Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336052
Y. Bouzid, M. Jemni
In today's modern world, new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has given wings to empower the use of technology in the educational process. Increasingly, it is being seen as a powerful development tool which used to help students with special needs gain access to educational resources and enable them to become active learners alongside their hearing peers. For students with hearing impairments, ICT can play an especially important role in developing their language experiences without being dependent on the spoken words and this by adopting specialized tools used either in the classroom or at a distance. The main objective of this paper is to highlight the potential benefits of using ICT in deaf education and the major challenges that lie ahead. Particular attention will be paid to the ongoing research project, tuniSigner, which deals with the development of new ICT-based applications specifically aimed at supporting the learning of sign language notations to deaf learners by adopting avatar technology.
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Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336045
B. Jebali, Ramzi Farhat
The personalization of the learning experience in MOOCs context has been the subject of many recent researches. As researchers talk about learning personalization since 1968, many learning personalization approaches and tools already exist. However those approach and tools are designed without taking in account the MOOCs' specificities. First, in this paper we propose to clarify the influence of MOOCs' specificities on the learning personalization process. Then we will propose accordingly our personalization strategy. It consists on transforming the heterogeneous masse of learners to homogenous sub-masses of learners. The transformation is done using a set of personalization parameters. Our approach provides a personalized learning process referring to the groups' profiles and respecting the teachers' personalization policy.
{"title":"Toward personalization in MOOCs","authors":"B. Jebali, Ramzi Farhat","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336045","url":null,"abstract":"The personalization of the learning experience in MOOCs context has been the subject of many recent researches. As researchers talk about learning personalization since 1968, many learning personalization approaches and tools already exist. However those approach and tools are designed without taking in account the MOOCs' specificities. First, in this paper we propose to clarify the influence of MOOCs' specificities on the learning personalization process. Then we will propose accordingly our personalization strategy. It consists on transforming the heterogeneous masse of learners to homogenous sub-masses of learners. The transformation is done using a set of personalization parameters. Our approach provides a personalized learning process referring to the groups' profiles and respecting the teachers' personalization policy.","PeriodicalId":129665,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130551723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336051
Mohamed Ali Khenissi, Fathi Essalmi
The Model of Felder-Silverman Learning Style has received a noticeable attention in the adaptive e-learning systems, compared to other learning styles theories. This work deals with the Felder-Silverman Index of Learning Styles (ILS) questionnaire which considered as a common tool for learners' learning styles assessment in adaptive e-learning systems. This questionnaire contains 44 questions, available free on the internet and its validity and reliability have been tested. One of the main concerns related to this questionnaire is the number of questions the learners has to answer. The completion of this questionnaire is a time consuming and very boring task for the learners. For overcoming this issue, some works proposed to reduce the number of the ILS questions needed to determine the learning style of the learner. Others works investigated the implicit detection of the learner's learning style from his/her behaviour while using the e-learning system or computer educational games. This paper lists these approaches, highlights the limits of each one of them and proposes an alternative one. The proposed approach is based on the division of the ILS questionnaire on four sub-questionnaires; re-implementation of the algorithm used to assess the learner's preferences on the four dimensions of the Felder-Silverman learning style model; and the creation of four web services to replace the existing web-based version of the ILS.
{"title":"The divide-and-conquer paradigm as a basis of a new approach to overcome the time consuming issue of the assessment process in adaptive E-learning systems","authors":"Mohamed Ali Khenissi, Fathi Essalmi","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336051","url":null,"abstract":"The Model of Felder-Silverman Learning Style has received a noticeable attention in the adaptive e-learning systems, compared to other learning styles theories. This work deals with the Felder-Silverman Index of Learning Styles (ILS) questionnaire which considered as a common tool for learners' learning styles assessment in adaptive e-learning systems. This questionnaire contains 44 questions, available free on the internet and its validity and reliability have been tested. One of the main concerns related to this questionnaire is the number of questions the learners has to answer. The completion of this questionnaire is a time consuming and very boring task for the learners. For overcoming this issue, some works proposed to reduce the number of the ILS questions needed to determine the learning style of the learner. Others works investigated the implicit detection of the learner's learning style from his/her behaviour while using the e-learning system or computer educational games. This paper lists these approaches, highlights the limits of each one of them and proposes an alternative one. The proposed approach is based on the division of the ILS questionnaire on four sub-questionnaires; re-implementation of the algorithm used to assess the learner's preferences on the four dimensions of the Felder-Silverman learning style model; and the creation of four web services to replace the existing web-based version of the ILS.","PeriodicalId":129665,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133494426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336068
H. B. Brahim, Mohamed Koutheair Khribi, M. Jemni
This paper highlights the potential of the OER movement in accessibility through revealing its impact on achieving inclusive education for people with disabilities. It provides an overview of the challenges surrounding OER accessibility along with the proposed strategies to overcome them as well as performing an investigation of OER delivery systems' commitment degree to support access to education for all users especially people with disabilities.
{"title":"Towards accessible open educational resources: Overview and challenges","authors":"H. B. Brahim, Mohamed Koutheair Khribi, M. Jemni","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336068","url":null,"abstract":"This paper highlights the potential of the OER movement in accessibility through revealing its impact on achieving inclusive education for people with disabilities. It provides an overview of the challenges surrounding OER accessibility along with the proposed strategies to overcome them as well as performing an investigation of OER delivery systems' commitment degree to support access to education for all users especially people with disabilities.","PeriodicalId":129665,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"54 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114022852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper provides our experience in building a system called Mr. Saud that facilitates the educational process using NAO humanoid robot. NAO robot was programmed to support fun leaning by providing an interface with many activities and games. The system provides quizzes to test the student's understanding. All interactions between NAO and the students will be through voice and touch. Moreover, the system enables the teacher to continuously review the student's progress and understanding via a web interface. In addition, an Android application that controls NAO robot's movements, speech and expressions was developed to enable the teacher to remotely control NAO.
{"title":"The experience of developing Mr. saud educational system using NAO humanoid robot","authors":"Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa, Bashayer Alsalman, Deema Alnuhait, Atheer Alkhalifah, Ohoud Meldah, Sara Aloud","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336008","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides our experience in building a system called Mr. Saud that facilitates the educational process using NAO humanoid robot. NAO robot was programmed to support fun leaning by providing an interface with many activities and games. The system provides quizzes to test the student's understanding. All interactions between NAO and the students will be through voice and touch. Moreover, the system enables the teacher to continuously review the student's progress and understanding via a web interface. In addition, an Android application that controls NAO robot's movements, speech and expressions was developed to enable the teacher to remotely control NAO.","PeriodicalId":129665,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128685499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336059
Huda Mubarak Al-Dairy, A. Al-Rabaani
This study explores research trends for the acquiring of infographies in the field of education. To achieve the objective a content analysis approach was used, applying content analysis card to analyze previous studies. There results showed an increase in the number of studies related to the application of infographics in the field of education and revealed that infographics is applied in several curriculums and courses. Finally, it found that applying infographics develops students' knowledge, skills and attitudes.
{"title":"An analytical study of research orientations for infographies applications in education","authors":"Huda Mubarak Al-Dairy, A. Al-Rabaani","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336059","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores research trends for the acquiring of infographies in the field of education. To achieve the objective a content analysis approach was used, applying content analysis card to analyze previous studies. There results showed an increase in the number of studies related to the application of infographics in the field of education and revealed that infographics is applied in several curriculums and courses. Finally, it found that applying infographics develops students' knowledge, skills and attitudes.","PeriodicalId":129665,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121746339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336053
A. Al-Sulaimi, Hafedh Al-Shihi
The technological advancements are rapidly disrupting our lives and causing a wide technology adoption gap between older and younger people. When it comes to reading modes (Printed-text vs Digital), researches show discrepancy in results and preferences among generations. Reading comprehension is always seen as a pivotal subject in any reading process or task. This paper aims to examine the key assessment factors to be considered to assess the impacts of reading modes on reading comprehension. Several factors and methodologies were observed that span across several disciplines like neuroscience, brain research, instructional and learning technologies, human computer interactions, information technology among others. In this paper, only the common and most frequently used factors were selected and described, namely reader's attention, reading speed, reading workload, and reading preference.
{"title":"The effects of reading mode (digital vs printed text) on reading comprehension: A literature review of the key assessment factors","authors":"A. Al-Sulaimi, Hafedh Al-Shihi","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336053","url":null,"abstract":"The technological advancements are rapidly disrupting our lives and causing a wide technology adoption gap between older and younger people. When it comes to reading modes (Printed-text vs Digital), researches show discrepancy in results and preferences among generations. Reading comprehension is always seen as a pivotal subject in any reading process or task. This paper aims to examine the key assessment factors to be considered to assess the impacts of reading modes on reading comprehension. Several factors and methodologies were observed that span across several disciplines like neuroscience, brain research, instructional and learning technologies, human computer interactions, information technology among others. In this paper, only the common and most frequently used factors were selected and described, namely reader's attention, reading speed, reading workload, and reading preference.","PeriodicalId":129665,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127972588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336057
Sami Rojbi, A. Rojbi
Accessibility guidelines [1]–[3] emphasize the need to allow the user to interact with web pages not only through a pointing device, but through the keyboard as well. The specification of HTML4 [4] came with the access keys but they have resulted in an unexpected failure [5]. This paper proposes a new system which deters conflicts between web page access keys and keyboard shortcuts used by various OS applications.
{"title":"KeybNav: A new system for web navigation through a keyboard","authors":"Sami Rojbi, A. Rojbi","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336057","url":null,"abstract":"Accessibility guidelines [1]–[3] emphasize the need to allow the user to interact with web pages not only through a pointing device, but through the keyboard as well. The specification of HTML4 [4] came with the access keys but they have resulted in an unexpected failure [5]. This paper proposes a new system which deters conflicts between web page access keys and keyboard shortcuts used by various OS applications.","PeriodicalId":129665,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114916257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336021
A. S. Al-Harthi, M. Emam
Leadership of technology for inclusion is clearly emphasized in international standards for educators. This paper describes the role and processes of leadership to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for inclusion of students with disabilities in schools. As learning technology is becoming an indispensable component of inclusive practice in modern educational system, it is imperative that educators have a clear vision for infusing it through the processes of vision setting, planning, implementation, organizational structure, and decision-making.
{"title":"Leadership of technology in inclusive practice","authors":"A. S. Al-Harthi, M. Emam","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336021","url":null,"abstract":"Leadership of technology for inclusion is clearly emphasized in international standards for educators. This paper describes the role and processes of leadership to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for inclusion of students with disabilities in schools. As learning technology is becoming an indispensable component of inclusive practice in modern educational system, it is imperative that educators have a clear vision for infusing it through the processes of vision setting, planning, implementation, organizational structure, and decision-making.","PeriodicalId":129665,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128988639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336061
Noha Alsulami, A. Cherif, Abdessamad Imine
Opportunistic networks (ON) represent an upcoming platform where many mobile devices can communicate without the need of any global or sophisticated network infrastructure. An important advancement in today's technology is the ability to build in ad-hoc and opportunistic way the collaborating group size to disseminate and share data. Using simple communication patterns, these networks are currently a hot topic research area on how adapting and running collaborative applications. In this paper, we are interested in Collaborative Editors (CE) which allow many dispersed users to simultaneously manipulate the same shared data, such as textual or multimedia documents. More precisely, we present a series of experiments to deploy over ON an adapted optimistic replication algorithm based on operational transformation approach and used for supporting collaborative editing works. Due to data replication and the unpredictable arrival order of user updates, the preservation of data convergence is crucially required in CE. Accordingly, we evaluate the effectiveness of the most significant ON routing protocols, PRoPHET and Epidemic, to achieve convergence by observing the behavior of our testbed algorithm through simulations. Our preliminary results indicate that combining CE and ON is not without price. Indeed, the data convergence may be delayed according to the flow of exchanged updates and the size of the group of mobile users.
{"title":"Evaluating data convergence of collaborative editors in opportunistic networks","authors":"Noha Alsulami, A. Cherif, Abdessamad Imine","doi":"10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTA.2017.8336061","url":null,"abstract":"Opportunistic networks (ON) represent an upcoming platform where many mobile devices can communicate without the need of any global or sophisticated network infrastructure. An important advancement in today's technology is the ability to build in ad-hoc and opportunistic way the collaborating group size to disseminate and share data. Using simple communication patterns, these networks are currently a hot topic research area on how adapting and running collaborative applications. In this paper, we are interested in Collaborative Editors (CE) which allow many dispersed users to simultaneously manipulate the same shared data, such as textual or multimedia documents. More precisely, we present a series of experiments to deploy over ON an adapted optimistic replication algorithm based on operational transformation approach and used for supporting collaborative editing works. Due to data replication and the unpredictable arrival order of user updates, the preservation of data convergence is crucially required in CE. Accordingly, we evaluate the effectiveness of the most significant ON routing protocols, PRoPHET and Epidemic, to achieve convergence by observing the behavior of our testbed algorithm through simulations. Our preliminary results indicate that combining CE and ON is not without price. Indeed, the data convergence may be delayed according to the flow of exchanged updates and the size of the group of mobile users.","PeriodicalId":129665,"journal":{"name":"2017 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility (ICTA)","volume":"258 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120890177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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