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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"
How could data mining help the development of e-learning methodologies? How could an instructional designer take benefit from the use of adaptive learning? How could adaptive learning be implemented in an Open Source platform? In this paper will be described the implementation of adaptivity technology in a specific, Open Source, Learning Management System (LMS). After a preliminary study about the...
Information and network security have received a great attention in the past two decades and this attention will increase as the world moving dramatically towards making governmental and organizational systems computerized. Several events and scandals occurred that show that there are security breaches in most the powerful information security systems. These have enforced governments and organization...
This study investigates the effect of using e-learning applications in improving and developing the educational process through the Blackboard System. The system provides educational resources electronically. It also provides effective and easy ways of communication and interaction with the teacher and students as well as ways of completion of the assessment methods. The study surveyed 30 students...
Mobile devices such as cell phones become the widest instrument handed in the students daily activities including browsing Internet and sending e-mails. Several countries such as Japan and US have already applied it in the education and learning processes due to its outstanding characteristics including portability and accessibility. In this work, a mobile-quiz application is suggested and described...
The core of Architectural education is the design studio where-face to face-social interaction, negotiations and communications happen between tutors and students. These communications are essential for development of the design concept and initiation of student's creativity. Laboratory and theoretical courses are considered as backup or supportive to the design studio's education. At the University...
In this paper, we address the problem of delivery of image and multimedia services on bandwidth deficient wire and wireless networks for E-learning. Became exponential growth in the volume of image and multimedia limits the ability of companies to manage this data, image and multimedia and control effectively, and with continued high storage costs make the companies having problems retrieving image...
Utilization of the LMS in teaching is very crucial and reflects on the students learning. The current practices of student-centered learning (where students contribute to the subject and get involved in the learning process) can be applied very effectively through using the LMS. This paper summarizes an experiment of using the LMS (Blackboard CE8) in teaching a graduate course (Advanced Structural...
The current research explores how e-assessment can be used within face-to-face teaching and learning environment, especially in large class-enrollments, to augment the ordinary methods of assessment and feedback to effectively enables students to develop critical thinking analytical skills, knowledge and competence. The study is part of an ongoing framework to develop innovative computer-based assessment...
The effectiveness of education and training system is a feature of developed societies, consequently education is always looking for new learning tools to improve the process of learning and teaching and increase its effectiveness. Currently, digital technologies of computer and internet open wide opportunity for using it to improve the education and learning as well as training. The rapid change...
This study aimed at investigating the availability of quality standard for e- Learning at Mutah University in Jordan from the point of view of faculties. The study sample (120) faculty members of the scientific and humanities colleges were randomly selected (26%) of the population of the study. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was designed of (25) items, which were...
This study aimed at investigating the effect of using distance collaborative training on educational resources' specialists cognitive skills, technical skills and motivation related to a training program in the field of educational resources. To verify the hypotheses of the study, the quasi-experimental design method was utilized on a sample consisted of all of the educational resources' specialists...
In this paper, we propose an algorithm supported by some suggestions and recommendations to build an integrated optimal system for developing the educational process in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, starting from elementary, intermediate and secondary schools to the university and higher studies educations. Our proposed system with its components, diagrams and schemes can be considered as a core of...
This paper investigates the effects of group members' relationships on collaborative learning. Close relationships may have a positive impact on collaboration as members already know each other well enough to feel comfortable in discussion and assign roles according to each others' strengths and weaknesses. It was therefore hypothesized that a group member's (1) level of motivation will positively...
Development of comprehensive online courses has to consider several aspects to enable them to be a useful and usable resource. The well-developed online-course should contain, course information, both course and modules objectives, interactions, animations and self-tests. Moreover, the course subject and contents should be completed and designed according to a well-developed and systematic blue-print...
The way we learn has changed dramatically in the new millennium. The introduction of e-learning in higher education in the late 1990s has opened Pandora's Box, and brought radical changes in the way undergraduate and postgraduate programs are designed and delivered. The rapid developments and popularity of handheld devices such as smart phones and tablet PCs using wireless networks and mobile internet...
This paper presents an evaluation of the security, safety, and privacy of selected Online Collaborative Groupware (OCG) tools such as Skype, Facebook, Wikis and Gmail (SWFG) used to support learning activities from the perception of the students, and with a particular focus on the impact of their usage on student trust. A case study was conducted with two groups of undergraduate students at the University...
The study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of a strategy in blended learning in enhancing web collaboration motivation and web collaboration attitude among the college of education students at Al-Aqsa University. The sample of the study consisted of (20) female students whom were purposively selected. The study administered two self-developed scales: Web Collaboration attitude scale and Web...
This paper introduces a case study of the E-learning experience at Hebron University (HU). Over the last few years, we have been building up a set of case studies illustrating different ways in which learning technologies have been implemented across the University. This paper aims at presenting and analyzing the e-learning experience at HU and the most e-course activities that should be used to encourage...
The purpose of this study is to measure the ability of fourth, fifth and sixth grade elementary students to learn and apply concepts and skills related to web/mobile programming. A heterogeneous group of students between the ages of nine and eleven was chosen from three different schools in Lebanon. Students were given a crash course over the period of eight weeks where they learned three different...
The proliferation of Facebook use among students and teachers has created a new learning culture by providing innovative ways for teachers to enable learners to engage actively in different learning activities. This paper investigates the potential use of Facebook, to support faculty in implementing a social constructivist approach to facilitate student-centred learning. To alleviate problems arising...
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