Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550060
H. Mehta, M. Chandwani, P. Kanungo
This paper explores the possibility of application of cluster, grid and cloud computing in developing e-Learning systems. We are considering three major problems in implementation of distributed e-Learning systems: (i) a method for selection of appropriate distributed computing system (DCS) e.g. cluster, grid and cloud. (ii) To find suitable resource management policies. (iii) To propose an architecture for distributed e-Learning system.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550062
Florence Martin, D. Noonan
In this short paper, five different interactive technologies used to teach courses synchronously online will be showcased and demonstrated. These five technologies are Polycom PVX, Horizon Wimba Virtual Classroom, MediaSite, SharedView, and Skype. The advantages and disadvantages of these technologies will be discussed. This presentation will promote global education and will introduce opportunities for educators to maintain the interaction in the classroom while providing an option for the students to take classes online.
{"title":"Synchronous technologies for online teaching","authors":"Florence Martin, D. Noonan","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2010.5550062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2010.5550062","url":null,"abstract":"In this short paper, five different interactive technologies used to teach courses synchronously online will be showcased and demonstrated. These five technologies are Polycom PVX, Horizon Wimba Virtual Classroom, MediaSite, SharedView, and Skype. The advantages and disadvantages of these technologies will be discussed. This presentation will promote global education and will introduce opportunities for educators to maintain the interaction in the classroom while providing an option for the students to take classes online.","PeriodicalId":266595,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122696711","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 : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550105
Astha Dewan
E-learning is the buzz word in the field of education. Realising the advantages of using technology in education, the University of Delhi is launching its e-learning portal. Based on a survey of 240 college students from both private management institutes and colleges of University of Delhi, the paper focuses at gauging the existing state of technology in these institutes. This will provide a framework to promote Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in higher education. The study also aims at giving suggestions and recommendations to improve quality of higher education in India. The survey shows that the present state of technology in higher educational institutes is not good enough to effectively use technology in education. Thus, the merits of traditional classroom teaching and ICT tools should be integrated into a single system.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550052
B. Poursaeed, Chien-Sing Lee
This study investigated factors that would contribute towards more effective problem-solving skills and increase meaningful learning in two different learning environments, i.e. mobile and ubiquitous learning. In order to study these factors two prototype applications were developed and tested. In the mobile learning application, the factors investigated were self-initiated curriculum planning, visualization and assessment. The second prototype was a ubiquitous learning environment, which extended the mobile learning application by integrating it with a web-based portal. As a result, the ubiquitous learning environment provided the learners with more flexibility and features. Findings from this research indicated that learners accepted self-initiated curriculum planning, visualization and correlated assessment as effective and efficient in enhancing problem solving and meaningful learning. The results also show how these factors affected the learning process in each of the learning environments, and what features are more suitable and accepted by learners for each studied learning environment.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550059
Minakshi Agrawal, A. Agarwal, A. Krishnamoorthy, Pradeep Pendse
Increasing interest in Design/Ethnographic research in various domains including management education creates opportunities and challenges. One of them is the qualitative data of various types such as observations on sticky notes, photos, observation diaries, video clips etc. Where the volume of such qualitative data is small a designer can use simple visual clustering techniques to discover insights. However for large design research projects it could become unmanageable to say the least. The question arises if a software tool could be created which could support this process of mining insights. This paper aims at introducing such a software tool for supporting design/ethnographic research in management education. Such a software was developed and deployed for capturing observations about the lifestyle of the people living in villages with a view to understand their energy needs. The software helped capture qualitative and quantitative data from nearly 80 field researchers engaged in this research. Encouraged by this success, the software is being enhanced to become a generic tool for design /ethnographic research. The paper describes the challenges in managing design/ethnographic research data using the energy project as a case in point and the utility of the software for that project as well as the visualization of a more generic solution for design/ethnographic research.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550114
Aakash Trivedi
Online Education became far too popular in last few decades serving as a powerful platform for sharing knowledge among international groups and individuals. The motive of Online Education is to utilize the potential of World Wide Web to extend education far beyond its present limits. But the full potential of www is not utilized as there is no relevant technique implemented by which we can examine the knowledge of candidates on a mass level. As a result we are unable to appreciate actual hidden talents from different parts of world. Here we are proposing a new approach for online examinations which counters almost all the drawbacks noticed in the traditional online examination techniques. The examination model provides a relevant scheme for question presentation and tackles all major challenges faced by online examination systems.
{"title":"A relevant online examination system","authors":"Aakash Trivedi","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2010.5550114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2010.5550114","url":null,"abstract":"Online Education became far too popular in last few decades serving as a powerful platform for sharing knowledge among international groups and individuals. The motive of Online Education is to utilize the potential of World Wide Web to extend education far beyond its present limits. But the full potential of www is not utilized as there is no relevant technique implemented by which we can examine the knowledge of candidates on a mass level. As a result we are unable to appreciate actual hidden talents from different parts of world. Here we are proposing a new approach for online examinations which counters almost all the drawbacks noticed in the traditional online examination techniques. The examination model provides a relevant scheme for question presentation and tackles all major challenges faced by online examination systems.","PeriodicalId":266595,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125847548","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 : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550056
V. Dhanalakshmi, M. A. Kumar, R. Rekha, K. Soman, S. Rajendran
Grammar plays an important role in good communication. Learning grammar rules for Tamil language is very difficult as they have a very rich morphological structure which is agglutinative. Students get annoyed with the language rules and the old teaching methodology. Computer assisted Grammar Teaching Tools makes students to learn faster and better. NLP applications are used to generate such tools for curriculum enhancement of the students. In this paper we present the Grammar teaching tools in the sentence and word analyzing level for Tamil Language. The tools like Parts of speech Tagger, Chunker and Dependency parser for the sentence level analysis and Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the word level analysis were developed using machine learning based technology. These tools were very useful for second language learners to understand the word and sentence construction in a non-conceptual way. An user interface is developed for the practical usage of the tool.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550094
Ela Goyal, S. Purohit
As educational technology becomes more prevalent in Management Education, teaching is no longer restricted to face-to-face instruction. The purpose of this study is to use Moodle, a Learning Management System (LMS), in a management institute and study the reasons and the motivation behind its use by the participants. Traditional instructional activities such as presenting information, managing course material, and collecting and evaluating student work, all was done using Moodle. The findings of this paper would be useful in making effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Management Education.
{"title":"Study the applicability of Moodle in management education","authors":"Ela Goyal, S. Purohit","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2010.5550094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2010.5550094","url":null,"abstract":"As educational technology becomes more prevalent in Management Education, teaching is no longer restricted to face-to-face instruction. The purpose of this study is to use Moodle, a Learning Management System (LMS), in a management institute and study the reasons and the motivation behind its use by the participants. Traditional instructional activities such as presenting information, managing course material, and collecting and evaluating student work, all was done using Moodle. The findings of this paper would be useful in making effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Management Education.","PeriodicalId":266595,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125553446","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 : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550040
Jayashree Shinde, Manasi Patil
Designing effective constructivist learning environments is always a challenge for educators. Web 2.0 tools provide new dimensions to venture in new pedagogies. These ICT-based pedagogies have potentials of bringing in constructivist and collaborative learning experiences. These new approaches demand new evaluation strategies. Process evaluation, here, becomes a major concern. Explorations and researches in this area will, in turn, contribute largely to the development of learners for knowledge society. The paper presents such an attempt of arranging a collaborative learning environment in online mode. The study was undertaken to test effectiveness of using WebQuests in higher education, where the WebQuests tasks were performed through Microblogging. The paper presents achievement test results, analysis of opinions of learners towards their learning experiences as well as analysis of the peer interactions through Microblogging.
{"title":"Effectiveness of WebQuest strategy in Microblogging environment for knowledge generation","authors":"Jayashree Shinde, Manasi Patil","doi":"10.1109/T4E.2010.5550040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/T4E.2010.5550040","url":null,"abstract":"Designing effective constructivist learning environments is always a challenge for educators. Web 2.0 tools provide new dimensions to venture in new pedagogies. These ICT-based pedagogies have potentials of bringing in constructivist and collaborative learning experiences. These new approaches demand new evaluation strategies. Process evaluation, here, becomes a major concern. Explorations and researches in this area will, in turn, contribute largely to the development of learners for knowledge society. The paper presents such an attempt of arranging a collaborative learning environment in online mode. The study was undertaken to test effectiveness of using WebQuests in higher education, where the WebQuests tasks were performed through Microblogging. The paper presents achievement test results, analysis of opinions of learners towards their learning experiences as well as analysis of the peer interactions through Microblogging.","PeriodicalId":266595,"journal":{"name":"2010 International Conference on Technology for Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126255304","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 : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550051
Swati Das, A. P. Dhande, Manorama Bhoi
Virtual education, where a significant part of learning happens in a virtual mode, has been an interest area for organizations and universities. Virtual Classroom (VCR) is one of the ways of providing virtual education. In this article, we demonstrate that VCR can be effective, when compared to traditional classroom, by the right use of technology (like interwise), people (Subject Matter Expert), process (initial set-up and scheduling) and infrastructure (network, bandwidth). Significant efforts have been made to provide different technology based solutions. The virtual classroom (VCR) is one of them which is a learning environment in virtual space. It provides the advantages of classroom learning as well as virtual learning. It provides a better utilization of resources and time. This paper provides an analysis of VCR vs the traditional classroom taking the cost factor as ac attribute. Tradeoff between cost and quality has also been highlighted in this paper.
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