Applying Navigation Mechanism to Virtual Experiment Environment on WWW with XML-style Teaching Materials

Maiga Chang; Rita Kuo; Jia-Sheng Heh

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 257–262

With the navigation mechanism designed in this paper, an intelligent agent then can learn how to solve a specific experiment in a virtual experiment environment such as IVC (Internet Virtual Community), through reading those XML-style experiment...

Topics: Instructional Design, Community, Virtual Environments

To Develop an Item Generating System with Analyzing the Problem Model in the Inter-Correlated Knowledge

Rita Kuo; Maiga Chang; Jia-Sheng Heh

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1150–1153

This paper proposes two problem structures for generating basic problems from the Inter-Correlated Knowledge. The first problem structure is Problem Graph, which expresses the relationship among concepts in the problem. Another problem structure,...

Using Story-based Virtual Experiment to Help Students Building Their Science Process Skills

Ming-Xiang Fan; Rita Kuo; Maiga Chang; Jia-Sheng Heh

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3350–3355

Science Process Skills are what students use to solve scientific problems. This research designs a virtual experiment environment (V.E.E.) to help students building their science process skills by doing virtual experiments. To motivate students...

Analyzing Problem's Difficulty Based on Neural Networks and Knowledge Map

Rita Kuo; Wei-Peng Lien; Maiga Chang; Jia-Sheng Heh

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 7, No. 2 (2004) pp. 42–50

This paper proposes a methodology to calculate both the difficulty of the basic problems and the difficulty of solving a problem. The method to calculate the difficulty of problem is according to the process of constructing a problem, including...

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

Generating Interest-based Learning Paths based on Information Theory

Chieh-Lun Liu; Rita Kuo; Maiga Chang; Jia-Sheng Heh

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 4235–4242

Since many research continuously all has been devoting to the motion study navigation development. How to let students feel happy when they are learning becomes an important task. Students need helpful message when they are learning in the real...

Topics: Navigation, Students

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

Designing an Educational Game for Teaching Foundational Concepts in Propositional Logic

Daniel Aranda; Alden Towler; Ramyaa Ramyaa; Rita Kuo

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2019 (Nov 04, 2019) pp. 698–707

Computational thinking has gained prevalence and importance in education research and practice. One of the key concepts of computation thinking is logic. Our research aims to design an educational game which helps students learn logic, specifically, ...

Topics: Game-based learning, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Computational Skills

Applying Knowledge Map to Intelligent Agents in Problem Solving Systems

Maiga Chang; Da-Xian Dong; Jia-Sheng Heh; Rita Kuo

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1053–1054

According to the four steps of problem solving proposed by Marshall in 1995, a knowledge structure is designed based on the Concept Map and the Concept Schema, which is so-called Knowledge Map. Knowledge Hierarchy derived from Hierarchy Map of...

EM-Learning Platform: a Mobile Learning Environment Integrating e-Learning System

Hisao-Han Wang; Tzu-Hsuan Wu; Rita Kuo; Jia-Sheng Heh

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1437–1443

M-learning is a newly risen learning strategy in the CAI system. How to integrate m-learning into e-learning is the main purpose of this paper. First, an E-M-E learning model is design for emphasizing the benefits of both learning styles, which...

Topics: Computers, Computer Sciences, Engineering, Information Sciences

Developing True/False Test Sheet Generating System with Diagnosing Basic Cognitive Ability

Shih-Bin Chen; Rita Kuo; Maiga Chang; Tzu-Chien Liu Liu; Jia-Sheng Heh

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5740–5748

Evaluating students’ learning effects is an important issue in educational assessment. A common used assessment tool for estimating what students have learned is test, however, item construction is a time-consuming job. This research designs an...

Topics: Learning Objects, Engineering, Research Methods, Evaluation, Instructional Design

Conversation-Model Analysis of Discussion in Problem-Based Learning based on Speech Act Theory

Ming-Yuan Hsu; Kuan-Ting Chen; Rita Kuo; Maiga Chang; Jia-Sheng Heh

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 2706–2713

This paper proposes a new method for analyzing conversation model recorded during the PBL instruction. The theory to analyze the conversation log is based on Speech Act Theory. According to this theory, each sentence could be categories into...