Teaching an undergraduate process control course for chemical engineering students can be very challenging due to the advanced Control mathematics content in the course syllabus. Conventional class room teaching of Process Control is known to cause fear and lack of motivation among students. We reform the current teacher-focused style of teaching to an interactive mode of teaching resulting in a boost in the intrinsic motivation of students in the course. This paper focuses on how adaptation of Tablet PC, use of multiple choice questions and traditional tutorial sessions have been reformed to enhance interactive learning in Process Control. It is shown that the adopted methods have resulted in significant improvement in the degree of satisfaction and performance index of students as compared to previous offerings of Process Control. We use course evaluations, quantitative and qualitative surveys to demonstrate the effectiveness of the teaching reformations.
{"title":"Enhancing Student Motivation in Process Control via Interactive Learning Tools","authors":"Poovarasi Balan, V. Kalavally","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.38","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching an undergraduate process control course for chemical engineering students can be very challenging due to the advanced Control mathematics content in the course syllabus. Conventional class room teaching of Process Control is known to cause fear and lack of motivation among students. We reform the current teacher-focused style of teaching to an interactive mode of teaching resulting in a boost in the intrinsic motivation of students in the course. This paper focuses on how adaptation of Tablet PC, use of multiple choice questions and traditional tutorial sessions have been reformed to enhance interactive learning in Process Control. It is shown that the adopted methods have resulted in significant improvement in the degree of satisfaction and performance index of students as compared to previous offerings of Process Control. We use course evaluations, quantitative and qualitative surveys to demonstrate the effectiveness of the teaching reformations.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124418225","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}
Workflows are ubiquitous in educational ERP and process management. The question we address in this paper is how to specify and design verifiable workflows for educational processes. To specify workflows, we borrow a simple algebraic notation from computer science. We illustrate the use of this notation through a series of typical workflow examples. We show how an algebraic specification is more expressive than a graphical specification. We then show how these algebraic specifications may be represented in the Scribble specification language, which has in built tools for verification.
{"title":"Algebraic Modelling of Educational Workflows","authors":"Ankur Goel, Venkatesh Choppella","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.60","url":null,"abstract":"Workflows are ubiquitous in educational ERP and process management. The question we address in this paper is how to specify and design verifiable workflows for educational processes. To specify workflows, we borrow a simple algebraic notation from computer science. We illustrate the use of this notation through a series of typical workflow examples. We show how an algebraic specification is more expressive than a graphical specification. We then show how these algebraic specifications may be represented in the Scribble specification language, which has in built tools for verification.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124478390","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}
The backbone of semantic web is ontology. In this paper we demonstrate the construction of ontology in education domain. We have constructed a course ontology which contains the complete details regarding various courses offered by the university. Course ontology can be used as a guide by the students for selecting a future course depending on their existing qualification. Course ontology is constructed using Protégé 4.0 alpha tool.
{"title":"Creation of Ontology in Education Domain","authors":"A. Ameen, K. Khan, B. Rani","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.50","url":null,"abstract":"The backbone of semantic web is ontology. In this paper we demonstrate the construction of ontology in education domain. We have constructed a course ontology which contains the complete details regarding various courses offered by the university. Course ontology can be used as a guide by the students for selecting a future course depending on their existing qualification. Course ontology is constructed using Protégé 4.0 alpha tool.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115865704","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}
E-learning systems have overcome the temporal &spatial constraints of traditional learning environments in extending educational opportunities to one and all. With a growth rate of 35.6%, the e-learning market is expanding in a phenomenal pace, still many e-learning systems fail. One of the important factors that determine the success of information systems is the ability of the system to satisfy its users. This paper focuses on the system design perspective, one among various factors that account for users'satisfaction in e-learning systems and argues that for enhanced user satisfaction; a learner Centered framework should be adopted over user Centered frame work for design of e-learning systems.
{"title":"Design Approach for E-learning Systems: Should it be User Centered or Learner Centered","authors":"Debayan Dhar, P. Yammiyavar","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.57","url":null,"abstract":"E-learning systems have overcome the temporal &spatial constraints of traditional learning environments in extending educational opportunities to one and all. With a growth rate of 35.6%, the e-learning market is expanding in a phenomenal pace, still many e-learning systems fail. One of the important factors that determine the success of information systems is the ability of the system to satisfy its users. This paper focuses on the system design perspective, one among various factors that account for users'satisfaction in e-learning systems and argues that for enhanced user satisfaction; a learner Centered framework should be adopted over user Centered frame work for design of e-learning systems.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130406969","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}
Management simulations are designed to provide experiential learning bridging the gap between theory and practice. The purpose of this study is to understand the factors that promote the effectiveness of computer based business simulations in management education. The study was conducted in a premier B-School based in Hyderabad. The knowledge component of the course is often delivered to the learners as participative classroom based lectures and business simulations for courses in operations research, strategy and marketing are offered to provide an effective immersive learning experience. This paper explores the effectiveness of simulations in management education in terms of: (1) Learning assimilated from the simulation (2) Team dynamics observed (3) Ease of use of simulation (4) Realism in simulation. The paper reports findings of a survey administered to the students of an executive program offered for experienced working professionals at the B-School'sHyderabad campus in India. The paper also puts forth enhancement measures that can be taken up to make the learning process more effective.
{"title":"Effectiveness of Computer Based Management Simulations -- A Case Study","authors":"N. Padmaja, Sita Vanka","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.11","url":null,"abstract":"Management simulations are designed to provide experiential learning bridging the gap between theory and practice. The purpose of this study is to understand the factors that promote the effectiveness of computer based business simulations in management education. The study was conducted in a premier B-School based in Hyderabad. The knowledge component of the course is often delivered to the learners as participative classroom based lectures and business simulations for courses in operations research, strategy and marketing are offered to provide an effective immersive learning experience. This paper explores the effectiveness of simulations in management education in terms of: (1) Learning assimilated from the simulation (2) Team dynamics observed (3) Ease of use of simulation (4) Realism in simulation. The paper reports findings of a survey administered to the students of an executive program offered for experienced working professionals at the B-School'sHyderabad campus in India. The paper also puts forth enhancement measures that can be taken up to make the learning process more effective.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123826232","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}
Present mass education system that can best be described using the factory metaphor is witnessing criminal wastage of resources. Despite of regulatory framework and accreditation mechanism, the quality in mass higher education system in India still remains elusive. We observe that Lean and Agile practices that have met with great success in manufacturing and software industry can offer few of their practices to higher education in order to reduce the wastage. In this paper we have reflected on some of the current practices in higher education and proposed an Agile Manifesto for education on the lines of Agile Manifesto in the software development. The paper puts forward a novel idea of how we can improve the quality and productivity in education sector by practicing the agile manifesto with the help of ICT.
{"title":"Agile Manifesto in Higher Education","authors":"V. Kamat","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.49","url":null,"abstract":"Present mass education system that can best be described using the factory metaphor is witnessing criminal wastage of resources. Despite of regulatory framework and accreditation mechanism, the quality in mass higher education system in India still remains elusive. We observe that Lean and Agile practices that have met with great success in manufacturing and software industry can offer few of their practices to higher education in order to reduce the wastage. In this paper we have reflected on some of the current practices in higher education and proposed an Agile Manifesto for education on the lines of Agile Manifesto in the software development. The paper puts forward a novel idea of how we can improve the quality and productivity in education sector by practicing the agile manifesto with the help of ICT.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134267697","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}
There is a significant dearth of time and qualified teachers to make 200 million adult illiterates of India spread across 22 Indian Languages literate and it would take massive effort to address the scale and variety challenges. In this paper, we summarize four and half years of our experience of analyzing and improving a decade-long technology to adult literacy problem. Based on this experience and extensive interviews with teachers/learners and with the goal of devising quality instruction at attractive productivity rates through technology, we propose GAMBLE as a unified modelling framework and technical platform to organize instructional material in the form of data (facts, cases, rules and models). Essentially GAMBLE allows learners to perform well at all levels (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create) of Bloom'sTaxonomy. We briefly present the case of applying GAMBLE framework to adult literacy and discuss its broad applications for school education as well.
{"title":"Towards a Model Driven eLearning Framework to Improve Quality of Teaching","authors":"S. Chimalakonda, K. Nori","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.29","url":null,"abstract":"There is a significant dearth of time and qualified teachers to make 200 million adult illiterates of India spread across 22 Indian Languages literate and it would take massive effort to address the scale and variety challenges. In this paper, we summarize four and half years of our experience of analyzing and improving a decade-long technology to adult literacy problem. Based on this experience and extensive interviews with teachers/learners and with the goal of devising quality instruction at attractive productivity rates through technology, we propose GAMBLE as a unified modelling framework and technical platform to organize instructional material in the form of data (facts, cases, rules and models). Essentially GAMBLE allows learners to perform well at all levels (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create) of Bloom'sTaxonomy. We briefly present the case of applying GAMBLE framework to adult literacy and discuss its broad applications for school education as well.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114473226","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 proposes a model (architecture and protocol) that will help universities and educational institutions to automate student attendance activity. A client server architecture using cryptography is proposed to log attendance details in a secure manner. A protocol is devised such that it is hard for students to submit wrong information into the server and very hard for adversary to impersonate.
{"title":"Architecture for Automated Student Attendance","authors":"Manjunath Mattam, S. Karumuri, S. R. Meda","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.39","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a model (architecture and protocol) that will help universities and educational institutions to automate student attendance activity. A client server architecture using cryptography is proposed to log attendance details in a secure manner. A protocol is devised such that it is hard for students to submit wrong information into the server and very hard for adversary to impersonate.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116372019","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}
J. Antony, S. Ramakrishnan, Manoj T. Joy, Rubin Thottupuram
Considering the exponential growth in communication, network and web technology areas, Innovative E-Learning practices are gaining importance. This paper proposes a model for meaningful interactive engagement of teachers and learners in classrooms or in distant mode. Here we make use of short message services for conducting quizzes pertaining to a concept in a course. Electronic Clickers which were extensively used in this regard have a number of limitations. In this context it is possible to make use of mobile phones to our advantage. The scores obtained can be considered as a student state variable which can possibly belong to a certain fuzzy set. This way we can identify more state variables belonging to student/teacher domains and based on certain fuzzy rules, we can classify the students. Now it is possible to provide personalized recommendations based on a course ontology which is used to connect different concepts in a course.
{"title":"SMS Based E-assessments Enabling better Student Engagement, Evaluation and Recommendation Services in E-learning Making Use of Fuzzy Rules and Course Ontologies","authors":"J. Antony, S. Ramakrishnan, Manoj T. Joy, Rubin Thottupuram","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.9","url":null,"abstract":"Considering the exponential growth in communication, network and web technology areas, Innovative E-Learning practices are gaining importance. This paper proposes a model for meaningful interactive engagement of teachers and learners in classrooms or in distant mode. Here we make use of short message services for conducting quizzes pertaining to a concept in a course. Electronic Clickers which were extensively used in this regard have a number of limitations. In this context it is possible to make use of mobile phones to our advantage. The scores obtained can be considered as a student state variable which can possibly belong to a certain fuzzy set. This way we can identify more state variables belonging to student/teacher domains and based on certain fuzzy rules, we can classify the students. Now it is possible to provide personalized recommendations based on a course ontology which is used to connect different concepts in a course.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"401 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132372350","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}
In the area of radio frequency (RF) and microwave engineering courses, university departments are introducing new laboratories for high-frequency (HF)telecommunication and/or RF communication related courses. This is necessary for equipping students for the needs of telecommunication industry. Development and implementation of a robot-assisted internet-based RF and wireless laboratory is described in detail.
{"title":"RF Laboratory for Engineering Education","authors":"Ananda Maiti, S. Mahata, C. Maiti","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2012.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2012.37","url":null,"abstract":"In the area of radio frequency (RF) and microwave engineering courses, university departments are introducing new laboratories for high-frequency (HF)telecommunication and/or RF communication related courses. This is necessary for equipping students for the needs of telecommunication industry. Development and implementation of a robot-assisted internet-based RF and wireless laboratory is described in detail.","PeriodicalId":202337,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127226791","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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