A Web-based interactive instructional system for architectural historical-construction education: Using the traditional Chinese construction system as a case study

Yan Huang

(2001) pp. 1–56

The study of historical construction will enhance students' knowledge of both architectural history and construction technology. However, the traditional method of teaching and the instructional media frustrate many students' learning. One strategy...

Systematic Review of Social Network Analysis in Adolescent Cigarette Smoking Behavior

Dong-Chul Seo; Yan Huang

Journal of School Health Vol. 82, No. 1 (January 2012) pp. 21–27

Background: Social networks are important in adolescent smoking behavior. Previous research indicates that peer context is a major causal factor of adolescent smoking behavior. To date, however, little is known about the influence of peer group...

How Much Do Multicultural Residents of Greater Vancouver Know about the Internet?

Roger Boshier; Janet Kushner Kow; Yan Huang

Alberta Journal of Educational Research Vol. 52, No. 2 (2006) pp. 127–142

Vancouver high school honors and university award lists are crowded with Asian names. But do these abilities in face-to-face settings extend to the Internet, which is the centerpiece of distributed learning? The purpose of this study was to measure...

Developing and Validating a High School Version of the Robotics Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire

Yuan Ten Huang; Eric Liu; Chun Lin; Pey-Yan Liou

International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design Vol. 7, No. 2 (April 2017) pp. 20–34

Robotics has become a crucial domain in technology education, helping students to improve their abilities in assembly and programming. Despite the considerable research that has gone into the learning performance associated with robotics, little...

Open Educational Resources (OER) Usage and Barriers: A Study from Zhejiang University, China

Ermei Hu; Yan Li; Jessica Li; Wen-Hao Huang

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 63, No. 6 (2015) pp. 957–974

Open educational resources (OER) as an innovation to share educational resources has been influential in past decade and expected to bring changes to higher education worldwide. There is, however, very limited literature on OER usage, especially...

Do They Look at Educational Multimedia Differently than We Do? A Study of Software Evaluation in Taiwan and the United States

Mei-Yan Lu; Decker F. Walker; James Huang

International Journal of Instructional Media Vol. 26, No. 1 (1999) pp. 31–42

Describes an evaluation of educational software that compared software produced in Taiwan with software produced in the United States. Results showed a surprisingly small number of cultural differences other than language; article suggests that...

Teaching Quality Assessment System Based on Support Vector Machine Technology

Wen-xue Huang; Xin Gao; Ning Wang; Yan-chao Yang; Ying Yan

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 11, No. 11 (Nov 29, 2016) pp. 4–8

A scientific, objective and accurate assessment of teaching quality is helpful in finding the relevant problems. So a highly accurate, quick and easy-to-implement teaching quality assessment system is necessary to build. The index value of the...

A Top-N Algorithm-based Personalized Learning Recommendation System for Digital Library

Xin Gao; Wen-xue Huang; Ning Wang; Yan-chao Yang; Ying Yan

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 11, No. 11 (Nov 29, 2016) pp. 55–59

The digital library brings convenience, but meanwhile, it also brings the problems of overloaded information and over-diversified forms,thus search becomes difficult. Personalized Learning Recommendation System is the key to solve the problems, and...

Using Virtual Learning Lab Programming for Meeting Exceptional Students’ Needs

Bonnie Swan; Xuan-Lise Coulombe-Quach; Deborah Becker; Angela Huang; Jaime Godek; Yan Zhou

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 1892–1900

Independent evaluators used case study methods to investigate a virtual learning lab in a rural school district that was created in 2011 as a way to better meet the unique needs of exceptional students who are considered gifted. Data were gathered...

Topics: research, Evaluation, E-Learning Trends and Innovations (social learning, mobile, augmented etc.)

A Proposal for Implementing e-Learning and e-OSCE in Med-nursing Education

Hsin-Hsin Lin; Tzong-Song Wang; Chen-Ying Su; Chun-Yan Li; Po-Sen Huang; Wen-Ho Chuo; Meng-Chuan Wen; Daih-Huang Kuo

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 1371–1374

This article aims to explore how to employ assimilating mobile technology to enhance learning efficiency of students. The study focuses on combining med-nursing clinical learning with mobile technology which allows students to learn without...

Topics: Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

EIIS: An Educational Information Intelligent Search Engine Supported by Semantic Services

Chang-Qin Huang; Ru-Lin Duan; Yong Tang; Zhi-Ting Zhu; Yong-Jian Yan; Yu-Qing Guo

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 9, No. 1 (2011) pp. 21–43

The semantic web brings a new opportunity for efficient information organization and search. To meet the special requirements of the educational field, this paper proposes an intelligent search engine enabled by educational semantic support service, ...