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Faggioni, Thais; Ferreira, Natiele Carla da Silva; Berçot, Filipe Faria; Bisaggio, Rodrigo da Cunha; Alves, Luiz Anastacio – Advances in Physiology Education, 2022
Immunology is a knowledge area of paramount importance in life sciences and health care professional education with diverse applications, as well as for a general public understanding of issues related to vaccination. However, many concepts are complex and difficult to understand based only on conventional classes or static images. The use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Medical Students
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Santamaría, Cristina Rebollo; Lora, Carlos Marín; Quintana, Inmaculada Remolar; Sellés, Miguel Chover – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The first obstacles to overcome when a student has to face the task of programming for the first time are the abstraction level, the comprehension of a language with unfamiliar concepts for him/her and the specific syntax for each programming language. This work presents the qualitative results obtained in a study focused on the gain of skills for…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Skill Development, Undergraduate Students, Video Games
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Rouhani, Saeed; Mirhosseini, Seyed Vahid – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2015
Today, several educational portals established by organizations to enhance web E-learning. Intelligence agent's usage is necessary to improve the system's quality and cover limitations such as face-to-face relation. In this research, after finding two main approaches in this field that are fundamental use of intelligent agents in systems design…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Electronic Learning, Integrated Learning Systems, Computer Software Evaluation
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Islim, Omer Faruk; Cagiltay, Kursat – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
This descriptive study aims to investigate the instructional effectiveness of Open Educational Resources (OER). It was conducted with 1196 university students who were enrolled in a general chemistry course with an experimental laboratory section. These students voluntarily used OER for their lab activities. Data were collected via a printed,…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Case Studies, Open Source Technology, Educational Resources
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Al-Qirim, Nabeel – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
This research explores teaching-faculty's adoption and usage of the Interactive White Board Technology (IWBT) in UAE University (UAEU). The research findings suggested two perspectives concerning IWBT usage by teaching-faculty in UAEU. The first theme is concerned with IWBT's basic features where the IWBT proved its superiority when compared to…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Technology Uses in Education, Usability, Management Information Systems
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Koehler, Natalya A.; Thompson, Ann D.; Correia, Ana-Paula; Hagedorn, Linda Serra – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2015
Our case study is a response to the need for research and reporting on specific strategies employed by software designers to produce effective multimedia instructional solutions. A systemic approach for identifying appropriate software features and conducting a formative evaluation that evaluates both the overall effectiveness of the multimedia…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Electronic Learning, Multimedia Instruction, Systems Approach
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Herrero, Rocío; Bretón-López, Juana; Farfallini, Luis; Quero, Soledad; Miralles, Ignacio; Baños, Rosa; Botella, Cristina – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
E-learning can be defined as learning facilitated and supported through the use of ICTs. ICTs can increase students' motivation, accelerate the knowledge process and facilitate the information access. The aim of this paper is to analyze the acceptability of three tools presented in a workshop carried out during six weeks, with university teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Workshops, Educational Technology, Questionnaires, Pretests Posttests
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Clarke, Peter J.; Davis, Debra; King, Tariq M.; Pava, Jairo; Jones, Edward L. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2014
As software becomes more ubiquitous and complex, the cost of software bugs continues to grow at a staggering rate. To remedy this situation, there needs to be major improvement in the knowledge and application of software validation techniques. Although there are several software validation techniques, software testing continues to be one of the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Professional Personnel, Engineering, Testing
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Velazquez-Iturbide, J. A.; Debdi, O.; Esteban-Sanchez, N.; Pizarro, C. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2013
Several years ago we presented an experimental, discovery-learning approach to the active learning of greedy algorithms. This paper presents GreedEx, a visualization tool developed to support this didactic method. The paper states the design goals of GreedEx, makes explicit the major design decisions adopted, and describes its main characteristics…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Visual Aids, Mathematics, Experiments
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Scagnoli, Norma; Yontz, Ruth; Choo, Jinhee – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
This study explores the use and implementation of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) software in graduate professional education. The investigation looked into self-reported information on graduate students' use of ESL (English as a Second Language) software to improve language skills and their competencies in professional English…
Descriptors: Courseware, Usability, Use Studies, Program Validation
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Berns, Anke; Valero-Franco, Concepción – Research-publishing.net, 2013
This paper presents the results of an ongoing study which has been carried out with a group of German Foreign Language students at the University of Cadiz since 2012. The purpose of the study was to analyze the impact of videogame-like applications on foreign language learning and their motivational potential to increase learning beyond the…
Descriptors: Video Games, Active Learning, Educational Games, Courseware
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AlAgha, Iyad – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This article presents KnowledgePuzzle, a browsing tool for knowledge construction from the web. It aims to adapt the structure of web content to the learner's information needs regardless of how the web content is originally delivered. Learners are provided with a meta-cognitive space (e.g., a concept mapping tool) that enables them to plan…
Descriptors: Web Browsers, Navigation (Information Systems), Hypermedia, Computer Software Evaluation
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Yang, Yang; Leung, H.; Yue, Lihua; Deng, LiQun – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2012
In this paper, an automatic lesson generation system is presented which is suitable in a learning-by-mimicking scenario where the learning objects can be represented as multiattribute time series data. The dance is used as an example in this paper to illustrate the idea. Given a dance motion sequence as the input, the proposed lesson generation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Lesson Plans, Pattern Recognition
Koshino, Makoto; Kojima, Yuki; Kanedera, Noboru – Online Submission, 2013
Educational materials of embedded systems are currently used in many educational institutions. However, they have difficulties in arousing the interest of students. One of the reasons is that a poor CPU (central processing unit), which has been loaded in the current materials, cannot execute the multimedia processing. In order to make the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Multimedia Materials, Computer System Design
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Kim, Kihyun; Trimi, Silvana; Park, Hyesung; Rhee, Shanggeun – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2012
Course Management Systems (CMSs) in higher education have emerged as one of the most widely adopted e-learning platforms. This study examines the success of e-learning CMSs based on user satisfaction and benefits. Using DeLone and McLean's information system success model as a theoretical framework, we analyze the success of e-learning CMSs in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Courseware, Database Management Systems, Electronic Learning
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