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2013 Fourth International Conference on e-Learning "Best Practices in Management, Design and Development of e-Courses: Standards of Excellence and Creativity"
The utilization of interactive simulation-based instructional materials for teaching an introductory computer course plays a big contribution in leveraging student learning outcomes. Simulation can provide learners a guided environment wherein they learn the content by doing it. This paper focuses on the discussion of the positive outcomes and benefits gained by students in Sultan Qaboos University...
Professionals, practitioners, students, and novice users are overwhelmed with the different image file formats. This paper, proposes taxonomy for image file formats after reviewing 82 different image file formats based on the following attributes: raster/vector, compression, number of dimensions represented in the image. Still, these attributes are not mutually exclusive, which leads to more than...
The MasteringChemistry® is one of the most useful and widely used online tutorial, homework, and assessment system for the science courses. When using MasteringChemistry®, students remain engaged in learning. They use it more than other available assistive-learning technologies, and value it as much as face to face tutoring. The aim of this work is to investigate the efficiency of MasteringChemistry®...
This experimental study covers Black Board (BB) as an e-learning tool aiming to investigate its' usefulness and ease of use as reported by student users and the possibility of utilizing BB to support the collaboration environment. It surveyed 81 undergraduate students from Information Technology (IT) college at the University of Bahrain (UOB), using standard questionnaire which is divided under four...
Nowadays, internet becomes more user centered allowing two-way exchange of information. People become creators of knowledge and materials instead of passive readers or consumers. This advancement of web technologies and its applications known as web 2.0. In education, the integration of web 2.0 technologies and tools into educational and institutional practice is called eLearning 2.0. Researches stress...
Academic technologies, especially online or webenhanced courses, have a significant role in the creation of high quality learning environments. MOODLE is an Open Source elearning system which provides an excellent platform for resources and communication tools. MOODLE has been used at the College of Health Sciences (CHS) since 2008 and the Integrated Sciences Division (ISD) pioneered the use of this...
The aim of this study was to identify the impact of different learning strategies in virtual learning environment (VLE) on students' academic achievement and satisfaction with learning. The study was an attempt to test the following hypotheses: [1] There are differences among the students attending the course of Tutoring and Assessing Distance Students in the degree of learning satisfaction according...
Internet was contributed to widespread of Elearning and D-learning. However, that is associated with phone land and desktop computer. Then appeared mobile phone and that helped for mobile learning. New concepts are appeared like virtual class and virtual students. As well as using most people web services in their daily transaction like buying and selling, which contributed to the spread and availability...
This paper aimed at exploring the effect of e-learning based on meta-cognition strategy on students' achievement and awareness of creative problems solving processes in a university course. Three variables were included in this study: (e-learning based meta-cognition strategy, achievement in C++ course, and awareness of creative problems solving processes). The researcher administered awareness of...
Our reality educational is influence whit a changes scientific and technological enormous, and this require an excellence in a teaching / learning, However, we find that the clear palaces have a number of the general science and chemistry teacher and emphasis them on the use normal teaching to ease, the scientific subjects are characterized of privacy it different in nature from the other curricula...
The present research aimed at studying the effect of using an interactive multimedia electronic book on developing achievement, performance of geometry skills, and the attitude towards its use for a group of 24 third year primary pupils in Assiut. Having conducted the achievement test, the geometry skills performance test, the observation sheet, and the attitude towards the ebook scale- which has...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate Jordan E-Government Website from the accessibility perspective. An automatic testing tool is called Bobby were used to provide in-depth technical direction on HTML issues relating to accessibility. The results from the evaluation process showed that Jordan E-Government Website lacks accessibility and needs further improvements to improve its quality. Therefore,...
Cloud computing is a way to increase capacity or add capabilities without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing delivers a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using a multitenant architecture. For the customer it means no upfront investment in servers or software licensing, on the other hand, the provider with...
this study explores the effect of using brainstorming strategies in teaching science on improve creative thinking for sixth grade students in Isa town primary school. More specifically, this paper focuses on students' creative thinking skill, There are a lots of ways directed to development of creative thinking is the most important way of brainstorming being tested in the field of education on the...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of using integrative approach in teaching science on the students' attitudes toward learning science in primary school level. The sample of this study was 29 students in 6th grade at Al-Nezha Primary Girls' School in Bahrain. The data were analyzed according to the following question: what are the effects of using integrative approach in teaching...
The aim of this study is to determine the Standards of applying a virtual learning environment in higher education institutions, through the analysis of the literatures, and the appropriate previous studies. The researcher has identified a list of Standards that should be available to determine whether the higher education institutions have the ability to provide opportunities for the application...
The current study endeavored to develop a proposed model for the Resource Center of Learning based on the technology of cloud computing through polled a sample of specialists in the field of learning resource centers of specialists working in general education schools in Saudi Arabia, and specialists from faculty members in some of Egyptian and Saudi Arabian universities from specialists in the educational...
Chickering and Gamson have introduced the principles of good practice in teaching. Then, several attempts to apply those principles in the on-line/distant learning domain of education were reported in the literature. Two types of virtual experiments were performed and reported in this article. The first type is prepared by the instructor to overcome the time, space and extend physical experiment limitation...
Second Life (SL) is an online virtual world that is capturing popularity in academic institutions as an alternative means for collaborative and distance education. University of Bahrain is an academic institution with an intension to apply this application to overcome some of the obstacles they are encountering in education. Before using SL in education in the academic institutions, it is essential...
Second Life (SL) is an online virtual world that is capturing popularity in academic institutions as an alternative means for collaborative and distance education. University of Bahrain is an academic institution with an intension to apply this application to overcome some of the obstacles they are encountering in education. Before using SL in education in the academic institutions, it is essential...
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