Ting Liu, Zengzhao Chen, A. Lesgold, Xiaochao Feng, Cong Wang
Blended learning has been gradually playing an important role in modern education, especially with the development of the technology. In the previous researches, scholars focused on the blended learning pattern with the help of the new technology in only part of the learning sections. Recently, we have developed a computer-assisted teaching system (starC) to assist teachers and students to operate the learning activity through the whole learning process, which needs us to propose a new learning model for learning participants. In the paper, we proposed a novelty blended learning pattern which is collaborative learning in a flipped environment. Furthermore, the proposed model is applied in English language teaching classes in a college. And we analyzed the results through comparisons between the experimental group and the control group. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed pattern outperforms the traditional method in English grammar, reading, writing, most significantly spoken English. The reason lies in the collaborative group discussion and self-assessment exercises and tests.
{"title":"Novelty Blended Learning Pattern and Its Application in English Language Teaching","authors":"Ting Liu, Zengzhao Chen, A. Lesgold, Xiaochao Feng, Cong Wang","doi":"10.1145/3134847.3134849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3134847.3134849","url":null,"abstract":"Blended learning has been gradually playing an important role in modern education, especially with the development of the technology. In the previous researches, scholars focused on the blended learning pattern with the help of the new technology in only part of the learning sections. Recently, we have developed a computer-assisted teaching system (starC) to assist teachers and students to operate the learning activity through the whole learning process, which needs us to propose a new learning model for learning participants. In the paper, we proposed a novelty blended learning pattern which is collaborative learning in a flipped environment. Furthermore, the proposed model is applied in English language teaching classes in a college. And we analyzed the results through comparisons between the experimental group and the control group. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed pattern outperforms the traditional method in English grammar, reading, writing, most significantly spoken English. The reason lies in the collaborative group discussion and self-assessment exercises and tests.","PeriodicalId":269655,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Digital Technology in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125832575","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 cultivation of graduate students' innovative abilities is an important measure for the strategies of building "an innovative country" and "Talented Persons Powering the Nation". In this paper, the graduate students' innovative ability GUIUR (Government, User, Industry, University and Research Institute) practical training mode considered as a system was put forward by using the method of systematic thinking. Firstly, the connotation of this mode was unscrambled systematically to analyze essential factors, purpose, structure, function and environment of this system; and then the subsystem of this system was analyzed respectively from the subject and the process; finally, the system structure model of graduate students' innovative ability GUIUR practical training mode was established and the interaction relationships between the elements, between the subsystems as well as between the system and the environment were discussed in the hope of providing a new idea for the cultivation of graduate students' innovative abilities.
{"title":"Construction of System Structure Model of Graduate Students' Innovative Ability \"GUIUR\" Practical Training Mode","authors":"Tian Jie, B. Xiao","doi":"10.1145/3134847.3134860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3134847.3134860","url":null,"abstract":"The cultivation of graduate students' innovative abilities is an important measure for the strategies of building \"an innovative country\" and \"Talented Persons Powering the Nation\". In this paper, the graduate students' innovative ability GUIUR (Government, User, Industry, University and Research Institute) practical training mode considered as a system was put forward by using the method of systematic thinking. Firstly, the connotation of this mode was unscrambled systematically to analyze essential factors, purpose, structure, function and environment of this system; and then the subsystem of this system was analyzed respectively from the subject and the process; finally, the system structure model of graduate students' innovative ability GUIUR practical training mode was established and the interaction relationships between the elements, between the subsystems as well as between the system and the environment were discussed in the hope of providing a new idea for the cultivation of graduate students' innovative abilities.","PeriodicalId":269655,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Digital Technology in Education","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128764206","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 flipped classroom is a new type of teaching model produced under the modern information society. It subverts the traditional teaching mode. It is better to achieve student's independent cooperation to explore the learning model, greatly enhanced the interaction between teachers and students, the reform of teaching methods in colleges and universities have important significance. This study chose a blended course in the university as an experimental course. The methods of literature analysis, classroom observation, questionnaire and interview were used. The study explored the effect of the teaching in the technical courses, and summarized the existing problems in order to provide the basis for the follow-up curriculum reform.
{"title":"A Study on the Application of Flipped Classroom in College Course Teaching","authors":"Jiahua Zhang, Ye-hui Zhang, Rongfu Wang","doi":"10.1145/3134847.3134854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3134847.3134854","url":null,"abstract":"The flipped classroom is a new type of teaching model produced under the modern information society. It subverts the traditional teaching mode. It is better to achieve student's independent cooperation to explore the learning model, greatly enhanced the interaction between teachers and students, the reform of teaching methods in colleges and universities have important significance. This study chose a blended course in the university as an experimental course. The methods of literature analysis, classroom observation, questionnaire and interview were used. The study explored the effect of the teaching in the technical courses, and summarized the existing problems in order to provide the basis for the follow-up curriculum reform.","PeriodicalId":269655,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Digital Technology in Education","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123739899","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}
Teaching is known to be as the noblest profession and vocation because it is devoted to honing the students' cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. To become a professional teacher, an aspirant must pass the board examination to get a license to teach. This study determined predictors of success in the Licensure Examinations for Teachers. The Retrospective-predictive design employing simple mediation analysis served as the structure of the study to predict the effect of prior achievements to the LET performance. Furthermore, it aimed also to determine if the first and second-year academic achievements of the students in college mediate the effect of prior achievement to the LET performance of graduates. The results revealed that the influence of college entrance score to the LET performance of the graduates was mediated by the first and second-year academic achievement of the graduates. Hence, the effect of college entrance score to the LET performance is significant or felt because of the mediator. It is then recommended that college entrance score should be a basis for admission to the program and the general weighted average for the first two years be a basis for retention of students.
{"title":"Predictors of Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) Performance: A Mediation Analysis","authors":"Marisol Solis-foronda","doi":"10.1145/3134847.3134863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3134847.3134863","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching is known to be as the noblest profession and vocation because it is devoted to honing the students' cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. To become a professional teacher, an aspirant must pass the board examination to get a license to teach. This study determined predictors of success in the Licensure Examinations for Teachers. The Retrospective-predictive design employing simple mediation analysis served as the structure of the study to predict the effect of prior achievements to the LET performance. Furthermore, it aimed also to determine if the first and second-year academic achievements of the students in college mediate the effect of prior achievement to the LET performance of graduates. The results revealed that the influence of college entrance score to the LET performance of the graduates was mediated by the first and second-year academic achievement of the graduates. Hence, the effect of college entrance score to the LET performance is significant or felt because of the mediator. It is then recommended that college entrance score should be a basis for admission to the program and the general weighted average for the first two years be a basis for retention of students.","PeriodicalId":269655,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Digital Technology in Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121198329","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 construction of learning object repository is the key infrastructure of learning object organization under the E-learning environment. At present, the learning object repository is redundant construction, scattered and confused, lack the creation of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge, is not conducive to knowledge sharing. In view of the above problems, this paper proposed a learning object repository fusion method, designed and constructed learning object knowledge units and fusion rule base, and applied fuzzy set theory to knowledge unit similarity fusion. Finally, we verified the effectiveness and feasibility of the method through the experiments, and get the more reliable results than single knowledge source detection, reduced the uncertainty of the fusion results. It has a certain reference value for improving the quality of learning object repository and collaborative work among repositories.
{"title":"Research on Similarity Fusion in Knowledge Fusion of Learning Object Repository based on Fuzzy Set Theory","authors":"Tao Huang, Yun-Le Chen, Hao Zhang","doi":"10.1145/3134847.3134856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3134847.3134856","url":null,"abstract":"The construction of learning object repository is the key infrastructure of learning object organization under the E-learning environment. At present, the learning object repository is redundant construction, scattered and confused, lack the creation of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge, is not conducive to knowledge sharing. In view of the above problems, this paper proposed a learning object repository fusion method, designed and constructed learning object knowledge units and fusion rule base, and applied fuzzy set theory to knowledge unit similarity fusion. Finally, we verified the effectiveness and feasibility of the method through the experiments, and get the more reliable results than single knowledge source detection, reduced the uncertainty of the fusion results. It has a certain reference value for improving the quality of learning object repository and collaborative work among repositories.","PeriodicalId":269655,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Digital Technology in Education","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114352599","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}
Doctoral dissertation is one of the most important parts in the doctoral degree program. This paper analyzes the data of doctoral dissertations in a university for three consecutive years, and investigates the factors related to the quality of doctoral dissertations from the aspects of students' characteristics and cultivation methods. The results show that the enrollment age, study period, mode of study and subject categories, whether cross-specialty, etc., have significant impact on the quality of doctoral dissertations. Then, a prediction model based on the weighted Random Forest (RF) is presented to predict the quality of doctoral dissertation, which is effective for unbalanced data and improves the generalization ability of the original RF, the encouraging result of 81.29% prediction rate has been obtained, which provides objective evidence for doctoral degree program management.
{"title":"Study on Influencing Factors and Prediction Based on Random Forest of Doctoral Dissertations","authors":"Yang Lian, Jingying Chen, Chunyan Su","doi":"10.1145/3134847.3134855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3134847.3134855","url":null,"abstract":"Doctoral dissertation is one of the most important parts in the doctoral degree program. This paper analyzes the data of doctoral dissertations in a university for three consecutive years, and investigates the factors related to the quality of doctoral dissertations from the aspects of students' characteristics and cultivation methods. The results show that the enrollment age, study period, mode of study and subject categories, whether cross-specialty, etc., have significant impact on the quality of doctoral dissertations. Then, a prediction model based on the weighted Random Forest (RF) is presented to predict the quality of doctoral dissertation, which is effective for unbalanced data and improves the generalization ability of the original RF, the encouraging result of 81.29% prediction rate has been obtained, which provides objective evidence for doctoral degree program management.","PeriodicalId":269655,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Digital Technology in Education","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125306467","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}
Towards the recent years, huge amount of information are continuously growing and produced at a very fast pace. Nevertheless, most of it is published in formats that are not suitable to be process by analytic tools directly. In addition, most of these data sources are heterogeneous, thus, making it difficult task for data integration, and subsequently for data exchange. The aim of this paper is outline the steps to transform relational databases to ontology representation. We also review some of the recent mapping tools on the theoretical aspect of how each method works, focusing on discussing the benefits and drawbacks of these approaches. In addition, we also highlight the issues with the current tools, and subsequently outline the requirements of the mapping tools.
{"title":"Mapping Relational Databases to Ontology Representation: A Review","authors":"S. Haw, Jiawei Wilson May, S. Subramaniam","doi":"10.1145/3134847.3134852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3134847.3134852","url":null,"abstract":"Towards the recent years, huge amount of information are continuously growing and produced at a very fast pace. Nevertheless, most of it is published in formats that are not suitable to be process by analytic tools directly. In addition, most of these data sources are heterogeneous, thus, making it difficult task for data integration, and subsequently for data exchange. The aim of this paper is outline the steps to transform relational databases to ontology representation. We also review some of the recent mapping tools on the theoretical aspect of how each method works, focusing on discussing the benefits and drawbacks of these approaches. In addition, we also highlight the issues with the current tools, and subsequently outline the requirements of the mapping tools.","PeriodicalId":269655,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Digital Technology in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130687178","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}
Recently many enterprises are promoting their workers to gain advanced skills of using Excel in conjunction with Visual Basic Application (VBA, for short), which is a program development framework of Excel for creating VBA programs (called macros) that performs routine tasks automatically. In Japan there are many vocational schools providing Excel VBA training courses. However, these courses don't develop sufficient problem-solving skill which is essential for learners who want to develop Excel VBA based applications. The objective of this paper is to introduce an on-going education project that develops Excel VBA based problem-solving skill for students who are not major in computer science. The course design and education support of the project are discussed. Furthermore, experience learned from the project is also introduced.
{"title":"A Case Study of Computer-based Problem Solving Skill Development by Using Spreadsheet Software","authors":"S. Chatvichienchai","doi":"10.1145/3134847.3134857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3134847.3134857","url":null,"abstract":"Recently many enterprises are promoting their workers to gain advanced skills of using Excel in conjunction with Visual Basic Application (VBA, for short), which is a program development framework of Excel for creating VBA programs (called macros) that performs routine tasks automatically. In Japan there are many vocational schools providing Excel VBA training courses. However, these courses don't develop sufficient problem-solving skill which is essential for learners who want to develop Excel VBA based applications. The objective of this paper is to introduce an on-going education project that develops Excel VBA based problem-solving skill for students who are not major in computer science. The course design and education support of the project are discussed. Furthermore, experience learned from the project is also introduced.","PeriodicalId":269655,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Digital Technology in Education","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116257659","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}
A conceptual framework is essential to ensure that the critical success factor (CSF) of eLearning implementation in secondary school is smoothly run and not a failure project. Many new terms such as Collaborative Learning, Mobile Learning, Ubiquitous Learning, Blended Learning, flipclass, SPOC are introduced but mostly to tertiary education level. It is very important to plant eLearning into the pupils mind shape since secondary level. LearnCube is a conceptual framework proposed to model the CSF in multi-dimensional model. In this paper, we materialized the LearnCube framework to demonstrate that the model covers all the aspect of CSFs accurately. It is critical to identifies the factors that effect the successful of implementation eLearning in secondary school system.
{"title":"Conceptualize the e-Learning Framework for the Secondary School Curriculum","authors":"Su-Kheng Haw, Shu-Ting Ong, C. Wong, M. S. Wong","doi":"10.1145/3134847.3134851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3134847.3134851","url":null,"abstract":"A conceptual framework is essential to ensure that the critical success factor (CSF) of eLearning implementation in secondary school is smoothly run and not a failure project. Many new terms such as Collaborative Learning, Mobile Learning, Ubiquitous Learning, Blended Learning, flipclass, SPOC are introduced but mostly to tertiary education level. It is very important to plant eLearning into the pupils mind shape since secondary level. LearnCube is a conceptual framework proposed to model the CSF in multi-dimensional model. In this paper, we materialized the LearnCube framework to demonstrate that the model covers all the aspect of CSFs accurately. It is critical to identifies the factors that effect the successful of implementation eLearning in secondary school system.","PeriodicalId":269655,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Digital Technology in Education","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134550379","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}
With the development of smart education, the computer-assisted teaching system plays an important role in classroom teaching, while there are still some deficiencies in the current teaching systems which hindering the communication between teachers and students sometimes. In the paper, we developed a teaching platform (StarC) with gesture recognition technology, which contains two functions namely lesson preparation and teaching. Furthermore, we proposed 16 kinds of gestures to instantiate the corresponding teaching functions. For a further study, the platform is applied in a teaching reform project in Suzhou city. This paper analyzed the pretest and post-test scores of experimental group and the control group. The results indicated that students' achievement is much more significant in experimental group than that in the control group. It concluded that the StarC platform can better promote teaching than the traditional multimedia used in classroom teaching.
{"title":"A Computer-assisted Teaching System with Gesture Recognition Technology and Its Applications","authors":"Zengzhao Chen, Xiaochao Feng, Tingting Liu, Cong Wang, Chao Zhang","doi":"10.1145/3134847.3134848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3134847.3134848","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of smart education, the computer-assisted teaching system plays an important role in classroom teaching, while there are still some deficiencies in the current teaching systems which hindering the communication between teachers and students sometimes. In the paper, we developed a teaching platform (StarC) with gesture recognition technology, which contains two functions namely lesson preparation and teaching. Furthermore, we proposed 16 kinds of gestures to instantiate the corresponding teaching functions. For a further study, the platform is applied in a teaching reform project in Suzhou city. This paper analyzed the pretest and post-test scores of experimental group and the control group. The results indicated that students' achievement is much more significant in experimental group than that in the control group. It concluded that the StarC platform can better promote teaching than the traditional multimedia used in classroom teaching.","PeriodicalId":269655,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Digital Technology in Education","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121515044","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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