scholarly journals A Cognitive Knowledge-based Framework for Social and Metacognitive Support in Mobile Learning

10.28945/3670 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 075-098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed A. Al-Hunaiyyan ◽  
Andrew T Bimba ◽  
Norisma Idris ◽  
Salah Al-Sharhan
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Knowledge Modeling ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cognitive Knowledge

Aim/Purpose: This work aims to present a knowledge modeling technique that supports the representation of the student learning process and that is capable of providing a means for self-assessment and evaluating newly acquired knowledge. The objective is to propose a means to address the pedagogical challenges in m-learning by aiding students’ metacognition through a model of a student with the target domain and pedagogy. Background: This research proposes a framework for social and meta-cognitive support to tackle the challenges raised. Two algorithms are introduced: the meta-cognition algorithm for representing the student’s learning process, which is capable of providing a means for self-assessment, and the social group mapping algorithm for classifying students according to social groups. Methodology : Based on the characteristics of knowledge in an m-learning system, the cognitive knowledge base is proposed for knowledge elicitation and representation. The proposed technique allows a proper categorization of students to support collaborative learning in a social platform by utilizing the strength of m-learning in a social context. The social group mapping and metacognition algorithms are presented. Contribution: The proposed model is envisaged to serve as a guide for developers in implementing suitable m-learning applications. Furthermore, educationists and instructors can devise new pedagogical practices based on the possibilities provided by the proposed m-learning framework. Findings: The effectiveness of any knowledge management system is grounded in the technique used in representing the knowledge. The CKB proposed manipulates knowledge as a dynamic concept network, similar to human knowledge processing, thus, providing a rich semantic capability, which provides various relationships between concepts. Recommendations for Practitioners: Educationist and instructors need to develop new pedagogical practices in line with m-learning. Recommendation for Researchers: The design and implementation of an effective m-learning application are challenging due to the reliance on both pedagogical and technological elements. To tackle this challenge, frameworks which describe the conceptual interaction between the various components of pedagogy and technology need to be proposed. Impact on Society: The creation of an educational platform that provides instant access to relevant knowledge. Future Research: In the future, the proposed framework will be evaluated against some set of criteria for its effectiveness in acquiring and presenting knowledge in a real-life scenario. By analyzing real student interaction in m-learning, the algorithms will be tested to show their applicability in eliciting student metacognition and support for social interactivity.

Research on the Individual Learning Process Model of the E-Learning System Based on Social Tags

2013 ◽  
Vol 760-762 ◽  
pp. 2056-2059
Author(s):  
Yuan Zhang ◽  
Xia Feng
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Individual Learning ◽  
Learning System ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Social Tags ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Individual

In this paper, we believed that social tag is a new paradigm of resource organizing and sharing. It is a very suitable technology using in e-learning systems. We discussed with the learning process in the e-learning system based on social tags. We brought forward a new individual learning process model based on social tags. And we compared with the new learning process model and traditional process model. The new individual learning process model could improve the interaction between learners and between human and computers. The social tags could help the e-learning system build the learners preference model and knowledge model.

scholarly journals INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE TEACHING PROFESSION

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-183
Author(s):  
Rudolf L. Livshits ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Education System ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Technical Device ◽  
The Social ◽  
Telephone Operators ◽  
Mental Operations

The progress of information technology is viewed as an aspect of the development of the social productive forces. At first, the use of information technology leads to the displacement of elementary types of labor activity that do not require complex mental operations and more advanced types of it afterwards. This raises the question of what awaits teachers as a social group. Will there be a significant reduction in the number of teaching staff? And won't the teaching profession disappear altogether, as the pro-fessions of telephone operators and secretaries-typists have previously sunk into oblivion? We proceed from the fact that information technology, facilitating the handling of information, can and should be a teacher's assistant, since the learning process is largely asso-ciated with its assimilation and comprehension. But no technical device can replace the teacher, because teaching is a process of spir-itual growth of the student's personality, which occurs under the influence of the teacher's personality. Based on this view, a number of arguments are formulated against the idea of "optimization" of the education system and speaking bluntly, against the reduction of the number of teachers and the intensification of their work.

Hybrid Avatar-Agent Technology – A Conceptual Step Towards Mediated “Social” Virtual Reality and its Respective Challenges

i-com ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Roth ◽  
Marc Erich Latoschik ◽  
Kai Vogeley ◽  
Gary Bente
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Social Signals ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social

AbstractDriven by large industry investments, developments of Virtual Reality (VR) technologies including unobtrusive sensors, actuators and novel display devices are rapidly progressing. Realism and interactivity have been postulated as crucial aspects of immersive VR since the naissance of the concept. However, today’s VR still falls short from creating real life-like experiences in many regards. This holds particularly true when introducing the “social dimension” into the virtual worlds. Apparently, creating convincing virtual selves and virtual others and conveying meaningful and appropriate social behavior still is an open challenge for future VR. This challenge implies both, technical aspects, such as the real-time capacities of the systems, but also psychological aspects, such as the dynamics of human communication. Our knowledge of VR systems is still fragmented with regard to social cognition, although the social dimension is crucial when aiming at autonomous agents with a certain social background intelligence. It can be questioned though whether a perfect copy of real life interactions is a realistic or even meaningful goal of social VR development at this stage. Taking into consideration the specific strengths and weaknesses of humans and machines, we propose a conceptual turn in social VR which focuses on what we call “hybrid avatar-agent systems”. Such systems are required to generate i) avatar mediated interactions between real humans, taking advantage of their social intuitions and flexible communicative skills and ii) an artificial social intelligence (AIS) which monitors, and potentially moderates or transforms ongoing virtual interactions based on social signals, such as performing adaptive manipulations of behavior in intercultural conversations. The current article sketches a respective base architecture and discusses necessary research prospects and challenges as a starting point for future research and development.

scholarly journals Mobile Learning Apps in Instruction And Students Achievement

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandhya Kattayat ◽  
Smitha Josey ◽  
Asha J.V
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Reference Base

<p>The increasing availability of low-cost mobile and wireless devices and associated infrastructure heralds both opportunities and challenges for educational institutions and their teachers and learners.[1]Mobile telephones are inexpensive, accessible, and well positioned for the delivery of student support interventions. Low cost mobile technologies can be used to maintain and enhance contact with students and teachers, and, by logic and improve retention[2]Students reasons for withdrawal from a course can be due to: distance from the study centres; insufficient academic support; insufficient information on counselling and laboratory sessions; and other associated information.  As mobile phones become more ubiquitous, they are arguably well positioned to play a more central and effective role in providing students with much needed information – i.e., schedule of counselling and/ or laboratory sessions; and other relevant information related to their studies.[3]Most learning pedagogies from constructive learning and conversation theories can be adapted for a mobile learning environment. The key is to understand the strengths and weakness of a particular technology, while deploying good pedagogical practices to achieve specific learning goals.[3]It seems inevitable that m-learning will soon be an essential extension of e-learning[3] In the context of mobile learning, device type has a critical impact on teaching and learning.[4] Mobile learning is most prevalent at higher education institutions, followed by elementary schools. Mobile learning most frequently supports students in the professions and applied sciences, followed by the humanities and formal sciences.  The most highly cited articles fall into the categories of mobile learning system design and followed by effectiveness. In sum, this study of issues in mobile learning presents findings which can help supplement linkages with previous studies and forms an important reference base for the future research in mobile learning.[4]The basic elements of mobile learning are teacher , learner, content, environment and assessment.[7]</p>

Agent-Based Modeling

2010 ◽  
pp. 28-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian L. Heath ◽  
Raymond R. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Agent Based Modeling ◽  
Model Verification ◽  
Verification And Validation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Agent Based Models ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Model Verification And Validation

Models and simulations have been widely used as a means to predict the performance of systems. Agentbased modeling and agent distillations have recently found tremendous success particularly in analyzing ground force employment and doctrine. They have also seen wide use in the social sciences modeling a plethora of real-life scenarios. The use of these models always raises the question of whether the model is correctly encoded (verified) and accurately or faithfully represents the system of interest (validated). The topic of agent-based model verification and validation has received increased interest. This chapter traces the historical roots of agent-based modeling. This review examines the modern influences of systems thinking, cybernetics as well as chaos and complexity on the growth of agent-based modeling. The chapter then examines the philosophical foundations of simulation verification and validation. Simulation verification and validation can be viewed from two quite different perspectives: the simulation philosopher and the simulation practitioner. Personnel from either camp are typically unaware of the other camp’s view of simulation verification and validation. This chapter examines both camps while also providing a survey of the literature and efforts pertaining to the verification and validation of agent-based models. The chapter closes with insights pertaining to agent-based modeling, the verification and validation of agent-based models, and potential directions for future research.

scholarly journals The Consciousness-Raising of #MeToo: Mobilizing Political Empathy in the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allana Graham
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Human Element ◽  
The Social ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Complex Phenomena ◽  
Personalization Of Politics

The lasting effect of #MeToo’s suggests that we are at a critical moment in the study of communications and media studies. This MRP will be speculative in nature, however, it is my contribution that we must move beyond literature that defends “slacktivism” and the notion that digital mediation is an impoverished form of communication (McCafferty, 2011; Baym, 2017), and instead build upon emerging frameworks that focus on the affordances of the social media age in activism theory by integrating rationality from offline, or “real life”, areas of literature. In the case of #MeToo, the personalization of politics and mobilizing structures share logic with feminism practices that predate the digital age. This indicates that perhaps an effective way to make meaning out of new and complex phenomena like #MeToo is not diminish the human element, but rather acknowledge it as an integral part of online protest. Building on this assumption, this MRP is a commentary that considers the complexity of the events that brought #MeToo to fruition. I will evaluate #MeToo using emerging literature at the intersections of activism and social media, while contextualizing both the viral moment and the continued movement within feminist theory that is grounded in visceral emotions like vulnerability, anger, empathy, solidarity, and catharsis. Combining both literature that focuses on the technological and human elements should be considered in future research in order to develop theoretical frameworks that create a more holistic understanding of the cultural events that occur due to activism in the digital age.

scholarly journals The Consciousness-Raising of #MeToo: Mobilizing Political Empathy in the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allana Graham
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Human Element ◽  
The Social ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Complex Phenomena ◽  
Personalization Of Politics

The lasting effect of #MeToo’s suggests that we are at a critical moment in the study of communications and media studies. This MRP will be speculative in nature, however, it is my contribution that we must move beyond literature that defends “slacktivism” and the notion that digital mediation is an impoverished form of communication (McCafferty, 2011; Baym, 2017), and instead build upon emerging frameworks that focus on the affordances of the social media age in activism theory by integrating rationality from offline, or “real life”, areas of literature. In the case of #MeToo, the personalization of politics and mobilizing structures share logic with feminism practices that predate the digital age. This indicates that perhaps an effective way to make meaning out of new and complex phenomena like #MeToo is not diminish the human element, but rather acknowledge it as an integral part of online protest. Building on this assumption, this MRP is a commentary that considers the complexity of the events that brought #MeToo to fruition. I will evaluate #MeToo using emerging literature at the intersections of activism and social media, while contextualizing both the viral moment and the continued movement within feminist theory that is grounded in visceral emotions like vulnerability, anger, empathy, solidarity, and catharsis. Combining both literature that focuses on the technological and human elements should be considered in future research in order to develop theoretical frameworks that create a more holistic understanding of the cultural events that occur due to activism in the digital age.

scholarly journals Formal women-only networks: literature review and propositions

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1004-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Villesèche ◽  
Emmanuel Josserand
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Women In Business ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the emerging literature on formal women-only business networks and outline propositions to develop this under-theorised area of knowledge and stimulate future research. Design/methodology/approach The authors review the existing literature on formal internal and external women-only networks and use the broader social capital and network literature to frame their arguments and develop propositions. Findings Propositions are developed regarding how both internal and external formal women-only business networks can be of value for members, firms/organisations and the wider social group of women in business. Research limitations/implications The authors focus on the distinction between external and internal formal women-only networks while also acknowledging the broader diversity that can characterise such networks. Their review provides the reader with an insight into the state of the art and a set of propositions that present opportunities for future research. Practical implications The paper provides insights into how women in business, organisations and wider society can leverage value from both internal and external formal women-only business networks. Social implications The paper contributes to research showing that the social structure of interactions and context can impact women’s standing in the workplace. Originality/value The paper sheds light on the under-studied and under-theorised phenomenon of formal women-only business networks. Beyond the individual member level, the authors suggest that such networks can be of value for organisations and the wider social group of women in management and leadership positions.

A computer-aided articulation learning system for subjects with articulation disorders

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 2185-2197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeou-Jiunn Chen ◽  
Jiunn-Liang Wu
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Clinical Performance ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Place Of Articulation ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Articulation Disorders ◽  
The Subject

Purpose Articulation errors substantially reduce speech intelligibility and the ease of spoken communication. Moreover, the articulation learning process that speech-language pathologists must provide is time consuming and expensive. The purpose of this paper, to facilitate the articulation learning process, is to develop a computer-aided articulation learning system to help subjects with articulation disorders. Design/methodology/approach Facial animations, including lip and tongue animations, are used to convey the manner and place of articulation to the subject. This process improves the effectiveness of articulation learning. An interactive learning system is implemented through pronunciation confusion networks (PCNs) and automatic speech recognition (ASR), which are applied to identify mispronunciations. Findings Speech and facial animations are effective for assisting subjects in imitating sounds and developing articulatory ability. PCNs and ASR can be used to automatically identify mispronunciations. Research limitations/implications Future research will evaluate the clinical performance of this approach to articulation learning. Practical implications The experimental results of this study indicate that it is feasible for clinically implementing a computer-aided articulation learning system in learning articulation. Originality/value This study developed a computer-aided articulation learning system to facilitate improving speech production ability in subjects with articulation disorders.

Current Postvention Research and Priorities for the Future

Crisis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Andriessen ◽  
Dolores Angela Castelli Dransart ◽  
Julie Cerel ◽  
Myfanwy Maple
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Intercultural Collaboration ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Suicide Bereavement ◽  
Ethical Approval

Abstract. Background: Suicide can have a lasting impact on the social life as well as the physical and mental health of the bereaved. Targeted research is needed to better understand the nature of suicide bereavement and the effectiveness of support. Aims: To take stock of ongoing studies, and to inquire about future research priorities regarding suicide bereavement and postvention. Method: In March 2015, an online survey was widely disseminated in the suicidology community. Results: The questionnaire was accessed 77 times, and 22 records were included in the analysis. The respondents provided valuable information regarding current research projects and recommendations for the future. Limitations: Bearing in mind the modest number of replies, all from respondents in Westernized countries, it is not known how representative the findings are. Conclusion: The survey generated three strategies for future postvention research: increase intercultural collaboration, increase theory-driven research, and build bonds between research and practice. Future surveys should include experiences with obtaining research grants and ethical approval for postvention studies.

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