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Controlling item difficulty for automatic vocabulary question generation

The present study investigates the best factor for controlling the item difficulty of multiple-choice English vocabulary questions generated by an automatic question generation system. Three factors are consid...

Authors: Yuni Susanti, Takenobu Tokunaga, Hitoshi Nishikawa and Hiroyuki Obari

The potential of Second Life for university counseling: a comparative approach examining media features and counseling problems

This study explored the potential of Second Life (SL), a popular multi-user virtual online environment, for university counseling. University students (n = 312) were asked to evaluate three counseling channels (i...

Authors: Fu-Yun Yu, Hsiao-Ting Hsieh and Ben Chang

MIC-O-MAP: a technology-enhanced learning environment for developing micro-macro thinking skills

MIC-O-MAP (MICroscopic-Observations-Macroscopic-Predictions) is a technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environment designed for developing micro-macro thinking skills among science and engineering undergraduate ...

Authors: Anura B. Kenkre and Sahana Murthy

Exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on teaching and learning in higher education

This paper explores the phenomena of the emergence of the use of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning in higher education. It investigates educational implications of emerging technologies on the w...

Authors: Stefan A. D. Popenici and Sharon Kerr

Digital storytelling as student-centred pedagogy: empowering high school students to frame their futures

Digital storytelling was used in a high school classroom in the Midwestern USA as a part of the curriculum for “non-university-bound” rural youth. Though described as “unengaged”, in this paper we illustrate t...

Authors: Bea Staley and Leonard A. Freeman

The practical use of Kit-Build concept map on formative assessment

Formative assessment can encourage an instructor to improve learning achievements in a lecture class. The goal of formative assessment in a classroom situation is monitoring learners to provide instructor’s fe...

Authors: Jaruwat Pailai, Warunya Wunnasri, Kan Yoshida, Yusuke Hayashi and Tsukasa Hirashima

Design-based research on teacher facilitation practices for serious gaming in formal schooling

Serious gaming has been regarded as one of the important student-centric learning approaches in the coming decade. However, there has been a lack of in-depth discussion of the teacher role in the course of ser...

Authors: Morris Siu Yung Jong, Anmei Dong and Eric Luk

Digital learner presence and online teaching tools: higher cognitive requirements of online learners for effective learning

This article explores digital learner presence in various higher education degrees in a regional institution in NSW, Australia. Several tools used for online teaching are explored through individual research p...

Authors: Sue Gregory and Michelle Bannister-Tyrrell

Classroom practice for understanding pointers using learning support system for visualizing memory image and target domain world

Pointers are difficult learning targets for novice learners of C programming. For such difficult targets, introducing a system visualizing program behaviors is generally expected to support learners to underst...

Authors: Koichi Yamashita, Ryota Fujioka, Satoru Kogure, Yasuhiro Noguchi, Tatsuhiro Konishi and Yukihiro Itoh

Envisioning the use of online tests in assessing twenty-first century learning: a literature review

The digital world brings with it more and more opportunities to be innovative around assessment. With a variety of digital tools and the pervasive availability of information anywhere anytime, there is a treme...

Authors: Bopelo Boitshwarelo, Alison Kay Reedy and Trevor Billany

The effectiveness of using in-game cards as reward

The research team has developed a web-based multiplayer trading card game to allow teachers choosing cards as rewards for students who actively participate in discussions and classroom activities as well as pe...

Authors: Peayton Chen, Rita Kuo, Maiga Chang and Jia-Sheng Heh

The Warramiri website: applying an alternative Yolŋu epistemology to digital development

The intergenerational transmission of traditional language and culture is at the core of Yolŋu Indigenous knowledge practices. The homeland of Gäwa in remote Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, was established by...

Authors: Ben van Gelderen and Kathy Guthadjaka

Learning analytics of the relationships among self-regulated learning, learning behaviors, and learning performance

This research aims to investigate the relationship between self-regulated learning awareness, learning behaviors, and learning performance in ubiquitous learning environments. In order to conduct this research...

Authors: Masanori Yamada, Atsushi Shimada, Fumiya Okubo, Misato Oi, Kentaro Kojima and Hiroaki Ogata

Model-based analysis of thinking in problem posing as sentence integration focused on violation of the constraints

The advancement of computer and communication technologies has enabled researchers to conduct and analyze the learning process of posing problems. This study investigates what learners think while posing probl...

Authors: Ahmad Afif Supianto, Yusuke Hayashi and Tsukasa Hirashima

Evaluation of automatically generated English vocabulary questions

This paper describes details of the evaluation experiments for questions created by an automatic question generation system. Given a target word and one of its word senses, the system generates a multiple-choi...

Authors: Yuni Susanti, Takenobu Tokunaga, Hitoshi Nishikawa and Hiroyuki Obari

Designing Reciprocative Dynamic Linking to improve learners’ Representational Competence in interactive learning environments

Learning from interactive learning environments enriched with multiple external representations (MERs) is often beneficial. The learning benefits of MERs highly rely on the development of Representational Comp...

Authors: Mrinal Patwardhan and Sahana Murthy

An analysis of learner outputs in problem posing as sentence-integration in arithmetic word problems

Achieving practical implementation of learning by problem posing faces the issue of inefficiency due to the time needed for assessment and giving feedback to students’ posed problems. As a solution of this pro...

Authors: Nur Hasanah, Yusuke Hayashi and Tsukasa Hirashima

Facilitating higher-order thinking with the flipped classroom model: a student teacher’s experience in a Hong Kong secondary school

This paper aims to discuss an exploratory study that a student teacher carried out on applying the “flipped classroom” approach in his information and communication technology (ICT) class. The study examined s...

Authors: Kin-yuen Lee and Yiu-chi Lai

Knowledge for games, games for knowledge: designing a digital roll-and-move board game for a law of torts class

Game-based constructivist learning has gained considerable attention as educational institutions aim to move from traditional instructional teaching to interactive and collaborative methods. The question is le...

Authors: Kok Yew Gary Chan, Swee Liang Tan, Khe Foon Timothy Hew, Bernie Grayson Koh, Li Siong Lim and Jose C. Yong

Overcoming barriers to ‘flip’: building teacher’s capacity for the adoption of flipped classroom in Hong Kong secondary schools

Flipped classroom teaching has become a significant trend in education in recent years, but there remain significant challenges in persuading some teachers to adopt this novel method. Through the lens of Ertme...

Authors: Tianchong Wang

Supporting cross-cultural online discussion with formal and informal platforms: a case between Hong Kong and Taiwan

The paper reports on a collaborative project on fostering cross-cultural online discussion between two universities with one in Hong Kong and the other in Taiwan. Two online platforms—Moodle as a formal channe...

Authors: Liping Deng, Yang-Hsueh Chen and Sandy C. Li

A critical review of flipped classroom challenges in K-12 education: possible solutions and recommendations for future research

An increasing number of teachers are using flipped classroom approach in their teaching. This instructional approach combines video-based learning outside the classroom and interactive group learning activitie...

Authors: Chung Kwan Lo and Khe Foon Hew

iSAT: a visual learning analytics tool for instructors

Interactive Stratified Attribute Tracking (iSAT) is a visual analytics tool for cohort analysis. In this paper, we show how instructors can use iSAT to visualize transitions of groups of students during teachi...

Authors: Rwitajit Majumdar and Sridhar Iyer

Practices of algorithm education based on discovery learning using a program visualization system

In this paper, we describe three practical exercises relating to algorithm education. The exercises are based on a learning support system that offers visualization of program behavior. Systems with the abilit...

Authors: Koichi Yamashita, Ryota Fujioka, Satoru Kogure, Yasuhiro Noguchi, Tatsuhiro Konishi and Yukihiro Itoh

Visualizations of problem-posing activity sequences toward modeling the thinking process

Problem-posing is well known as an effective activity to learn problem-solving methods. Although the activity is considered in contributing to the understanding of the problem’s structure, it is not clear how ...

Authors: Ahmad Afif Supianto, Yusuke Hayashi and Tsukasa Hirashima

Focusing a mobile science learning process: difference in activity participation

The research on mobile learning in science lacks in-depth investigation of the learning process. In this paper, we describe the implementation of a mobile technology-supported science curriculum developed by d...

Authors: Daner Sun and Chee-Kit Looi

Impact of augmented reality lessons on students’ STEM interest

In this paper, we explore the possibility of embedding augmented reality (AR) in authentic inquiry activities to contextualize students’ exploration of medical surgery, and investigate students’ perceptions of...

Authors: Ying-Shao Hsu, Yuan-Hsiang Lin and Beender Yang

Problem-solving for STEM learning: navigating games as narrativized problem spaces for 21^st century competencies

Identifying educational competencies for the 21^st workplace is driven by the need to mitigate disparities between classroom learning and the requirements of workplace environments. Multiple descriptors of desired...

Authors: Azilawati Jamaludin and David Hung

Identifying middle school students’ challenges in computational thinking-based science learning

Computational thinking (CT) parallels the core practices of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and is believed to effectively support students’ learning of science and math conc...

Authors: Satabdi Basu, Gautam Biswas, Pratim Sengupta, Amanda Dickes, John S. Kinnebrew and Douglas Clark

Questions as data: illuminating the potential of learning analytics through questioning an emergent field

In providing a meta-analysis of a series of workshop papers and questions arising on the emergent field of learning analytics, this paper contributes to the ongoing formation of a shared research agenda. The f...

Authors: Jon Mason, Weiqin Chen and Tore Hoel

Making MOOCs meaningful and locally relevant? Investigating IDCourserians—an independent, collaborative, community hub in Indonesia

Along with massive open online course (MOOC) budding popularity, some problems have begun to surface. One that appears prominent concerns sustainability: for example, high dropout and low completion rates, whi...

Authors: Manda Firmansyah and Sue Timmis

Negotiated learner modelling to maintain today’s learner models

Today’s technology-enabled learning environments are becoming quite different from those of a few years ago, with the increased processing power as well as a wider range of educational tools. This situation pr...

Authors: Susan Bull

Researching for better instructional methods using AB experiments in MOOCs: results and challenges

We conducted two AB experiments (treatment vs. control) in a massive open online course. The first experiment evaluates deliberate practice activities (DPAs) for developing problem solving expertise as measure...

Authors: Zhongzhou Chen, Christopher Chudzicki, Daniel Palumbo, Giora Alexandron, Youn-Jeng Choi, Qian Zhou and David E. Pritchard

Who will pass? Analyzing learner behaviors in MOOCs

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have recently gained worldwide attention from educational institutes. MOOCs provide a new option for learning, yet measurable learning benefits of MOOCs still need to be inv...

Authors: Shu-Fen Tseng, Yen-Wei Tsao, Liang-Chih Yu, Chien-Lung Chan and K. Robert Lai

How do machine-generated questions compare to human-generated questions?

Science instructors need questions for use in exams, homework assignments, class discussions, reviews, and other instructional activities. Textbooks never have enough questions, so instructors must find them f...

Authors: Lishan Zhang and Kurt VanLehn

A model-driven PBL application to support the authoring, delivery, and execution of PBL processes

As problem-based learning (PBL) is becoming more and more popular, there is also a growing interest in developing and using technologies in the implementation of PBL. However, teachers may have difficulties to...

Authors: Disi Wang, Mohammed Samaka, Yongwu Miao, Zeyad Ali and H. Ulrich Hoppe

Framework to describe constructs of academic emotions using ontological descriptions of statistical models

Many studies have been conducted during the last two decades examining learner reactions within e-learning environments. In an effort to assist learners in their scholastic activities, these studies have attem...

Authors: Keiichi Muramatsu, Eiichirou Tanaka, Keiichi Watanuki and Tatsunori Matsui

Augmented reality as multimedia: the case for situated vocabulary learning

Augmented reality (AR) has the potential to create compelling learning experiences. However, there are few research works exploring the design and evaluation of AR for educational settings. In our research, we...

Authors: Marc Ericson C. Santos, Arno in Wolde Lübke, Takafumi Taketomi, Goshiro Yamamoto, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Christian Sandor and Hirokazu Kato

Code-reading support environment visualizing three fields and educational practice to understand nested loops

In this paper, we describe a code-reading support environment and practical classroom applications using this environment to understand nested loops. Previously, we developed a code-reading support system base...

Authors: Koichi Yamashita, Takamasa Nagao, Satoru Kogure, Yasuhiro Noguchi, Tatsuhiro Konishi and Yukihiro Itoh

Making mathematics meaningful for freshmen students: investigating students’ preferences of pre-class videos

Engaging students in university mathematics classes can be a challenge for professors. One pedagogical technique is the use of pre-class videos in a flipped classroom. The students are exposed to the concepts ...

Authors: Rim Gouia and Cindy Gunn

Guest reviewers: volume 10

The Editors express their thanks to the persons named below for contributing to the review process in respect of paper submissions received in 2015.

Authors: Siu-Cheung Kong

The effects of an online student question-generation strategy on elementary school student English learning

Recognizing the potential of online student question-generation to engage language learners in communicative activities and use the target language in a personally meaningful way for language and learning moti...

Authors: Fu-Yun Yu, Yu-Ling Chang and Hui-Ling Wu

GPS sensor-based mobile learning for English: an exploratory study on self-efficacy, self-regulation and student achievement

This study investigated the effects of self-efficacy and self-regulation on student achievement in a context-aware learning environment. Particularly, an innovative global positioning system (GPS) sensor-based...

Authors: Jerry Chih-Yuan Sun, Kai-Yu Chang and Yang-Hsueh Chen

Using a tablet-based composition marking recording system to conduct think-aloud for composition rating research

Language teacher’s composition rating process has become an issue of growing concern in writing research over the past three decades. It is evident that a substantial number of composition rating research have...

Authors: Kat Leung, Barley Mak and Howard Leung

Guest editors’ introduction: special issue “ICT in language learning”

Authors: Yu-Ju Lan and Ting-Chia Hsu

Editor’s introduction

Authors: Siu-Cheung Kong

Acculturation in context: knowledge sharing through ubiquitous technologies

In this paper, we assess the feasibility of using a retooled mobile and ubiquitous computer system to facilitate knowledge dissemination between users during the process of acculturation. Focused on the foreig...

Authors: Steven A. Cook, Hiroaki Ogata, Mark G. Elwell and Mitsuru Ikeda

Monitoring system for the effective instruction based on the semi-automatic evaluation of programs during programming classroom lectures

In this study, we developed a programming practice monitoring system to facilitate teachers to give appropriate instructions to students at the appropriate time during classroom lectures. To help teachers to p...

Authors: Satoru Kogure, Riki Nakamura, Kanae Makino, Koichi Yamashita, Tatsuhiro Konishi and Yukihiro Itoh

Framework of kit-build concept map for automatic diagnosis and its preliminary use

In this paper, we propose a framework of Kit-Build Concept Map (we call it as KB map) where a concept map made by a learner can be diagnosed automatically. In this research, we have divided the task to make a ...

Authors: Tsukasa Hirashima, Kazuya Yamasaki, Hiroyuki Fukuda and Hideo Funaoi

Effect of active learning using program visualization in technology-constrained college classrooms

Multiple studies report that Computer Science (CS) instructors face problems on how to integrate visualizations in their teaching. This problem gets compounded for instructors in technology-constrained classro...

Authors: Gargi Banerjee, Sahana Murthy and Sridhar Iyer