Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment, and Engineering Education

✍ Scribed by Amrita Shukla, A.S. Thoke, Smita Shukla Ms (auth.), Magued Iskander Ph.D., PE (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 455
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment and Engineering Education is a collection of world class paper articles addressing the following topics:

• E-Learning including development of courses and systems for technical and liberal studies programs; online laboratories; intelligent testing using fuzzy logic; evaluation of on line courses in comparison to traditional courses; mediation in virtual environments; and methods for speaker verification.
• Instruction Technology including internet textbooks; pedagogy-oriented markup languages; graphic design possibilities; open source classroom management software; automatic email response systems; tablet-pcs; personalization using web mining technology; intelligent digital chalkboards; virtual room concepts for cooperative scientific work; and network technologies, management, and architecture.
• Science and Engineering Research Assessment Methods including assessment of K-12 and university level programs; adaptive assessments; auto assessments; assessment of virtual environments and e-learning.
• Engineering and Technical Education including cap stone and case study course design; virtual laboratories; bioinformatics; robotics; metallurgy; building information modeling; statistical mechanics; thermodynamics; information technology; occupational stress and stress prevention; web enhanced courses; and promoting engineering careers.
• Pedagogy including benchmarking; group-learning; active learning; teaching of multiple subjects together; ontology; and knowledge representation.
• Issues in K-12 Education including 3D virtual learning environment for children; e-learning tools for children; game playing and systems thinking; and tools to learn how to write foreign languages.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Role Of Ldap In Enterprise....Pages 1-6
Engineering modelling in transfer function form: an active learner approach....Pages 7-11
PCML: A Pedagogy-oriented Content Markup Language....Pages 13-17
Macromedia Flash Graphic Design Possibilities....Pages 19-24
New approaches for Linux-based Undergraduate Operating System Concepts Laboratories....Pages 25-30
The Case for Case Study assignments in Undergraduate Operating Systems Courses....Pages 30-37
Inexpensive, Scalable and Transparent Open Source Classroom Management for Linux-based Laboratories....Pages 39-44
A general Framework and Booking System for Online Laboratories based on Open Source Technologies....Pages 45-49
Teaching Mathematics and Computer Programming Together....Pages 51-54
Knowledge Representation of DC Electrical Circuits Analysis for E-Courses – From Basic Concepts to Long-Term Strategies....Pages 55-60
Content and e-Learning Provision Services Management Framework: Architecture and Session Profile....Pages 61-66
Sandesh – An Automatic Email Response System....Pages 67-72
A Constructive Learning Framework for Language Tutoring....Pages 73-78
Assessing Critical Thinking in STEM and Beyond....Pages 79-82
The Teutates-Project: Tablet-PCs in Modern Physics Education....Pages 83-88
Collaborative Virtual Environments for Teaching Physics....Pages 89-93
Intelligent Testing using Fuzzy Logic....Pages 95-98
An Experience Providing University Students with Skills to Work with Collaborative Tools....Pages 99-104
Designing an e-Learning System for Language Learning: A Case Study....Pages 105-110
E-Learning Tool & Remote Experiment on Simulation of the Control Systems used in Electrical Domain....Pages 111-116
Design, Development and Implementation of a Bioinformatics Course Sequence....Pages 117-122
An online 3d virtual learning environment for teaching children Mathematics....Pages 123-126
The Concept and Strategy of ICT Integration in Teaching and Learning Process at Bina Nusantara University – Jakarta....Pages 127-131
An Authoring Tool to Construct Adaptive Assessments....Pages 133-137
Delicious Learning Resources....Pages 139-143
The effect of the CABLE approach on the levels of mental engagement of students in computer programming....Pages 145-150
Fuzzy TOPSIS Method for Academic Member Selection in Engineering Faculty....Pages 151-156
Guidelines of Proposal Writing and Project Descriptions....Pages 157-162
Science And Engineering Research: Assessment Methods....Pages 163-167
Issues In The Evaluation Of A Program To Provide Assistance To Science Teachers In Inner-City Secondary Schools....Pages 169-174
Synchronous e-Learning: Three Perspectives....Pages 175-180
A Framework for Benchmarking Arabic Verb Morphological Tools....Pages 181-186
A Hands-on Approach to Capstone Design and Implementation....Pages 187-191
E-Learning in Technology – Using Project Merlot as a Resource....Pages 193-197
On the Relation between Semantic Network and Association Map for the Assessment of Class Work....Pages 199-204
Towards A Methodology For Ontology Development....Pages 205-210
An Encyclopedia of Software Resources – A Possible and Realistic Project?....Pages 211-216
Undergraduate Students Assessment on Materials Chemistry Topic using an Auto-Calibrated Online System....Pages 217-222
Development and Evaluation of a Web-Based E-Learning System....Pages 223-228
Promoting Engineering Careers Using Modern Sensors in High School Science Labs....Pages 229-235
Our experiences in teaching of digital logic....Pages 237-242
Integrated Contact- and E-learning Course in Managerial Psychology for Engineering Students....Pages 243-247
Engineers’ Occupational Stress and Stress Prevention System: E-psycho-diagnostics and E-learning....Pages 249-253
From Collaborative Video Library to Annotated Learning Object Repository: Using Annotated Video Library in Personalized E-Learning....Pages 255-260
Floe-T: Tool To Measure The Quality In Learning Objects....Pages 261-265
Computer Aided Architectural Design Training....Pages 267-272
Learning Two-Dimensional Physics and Mathematics through their Applications in Robotic Manipulators....Pages 273-276
A University e-learning and Service Providing System: A Case Study....Pages 277-282
Computer-aided Building Design Education: Simulating the Design Process in a Project-Based Learning Curriculum....Pages 283-288
Towards a Multi-Criterion Web-Based Tool for Evaluation of an E-Learning System....Pages 289-293
Novel Aspects of the Use of ICT in Mathematics Education....Pages 295-299
Mediation in Virtual Environments....Pages 301-304
Web-based Interactive Virtual Laboratory System for Digital Circuit Experiment....Pages 305-309
Effective E-Learning Environment Personalization using Web Usage Mining Technology....Pages 311-315
Tutor: A web-based educational platform for university studies....Pages 317-321
The eChalk System: Potential of Teaching with Intelligent Digital Chalkboards....Pages 323-328
On Remote and Virtual Experiments in eLearning in Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics....Pages 329-333
Virtual Room Concepts for Cooperative, Scientific Work....Pages 335-339
Comparative study of learning achievement on the online asynchronous learning course in engineering metallurgy between individual-learning and group-learning....Pages 341-345
An Architecture for a SCORM-Conformant Content Delivery System in an E-learning Solution....Pages 347-350
Impact of University Education on Software Quality Skill-set of HR in Software Outsourcing Industry of Pakistan....Pages 351-354
State Model Diagrams – a Systems Tool for Teaching Network Technologies and Network Management....Pages 355-360
Cooperative Learning Objects in a Federated Learning System....Pages 361-366
Application of Meet-Distributive Lattices for Assessing Students Knowledge....Pages 367-371
The concept uf the internet textbook on theoretical mechanics....Pages 373-377
Game Playing and Systems Thinking....Pages 379-387
Research On Maintainability And Expansibility Of E-Learning Systems....Pages 389-393
Research On Web-Based Self-Learning....Pages 395-399
Design and Development of an E-learning Tool for Children to Learn How to Write the Chinese Words....Pages 401-404
A Study Support System on a Hands-on Networking Laboratory....Pages 405-410
User Modeling in the Context of Cognitive Service Delivery: Application to Learning Management Systems....Pages 411-416
Management Architecture for the Provision of e-Services in Cognitive Environments....Pages 417-421
e-Learning techniques in IT programs....Pages 423-427
E-Learning Based Distance Education At Szechenyi Istvan University....Pages 429-432
The Web Enhanced General Physics Course....Pages 433-437
Accessibility and Model-Based Web Application Development for eLearning Environments....Pages 439-444
Creation of a teaching timetable using random variables – The STB application....Pages 445-449
E-learning and handicap: new trends for accessibility with model driven approach....Pages 451-454
Two Different Approaches of Modeling the Teacher Relocation Problem in a Constraint Logic Programming System and Their Comparison....Pages 455-460
A Continuous Unsupervised Adaptation Method For Speaker Verification....Pages 461-465
Back Matter....Pages 467-471

✦ Subjects

Circuits and Systems