motives varying on the degree of self-determination,...
The learning of subtraction is essential for elementary students. However, common subtraction misconceptions hinder mathematics underachievers from learning subtraction. These underachievers usually need repeated explanation in many times and in different ways to understand some concept. Actually, teachers have to consider the progresses of all students in the class and thus cannot spend a lot of...
This study extends Sheng-Jie Yang's study [5] and process long-term experiment, on the other hand, we don't have to force students to use any reading strategies because we want students to study by themselves. We investigated in detail the users' demand and using timing on visual cue map. At the end of semester, we present the final system through interviewing students for improving the visual cue...
This study conducted an empirical study of parent-child play in a multiplayer competitive English vocabulary learning game to investigate parents' and children's attitudes towards educational games and whether there were differences between parents' and children's attitudes after parent-child play. Twenty groups of parent-child volunteers were recruited. The children were fifth or sixth grade elementary...
In recent years, the multiplicity of educational resources and tools available have opened discussions about the role of the teacher in his/her professional practices. This paper investigates the relationship between Learning Design and teaching practice, based on research literature and on a study involving structured interview conducted with Italian language teachers from 16 countries. As a result,...
The emerging eTextbooks have attracted a lot of research, but the functions of eTextbooks are still not clear for utilizing them in classroom. In this study, based on the findings from a three-round Delphi study, we explored the functions of eTextbooks in K-12 classes through a mixed-method design research of interview, questionnaire and lecture video coding in two primary schools. The results showed:...
Engineering students move through a wide array of experiences on their path to becoming an engineer. Based on semi-structured interviews of 121 engineering students, our qualitative analysis illuminates what students are communicating as important features of their learning of engineering design. We describe these accounts in terms of sources of learning, what lessons were learned, and how the learning...
In 2010, the Engineering Communication Program (ECP) teamed up with Engineering Strategic Communication to find a visual way to resolve ECP's identity issues. We wanted to integrate the university and our Faculty's recently developed “brand” in order to represent ourselves visibly as part of the engineering world, and so developed a type treatment of our name, and an insignia that introduced an acronym...
For reducing environmental pollution, ridership in public transport has to be increased. Hence, a modernization of this sector and an improvement of its image are necessary. Professional communication in terms of usable passenger information systems can make valuable contributions in this context. These systems are promising means to increase passenger comfort and also user acceptance. This paper...
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