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Analysis of the Information in the Academic Management, Required in the Self-Evaluation Processes of the UNED
Acon-Matamoros, Ariana; Trujillo-Cotera, Aurora (Costa Rica)
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One of the institutional concerns of the Distance State University (UNED) of Costa Rica, is to obtain appropriate information to sustain continuous improvements in the Diplomaed, Bachelors and postgraduate program’s to reach academic excellence.
Consequently, one of the challenges faced by higher education, institutional policies and regulations is the consolidation and strengthening of the management of academic and other UNED dependencies, because of the culture of quality and excellence, and the ever-increasing demands of society.
The Self-evaluation department of the Academic Quality Management Institute (IGESCA) is responsible for contributing to compliance of these policies, therefore proposes an information system, which should solve the needs that are not yet covered.
Moreover, the information system should be accessed by academic dependencies, administrative clerks, university executives and also by the IGESCA coworkers, in order to enhance evaluation, self-evaluation, certification, accreditation, reaccreditation processes of the University.
The findings of this investigation were achieved from the surveys, interviews to users, and the information analysis.
This paper specifies the importance and necessity for the information system, which will support the self-evaluation processes of the University. On the other hand describe de research used in this paper, in order to support academic management and decision making.
Automatic Source Code Correction System Focused on Teacher’s Usability
Beltrame, Fernanda S.; Filev Maia, Rodrigo; Wachs Lopes, Guilherme A. (Brazil)
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In the Computing area many workout correction systems are used for automatic correction of source codes. However, one of the main impediments to the use of these tools is the inefficiency of the interface for the elaboration and use of the teacher in their discipline. In this project, we propose an automatic correction system for source codes so that the teacher can elaborate his own corrector in a practical manner. This corrector is used as a comparison guideline for submitted exercises.
Choosing the Appropriate Audience Response System in Different Use Cases
Kubica, Tommy; Hara, Tenshi; Braun, Iris; Kapp, Felix; Schill, Alexander (Germany)
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Education in schools and universities suffers from different problems like the lack of interaction between the lecturer and the students as well as the fear of asking irrelevant questions or providing wrong answers in front of a large audience. A lot of systems exist that try to solve these issues by means of technical tools; e.g., audience response systems. Each of these individual systems supports different functional scopes with different didactic purposes in order to support specific use cases. For the lecturer, it is very hard to choose an appropriate system. Besides the functional scope, there are a lot of predefined limitations, such as a given room with technical restrictions or a favorite operating system and presentation software to present the slides. This paper gives an overview of fifty existing systems (with varying degree of detail) and proposes a filter mechanism based on the index card metaphor to select appropriate systems depending on their individual limitations. In order to simplify this selection process for the lecturer, the filter mechanism is implemented in a web-based selection tool.
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in the College of Justice: It Is All About Cooperation
Rubtsova, Anna; Kitsing, Ivo (Estonia)
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This paper is aimed at describing and sharing the experience of the College of Justice in simultaneous teaching subject content and Russian language. CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is definitely one of the most suggested and highly appreciated ways of teaching nowadays as it gives students a great chance of learning a subject through the medium of a foreign language. In the College of Justice of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences this method of teaching has been used already for many years. Nevertheless, there is always room for development and innovation.
E-Learning Course: Donation and Harvest of Cells and Tissues - Design and First Experience
Měřička, Pavel; Navrátil, Pavel; Brandejs, Daniel; Štěrba, Lubomír; Straková, Hana; Honegrová, Barbora (Czech Republic)
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The design of the new e-learning course: “Donation and Harvest of cells and tissues” is presented. Its aim is to enable the students to learn individually the principles of the subject and to present the gained knowledge at the final seminar of students enrolled in an elective subject “Basis of Harvest and preservation of Tissues“ All functions of the course are operated in Moodle. The course covers the topic “Donation and harvest of cells and tissues” which is divided into 2 parts. A test consisting of 5 questions selected from the bank of questions follows each part. If the student answers correctly at least 3 questions, he/she is allowed to pass to the next part and/or final test consisting of 15 questions. It is necessary to answer correctly at least 10 questions to receive a certificate of completing the course. The third topic is represented by a database for uploading seminar theses. The course was made on basis of verification of previous Czech and English versions, that were well accepted by undergraduate medical students. The new advanced English version is planned to be used also by surgeons in post-graduate training and post-graduate students of doctoral (Ph.D.) study programmes.
Empathy and Gender Inequality in Engineering: Is there a Hidden Link
Xu, Yonghong Jade; Jacobs, Eddie; Astorne-Figari, Carmen; Curry, Amy L. de Jongh; Salem, Wesam; Roberts, Shelby (United States)
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Guided by the empathizing-systemizing theoretical framework, this study found that women college students had higher empathy scores than men. Women had lower likelihoods of majoring in engineering because not only was empathy negatively associated with choosing engineering majors, but engineering was perceived as one of the disciplines having lowest empathy level.
High-Frequency Trading: Disruptive Innovation Enabled by Information and Communication Technology and Institutional Setup
Dalko, Viktoria (United States)
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Although high-frequency trading is in its adolescence in the U.S. equity markets, its dominance has disrupted the market ecology. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the key factors responsible for the emergence, dominance, and innovative success of high-frequency trading. The first area of focus is the role of information and communication technology that enables high-frequency trading to act as a disruptive innovation in the equity market. The second topic of focus is the existing and evolving institutional setup including regulatory change that is favourable to high-frequency trading. Key literature has demonstrated that high-frequency trading is innovative in order-based intraday trading strategies and disruptive in triggering short-term volatility and threatening market stability.
Innovative Didactic Tools in Education
Svoboda, Petr (Czech Republic)
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The aim of the paper is to highlight the importance of innovative didactic tools as a support and complement in education. The paper responds to new trends and needs of a society whose competitiveness requires population readiness to industry claims 4.0 (National Initiative Industry 4.0, MPO). It is in line with the Digital Education Strategy for 2020 - to equip each individual indiscriminately with competences that enable him to apply to the information society and make use of open learning opportunities throughout his life. The paper is also in line with the Education Policy Strategy of the Czech Republic (Resolution CR 927/2014), which includes the challenge of opening education to new methods and ways of learning through digital technologies and ensuring conditions for the development of digital literacy and information thinking.
Predicting Performance of Students in a Flipped Classroom Using Machine Learning: Towards Automated Data-Driven Formative Feedback
Nouri, Jalal; Saqr, Mohammed; Fors, Uno (Sweden)
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Learning analytics (LA) is a relatively new research discipline that uses data to try to improve learning, optimizing the learning process and develop the environment in which learning occurs. One of the objectives of LA is to monitor students’ activities and early predict performance to improve retention, offer personalized feedback and facilitate the provision of support to the students. Flipped classroom is one of the pedagogical methods that find strength in the combination of physical and digital environments – i.e. blended learning environments. Flipped classroom often make use of learning management systems in which video-recorded lectures and digital material is made available, which thus generates data about students’ interactions with these materials. In this paper, we report on a study conducted with focus on a flipped learning course in research methodology. Based on data regarding how students interact with course material (video recorded lectures and reading material), how they interact with teachers and other peers in discussion forums, and how they perform on a digital assessment (digital quiz), we apply machine learning methods (i.e. Neural Networks, Naïve Bayes, Random Forest, kNN, and Logistic regression) in order to predict students’ overall performance on the course. The final predictive model that we present in this paper could with fairly high accuracy predict low- and high achievers in the course based on activity and early assessment data. Using this approach, we are given opportunities to develop learning management systems that provide automatic data-driven formative feedback that can help students to self-regulate as well as inform teachers where and how to intervene and scaffold students.
Reading and Adult Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis
Hall, Harry; Sporleder, Roxie (United States)
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An experimental research design was used to determine and explore the consequences of the reading ability and success in higher education of more than 1200 adult students entering the associate’s programs of the College of Adult and Professional Studies (CAPS) at Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU) over an 18-month period. All entering students were requested to complete a reading assessment (MyReadingLab©). Those who scored at or below the 1200 Lexile (11th grade) and consented to participate were randomly, stratified by level and gender, assigned to one of three groups, two online reading interventions and a control group. In addition to the reading assessment, the over 170 consenting students took learning styles inventory and phonemic awareness tests to determine if there is a relationship with reading achievement. It was found that there was a correlation between the student’s ability to read and their success (GPA), persistence, and success in mathematics and English. Although very few students completed their entire remediation programs, as a group, they demonstrated a significant improvement in GPA when compared to similar students who did not participate in a remediation program. The low remediation completion rate clearly supports other research concluding that students with low readiness skills cannot complete their regular coursework and, at the same time, a reading remediation program. Contrary to previous research, there was found to be a positive relationship between reading ability and age. Male students began their matriculation with a higher average reading ability than females and there was a correlation between gender and reading ability and success where male students were more successful (GPA and persistence). Not surprisingly, the adult students were predominately tactile-sensory learners and favored concrete or abstract sequential methods for organizing information. More than 95% lacked the phonemic awareness critical for reading competency. This research established that literacy (reading) readiness is a predictor of adult student’s success in higher education in general as well as in mathematics and English education.
Relations between Learning Styles and Learning Methods for the Internet of Things Knowledge Areas amongst Engineering Students
Singar, Arjun; K. B., Akhilesh (India)
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The most emerging technology since 2014 has been the Internet of Things and this is the reason why universities are finding it interesting to offer courses in IoT. The most challenging aspect of this work is to comprehend the relationship between the students’ learning style combinations, IoT knowledge areas and their appropriate learning methods. The motive behind establishing this relationship is to provide a learning platform & promote learning effectiveness amongst engineering students.
Social Exclusion as a Challenge for Educational Migrants’ Everyday Life in Contemporary Russian Federation
Rezaev, Andrey V.; Lisitsyn, Pavel P. (Russian Federation)
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The paper discusses the role of education in migrants’ social inclusion. It illustrates its ambiguity: while students are considered as the most “preferable” category of migrants and participation in higher education institutions and practices is one of the most effective tools of migrants’ inclusion, educational migrants face all the exclusionary practices simultaneously, both formal and informal. Based on our research findings, we highlight three significant interconnected factors which determine the level of access to tertiary education for migrants. We conclude by discussing the roots of the ambiguity linking them to the overall context of Russian migration policy embedded in post-Soviet institutions and structures.
Taxonomy of Applications and Video Games and Statistical Model of Mixed Reality Market Sectors for the Development of Applications
Sánchez Requejo, Luis Felipe; Ramírez Reyes, Jam Carlo; Barrientos Padilla, Alfredo; Villalta Riega, Rosario (Peru)
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Emerging technologies are innovative ideas that provide solutions in order to help us to simplify everyday and organizational tasks. One of these technologies that have great potential is Mixed Reality, which has as a concept the fusion of virtual reality, an environment of digital objects and scenes; and augmented reality, virtual objects that integrate with the real world but do not interact with it. The potential of Mixed Reality has been used by highly recognized companies in order to solve problems in different sectors such as health, education, industry, etc. This project will present the research carried out on the existing technologies based on Mixed Reality and the technological contribution provided by these technologies according to their functionality, in order to propose a classification taxonomy of the found technologies (applications) and a statistical model of adoption by commercial value to provide guidance on existing technological solutions by sector and for the development of technology projects based on existing technologies.
The Degree with Identity Issues: Researching the “Made in Canada” EdD for UOIT
Muirhead, Bill; Robertson, Lorayne (Canada)
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In this paper, the authors examine the nature of the present doctoral degrees in education across programs in Canada in light of the identification of the need for Canadian graduate schools to be more transformative to parallel changes in society. The authors undertake a review of the education doctorate in Canadian contexts, researching the programs offered at 15 Canadian universities and comparing them across key attributes. The result of the comparisons drawn from the literature and from the online document analysis of Canadian universities provides a breadth of indicators with respect to how the academy is responding to changing contexts for doctoral students in education, and, in particular, how the academy in Canada is changing to provide more relevant doctor of education programs. Using a comparative approach, the authors also examine literature on the changing nature of the educational doctoral degree in the United States.
The Diffusion of Social Trust and the Triple Helix Concept
Csiszer, Annamaria (Hungary)
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Both explicitly and implicitly the central role of my paper is given to questions of trust in social communication, ICT and e-governance dimensions. What I am really interested in is the widely understood significance of social trust, that with its own dynamics, structures, systems and subsystems construct and maintain the functioning of the science-economics-governance triangle.
To what extent can trust in neighbours, strangers or social institutions affect our social well-being? Is the digital communication of social trust capable of solving social and economic problems? Can trust function as a social connective tissue? How can we reveal these problems with the help of social sciences and how can we facilitate social trust with the help of social communication researches focusing especially on the interconnections between science-economics and governance.
Defining trust as social capital provides an opportunity to review national and international researches, which make it possible to survey the effects of social trust in a computer mediated context. In my paper I tend to deal with the significance of this phenomena, in order to explore its scientific relevance.
The Digital Revolution – Can Society Enjoy its Blessings and Manage its Curse?
Nzacahayo, Paul; Garfield, Joy (United Kingdom)
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This paper argues that the digital revolution has undoubtedly changed the way we live and work for the better. It presents examples from a British context where a deep transformation has taken place and points particularly at the speed and consequences of such change. The paper highlights some of the steps that are being taken to avoid the negative impact on society as a whole. These include regulation, together with individual and parental responsibility. It concludes with a warning that ethical dilemmas pertaining to the use of digital technologies are far from being solved; particularly the issue of who regulates the regulators. In other words where do we turn to when political and industry leaders are the ones who are infringing the moral code of digital technology usage.
The Impact of Online Service Quality on e-Engagement in the Context of e-Tutoring Services
Promtep, Sandrine; Arcand, Manon; Cherkaoui, Salim (Canada)
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This study investigates (1) the effect of online service quality (ease of use, design, reliability and security/privacy) on user engagement as measured by two of its major constituents: consumer satisfaction and focused attention (2) the degree to which focused attention influences satisfaction in the context of e-learning. To explore these relationships in this context, an online questionnaire was completed by 224 consumers enrolled in an online tutoring service. Results were analyzed using structural modelling techniques. Major findings show that online service quality strongly affects satisfaction and focused attention, however, no interdependence between satisfaction and focused attention was found. While the impact of online service quality on engagement has already been established in a business environment, this study adopts a multidisciplinary approach to extend the body of knowledge to online educational services, a context whose study crosses various disciplines (marketing, commerce and education) normally addressed as separate subjects. It confirms the impact of online service quality on customer satisfaction and focused attention in the context of e-tutoring services, where commercial imperatives apply and a captive clientele is not guaranteed.
The Strive for Preserving Online Anonymity as a Trigger for Online Identity Falsification
Weinberger, Maor; Bouhnik, Dan (Israel)
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In this exploratory study we investigate the main reasons and triggers for users to not disclose their personal details, or even to create a fake identity and provide falsified information upon website registration. In addition, we will examine the centrality of the desire to maintain online anonymity among the other antecedents of non-disclosure of personal details or identity falsification. Various reasons for non-disclosure of personal details or identity falsification were considered, such as the desire to remain anonymous.
To this end, a user study was carried out among 169 students of the Israeli academia, via a quantitative method using closed-ended questionnaires. The desire to remain anonymous was found as the most prevalent reason for this behavior and was always ranked as one of the top reasons among every sub-population that was examined (e.g. men / women, Bachelor / Master students, etc.). In addition, we made an attempt to predict the tendency of non-disclosure of personal details or identity falsification upon website registration, by using a multiple logistic regression taking into account various privacy and anonymity related reasons, such as anonymity awareness and privacy concern. However, it was found insignificant for the factors examined.
The Use of Virtual Learning Environment and Virtual Technology for Problem Solving and Team Learning Abilities in Thailand College Classroom
Songkram, Noawanit (Thailand)
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This current research is a Research and Development research. The purpose is to develop an e-learning system to enhance problem-solving ability and team learning for higher education students. The research will start off with investigating the management of teaching-learning for e-learning or online-based learning and studying virtual-learning technology in order to apply it in the e-learning system. The research target will be 400 randomly chosen volunteers who are educators from the higher education system in Thailand. Based on the findings, an e-learning system will be designed with purpose mentioned above by using: 1) LMS system will be designed with Moodle Software; 2) Web-based tools 2.0 with cloud computing; and 3) Multimedia teaching aids. The research target for studying the designed e-learning system will be 18 randomly chosen volunteers from the higher education level for a period of 12 weeks continuously. During the study period, the researcher will collect data based on an observation of the teaching method; data from the students will be collected based on their problem-solving and team learning abilities. The data was statistically analysed using mean, standard deviation, one-way repeated measure ANOVA, and t–test. Outcome of this study shows that both skills improved significantly higher in the volunteer students studied.
Triple Helix Approach for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Research Using Synthetic Data Generation Methods
Lopez-Rojas, Edgar Alonso *; Zoto, Erjon ** (* United Kingdom, ** Norway)
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Criminal money is disguised from Law Enforcement Agencies using money laundering techniques to profit wrongdoers pockets or even worse to finance criminal and terrorism activities. To make the proceeds from their illegal activities look legitimate in the eyes of the rest of society they use complex and diverse money laundering techniques that takes advantage of poor policies and law loopholes. Current countermeasures taken by financial organizations are insufficient because they aim to comply in several cases on minimum base of the legal requirements.
In this paper we argue that research in the area of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is being hampered by the lack of available quality data sets. Classic computational controls such as thresholds and modern techniques such as machine learning can benefit from using synthetic data generation methods to target more accurately and efficiently suspicious transactions.
The introduction of simulators of financial synthetic data generation for AML research has several benefits for the fight against this crime. In this paper we present also additional capabilities that we have identified and suggestions in how to define and implement a triple-helix cooperation model of interaction between academy, financial institutions and law enforcement agencies.
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