E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education
Oct 15, 2018
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 227
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Facilitating Access to Digital Records of Practice in Education with Technology
Erica Crawford, University of Michigan School of Education, United States; Kara Suzuka, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States; Rebecca Frank & Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan School of Information, United States
Many disciplines are changing their traditional approaches to data, encouraging data producers to share data and enable researchers and practitioners to reuse data to answer new research questions ... More
pp. 1-10
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Design and Development of an Attendance Tracking and Early Warning System (AT-EAW)
Dabin Ding & Fei Cao, University of Central Missouri, United States; Michelle Zhu, Montclair State University, United States
Increase in student retention is considered the economic driver for the Universities. University administrators are in great hunger for systems that could help them monitor the attendance of... More
pp. 11-17
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Comparison of Blended and Traditional Laboratory Format in Anatomy and Physiology Laboratory Sections
Bonnie McCormick & Susan Hall, University of the Incarnate Word, United States
In order to solve problems of resource use and scheduling, the first semester Introductory Anatomy and Physiology laboratory was redesigned and offered as a blended (hybrid) course. Students who... More
pp. 18-26
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Detecting pupils’ opinions on learning physics bodily by unsupervised machine learning
Hannu Moilanen, Sami Äyrämö & Marja Kankaanranta, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
The purpose of this study is to explore the added value that bodily learning brings to the study of physics at lower secondary school and how pupils experience a new way of studying physics. The... More
pp. 27-38
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Management of Virtual Teams in Multi-National learning environments and corporations
Pradyotha Budaraju & Klaus Schmidt, Illinois State University, United States; Sanjana Hossain, ISU, United States
This paper will present the concept of virtual teams (VTs), that is implemented across numerous organizations, but will specifically focus on multi-national corporations (MNCs). The purpose of this... More
pp. 39-46
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Impact of Active Learning on the Flipped Class: Business Student Global Collaboration
Wade Halvorson, Monash University, Australia; Sabine Emad, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland – Geneva Business School (HEG), Switzerland
In this presentation, I will describe an innovative, flexible and efficient method for teaching business case studies across international boundaries. The primary goal of the project was to... More
pp. 47-52
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Utilization of AI Voice Interaction for Educational Experiment System Based on Biological Data Analysis
Takaya Masaki, Tomohiro Nakahara, Hatsuho Nankai, Ryoya Hayashi, Akihito Fujimoto & Tetsuya Sato, Kobe City College of Technology, Japan
This paper details the development of voice interaction on our proven KCCT-VB(Kobe City College of Technology Vocabulary Builder). Though our students have to touch a button on the screen to choose... More
pp. 53-58
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Strategies for Planning and Implementing Kaltura for Online Learning
LaQuata Sumter, Albany Technical College and University of North Texas, United States
Kaltura video tools integrate within the Brightspace by D2L learning management system to provide students a high-quality viewing experience while preventing the LMS from stalling under the weight ... More
pp. 59-64
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Descriptive analysis of e-textbook multimedia and interaction
Normand Roy, Université de Montréal, Canada; Yannick Beauchamp & Priscilla Boyer, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
Even if we expect much more from e-textbooks, students and schools are dependant of publishers who are responsible to develop and offer the material. In this situation, it is not clear how... More
pp. 65-73
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Impact of Course Quality on Student Academic Performance
Cassandra Shaw & Kathleen Irwin, American Public University System, United States; Thomas Schaefer & Chad Patrizi, American Public University, United States
Quality was thought to be an important factor in the delivery of online courses. Quality is defined as "a high level of value or excellence" by Merriam Webster (Quality, 2016). Through this... More
pp. 74-79
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ProblemPal: Generating Autonomous Practice Content in Real-Time with Voice Commands and Amazon Alexa
Neelay Trivedi, Students Coding Schools, Watchung Hills Regional High School, United States
According to a report by K-12 Market Advisors, teachers spend an average of twelve hours weekly searching for instructional materials and making practice content for students. This amounts to over ... More
pp. 80-82
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Steerable Environmental Simulations for Exploratory Learning
Michelle Zhu, Nicole Panorkou, Sowmith Etikyala, Debasmita Basu, Taheeda Street-Conaway & Pricilla Iranah, Montclair State University, United States; Daniel Mazol, Kearny School, United States; Corey Hannum, Ryan Marshall, Pankaj Lal & Bharath Samanthula, Montclair State University, United States
This paper presents the software design for some interactive simulations on the subject of Earth and Environmental science in grades 5, 6 and 7. These simulations together with some programming... More
pp. 83-92
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Disruptive Formality in Social Media Interaction Practices within a Saudi Higher Education Institution
Jamilah Alamri, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
This paper contributes to the understanding of instructor-student interaction practices, and social media adoption in higher education systems that are generally characterised by a formal quality, ... More
pp. 93-104
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Connectedness in an Online Doctoral Program: Building Community and Advancing Understandings as Emerging Scholars
Tasnem Alarbi, Nouf Alghamdi, Lisa Beaulieu, Mihiri Meepegama, Nichole Scarlett, Christie Vanorsdale & Rachel Van Campenhout, Duquesne University, United States
This collaborative self-study applied a Community of Practice (CoP) framework to examine how a cohort of first-year doctoral students in an instructional technology program utilized Slack, an... More
pp. 105-109
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Role of Social Media on Social Consciousness and Engagement
Amani Bin jwair, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
This study explores the roles of social media and their potential to become a robust tool for raising social consciousness, educating, informing, and preparing users to become active citizens... More
pp. 110-120
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Digging into the PIT: A new tool for characterizing the social paleontological community
Lisa Lundgren, Kent J. Crippen & Richard T. Bex, II, University of Florida, United States
The purpose of this study is to share the development of a new analytical tool, the Paleontological Identity Taxonomy (PIT), for characterizing members of a science community of practice that is... More
pp. 121-128
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Micro-Badging and Modular Service Learning Open Education Resources for the Developing World
Deborah Cooke & Sarah Corbitt, Western Governors University, United States
With the continual disaggregation of higher education, micro-credentialing is becoming an important way to recognize specific competencies and skills and develop workforce readiness. Graduate and... More
pp. 129-133
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Online Gateway Assessments in Applied Calculus
Erin Goodykoontz, Doug Squire & Cody Hood, West Virginia University, United States
Applied Calculus draws a large number of non-STEM majors with widely varying mathematical backgrounds. To meet the needs of this large student population, we use an online assessment system to... More
pp. 134-138
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A Study of Pulse Wave Analysis Based on Biological Data Measurements in Educational Experiments
Ryoya Hayashi, Tomohiro Nakahara, Hatsuho Nankai, Akihito Fujimoto, Takaya Masaki & Tetsuya Sato, Kobe City College of Technology, Japan
This paper is a report on a new analysis of human heart pulse to look into an autonomic learning behaviors based on biological data measurements using a pulse oximeter. Intensive experiments were... More
pp. 139-144
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Utilizing e-Portfolios to Assess Skills, Dispositions, Content Knowledge and Application of Teacher Candidates
Loren Naffziger, Walden University, United States; Jessica Alvarado, National University, United States
Assessing teacher candidates is an integral part of the educational process in a teacher education or credentialing program. In order to stay current with technology in the twenty-first century,... More
pp. 145-147
