Using Game-based Educational Rewards and Social Networks to Encourage Students’ Academic Success

Donovan Jenkins; Eric Cheng; Rita Kuo; Jun Zheng; Maiga Chang

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2019 (Nov 04, 2019) pp. 728–736

Educational rewards normally positively affect students’ learning performance. However, the traditional rewards – such as stickers and candy – might have less attraction to older students and be impractical to students participating in distance...

Topics: social networks, Game-based learning

Ranking the Difficulty Level of the Knowledge Units Based on Learning Dependency

Jun Liu; Sha Sha; Qinghua Zheng; Wei Zhang

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 10, No. 1 (2012) pp. 31–43

Assigning difficulty level indicators to the knowledge units helps the learners plan their learning activities more efficiently. This paper focuses on how to use the topology of a knowledge map to compute and rank the difficulty levels of knowledge...

Efficient and Cost-effective Class Attendance Management with a Smartphone-based System

Eugene Garcia; Hugo Rivera; Nico Ponder; Rita Kuo; Jun Zheng

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 965–972

Many studies show a strong correlation between a student?s attendance and their academic performance. This paper presents a smartphone based attendance tracking system that can quickly and accurately track class attendance in a cost-effective way....

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Research & Evaluation

Case-based teaching using the Laboratory Animal System for learning C/C++ programming

Jun Tan; Xianping Guo; Weishi Zheng; Ming zhong

Computers & Education Vol. 77, No. 1 (August 2014) pp. 39–49

Teachers and students often consider learning programming a difficult pursuit. Face-to-face learning alone cannot provide effective teaching or efficient solutions for learning. A case teaching model can make students active in programming courses,...

Language: English