Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550041
Prashant More, Ankit Dangi, M. Singh, Akshay Kumar, M. Sasikumar
World Wide Web is hosting huge information regarding lots of areas and education is not an exception. Given the huge amount of data, searching for any educational resource manually is very difficult. To overcome this, an intelligent repository of educational resources that helps to decide among the available resources is needed. This paper discusses an attempt to build such repository. This will help users to decide among the available solutions for their needs by providing a comparative analysis among the solutions. The user will also be provided with user experience of the solutions. As the content over the web changes regularly and also new resources get added to the web, the repository will be updated dynamically. And all these tasks are done automatically as far as possible. This work uses crawling, classification, and information extraction techniques for the task of identifying the softwares/tools for education from the web. Our implementation focuses on the free open source softwares (FOSS) for education domain. The final framework of this system would be generic so that it can be extended to any other domain.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550109
Archana Rane-Sharma, C. Sharma, R. Raman, M. Sasikumar
It is often observed that students in computer science and information technology lack the ability to practically apply the programming concepts to solve problems. Absence of this vital ability, limits the opportunities for these novices in the computer field. Taking a closer look at the problem, we observe that deficiency lies in the methodology of training that is imparted to them - limited practice opportunities, excessive focus given to syntax and semantics of the target programming language, untimely feedback due to manual grading, insufficiently addressed pedagogical aspects, etc. We discuss a teaching methodology to enhance the programming skills of students, using an in-house program grading tool - Parikshak. We have incorporated various pedagogical elements in teaching/learning programming in this methodology. Based on our results and findings of adopting this methodology in one of our post graduate diploma program, we strongly believe this combination of pedagogy and technology provides a viable solution for significant improvement in the programming abilities of students.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550061
Sapna Pandit, H. Acharya, Amit Sanvedi, Prateek Nahar, Suryakant Soni, Preeti Saxena, A. Ramani
This paper presents the development of E - School System Architecture (ESSA), the architecture for an E-Learning System. This architecture is introduced for the purpose of providing flexibility, scalability and modularity to the E-Learning system. Its main objective is to propose an architecture under which different e-learning software modules can be developed and integrated. During the course of development of this architecture, different services needed for an E-Learning system are identified, together with their functional understanding and means of technological realization. ESSA is motivated by MVC Architecture. It has a model that represents the data for the application, the view that is the visual representation of that data and a controller that takes user input on the view and translates that to changes in the model. It is developed for School of Computer Science & IT, DAVV, Indore. A prototype (ESS) is being built to verify and validate this architecture.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550046
Surya Kiran Reddy Karri, S. Kode
Education needs to cope with the changing industry demands and generate productive manpower. Various recent surveys have identified significant gaps between academics and industry as lack of problem solving ability, inability to map real world problems to programs and soft skills. To bridge these gaps, we have designed an innovative Certificate in Information Technology (CIT) program, using the “learning by doing” (LBD) methodology. We have identified 36 engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh, trained their faculty and have begun implementing this program to the students through the faculty at their respective colleges. From the initial feedback we received from the participants, we conclude that the CIT course will enhance the IT skills of faculty as well as students in the participating engineering colleges. The transition from conventional learning to LBD is simple and achievable. In the long run, CIT is not an end by itself but will lay the foundation for making other courses more practice oriented.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550065
A. Tanwer, Muzahid Hussain, P. Reel
Wireless sensor network (WSN) technology has got the various potential applications for mobile learning. It facilitates the proper monitoring of environmental conditions which can be combined with the convectional mobile learning devices to enhance and extend the features of mobile learning. However sensor nodes have energy constraints for mobile learning applications. In this paper, a novel approach to implement energy efficient wireless sensing framework for mobile learning is presented using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle as a Mobile Agent. This approach has unique features of wireless power delivery and data collection options from the required sensor nodes on the mobile learning device. UAV provides unrestricted accessibility and wirelessly triggering the sensor node, thus reducing energy consumption. It carries Beagle Board payload for on the spot calculations of data collected. The onboard video camera provides captures video of the area of interest and helps in enhancing the learning experience. This paper is intended to give sufficient details of the implementation of our approach.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550111
Usha Mahalingam, D. Jaganathan
This paper presents Smart Evaluation System tool for evaluation and continual learning of the students. The tool is developed for a faster evaluation and feedback system. It is developed under ASP.NET with Oracle10G as the back end. Online evaluation with three difficulty levels was introduced at the institution for regular subjects and placement training. The results are also presented in this paper.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550048
Guangbing Yang, Kinshuk, S. Graf
Student model is an essential component in any adaptive learning environment. Various student modelling approaches have been suggested in the literature that focus on learners' competencies, preferences and other personal attributes. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive student model that combines various aspects of student modelling while also considering the aspects of location and context awareness that are important for emerging ubiquitous learning environments. This paper proposes one such student model in the context of a personalized adaptive learning system, namely Personalized Adaptive Learning Dashboard (PALD), a compound student model bringing together various features of the overlay, fault, and stereotype models to provide a generic approach to modeling student with specific domain related knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550038
Santosh Kumar, A. Kushwaha
This paper presents issues on developing an innovative and user-friendly e-content generation procedure suitable for any course. A set of generalized ground rules and procedure has been proposed to support an interactive class teaching and learning process especially for any engineering course across the world. The process involves addition, interfacing and smooth and coherent running of various audio-video-power point presentations and information in coordinated manner to support real-life class teaching and learning process. It involves high value learning & grasping by the user by way of testing the course delivery by interactive question-answer session for any 40 to 50 hour lecture course. The procedure has been implemented in form of template software to support the feature of platform independent and easy linking and portability capability using Apache, MySQL, PHP, HTML etc. languages. A case study has been taken to illustrate the work. The process can be used for any e-content course.
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550116
Florence Martin
One of the major challenges that distance educators still face today in designing effective online courses is including interactivity. One of the ways this challenge has been addressed is through the use of synchronous virtual classroom technology. In this session, we will discuss some of the best practices for teaching in a synchronous virtual classroom. The practices are categorized in different topics on how instructors who teach using synchronous virtual classrooms can make it more effective: (1) Before the Virtual Class session, (2) Introduction, (3) Limiting Access/Guest Access, (4) Network Connection, (5) Archiving, (6) PowerPoint Slides, (7) Interaction, and (8) Setting Class Rules. The participants will also be given a demo of the Horizon Wimba Virtual Classroom at the session (depending on the availability of the internet access).
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Pub Date : 2010-07-01DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2010.5550049
S. Vivek, Yasmeen Ansari
This paper discusses the issues of focus, motivation and chatiquettes in a synchronous collaborative learning environment in a graduate class.
本文讨论了研究生班同步协作学习环境中的焦点、动机和提问问题。
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