三、攜回資料名稱及內容
1. About EDULEARN11
一、參加會議經過
1. About EDULEARN11
EDULEARN11 (International Conference on Education and New Learning Technology) is sponsored by IATED (International Association for Technology, Education and Development) was held in Barcelona, Spain. IATED is dedicated to the promotion of international education and university cooperation in the field of Technology and Science. This year’s conference was the 3rd annual international conference held from July 4 through July 6, 2011.
In this year’s conference, there were more than 700 delegates from 70 different countries attending this conference. The presentation modalities included oral, poster, and virtual. Except poster and virtual presentations, there are 72 oral papers presented in 8 different conference rooms in parallel sessions. Each session had 5 to 6 presentations. Our research paper “Improving Learning Motivation of Low-motivated Learner with Regulated Off-class Lecture Viewing”
was an oral paper presented on the first day of the conference.
2. The Presentation and Responses
Our paper “Improving Learning Motivation of Low-motivated Learner with Regulated Off-class Lecture Viewing” was presented orally in the Educational Software &
Serious Games session. This paper investigated the learning effectiveness of an in-house ICT lecture/note-taking system (WebLaN) in improving learning motivation of low-motivated students. The design and construction of WebLaN system was based on the social cognitive views of self-regulated theory and was assumed to provide the information referring to enhancing users’ learning autonomy. The results showed that WebLaN system could successfully promote low-motivated learners’
motivation and lower their test anxiety. Furthermore, it was found that the WebLaN setting could foster low-motivated learners’ learning responsibility and learning behavior toward the engagement in studies.
The responses of presentations were referred to the research procedure and statistics method. Since students with low motivation are few among the entire class, the sample size in this study was small. Therefore, the statistics method applied in this study was non-parametric statistics. This approach might be more
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目
Improving Learning Motivation of Low-motivated Learner with Regulated Off-class Lecture Viewing
appropriate than parametric statistics. However, there would be some problems using non-parametric statistics, such as the declination of Power. In future research we would try to enlarge the sample size so as to avoid those issues.
二、與會心得
3. Inspirations to Future Research
Among various oral presentations, we are most interested in the technology-enhanced learning studies. In this conference, there are 12 oral papers that are directly related to Technology-enhanced Learning, which are listed in Table1. The diversity of presentations shows that technology-enhanced learning has been an important trend of Computer Science and Education around the world.
Both highly industrialized countries and developing countries are all devoting to building suitable e-learning environment.
Among the conference presentations, there are three major tracks. First, some researches focus on how students’ learning styles and learning network impacts learning outcomes in the setting enhanced by technology. In other word, the antecedents of individuals, which may lead to different learning effectiveness in e-learning environment, is a research direction worthy discussing.
Secondly, the barriers when applying technology in teaching and learning have been mentioned often during the conference. Thus, besides the advantages, the disadvantages of technology-enhanced learning is another focus among the presentations.
Thirdly, many presentations focused on the aspect of leveraging new instructional tool for e-learning. For example, utilization of IRS (Instant Response System) and social media are popular in higher education as reported in some paper. The IRS, which is well-known as clickers, is utilized successfully arise students’
learning motivation and improve their participation and engagement. On the other hand, implementation of social media not only creates an e-learning environment for meaningful learning, but also the opportunities for students to develop their senses of social presence.
In summary, the presentations concerned with Technology-enhanced Learning in EDULEARN11 extend our vision of the research on application of technologies in learning and teaching. And they also provide various inspirations to future researches.
Table 1: Technology-enhanced Learning papers presented in EDULEARN11.
No. Topic Author Country
1 An Ethnographic Exploration of the Experiences of Academics Using Learning Technologies at a UK University
E. Bond
T. Goodchild UK
2 The Potential Role of Technology in Careers Education in the UK
S. Barnes J. Bimrose G. Attwell
UK
3 Analysis of Using Clickers in Higher Education Classrooms,
Case Study: The History of American Popular Music S. Hinderlie US
4
21st Century Leadership Literacy: Using the Affordances of an Online Course as a Case-in-point to Engage Learners in 21st Century Leadership Practice
B. Fredrickson
6 Needed Research on Technology and Mathematics Education J. Olive US
7 The Importance of Play: How Technology Is Changing How Our Students Learning Music
A. McAlister
US
8 An Examination of How Students Create Learning Networks and
Leverage Digital Content to Enhance Learning P. Arthur Canada
9 Learning Outcomes Assessment Using Multiple Statistical Hypothesis Testing and Instant Response System Technology
W. Bazzi E. Small
United Arab Emirates
10 To Annotate or Not to Annotate: That Is the Question From an Online Annotation Tool Project
M. Brown
11 Multimedia for Deep Learning in A Developing Context D. van Vuuren South Africa
12 New Technologies in Education: Kenya’s Strategy in the Improvement of Teaching and Learning
E. Gacicio
J. Kimotho Kenya
三、攜回資料名稱及內容
1. EDULEARN11 conference publications (CD) 2. EDULEARN11 conference program
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一、參加會議經過
CATE 2011 (Computers and Advanced Technology in Education) is an international conference sponsored by IASTED (The International Association of Science and Technology for Development). This year’s conference is the 14th annual conference with the 15th in the planning stage. The conference was held in Cambridge, UK from July 11 through July 14. As with previous years’ conferences, the CATE conference was held in conjunction with the two other conferences: Biomedical Imaging &
Integrated Wafer Management. The conference organizer allowed attendees to cross over and attend each other’s sessions. Overall, there were about 100 paper submissions and 45 were accepted for presentation (acceptance rate ~ 0.50). In addition, those 45 papers were from 20 plus different countries, making this conference a truly international conference. Due to the length of the conference, the conference organizer scheduled only one Keynote address and one invited speaker (see Table 1). There are 5 presentation sessions over the three-day conference (Table 2). In addition, there was a special presentation competition session for PhD students who attend the conference to present their paper. We presented two
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1. An Automated Exam Marking System for Paper Based Multiple Choice Tests
2. Student Gesture Recognition System in Classroom 2.0 (Best Paper)
research papers at this conference and one of the two papers received the Best Paper award.
Table 1: Keynote/Invited addresses at the CATE 2011 conference Speaker Topic
1
Dr. David Wortley
The Serious Games Institute, UK
Immersive Technologies and the Future of Education
2
Dr. Alexandra Cristea University of Warwick, UK
TEL for the Next Decade: the creation of personalised and adaptive semantically-rich e-learning
Table 2: Themes and number of papers presented at the CATE 2011 Conference
Session Theme No. of
papers 1 Assessment, Control and Evaluation in Advanced
Technology-based Education 5
2 Innovative Technology-based Curriculum,
Courseware, Teaching and Learning 13 3 Games-based Learning and Mobile Learning 6 4 Best Practices in Advanced Technology-based
Education 10
5 Advanced Software/Hardware Systems for
Technology-based Education 11
This year, there were only five papers from Taiwan, one from NTNU. Our first paper, entitled “An Automated Exam Marking System for Paper Based Multiple Choice Tests”
was presented on the first day of the conference. In this paper we presented the automated exam marking system for paper-based multiple-choice tests. We presented both the technical details as well actual application of the technology. On the technical side, techniques for locating the regions of interest on exam papers and correctly recognize the marks provided by respondents were discussed. On the application side, experiment involving more than 1,500 exam papers, which were automatically processed with the proposed system, were discussed.
Our second paper, entitled “Student Gesture Recognition System in Classroom 2.0” was presented in the last day of the conference. This paper presents part of our work in building intelligent classroom for the future. In this presentation, we detailed our techniques for localizing students’ upper body (mainly face and shoulder) and interpreting their in-class behaviors in class. The behaviors were
classified into four categories: concentrating on lecture, asking question (raising one hand), dozing off and sleeping in class. Experimental results were also reported.
This paper received the Best Paper award of the conference.
Both of our papers arouse much interest from the attendees. After our presentation, there were some fruitful discussions with the other attendees, which are beneficial to our future researches.
二、 與會心得
About the keynote address
Topic: Immersive Technologies and the Future of Education Speaker: Dr. David Wortley, The Serious Games Institute, UK
Dr. Wortley is a freelance consultant on the strategic use of immersive and emerging technologies such as serious games, virtual worlds and social networks. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) with a career which has embraced the converging and emerging technologies of telecommunications (Post Office Telecommunications), computing (IBM), digital media and community informatics (Mass Mitec, a rural SME) and the creative industries (De Montfort University Leicester, UK). This keynote presentation explores the development of immersive technologies for education and offers a view of their impact on teachers and where and how learning will take place in the future. Summary of the keynote is given below:
Digital Communications Technologies have transformed our global society’s ability to publish, communicate and access information on demand from anywhere in the globe. This ability to access and contribute to global knowledge instantly is placing many demands on the education system and knowledge professionals in ways that are unprecedented in mankind’s history. This exponentially growing and evolving wealth of information: