Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773236
M. Saad
The objective of this paper is to present a process that meets most of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board graduate attributes requirements, that is course-project activities. This paper goes through the different phases of a course-project and shows how these attributes are essentially met.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773222
P. Poulova, M. Černá
The paper deals with the eLearning and its potential at the university level of education. The students' point of view is highlighted. The core of the contribution forms a quantitative-qualitative research. The research was based on a comparison of students' attitudes and evaluation of the demandingness of one selected university course. Data were gained in the traditional face-to-face lessons and in eLearning supported university instruction.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773198
Khaled A. Harras, M. Sakr
The state of Qatar has embarked upon a novel challenging experiment of massively investing in its education and research infrastructures with the goal set on becoming a knowledge-based economy by 2030. World class institutions, such as Carnegie Mellon University, were therefore invited to offer identical versions of some of their undergraduate programs in Qatar. Numerous challenges inevitably emerged as a result of this rough transition that our students experience, particularly within Computer Science, which initially led to large attrition rates during the first few years. In this paper, we discuss some of these challenges that particularly occur during the first year. We shed some light on strategies taken in our revamped Computer Science introductory Freshmen Immigration course. We share our experience with how this course helped smooth this transition for first year students to make their experience more exciting and rewarding.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773221
J. Conejero, Eloina Garcia-Felix, E. Vendrell, Victoria Vivancos
In order to avoid the gap between the post-compulsory secondary education and the University, the PATU program has been conducted at the UPV. Every freshman has a teacher as an academic advisor and a sophomore as an “older brother”. Students have evaluated the program as useful and interesting, and in addition, the ones following this action have a better academic performance during their first year.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773171
A. Nussbaumer, D. Albert, Uwe Kirschenmann
This paper presents technology-mediated strategies and a technical infrastructure design for supporting self-regulated learning in open responsive learning environments which are individually compiled by the learners themselves. A self-regulated learning process model has been defined to connect the self-regulated learning approach with concrete learning activities performed to create and use own learning environments. Technology-mediated strategies have been elaborated to support all the activities and phases of the self-regulated learning process model. Guidance and personalization is supported through recommendation of cognitive and meta-cognitive learning activities and associated resources. Furthermore, automatic monitoring of learners' behavior and its feedback is used to stimulate and guide self-reflection.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773146
Raed A. Said, A. Kaba
The purpose of this paper is to explore undergraduate research skills of students from private universities in the UAE. A survey was conducted in two private universities. These are Al-Ain university of Science & Technology and Ajman University of Science and Technology. The survey questionnaire centered on the understanding of the nature of research, research process, data collection and data analysis. A total of 147 randomly selected students from the above-mentioned universities participated in the study. Data were analyzed using statistical indicators such as percentages, averages and standard deviations. The researchers hypothesized that there is no significant differences among the students of participating universities in research skills. The ANOVA table and testing hypothesis support this claim. The researchers also believed that the students' college is related to his research ability. The chi-square of independence test shows that such a relation does not exist. Males were outstanding than females in understanding the research process. Females and males reported similar results in regard to understanding of the nature of research and in regard to data collection and data analysis. Findings also indicate that the students' believe in their research ability is extremely different from their actual research skills.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773268
S. Jeschke, N. Natho, Olivier Pfeiffer, C. Schroder, E. Zorn
Goal of the NIDI-INTERNATIONAL project is to redesign and implement an existing program in order to integrate one year of study abroad for students. In this article we outline the design, implementation the BSc course of “Natural Sciences in the Information Society” that started in the winter term of 2007/08. We also describe a prototypic student project in the framework of the LiLa project that has to be implemented in the second semester abroad.
ndi - international项目的目标是重新设计和实施现有的课程，以便为学生整合一年的海外学习。在本文中，我们概述了2007/08冬季学期开始的“信息社会中的自然科学”理学学士课程的设计和实施。我们还描述了一个在LiLa项目框架内的原型学生项目，该项目必须在国外的第二学期实施。
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773206
Alberto Gallardo, T. Richter, P. Debicki, L. Bellido, V. Mateos, V. Villagrá
Recently, many educational institutions have acknowledged the importance of making laboratories available on-line, allowing their students to run experiments from a remote computer. While usage of virtual laboratories scales well, remote experiments, based on scarce and expensive rigs, i.e. physical resources, do not and typically can only be used by one person or cooperating group at a time. It is therefore necessary to administer the access to rigs, where we distinguish between three different roles: content providers, teachers and students. This paper reports on a conceptual model and technical design of a rig booking system that provides mechanisms for content providers and teachers to control and grant access to on-line remote laboratories. The design of the booking system is based on a requirements analysis carried out by the EC funded LiLa project in cooperation with international partners from the Global Online Lab Consortium, GoLC.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773136
C. Watterson, D. Carnegie
Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand (NZ) offers open entry to its Bachelor of Engineering (BE) program. Advancement in this degree is dependent on the attaining of a B (65%) average over the required first year papers. The BE program currently has an unacceptable 60 percent attrition rate. This paper details our attempts to identify the barriers to successful student completion of the BE degree by surveying students in their first, third and fourth years of studies. Attempts have been made to address several of the barriers identified and then to quantify the effectiveness of these initiatives.
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This paper describes the work done at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences towards integrating VISIR-based labs on the iLab architecture. The Virtual Systems in Reality (VISIR) project is carried out by the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden and features a platform for performing experiments in different domains.
{"title":"A VISIR lab server for the iLab Shared Architecture","authors":"D. Zutin","doi":"10.3991/ijoe.v7is1.1754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v7is1.1754","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the work done at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences towards integrating VISIR-based labs on the iLab architecture. The Virtual Systems in Reality (VISIR) project is carried out by the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden and features a platform for performing experiments in different domains.","PeriodicalId":146973,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122383413","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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