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Wikis are widely used collaborative environments as sources of information and knowledge. The facilitate students to engage in collaboration and share information among members and enable collaborative learning. In particular, Wikis play an important role in capstone projects. Wikis aid in various project related tasks and aid to organize information and share. Mining project Wikis is critical to...
The organization of the information in the knowledge economy hasbecome a priority business process. Better organization leads tofaster retrieval of relevant information. The process of searchingand sequencing didactic materials for course building is anarticulated and time-consuming process that requires considerableeffort by the user. The goal of this research is to implement aplatform for supporting...
The rapid development of the Internet has brought great convenience to users, but it also brought a lot of troubles to the users' information privacy exposure. This study selects the basic information of 300 users on FACEBOOK social media to cluster analysis. The data sets of users are divided into five groups by experiment, and the clustering results are classified and then discussed. By the analysis...
This paper explores the usage of Facebook and YouTube among Malaysian students and the possibility of internet addiction in order to determine the effect of using social media in their social and academic lives. Data was collected from 667 Facebook users and 1056 YouTube users. Examining Young's [1]Internet addiction scale among the students revealed that 18% of Facebook users and 22% of YouTube users...
Community of Inquiry (CoI) model is a framework with socio-constructivist roots, which describes an online learning community on three interdependent components: cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence. Content analysis is widely used to examine transcripts of computer mediated conversations between students in a community of inquiry. However, there are no dedicated support tools...
Information and communication technology (ICT) is widely used in today's education to improve teaching and learning. Students that are well exposed to ICT in the early stage of their education can capitalize the knowledge to seek for more information over Internet and other interactive sources. This is not necessary the case for school in rural areas, with limited provision of ICT infrastructure and...
This work is motivated by the phenomenon of sophistication of Internet technology which nowadays is rapidly evolving in Indonesia. Indonesia is a developing country which has a great enthusiasm for Internet technology. In history, the Indonesian government began developing the Internet in the early 1980s at the state universities in Indonesia. Internet started to become popular since the collapse...
In this paper, images generated from pinyin and actual written simplified characters are comprehensively analyzed through Internet and electronic device usage. The study is based on current usage of most frequently used Chinese simplified characters in smart phones, mobile devices and in WWW. Generally a Chinese character carries significant meaning, and evolved over the years through representation...
The basic organizational form of work in a special elementary school is an individual form. A teacher deals with only one student for some time. Mobile touch devices are able to expand the organizational work forms to frontal forms, eg. learning work environment of selected applications; but also to an individualized form - each pupil in a special elementary school is an individuality, he/she works...
This research aimed to analyze the impact of the competence, work ethic, professionalism and motivation of people (lecturer and staff) on their performance. The data taken from questionnaires to 317 respondents and interviewed the 12 respondents. Data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis. The results showed that the Competence, Work Ethics, Professionalism and Motivation on the lecturer...
Serving user requests from near-by caches or servers has been a powerful technique for localizing Internet traffic with the intent of providing lower delay and higher throughput to end users while also lowering the cost for network operators. This basic concept has led to the deployment of different types of infrastructures of varying degrees of complexity that large CDNs, ISPs, and content providers...
The live teaching is a new form of online education, the learning goal has a change from educators to learners, i.e., educators become the target to be evaluated by learning activities and online learning develops into interactive learning. However, new challenges are imposed upon the development of teachers' behavior. This paper explores the behavior of teachers in live teaching from the perspective...
The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the digital citizenship behavior of college students from differing socioeconomic regions of origin. Data was collected with the Digital Citizenship Scale from 712 college students in central China. The results showed students from higher socioeconomic regions of origin displayed more appropriate digital citizenship behaviors than students from...
In the last years, the appearance of new and revolutionary technologies has changed the society in all its aspects (economy, feeding, personal relationships…). Education is not foreign to these changes. Genuine concepts such as collaborative learning, massive courses (MOOC) or flipped classrooms have been incorporated at every educational level, although the maturity of students allows a greater capacity...
Background: The number of older adult Internet users has been rising worldwide. Information and communication technology, namely the internet, has been recognized to provide a great potential and new opportunities to society as a whole, and to active aging in particular. Objective: The aim of this paper was to conduct a systematic literature review to determine the empirical literature produced since...
The objective of this study was to verify if a development model of Units of Learning (UoLs), supported by UoLs authoring tools, that meet the usability criteria and abstract advanced knowledge in programming language by the developers, effectively provides the use and implementation of such resources by teachers in all areas of high school (in this first phase of the research) with few skills with...
This paper describes a study about the application of the principles of flipped classroom in a freshman class in higher education, in the academic year of 2016–2017, reporting students' perceptions about this learning strategy. The approach was based on the students' preferences, indicated in an initial characterization questionnaire. Quizzes were the main resources for the self-evaluation of the...
The technological convergence of the mass media is the result of a long adaptation process of their communicative resources to the evolutionary changes of each historical moment. Thus, the new media became (plurally) an extension of the traditional media, allowing to the public access information in a wide range of digital devices. In this sense, our qualitative study with empirical-descriptive nature...
Technology-enhanced materials provide students with higher quality learning experiences offering them multimodal modes of information. One way of integrating technology into teaching materials is through the inclusion of hyperlinks and hypertexts which provide digitally accessible sources of information. The use of hyperlinks in English language coursebooks has significantly increased over the past...
By creating “an Internet of Laboratory Things” we have built a blend of real and virtual laboratory spaces that enables students to gain practical skills necessary for their professional science and engineering careers. All our students are distance learners. This provides them by default with the proving ground needed to develop their skills in remotely operating equipment, and collaborating with...
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