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The Classroom Attentiveness Classification Tool (ClassACT) is a system designed to monitor student attentiveness in a variety of instructional phases within the learning environment: lectures, group work, assessments, etc. By collecting information about the user, the user's environment, and the device itself via the various sensors built in to the tablet, processing the data, and then passing it...
This paper examines the history of electrical engineering education, leveraging the concept of “expansive (dis)integration” to frame a number of key trends and challenges in the field. Our account is organized historically, starting with the origins and early development of electrical engineering education beginning in the late 1800s, and then tracing out the rise of new subfields and specialties...
Gamification and in particular game-based learning is significantly gaining ground during the latest decades. It expresses a different approach to education that is mixing education with gaming, aiming to enhance the learning experience with game mechanics and rules and to provide stronger motivations for lifelong learning. Many works have illustrated the benefits of learning while playing. This work...
Software has been well-adopted in language education. The aim of this paper is to explore the application of voice editing software in pronunciation education. After an illustration of the theoretical support for the application of voice editing software in pronunciation education, GoldWave has been investigated as an example of such voice editing software through its functions, target users and application...
Within the field of computer and information security, there has been a relatively recent surge of interest on a multitude of topics. However, this body of research typically focuses on the implementation or theory of security controls and mechanisms at the application, operating system, network, and physical layers. The user layer, long recognized as the weakest link in the security chain, has had...
The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment has created a suite of software collectively known as the XSEDE-compatible basic cluster (XCBC). It has been distributed as a Rocks Roll for some time. The same scientific and supporting packages are available as individual RPM packages as the XSEDE National Integration Toolkit (XNIT), so they can be downloaded and installed in portions as...
I have been engaged in information science education for the training of medical technologists at a medical technology college. Up to the present, information science has not always been regarded as an indispensable part of the education of paramedics in Japan. However, along with the recent progress and technological advances in medical test equipment, as well as the promotion of electronic medical...
Lero's mission is to establish Ireland as a location synonymous with high quality software development through advanced research and smart collaboration, and through our education and outreach programme. An estimated 44,500 job openings are forecast in the ICT sector over the period to 2018. To ensure an adequate ICT skills supply pipeline, informing and effectively engaging relevant stake holders...
In this paper, a novel formalized teaching method is presented for encouraging excellence in undergraduate student performance. This approach is a modified implementation of the teaching method used at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, which was made more appropriate for civilian engineering undergraduate students. The objective of this method is to prepare students academically, creatively,...
The popularization of digital educational devices with low barriers to entry has encouraged the development of many training activities oriented towards the incorporation of technology in schools. In some cases, the introduction of technology has led to the development of new educational practices that support the development of computational thinking. However, the supposed benefits of these approaches...
Designing a professional Computer Networking course aligned with the up-to-date intended learning outcomes is one of the most important goals for educational institutes working in this field. The particular nature of knowledge, intellectual and professional skills of this dynamic course impose a group of challenges and sophisticated settlement requirements that should be met. The current teaching...
In education of the students - future engineers need to focus on the development of their technical competence. It is important to form in the mind of the teachers and students a new perspective on the concept of “technical competence”, because now the competence is more than knowledge and skills in any area of study or profession.
Results of the research on utilization of information and communication technologies by teachers on the primary school level in the Czech Republic in the Hradec Králové region are summarized in this paper. The aim of the research was to find out how teachers work with technologies in the process of education and what influence these technologies have on work and results of pupils. The ways how pupils...
As part of a national strategic plan recently established by the Ministry of Education in Israel to strengthen science and technology education, an innovative Computer Science (CS) curriculum for middle school was developed. One main goal of the new curriculum is to expose students at an early stage of education to the fundamentals of CS and computational thinking, and to encourage students to study...
ICT is the ability of teachers in the teaching of the use of information and communication technology needed to master the skills. By training teachers to identify and select the appropriate tools and the using of ICT in teaching the ability to effectively manage the classroom, increasing levels of teachers in using ICT in the classroom, carrying out various forms of teachers' ability of ICT training,...
This paper aims at making a proper training of computer forensics for companies with the help of a logical analysis system, so as to do preliminaries data protection when the system is targeted under hacking attack. It is necessary to prevent hackers from removing data and wiping electronic evidence. The system will start with collecting the related work and analyze the organization's security policies...
The most important consequences, which the development of computers has caused in the sphere of education and upbringing of children, were presented in the herewith work. The results of deliberations conducted here do not instil optimism. Computers which originally served people as work tools, in the course of time also began to fulfil different functions. The machine which does not seem to be dangerous,...
With the spread of the Internet, a wide variety of businesses have been established that employ information technology (IT). These businesses are supported by specialist IT engineers, and so a great number of enterprises require their service. In addition, the number of institutions that train information processing engineers is increasing to meet the demand. However, the demand for such talented...
With the upsurge and development of global software industry, IT corporations are in increasing need of talents and their specialized skills. The interaction between IT corporations and education and talents cultivating modes of higher education are of greater value as well. Firstly the interaction between IT corporations and education is presented. And then the relationships between IT corporations...
In order to cultivate outstanding E-Commerce professionals, practice-teaching must be placed in an important position during specialty construction of E-Commerce. Due to the particularity of E-Commerce course, studying the contents and methods of professional practice-teaching is needed imminently when researching problems such as course construction of E-commerce and professional knowledge hierarchy...
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