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Today, e-learning is one of the most popular teaching methods. One of its modes is the collaborative learning, where learners can collaborate with their peers, share ideas, and where everyone should be involved in the social interaction. However, the efficiency of collaborative learning depends on the motivation of its members to collaborate, their skills and the quality of tools used to encourage...
A co-creation approach to tackling ill-structured problems (ISPs) for tertiary students is proposed. Key findings of a preliminary study assessing the approach's learning effectiveness are discussed. The new approach is more in line with problem solving in the real world and improves cognitive, meta-cognitive, and epistemic cognitive learning.
The innovative brand “The internet of Me” is a recent research area that highlight the prevalence of personalization across the internet and focuses on the user habits and actions tracked from his interaction with the web content. This paradigm presents an efficient way to define the user experience, preferences useful in e-commerce, marketing, social and search purpose. In this paper we are interested...
This paper analyses two impromptu crowd science movements, comparing the TVTropes wiki community with the Bechdel Wallace test movement. Impromptu crowd science contributors engage in methodical knowledge creation, in absence of academic scientists' involvement. The two examples illustrate the potential of these movements to create data, analyses and concepts relevant for social and humanistic disciplines,...
Organizational processes involving collaborating resources, such as development processes, innovation processes, and decision-making processes, typically affect the performance of many organizations. Moreover, including required but missing, resources and capabilities of collaborations can improve the performance of corresponding processes drastically. In this work, we demonstrate the extended Informal...
Nodos is a new project with the main goal to promote and build a comprehensive knowledge base of performing arts, artists, cultural groups & spaces, plays and festivals. The work of recording and preservation this kind of artistic expressions contributes to the preservation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, as has been defined by UNESCO. One of the biggest challenges related to the recording...
Investigating learning performance predictors is an important part of the educational process. Active participation or engagement is one such predictor, which has been widely analyzed in traditional learning settings, but less in the emerging social-media based learning environments. This paper explores the relationship between students' active participation on three social media tools (wiki, blog,...
The use of Search Engine enables the information seeker to seek information from a wide range of categories. Cultural information is one of the unique categories among the classes of information searched by users. This is because, there exists a significant relationship between a cultural keyword and its' originating society. Naturally, societies are supposed to be the highest authoritative body over...
By using the advantages of modern social tools, a new agricultural information service platform was designed and implemented, which was re developed by WeChat platform. It provided an efficient and convenient information service for farmers, and carried out a wide range of applications in the suburbs of Beijing.
Some of the greatest challenges for Software requirements elicitation are related with the identification of what is needed to be developed and with the understanding of the organization business rules. In this context, this paper aims to suggest the use of Comic Books in the process of requirements elicitation within a business model and evaluate the results of applying this technique. To reach this...
Documentation is often neglected in agile software projects, even if software developers perceive a need for good documentation. One reason can be found in improper documentation tools. This paper provides an overview of the central conceptual ideas for an agile documentation tool.
The study determined the information needs and information-seeking patterns of rural women living in communities surrounding telecentres in Tanzania. The study used a questionnaire survey to collect data from users and non-users of Internet in three rural districts in Tanzania that have telecentres: Sengerema, Kongwa and Kilosa districts. The study findings showed that information needs of both users...
There are many aspects such as food, service, and ambience that a customer would look for, when deciding on a restaurant to dine in. Among these aspects, the type of food it sells and the food quality are the most important. Therefore, when automatically rating restaurants based on customer reviews, the food aspect plays a major role. There exists some research on rating individual food items in a...
One of the pressing issues in the Indian IT education today is an acute shortage of skilled teachers. While common sense says that we should use IT to do teacher training and student training, it is not clear how that may be done and in how many different ways the teachers can be helped. The project, described in this article, studies contextualized solutions for the improvement of IT education in...
Along with the arrival of the Internet era, all walks of life are beginning to promote the wisdom of the process. As the concept of "smarter planet" and "wisdom city" is put forward, the school as the frontier of knowledge and information service, as a new talent incubator should seize the opportunity and apply the advanced information technology to promote the construction of...
In this paper the concept of external appliance as component of honeypot in wireless network is suggested as based on particular computing instance. Also paper suggests approach to implementation of complex Intrusion Detection System (IDS) - Router - Honeypot. Requirements to IDS rules design are formulated by authors.
Application frameworks are a powerful technique for large-scale reuse but often very hard to learn from scratch. Although good documentation helps on reducing the learning curve, it is often found lacking, and costly, as it needs to attend different audiences with disparate learning needs. When code and documentation prove insufficient, developers turn to their network of experts. The lack of awareness...
This work-in-progress paper describes the initial efforts and findings from the development of a pedagogical approach to prepare pre-service teachers for teaching engineering and engaging with the community mediated through an online portal. This project incorporates the latest research on inverted classrooms and best practices for online learning in an effort to build the VILLA Community of Practice...
Traditional Relation Extraction (RE) trains individual extractors for pre-defined relations. Open Relation Extraction (ORE) can eschew domain-specific training data, tackle an unbounded number of relations, and scale up to massive and heterogeneous corpus such as the web. However, It is difficult to process micro log texts: the genre is noisy, utterances are very short, and texts have little context...
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Information Technology (IT) students are not adequately exposed to implementing a software development methodology or a project management framework to develop software as per the current curriculum. The students' final year Project Work was selected to apply an industry-oriented Agile software development methodology. Specifically, we employed the most popular...
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