2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)

This paper reports on an investigation into perceptions of international university lecturers and their concerns about students' social and academic motivation for learning in online learning environments. The study results suggest that pedagogic lurking is a widespread phenomenon, with some perceiving it as problematic and others as a step towards more active participation. Most interestingly, th... View full abstract»

This paper takes the university students of a class as samples, collects students' communication materials by means of questionnaire, statistics, analyzes and compares the communication and interaction in practical and IM environments by means of variables analysis and network analysis, and from the two aspects of individual performance and group relationship. The results show that, in the two env... View full abstract»

This paper focuses on pedagogical scenario building process in cMOOCs. We aim to offer solutions to support teachers in the design, deployment and adaptation of such courses. To achieve this goal, we propose a generic cMOOC oriented pedagogical scenario building process. In adequacy with cMOOC aspects, this process allows to describe learning environments' elements, roles and pedagogical activitie... View full abstract»

A socio-technical learning scenario sharing platform LePlanner was evaluated by beginning users of educational technology. The users estimated the affordances they perceived with different functionalities of the system while using the system for creating and sharing and getting awareness of learning scenarios. The findings illustrate the beginners perceived interactivity of LePlanner. View full abstract»

This paper presents the current status of Open Education and MOOCs and discusses their quality following the main question: How can we introduce new design and evaluation methods and personalization strategies to improve the learning quality of Open Education? First, the dimensions of Open Education are differentiated. Then the dimensions of holistic quality development are transferred to Open Edu... View full abstract»

Open learning is a rising trend in the educational sector and it attracts millions of learners to be engaged to enjoy massive latest and free open education resources (OERs). Through the use of mobile devices, open learning is often carried out in a micro learning mode, where each unit of learning activity is commonly shorter than 15 minutes. Learners are often at a loss in the process of choosing... View full abstract»

Orchestrating holistic school improvement requires school leaders to effectively engage in the tasks of collecting and processing diverse educational data from the school ecosystem, and more importantly, to be able to 'translate' these analyses to specific remedying actions for targeted improvement. However, these processes can be cumbersome, especially given that existing 'School Analytics' metho... View full abstract»

Current research proves that using a virtual campus as a learning management system (LMS) can increase the students' sense of community and enhance student performance, all the while LMSs have become a main component of how traditional teaching universities interact online with their students. We developed our university virtual campus CVUPT continuously since 2008, based on new technological deve... View full abstract»

With the popularity of many massive online courses (MOOCs) and relevant platforms such as the Coursera, edX and Udemy, open learning and education will obviously become a very influential and significant sector in education all over the world, especially for developing countries like China and India with large population sizes and huge demands for tertiary education to develop the knowledge-based ... View full abstract»

In this paper we propose an integrated framework of automatic bilingual subtitle generation for lecture videos, especially for MOOCs. The framework consists of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Sentence Boundary Detection (SBD), and Machine Translation (MT). Then we quantitatively evaluate the auto-generated subtitles, the manually produced subtitles from scratch, and the auto-generated subtitle... View full abstract»

Learning from examples, either alone or combined with problem solving has been proven to be beneficial for learning in Intelligent Tutoring System. However, it is generally unknown how much example-based assistance should be provided. We previously found that erroneous examples prepared students better for problem solving in comparison to worked examples when the order of learning activities is fi... View full abstract»

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) for Math still use traditional methods of input, such as computer keyboard and mouse. This strategy exposes students to a high extraneous cognitive load, due to the way the students are used to work, what could impair their learning. This paper presents a tool for Math ITSs that uses the student handwriting as data input. This tool was integrated into PAT2Math, ... View full abstract»

This paper presents a system that combines NLP and hand-written rules for enhancing the text of authentic Web pages based on the needs of a specific language learner. It uses the Stanford CoreNLP system to process texts, and applies hand-written rules for retrieving language information that is relevant according to a given Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) level. After t... View full abstract»

Personalization in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) is a topic that received a lot of concern by researchers. At the same time, there is a growing amount of Open Educational Resources (OER) indexed according to the W3C standards. Relevant OERs can usefully complement the contents delivered to a learner during an online course. Computing the best OERs to offer to the learner at each ... View full abstract»

In this paper we aim to assess students' visual behavior during problem solving. We propose to use the scan path metric to model the students' analytical reasoning process while solving medical cases. Fifteen participants were recruited for the experiment using an eye tracker to record their eye movements. Our preliminary results have implications for assessing novice clinicians' reasoning process... View full abstract»

Mathematical word problems can be broadly divided into two categories as numerical word problems and algebraic word problems. These can be further categorised according to the domain, such as interest calculation and mensuration. Although most of the popular Mathematics examinations contain word problems, there are slight differences in the syllabi. The existing research has produced solutions for... View full abstract»

Students' real-time feedback is acknowledged as an important source of information for teachers/lecturers to improve their teaching and address issues students may have, such as going deeper in some of the materials covered or providing more examples to understand an abstract concept. Previous applications collecting real-time feedback from students through clickers and mobiles typically collect l... View full abstract»

Personalized and adaptive learning is the fastest growing field in e-learning. Adaptive e-learning systems are typically well suited for real-world heterogeneous users, which exhibit different levels of motivation and knowledge. Furthermore, students learn best when they are in flow, i.e. when the level of difficulty is perfectly adjusted to their individual abilities. A personalized, adaptive, an... View full abstract»