Acquiring Software Project Specifications in a Virtual World

Vincent Ng; Zoe Tang

Electronic Journal of e-Learning Vol. 10, No. 1 (2012) pp. 120–131

In teaching software engineering, it is often interesting to introduce real life scenarios for students to experience and to learn how to collect information from respective clients. The ideal arrangement is to have some real clients willing to...

Constructing a Guidance Network with Learning Navigation Patterns

King Kang Tsoi; Vincent Ng

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3795–3803

A single predefined learning path may not be ideal when learners' backgrounds are diverse and unpredictable during the development stage of the courseware. Very often, learners would prefer different learning sequences according to their needs and...

Topics: Developmental Stages, Learning Objects

Multi-Disciplinary Learning through a Database Development Project

Vincent Ng; Chloe Lau; Pearl Shum

Electronic Journal of e-Learning Vol. 10, No. 4 (2012) pp. 417–427

Recently, there are many good examples of how multi-disciplinary learning can support students to learn collaboratively and not solely focus on a single professional sector. During the Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 semesters, we have attempted to gather ...

Designing I*CATch: A Multipurpose, Education-Friendly Construction Kit for Physical and Wearable Computing

Grace Ngai; Stephen C. F. Chan; Hong Va Leong; Vincent T. Y. Ng

ACM Transactions on Computing Education Vol. 13, No. 2 (June 2013)

This article presents the design and development of i*CATch, a construction kit for physical and wearable computing that was designed to be scalable, plug-and-play, and to provide support for iterative and exploratory learning. It consists of a...

Supporting Real-Time Collaborative Learning with Web-Based Groupware

Stephen C. F. Chan; Cane W. K. Leung; Cassidy Y. Yeung; Teddy C. Y. Chow; Edward W. C. Tsui; Vincent T. Y. Ng

Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 42, No. 4 (November 2005) pp. 349–362

The Wireless Online Tutoring System (WOTS) is a web-based, synchronous groupware system that has been developed to facilitate student collaboration in group projects. It supports interactive and collaborative structured-diagramming and is equipped...