scholarly journals AthenaCloud: A cloud-based platform for multi-device educational software generation

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 957-981
Author(s):  
Raquel Vásquez-Ramírez ◽  
Maritza Bustos-Lopez ◽  
Giner Alor-Hernández ◽  
Cuauhtémoc Sanchez-Ramírez ◽  
Jorge García-Alcaraz

Nowadays, information technologies play an important role in education. In education, mobile and TV applications can be considered a support tool in the teaching - learning process, however, relevant and appropriate mobile and TV applications are not always available; teachers can only judge applications by reviews or anecdotes instead of testing them. These reasons lead to the needs and benefits for creating one?s own mobile application for teaching and learning. In this work, we present a cloud-based platform for multi-device educational software generation (smartphones, tablets, Web, Android-based TV boxes, and smart TV devices) called AthenaCloud. It is important to mention that an open cloud-based platform allows teachers to create their own multi-device software by using a personal computer with Internet access. The goal of this platform is to provide a software tool to help educators upload their electronic contents - or use existing contents in an open repository - and package them in the desired setup file for one of the supported devices and operating systems.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andra Oneci ◽  
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Maria-Magdalena Joița ◽  
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Technology is a means of accomplishing a task mainly by using technical processes, methods, or knowledge.The importance of technology in connection with any type of development is widely recognized, especially having considering nowadays’ worldwide Covid-19 context.The passage from standardized to digitalized teaching-learning process hasn’t been easy. Information technology and educational technology are now extensively being used in schools and refer to a wide multitude of teaching-and-learning–related software and hardware used during the lessons. Learning becomes effective when the students are actively engaged, are collaborating with one another, are in charge of their learning process, become critical thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Scientific thinking appears when thinking about the content of science and the set of reasoning processes that permeate the field of science: induction, deduction, experimental design, causal reasoning, concept formation, hypothesis testing, and so on, are combined. Simultaneously, teachers continue their lifelong learning process online, design digital lessons, gamify lessons, obtain real time results, are part of the staffroom at school and also part of a larger, more diverse, virtual staffroom. In conclusion, the goal of using technology inside and outside the classroom is perceived as a way to individualize education and to develop students’ competences and cognitive skills.


Author(s):  
MC. Norma Angélica Sandoval Delgado ◽  
MC. María E. Loeza Corichi ◽  
MVZ. Francisco Javier Gómez Ordóñez ◽  
MC. Salvador Jiménez Vallejo

Frente al requerimiento hacia las escuelas para que hagan uso de medios educativos que apoyen la enseñanza-aprendizaje, se realizó un material didáctico que ayudó a los alumnos de Primer Nivel de la Licenciatura de Médico Veterinario y Zootecnista, mediante el uso de ambientes virtuales. Se pretende aportar un instrumento que automatice y facilite el acceso y la utilización eficaz en el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. El instrumento en cuestión es un tutorial de fácil manejo que simplifica la administración de la asignatura. Este trabajo toma como base los fundamentos de la investigación y desarrollo para diseñar, crear y aplicar un programa de software educativo. El programa informático utilizado para la preparación del tutorial es el Hot Potatoes. Esta elección se debe a que este programa permite la preparación de material interactivo autoejecutable y de autoaprendizaje. El proyecto también se plantea como un tutorial que sea útil a los profesores y que a través del CD puedan orientarse sobre cómo actualizarse y disponer de un medio que les permita sacar el máximo partido de la didáctica que utilizan.AbstractFaced with schools’ requirement of making use of educational media to support teaching and learning, a new form of teaching material was made in order to help freshman students in the Bachelors’ of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, through the use of virtual environments. It aims to provide a tool that systematises and facilitates access and effective use in the teaching-learning process. The instrument is an easy-to-use tutorial that simplifies the management of the course. This work builds on the fundamentals of research and development to design, create and implement an educational software program. The software needed for this tutorial is ‘Hot Potatoes’, due to this program allowing for the preparation of an interactive self-learning and self-executing material. This project is also intended as a useful tutorial for teachers who, through the CD, can be orientated in how to bring themselves up to date and provides a way that allows them to take advantage of their methodology to the maximum capacity.Recibido: 3 de febrero de 2010Aceptado: 27 de agosto de 2010


Author(s):  
Sulaiman Olusegun Atiku

This chapter focuses on reshaping intellectual capital formation via electronic-based learning platforms. A critical examination of the literature on human capital development through e-learning was conducted and it was found that digitalization enhances teaching / learning processes and activities, rather than rendering the traditional methods obsolete. The commonly used learning management systems are Blackboard, Class-Front and WebCT. With various virtual learning platforms such as game-based learning, mobile learning, social learning, and virtual world learning, the teaching and learning environments are being extended. The evolution of high levels of sophisticated information technologies across the globe has tremendously improved intellectual capital formation through digital collaboration, and interactions. Therefore, it takes continuous update of intellectual assets through digitized processes to keep abreast of vast innovations and technical know-how.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iliana Real Poveda ◽  
Yonaiker Navas Montes

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO), desde 1948, destaca la importancia del aprendizaje de una segunda lengua debido a las potencialidades que supone a nivel profesional, académico, social, cultural e incluso personal. Entendiendo que se avanza a una sociedad tecnológica, los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje rompen los esquemas tradicionales e incorporan entornos virtuales de aprendizaje que permiten la aplicación de tecnologías. Al aprender una lengua extranjera, se tiende a “traspasar” de alguna manera el conocimiento sobre las estructuras y rasgos de la lengua materna. A esta influencia de la lengua materna sobre la lengua extranjera se llama “transferencia” que en muchas ocasiones obstaculiza la producción en esta segunda lengua. El propósito de ésta investigación es describir una estrategia empleada para el aprovechamiento del entorno virtual en el aprendizaje de los módulos de inglés con el uso de la plataforma Moodle para los 114 estudiantes de Ciencias de la Salud y Ciencias de la Ingeniería, considerados parte de la generación “Y”, a través de un estudio de caso único, factual e intrínseco, teniendo un nivel descriptivo, heurístico e inductivo. Los resultados de la investigación determinaron que con el uso del entorno virtual a través de una estrategia el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua presenta mayores oportunidades ya que docente y alumnos pueden estar separados con respecto a la sincronía y esto no es obstáculo para que el aprendizaje se lleve a cabo con éxito, esta herramienta de apoyo ayuda a sellar el conocimiento adquirido para luego perfeccionarlo con la práctica.   Palabras clave: Entorno virtual de aprendizaje, Inglés, Proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje, TIC   ABSTRACT   The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has highlighted since 1948 the importance of learning a second language because of its professional, social, cultural, academic, and even personal potentials. Understanding that it moves towards a technological society, the processes of teaching and learning break the traditional schemes and incorporate new virtual learning environments that allow the implementation of technologies. By learning a foreign language, it tends to “pass” in somehow the knowledge about the structures and features of the mother tongue into the foreign language. This influence of the mother tongue on the foreign language is called “transfer” which often impedes production in the second language. The purpose of this research is to create a virtual learning environment in the English modules using Moodle for 114 UNEMI students of Health and Engineering Sciences, who are considered part of the generation “Y” through a single, factual and intrinsic case study, with a descriptive, heuristic and inductive level. The results of this research determined that the use of ICT tools when learning a second language presents greater opportunities for the teacher and students because they both can be separated with respect to the synchrony and this is not an obstacle, so learning is conducted with success; this support tool helps the acquired knowledge to become perfect with practice.   Key words: Virtual Learning Environment, English, teaching-learning process, ICT   Recibido: febrero de 2015Aprobado: abril de 2015


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven W. Gilbert

One of the continuing challenges of education is enabling those who strive to improve teaching, learning, and research to take advantage of the too-rapidly-changing new environment created by telecommunications and information technologies. To do so, educational professionals should engage in lifelong professional development and use new hybrid technologies to help build community and support collaboration. This paper explores the issues of technology and professional development from the frame of reference of my work with hundreds of colleges that have benefited from the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group (TLT Group), an organization whose mission is to motivate and enable institutions and individuals to improve teaching and learning with technology, while helping them cope with change. This article discusses challenges that higher education faces: creating visions worth working toward; developing strategies and tools for achieving intermediate goals; and the importance of breaking taboos along the way.


Author(s):  
Tshering Lham ◽  
Pema Jurmey ◽  
Sonam Tshering

The use of Information Communication and Technology in teaching learning has been emphasized a lot in the recent times as an effective instructional tool and it will only grow and develop further. Augmented Reality is one of the futuristic pedagogy that will offer great opportunities in the incorporation of information technology in teaching and learning. Augmented Reality refers to the introduction of virtual elements in the real world. This will supplement students’ learning through the use of technology. This study assessed the students’ and teachers’ attitude towards the use of Augmented Reality as a learning tool after they experimented and experienced the use of augmented reality through mobile application. For the teachers, a three-hour professional development session on Augmented Reality was conducted. Teachers were taught how to use mobile application to create Augmented Reality. For the students, research team created the Augmented Reality using a mobile application and let students experience it in a biology lesson. After the sessions, their attitudes towards the use of Augmented Reality was assessed through statements of agreement on a 5-point Likert scale. SPSS has been used for statistical analysis. The results show that both the teachers and students have overwhelming support-positive attitude towards the use of Augmented Reality in the classroom teaching and learning. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Наталія Пилипівна Тмєнова ◽  
Богдан Богданович Сусь

Although the problems of obtaining educational information in e-learning have been successfully resolved, the testing of obtained knowledge still requires a solution. Principles of knowledge assessment by means of tests in mathematics subjects administered in e-learning environment have been developed. An algorithm of component analysis and formula expression indexing for automatic analysis is suggested. This approach allows diversifying the types of questions for consequent verification of knowledge in computer systems. Modification of the formula editor provides the creation of templates for formula entering and the use of indexing algorithm of the expression elements. This makes it possible to avoid ambiguity of responses entered by students. Tasks with computer verification of an analytical symbolic expression can be applied to automate the verification of skills and knowledge in natural sciences, in particular, physics, mathematics, by appropriate modification of the template. Development of information technologies led to the development of new models of teaching and learning, especially in the field of mathematical sciences. It is shown that during experimental laboratory work in engineering subjects especially effective are those activities that combine the use of knowledge and skills acquired during the study of other related disciplines. It is shown that research based on interdisciplinary interaction has great potential. In addition, the application and advantages of expert systems in open education to improve the teaching-learning process are discussed. It is proposed to use expert systems in the designing of laboratory works and tests. It is also shown how expert systems should be used to optimize the process of creating adaptive type laboratory works and to formulate individual test tasks. The application of the expert system is illustrated on the example of Discrete Mathematics.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Jean André De Souza ◽  
Eliene Maciel Cirilo ◽  
Nathalia Diogo Da Silva ◽  
Maria Fernanda Caravana de Castro Moraes Ricci ◽  
Marinéa Figueira Rodrigues

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a importância das Tecnologias de Comunicação e Informação (TIC) como ferramenta pedagógica no processo ensino aprendizagem na Educação Infantil e nas Séries Iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Para tanto, realizou-se uma pesquisa de cunho bibliográfico, baseada em renomados autores no assunto, a saber: Almeida (2004), Alonso (2012), Barros (2005) (Dowbor (2001), Thomé (2015) dentre outros. As TIC auxiliam a prática docente, possibilitando o professor trabalhar com diversos tipos de ferramentas e aplicativos que tornarão suas aulas mais interessantes e motivadoras e a aprendizagem do aluno mais produtiva e interativa.Palavras chave: Educação; Ensino e Aprendizagem; Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação. Abstract:This research aims to investigate the importance of Communication and Information Technologies (ICT) as a pedagogical tool in the process of teaching learning in Early Childhood Education and Early Years of Primary Education. To that end, a bibliographic research was carried out, based on renowned authors in the subject, namely: Almeida (2004), Alonso (2012), Barros (2005) (Dowbor (2001), Thomé (2015) among others. ICT help teachers, enabling the teacher to work with different types of tools and applications that will make their classes more interesting and motivating and student learning more productive and interactive.Keywords: Education; Teaching and learning; Technology of Information and Communication. 


Author(s):  
Norazean Sulaiman ◽  
Nurul Nadiah Dewi Faizul Ganapathy ◽  
Wan Faizatul Azirah Ismayatim

Listening skills should be given more attention as listening takes precedence over anything else when it comes to acquiring a language (Putriani, Sukirlan & Supriyadi, 2013). Even with the booming of various technology to facilitate teaching and learning of listening skills in class, the assessment conducted to identify students’ level of understanding of certain topic is still not up-to-date and not parallel with the advancement of technology. The current studies show that the use of mobile apps for listening purpose is proven to be effective in reducing students’ anxiety (Rahimi & Soleymani, 2015), sustaining students’ motivation (Read & Kukulska-Hulme, 2015), and improving students’ linguistic competencies (Ramos & Valderruten, 2017). This study is aimed to test the effectiveness of mobile application in assessing students’ listening skills. Diploma students from various faculties in UiTM Shah Alam were randomly chosen to answer listening comprehension questions via the prototype developed, named Pocket E-Li. The results demonstrate that the majority of the students provided positive response towards the implementation of mobile application for listening assessment. Almost all respondents agreed that listening assessment should be conducted via mobile application in the future. It can be concluded that listening assessment via mobile application is beneficial to students since it meets the students’ demands and needs which is equivalent with the use of current technology.


10.28945/2679 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
ME Herselman ◽  
HR Hay

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are the major driving forces of globalised and knowledge-based societies of a new world era. They will have a profound impact on teaching and learning for two decades to come. The revolutionary change which is taking place in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), has dramatic effects on the way universities carry out their functions of teaching, learning and research, particularly on the creation, dissemination and application of knowledge. These developments pose unprecedented challenges to higher education institutions (HEIs) in developing countries particular in South Africa as South Africa is viewed as the leading country on the continent.


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