A Web Browser Interface to Manage the Searching and Organizing of Information on the Web by Learners

Liang-Yi Li; Gwo-Dong Chen

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 13, No. 4 (2010) pp. 86–97

Information Gathering is a knowledge construction process. Web learners make a plan for their Information Gathering task based on their prior knowledge. The plan is evolved with new information encountered and their mental model is constructed...

A Coursework Support System for Offering Challenges and Assistance by Analyzing Students' Web Portfolios

Liang-Yi Li; Gwo-Dong Chen

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 12, No. 2 (2009) pp. 205–221

Students can practice skills and acquire knowledge by doing coursework. However, in conventional coursework activities, each student is assigned the same exercises, without considering learners' diversity. Moreover, students typically have...

A Community of Practice Approach to Learning Programming

Gwo-Dong Chen; Liang-Yi Li; Chin-Yea Wang

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 11, No. 2 (April 2012) pp. 15–26

In programming courses, teaching students who have varied levels of knowledge and skills the requisite competencies to perform in real-world software development teams is indeed difficult. To address this problem, this paper proposes a community of...

Construction of cognitive maps to improve e-book reading and navigation

Liang-Yi Li; Gwo-Dong Chen; Sheng-Jie Yang

Computers & Education Vol. 60, No. 1 (January 2013) pp. 32–39

People have greater difficulty reading academic textbooks on screen than on paper. One notable problem is that they cannot construct an effective cognitive map because of the lack of contextual information cues and ineffective navigational...

Language: English

RoLo: A dictionary interface that minimizes extraneous cognitive load of lookup and supports incidental and incremental learning of vocabulary

Thanh-Dung Dang; Gwo-Dong Chen; Giao Dang; Liang-Yi Li; Nurkhamid

Computers & Education Vol. 61, No. 1 (February 2013) pp. 251–260

Dictionary use can improve reading comprehension and incidental vocabulary learning. Nevertheless, great extraneous cognitive load imposed by the search process may reduce or even prevent the improvement. With the help of technology, dictionary...

Language: English

A Comparative Study of "The International Educational Technology Conference" (IETC) and "The International Conference on Computers in Education" (ICCE): The Program, Essay Distribution, the Themes, and Research Methods

Gwo-Dong Chen; Chun-Hsiang Chen; Chin-Yeh Wang; Liang-Yi Li

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 11, No. 1 (January 2012) pp. 212–216

The article aims to compare international conferences, "The International Educational Technology Conference" (IETC, 2011) and "The International Conference on Computers in Education" (ICCE, 2010), from various dimensions. The comparison is expected...

An Empathic Avatar in a Computer-Aided Learning Program to Encourage and Persuade Learners

Gwo-Dong Chen; Jih-Hsien Lee; Chin-Yeh Wang; Po-Yao Chao; Liang-Yi Li; Tzung-Yi Lee

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 15, No. 2 (2012) pp. 62–72

Animated pedagogical agents with characteristics such as facial expressions, gestures, and human emotions, under an interactive user interface are attractive to students and have high potential to promote students' learning. This study proposes a...