The Role of Augmented Reality and Its Application in Education and Personalized Learning

Yu-Tung Kuo; Yu-Chun Kuo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 790–797

Applications of Augmented Reality have been increasingly receiving attention for decades. Augmented Reality makes the use of computer-generated content that it overlays on real views or scenes, in real-time, tracking user’s movements and change of...

Topics: Games & Simulations

Internet Self-Efficacy, Self-Regulation, and Student Performance: African-American Adult Learners in Online Learning

Yu-Chun Kuo; Yu-Tung Kuo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 671–676

The paper intended to investigate adult learners’ Internet self-efficacy, self-regulation, and performance in online learning environments. The participants of this study were African Americans from a HBCU institution. The online learners...

Online Learning and Dropout Prevention in K-12 education

Yu-Chun Kuo; Yu-Tung Kuo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 364–373

This paper provides an overview of dropout issues and the potentials of the use of educational technology in decreasing the number of dropouts. It starts with a report of the facts of dropouts in the United States and Mississippi as well as the...

Topics: Distance Education, Administrators, Distance/Flexible Education

Interaction and Learning Outcomes in Online Learning Environments

Yu-Chun Kuo; Yu-Tung Kuo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 662–670

The paper intended to investigate students’ perceptions of interaction, satisfaction, and performance in online learning environments with the use of Blackboard. The interactions included learner-learner interaction, learner-instructor interaction,...

A Case Study of Learner Interaction in Web-based Learning

Yu-Chun Kuo

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 363–369

The paper was intended to investigate student interaction in a web-based course delivered through a learning management system. The interactions included learner-learner interaction, learner-instructor interaction, and learner-content interaction....

Topics: research, Evaluation

Using an Educational Computer Game as a Motivational Tool for Supplemental Instruction Delivery for Novice Programmers in Learning Computer Programming

Kuo-Chuan Yeh

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 1611–1616

This study uses an educational computer game and investigates its effect on students’ motivation toward computer programming. Twenty undergraduate students who enrolled in a basic computer programming course participated in this research study and...

Combining online discussion and peer evaluation to enhance learning outcomes

Chia-Ling Kuo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 3013–3017

An action research was conducted in an educational technology course in spring 2007 with a total of 69 undergraduate students. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of peer evaluation in an asynchronous online discussion...

Technology and Adult learners: Training Needs of Undergraduates in Continuing Education

Yu-Chun Kuo

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 829–833

The study reported an investigation on the perceived technology skills of African-American undergraduate students as well as their needs towards future technology trainings or workshops. The participants were the working adult learners who attended...

Topics: Evaluation, Implementation Examples & Issues, Tools & Systems

Effects of Collaborative and e-Learning on Skill Acquisition and Retention for Computer-based Cognitive Tasks

Kuo-Hao Tang

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2261–2264

Based on a training program using a production system simulation software designed for the Theory of Constraint (TOC), the effects of collaborative training and after-training feedback representation method on skill acquisition and skill retention...

Topics: Instructional Design, Training

Perceptions of Faculty and Students on the Use of Wireless Laptops

Chia-Ling Kuo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 1242–1246

Wireless is a new technology in schools. Numerous articles state the advantages of wireless networking on campus, but few articles analyze wireless technology from the perceptions of teachers and students. In educational settings, teachers and...

Topics: Educational Technology, Internet, Computers, Students, Networking Technologies

From Information Management to Knowledge Management --Constructing the Digitized Learning Organization

Kuo-Ching Feng

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 360–365

In the post-capitalism era, the success of an organization lies more in it's knowledge and system capabilities than it's physical assets. Knowledge creation has become indispensable to industrial innovation and the improvement of the learning...

The Effect of Student Interactions and Internet Self-Efficacy on Satisfaction in Two Synchronous Interwise Course Sessions

Yu-Chun Kuo; Yu-Tung Kuo; Andrew Walker

Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 4242–4246

Interaction has been recognized as an important factor which influences student satisfaction in distance learning environments. Internet self-efficacy, which refers to one’s belief in performing Internet related actions, was assumed to be a factor...

Enhancing Technology-supported Inquiry Teaching Ability of Mathematics and Science Teachers through an Summer Intensive Course

Hsiuting Yang; Kuo-Hua Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1629–1635

The purpose of this study was to evaluate an intensive summer course, which focuses on technology supported inquiry teaching, on mathematics and science teachers' professional development. A single group pre and post experimental design is adopted...

Topics: Information Sciences, Elementary Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Professional Development

Framework of integrating ill-structured problem solving into the arts classroom with the use of ICT

Shih-Ping Kuo; Johannes Strobel

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 1936–1940

The purpose of this paper is to provide arts teachers a framework for the integration of ICT within their existing mind-sets and instructional strategies in the context of teaching visual arts production. The framework integrates a model of ill...

Inspection of a prototype framework for integrating ill-structured problem solving into the arts classroom with the use of ICT

Shih-Ping Kuo; Johannes Strobel

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 3221–3229

The purpose of this session is (a) to introduce an instructional framework (including guidelines and examples) for the integration of ICT into teaching visual arts production and (b) to receive feedback from in-service teachers. The framework...

The Role of Technology in Support of Problem-Based Learning in Online Learning Environments

Yu-Chun Kuo; Andrew Walker

Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 1447–1455

Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that has been used to engage learners in traditional classroom settings in a variety of disciplines. With rapid growth of computer technologies, there has been an attempt to integrate PBL in...

Preferences for Information Seeking and Information Sharing Among Taiwanese Learners

Yu-Chun Kuo; Hungwei Tseng

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 887–891

The paper investigates Taiwanese students? information seeking and information sharing behaviors in a traditional classroom setting. The participants of this study were students enrolled into a Business course offered by a university in Taiwan....

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Research & Evaluation, International Education

Growth mindsets and flexible thinking in first-time online students? self-efficacy in learning

Hungwei Tseng; Yu-Chun Kuo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 299–302

The present study seeks to examine gender differences of the first-time online students with respect to flexible thinking and mindset and to investigate the impacts of flexible thinking, mindset, and self-efficacy in learning on the first-time...

Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Research & Evaluation

A Review of the Reliability of a Cross-Cultural Model for Digital Games

Yu-Tung Kuo; Yu-Chun Kuo; David Whittinghill

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2201–2208

The game industry has become one of the most competitive industries in the world; many companies and developers desire to expand their game markets quickly by attracting a variety of game players and consumers. Consequently, a multi-national...

Topics: social studies education, Games & Simulations

Investigation on the case teacher’s belief and actions while implementing Technology-supported Inquiry Teaching

Hsiuting Yang; Kuo-Hua Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2329–2335

The aim of this study was to investigate one case teacher's belief and actions when he implemented technology-supported inquiry teaching in junior high school science class. We offered a summer course for science teachers to enhance their abilities...

Topics: Teachers, Elementary Education, Educational Technology, Science, Middle School Education

A Pilot for the Implementation of Lecture-Capture Software: Potentials and Challenges for Faculty

Yu-Chun Kuo; Jeanne Buckley

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 2350–2354

This paper presents an ongoing project from Global Information Service to assist faculty in Physical Therapy to adopt lecture-capture technology in their teaching. Echo 360 was selected at the initial pilot stage due to faculty needs and...

Best practice in designing an adaptable and extendable online course

Ying Ying Kuo; Larry Tang

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) p. 1212

The best practice in designing and developing a fully online course involves the considerations of adaptivity and extendability. This statistics course is designed with a well-organized structure so instructors will be able to flexibly adjust or...

Topics: Instructional Design, Content Development, Implementation Examples & Issues

Using Knowledge Management Platform in Instruction to Improve Teaching Introspection of Teachers

Kuo-Hung Tseng; Yuan Chen

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 3163–3168

This study focused on teachers of vocational high schools in integrating KM platform into instruction and by observing the effectiveness of the platform in promoting their teaching reflection processes. The study was undertaken qualitatively and...

The Factors Influencing E-learning Adoption by Academic Staff: A Case Study in Taiwan

Kuo-Tung Huan; Elspeth McKay

Global Learn 2011 (Mar 28, 2011) pp. 585–594

E-learning has been integrated into the university programmes for some time. Although the universities have invested resources as well as provided training and support teams to encourage teachers to adopt e-learning in their professional practice,...

The Analysis of a Courseware Quality Framework for e-Learning

Ming-Puu Chen; Kuo-En Chang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 40–45

In Taiwan, an e-Learning Courseware Certification service is provided by the Quality Service Center of the e-Learning Network Science Park to distinguish and promote well-designed e-Learning courseware. The e-Learning Courseware Certification...

Topics: Instructional Design

Interaction and Other Variables as Predictors of Student Satisfaction in Online Learning Environments

Yu-Chun Kuo; Andrew Walker; Kerstin Schroder

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 593–600

The paper intended to investigate the degree to which interaction and other predictors contributed to student satisfaction in online learning setting. This was a preliminary study towards a dissertation work which involved the establishment of...

Is Teaching of Technology Courses Online as Effective as Teaching of Technology Courses Face-to-Face?

Chia-Ling Kuo; Hongbo Song; Renee Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 923–927

This study examined and compared college students' attitudes toward technology and technological application skills in a technology applications course that has two different delivery modes: online and face-to-face. A three-part survey was designed...

Topics: Attitudes, Students

Gender Differences in CALL Programs for English as a Second Language Acquisition

Cheng-Chieh Lai; Ming-Mu Kuo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 2833–2836

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of gender differences on the application of CALL programs for second language acquisition. Gender difference is an important theme in linguistic education because it influences the design of...

Preservice Teachers’ Use of Technology in Preschool Classrooms

Tsung-Hui Tu; Chia-Ling Kuo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 3110–3114

To prepare preservice teachers to use technology in preschool classrooms, all students majoring in early childhood education in a Northeast Ohio university are required to take an educational technology course; however, limited studies have been...

Establishing a Remote Control Observation Model in Teacher Education

Shih-Hsiung Liu; Kuo-Hua Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2443–2447

A teaching model that employs the use of remote control camera in classroom observation during field experience is introduced to better prepare the future teachers. This model, differing from the past ways of classroom observation, that involved...

Using Video Conferencing Tools in Synchronous Clinician Training

Yu-Chun Kuo; Jeanne Buckley; Calvin Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 552–557

This paper is intended to report on the process of implementing a video conference tool through Internet 2 for a clinician training session that was delivered from the Physical therapy program at a middle Atlantic university to the remote clinicians ...

A New Roman World: Using Virtual Reality Technology as a Critical Teaching Tool

Elaine W. Kuo; Marc R. Levis

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2002 (April 2002)

The purpose of this study is to examine how technology, namely virtual reality (VR), can be developed as a critical pedagogical tool. More specifically, the study explores whether the use of VR can challenge the traditional lecture format and make...

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,...

Virtual Learning Community versus Physical Learning Community in Networked Learning Environments

Chi-Syan Lin; Ming-Shiuo Kuo

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 2351–2356

The paper characterizes the differences between physical learning community and virtual learning community and claims that virtual learning community is one of the most significant ingredients in networked learning environments. Two empirical...

Topics: Virtual Environments, Physical Environments, Community

A Study for the Adult Examinees' Motivation, Barriers, Satisfaction and Post-Exam Reactions on the Computer-based Professional Examinations offered at Securities and Future Institute in Taipei

Chin-Yen Lin; Tsung-Hsien Kuo; Li-An Ho; Yen-Ku Kuo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 83–95

The Testing Center at Securities and Future Institute (SFI) in Taipei, Taiwan proposed a study to investigate its target audiences in terms of the motivations to attend the professional examinations offered by the Testing Center, the barriers that...

Topics: Research Methods

The Trend Analysis of Technology Education In Taiwan

Jia-rong Wen; Kuo-Ming Cheng; Chia-Pin Chen; Sheng-huang Kuo

Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 725–730

The Taiwan technology education started from Chin dynasty. It's educational goal changed from vocational exploring to industrial culture reorganization as well as teaching student's technology literacy. Imitated from United Stated of America, Taiwan'...

M-learning Incorporated into the Elementary School English Teaching

Jia-rong Wen; Ming Kuang Chuang; Kuo-Ming Cheng; Sheng-Huang Kuo

Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 224–229

With the globalization, the English teaching has been incorporated to the language curriculum of the elementary school and even to the goal of the 1st-9th Grade curriculum; the competency of IT (information technology) ability and English competency ...

An Investigation of the Actual Practice of Instructional Design at Elementary Schools in Taipei-- From Teachers' Perspective

Li-An Ho; Tsung-Hsien Kuo; Shu-Hui Tsai; Yen-Ku Kuo

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 1218–1224

The study aims to understand how elementary school teachers design instruction, and tries to make a comparison to the professional implementation. A survey questionnaire is used to collect data. The subject randomly selected twenty-five schools and...

Topics: Teachers, Instructional Design, Schools

Enhancing Secondary In-service Mathematics and Science Teachers' Assessment Knowledge and Perspectives through The P2R-WATA Assessment Literacy Development Model

Ya-Ching Fan; Tzu-Hua Wang; Kuo-Hua Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1555–1562

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of the assessment literacy development model called P2R-WATA (Practicing, Reflecting and Revising with Web-based Assessment and Test Analysis), on improving the assessment knowledge and...

Topics: Science, Teachers, Assessment

Making efficient instructional decisions in Web environments

Ying Ying Kuo; Lee Ann Miller; Amir Ramezan

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1582–1587

This paper presents a Guide, including a flow chart and an analytic rubric table, which intends to assist educators in making efficient instructional decisions for teaching in a blended web environment. The Guide, embedded with instructional and...

Topics: Instructional Design

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...

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

Effectiveness of a Web-based Quiz-Game-like Formative Assessment on Students learning in a Biology Curriculum Evaluation

Ya-Ching Fan; Kuo-Hua Wang; Tzu-Hua Wang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 968–972

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a Web-based quiz-game-like formative assessment on student learning in middle school Ecology curriculum. We use a formative assessment module with various game-like strategies online, named ...

Web 2.0-based User Agreement Development Space with Learning Supports: Web2UA

Hannah Kim; Xi Cheng; Shih-Ping Kuo; Johannes Strobel

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3405–3410

This paper proposes a design framework and a prototype for constructing a Web 2.0 space (Web2UA) for developing Web 2.0 user agreements. The central idea of the framework is that many features of Web 2.0 applications inherently adopt the principles...

Patterns of Constructive Engagement in a Web-based Learning Activity for Teacher Professional Development

Ming-Chou Liu; Kuo-An Lai; Ying-Ching Chu

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 1631–1640

Using information and communication technology (ICT) to enhance teacher professional development is a current trend in teacher education. For this study we created a web-based learning system that helps teachers design and develop a teaching plan...

Shaping Online Discussion: Assessment Matters

Karen Swan; Jason Schenker; Stephen Arnold; Chia-Ling Kuo

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2649–2656

The purpose of this study was to empirically test the common-sense notion that the quality of online course discussions can be shaped by how discussion is assessed. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare discussion activity among 8 sections ...

Topics: Educational Technology

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Pre-service Teachers’ Perception and Beliefs in Mathematics

Cheng-Yao Lin; Yu-Chun Kuo; Yi-Yin Ko

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1422–1431

This study focuses on elementary pre-service teachers’ content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and technological pedagogical content knowledge of linear and quadratic equations. The relationships among Technological Pedagogical Content...

Topics: mathematics education, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Research & Evaluation

Teachers' Application of TBL Model and its Teaching Efficiency in Smarter Classroom Environment

I-Hua Chang; Cheng-Mei Hsu; Kuo-Wei Yu

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 996–1011

The purpose of this research was to investigate the students in their perceptions of teachers’ teaching effectiveness, role and teaching effectiveness of teacher after teachers applying Team-Based Learning in their teaching method of five schools in ...

Topics: collaborative learning, Learning technologies for transformational change

A Class-Based Web Recommendation by User Browsing Behavior

Chen-Chung Chi; Chin-Hwa Kuo; Tao-Hsiang Yang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 6259–6264

Abstract: Using the concept of social navigation, the web pages browsed by users are used to recommend web pages to each other. After the analysis of the history of recently viewed web pages, we can learn more about the user’s interests. In the...

Topics: Training, Communication, Collaboration, Navigation, Computer Sciences