Challenges and Solutions in Smart Learning

✍ Scribed by Maiga Chang, Elvira Popescu, Kinshuk, Nian-Shing Chen, Mohamed Jemni, Ronghuai Huang, J. Michael Spector

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 155
• Series: Lecture Notes in Educational Technology
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on the interplay between pedagogy and technology, and their fusion for the advancement of smart learning environments. It discusses various components of this interplay, including learning and assessment paradigms, social factors and policies, emerging technologies, innovative application of mature technologies, transformation of curriculum and teaching behavior, transformation of administration, best infusion practices, and piloting of new ideas.
The book provides an archival forum for researchers, academics, practitioners and industry professionals interested and/or engaged in reforming teaching and learning methods by promoting smart learning environments. It also facilitates discussions and constructive dialogue among various stakeholders on the limitations of existing learning environments, the need for reform, innovative uses of emerging pedagogical approaches and technologies, and sharing and promoting best practices, leading to the evolution, design and implementation of smart learning environments.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
A Gamified Approach to Automated Assessment of Programming Assignments (Giuseppina Polito, Marco Temperini)....Pages 3-12
A Smart Learning Environment for Environmental Education (Ilkka Jormanainen, Tapani Toivonen, Ville Nivalainen)....Pages 13-16
An interdisciplinary Framework for Designing Smart Learning Environments (Sirkka Freigang, Lars Schlenker, Thomas Köhler)....Pages 17-20
Application Development on Tablet to Promote a Classroom Research Skills for SSRU’ Students (Chaiwat Waree)....Pages 21-24
Constructing a Smart Chinese International Learning Environment Based on Learning Analytics Technology (Juan Xu, Yanlan Shi, Yongbin Zhou)....Pages 25-30
Effects of Reciprocal Feedback on EFL Learners’ Communication Strategy Use and Oral Communicative Performance (Sie-Wai Chew, Wei-Chieh Fang, Chia-Ning Hsu, Nian-Shing Chen)....Pages 31-39
Exploring General Morphological Analysis and Providing Personalized Recommendations to Stimulate Creativity with ReaderBench (Daniela Stamati, Maria-Dorinela Sirbu, Mihai Dascalu, Stefan Trausan-Matu)....Pages 41-50
Higher Cognitive Items Generation Algorithms (Ebenezer Aggrey, Maiga Chang, Rita Kuo, Xiaokun Zhang)....Pages 51-60
Innovative Maker Movement Platform for K-12 Education as a Smart Learning Environment (Tapani Toivonen, Ilkka Jormanainen, Calkin Suero Montero, Andrea Alessandrini)....Pages 61-66
Smart Interactions for the Quantified Self (Erik Isaksson, Björn Hedin)....Pages 67-72
Smart watches for making EFL learning effective, healthy, and happy (Rustam Shadiev, Wu-Yuin Hwang, Narzikul Shadiev, Mirzaali Fayziev, Tzu-Yu Liu, Lingjie Shen)....Pages 73-76
StudentViz: A Tool for Visualizing Students’ Collaborations in a Social Learning Environment (Alex Becheru, Andreea Calota, Elvira Popescu)....Pages 77-86
The Edutainment Platform: Interactive Storytelling Relying on Semantic Similarity (Irina Toma, Florentina Bacioiu, Mihai Dascalu, Stefan Trausan-Matu)....Pages 87-96
The effects of student interaction with blog-based course content on learning performance (Benazir Quadir, Jie Chi Yang, Jun Zhang, Houli Gao)....Pages 97-106
The Objective Ear: Assessing the Progress of a Music Task (Joel Burrows, Vivekanandan Kumar)....Pages 107-112
Visualizing and Understanding Information literacy Research Based on the CiteSpaceV (Liqin Yu, Di Wu, Sha Zhu, Huan Li)....Pages 113-118
Front Matter ....Pages 119-119
Open Research and Observational Study for 21st Century Learning (Vivekanandan S. Kumar, Shawn Fraser, David Boulanger)....Pages 121-126
Front Matter ....Pages 127-127
An educational role-playing game for modeling the learner’s personality (Mouna Denden, Ahmed Tlili, Fathi Essalmi, Mohamed Jemni)....Pages 129-134
Annotation Recommendation for Online Reading Activities (Miao-Han Chang, Maiga Chang, Rita Kuo, Fathi Essalmi, Vivekanandan S. Kumar, Hsu-Yang Kung)....Pages 135-140
Big Data Analytics and Smart Service Tool: “Smart Learning Partner” Platform (Xiaoqing Li, Linghong Du, Xuanwei Ma)....Pages 141-146

✦ Subjects

Education; Educational Technology; Technology and Digital Education; Computers and Education; Learning and Instruction