E-Learn 2010--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education
Oct 18, 2010
Editors
Jaime Sanchez; Ke Zhang
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 465
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“Medco Shares Best Practices in Leveraging Virtual Environments for eLearning”
Melissa Estrin, Medco, United States
Last year Medco had to forego its annual sales conference for the first time. The $2M cost was deemed extraneous. Fiscal constraints aside, the need for information exchange remained. Medco’s... More
pp. 2504-2505
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Supporting Student Learning Development with Web 2.0 Technology
Salmah Fattah, Siti Hasnah Tanalol & Asni Tahir, UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH, Malaysia
With the emergence of Web 2.0 applications, content creation, publishing, dissemination and communication structures among individuals, groups, and communities have significantly changed. The... More
pp. 2506-2511
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Online Readiness - Whose Responsibility?
Ralph Ferrie & Gloria Edwards, Georgian Court University, United States; Barbra Mosley, North Carolina A & T State University, United States
Faculty are formally and informally discussing the unpreparedness of students to successfully participate in online courses when they enter higher education. This unpreparedness runs the gamut from... More
pp. 2512-2515
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An Advanced Web 3D Mobile e-Learning System to Manage Virtual Courses and Multimedia
Flavio Fontana, ENEA, University of Rome, Italy; Enrico Cosimi & Giangiacomo Ponzo, ENEA, Italy
In this paper a new mobile virtual environment, based on Web 2.0 technology, to disseminate e-learning lectures and seminars is presented. The high usability degree of the Smartphone and the high... More
pp. 2516-2521
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Using the “Career Compass” as E-Portfolio Content.
Paul Fritz, University of Toledo, United States
How can we motivate our majors to read for content? Faculty members assessed the problem by conducting five focus groups. We revises our courses in response to the focus group voices. Instructors ... More
pp. 2522-2526
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openFred - An Open Source Digital Factory for Education and Research
Helge Hemmer, Wolfgang Kühn & Sebastian Meiser, University of Wuppertal, Germany, Germany
The software framework openFred – open Factory for research and education demands – is presented. It bases up on the Digital Factory approach, which is a well established concept. It focuses on the... More
pp. 2527-2532
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A Survey of Annotation Tools for Lecture Materials
Kai Höver & Guido Rößling, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Annotations help learners to organize and understand learning materials, and to add a personalized view. Many systems allow educators or learners to add annotations and to exchange them. However,... More
pp. 2533-2543
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Q&A 2.0: A System to Facilitate Interaction During and After a Lecture
Kai Höver, Jochen Huber & Max Mühlhäuser, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Lectures are a fundamental part of university teaching. However, monologues of lecturers and passively listening students are known to be less conducive to learning. That is the reason for trying... More
pp. 2544-2551
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New Literacies and Teacher Education
Hui-Yin Hsu, Sarah McPherson & Shiang-Kwei Wang, New York Institute of Technology, United States
New literacies are sets of knowledge and skills pre-service and in-service teachers need in order to prepare their K-12 students to succeed in remaining years of the 21st century. This symposium... More
pp. 2552-2554
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The future of Virtual Worlds & Learning
Andrew Hughes, Designing Digitally Inc., United States
The virtual worlds industry is changing rapidly, with new technologies and new advances in the virtual worlds happening daily. With all this progress, what affect do the virtual worlds have on the ... More
p. 2555
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Time: A Significant Opportunity Cost of Social Networking and Participating in Online Communities of Practice
Angela M. Karam & Hemangini Dutt Majumder, University of Texas at Austin, United States
This paper explores some of the issues related to increased social networking and participation in online communities of practice for academic purposes. These issues have been explored using the... More
pp. 2556-2561
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Saurus: A Hyper-dimensional Vocabulary Learning System
Yasufumi Kowase, Yong Xu & Keiichi Kaneko, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan; Masatoshi Ishikawa, Tokyo Seitoku University, Japan; Haruko Miyakoda, Tsuda College, Japan
Recently, many vocabulary learning systems based on multimedia have been proposed. Many of them use images and/or sounds related to a word so that learners can acquire the word easily. In this... More
pp. 2562-2570
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The Role of a Computerised Concept Mapping Tool in the Context of the Australian PhD Candidature
Daryl Ku, Jon Pearce & Wally Smith, University of Melbourne, Australia
This paper presents a human-computer interaction study aimed at understanding the roles and consequences of a computerised concept mapping tool in the context of the Australian PhD candidature.... More
pp. 2571-2580
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Implementation, Challenges, and Future Plans of Social Learning in the Workplace
Hyunkyung Lee, Yonsei University, Korea (South); Curtis J. Bonk, Indiana University, United States
This study examined the implementation, challenges, and future plans of social learning in the workplace through perspectives of workers in various organizations. To investigate workers’... More
pp. 2581-2587
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The Use of Wikis for Collaboration in Corporations: Perceptions and Implications for Future Research
Hyunkyung Lee, Yonsei University, Korea (South); Curtis J. Bonk, Indiana University, United States
This study examines perceptions and issues of corporate people related to collaboration and its tools, and specifically wikis in corporations. First, to identify interest in collaboration tools, a ... More
pp. 2588-2594
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Using Technology to Engage the Distance Learner
Tom LeNeau & Debra Bohlman, Rasmussen College, United States
A practice focused paper examining the use of VOIP technology in residential and online classes. The authors were looking for ways to use readily available technology to make online education more ... More
p. 2595
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Knowledge check questions: Is interactivity warranted during a narrated presentation?
David Lewis, The National Science Foundation, United States; Trudian Trail, Sandhya Srinivasan, Laura Rusnak, Lee Sang Joon & Lopez Samantha, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, United States
This study considered the effectiveness of “knowledge check questions,” during a narrated presentation. Classic instructional design literature encourages the use of these questions as a self... More
pp. 2596-2603
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How Web 2.0 Technologies Are Used in Higher Education: An Updated Review of Literature
Min Liu, Debby Kalk, Lance Kinney & Gregg Orr, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
This paper is an updated review of the literature on Web 2.0 uses in higher education from 2007-2009 using the conference proceedings from four major international conferences in instructional... More
pp. 2604-2615
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Technology Enabled Delivery of Distance Education: Challenges and Opportunities in Sri Lanka
Lalith Liyanage, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Abstract: This paper discusses challenges and opportunities that arise when attempting to transform the tertiary and vocational education in SriLanka from traditional forms into modern based on... More
pp. 2616-2620
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On-Demand Performance Assessment for Multi-User Virtual Environments
Christian S. Loh, Virtual Environment Lab (V-Lab), Southern Illinois University Carbondale, United States
The conventional belief of conducting a review session “after” training events should be revisited. Given the ultra high speed processing power of today’s computing technologies, post hoc reviews... More
pp. 2621-2630
