E-Learning Practice and Experience at Waseda E-School

2010 ◽  
pp. 1055-1074
Author(s):  
Shoji Nishimura ◽  
Douglass J. Scott ◽  
Kato Shogo
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Curriculum Management ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Widespread Availability ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
One Year

In 2003, the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan, established the e-School, Japan’s first completeundergraduate correspondence courses enabling students to acquire their bachelor degrees solely through e-learning. Supported by the widespread availability of high-speed Internet connections, it has become possible to transmit videotaped lectures with an image quality close to that of television, not only throughout Japan, but also throughout the world at affordable rates. In addition, the lecture contents are transmitted in an image quality that allows students to easily read what is written on the blackboard.Waseda’s e-School has many features that contribute to its success. Among these are the coupling of online and on-campus courses enhancing the educational experience of all students. In addition, online courses are relatively small—most courses are capped at 30 students—and new courses are created to respond to students’ needs andinterests. This article outlines the e-School’s curriculum, management structure, and system and reports on the current status of the courses by analyzing the results of a questionnaire survey conducted after one year from their establishment and the state of credits registered andearned by students.

E-Learning Practice and Experience at Waseda E-School

2011 ◽  
pp. 322-342
Author(s):  
Shoji Nishimura ◽  
Douglass J. Scott ◽  
Shogo Kato
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
History Curriculum ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Widespread Availability ◽  
Internet Connections

In 2003, the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University (Japan), established the e-School, Japan’s first complete undergraduate program enabling students to earn their bachelor degrees solely through e-learning. Supported by the widespread availability of high-speed Internet connections, it has become possible to economically transmit videotaped lectures with an image quality close to that of television across Japan and throughout the world. In addition, lecture contents are transmitted with an image quality that allows students to easily read what is written on the blackboard. Waseda’s e-School has many features that contribute to its success, among these are the coupling of online and on-campus courses enhancing students educational experiences. In addition, online classes are relatively small—most are capped at 30 students—and new classes are created to respond to students’ needs and interests. This chapter outlines the e-School’s history, curriculum, administration, and management learning system. Various data are presented for the first four years of the e-School’s operation (2003-2006), when the newly-created program was under the Ministry of Education’s mandatory supervision period.

Waseda University's E-School

2016 ◽  
pp. 173-204
Author(s):  
Shoji Nishimura ◽  
Douglass J. Scott
Keyword(s):  
School System ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
History Curriculum ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
System Data ◽  
Internet Connections

In 2003, the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University (Japan), established the e-School, Japan's first complete undergraduate program enabling students to earn their bachelor degrees solely through e-learning. Supported by the availability of high-speed Internet connections, it has become possible to economically transmit high-quality videotaped lectures across Japan and throughout the world. Waseda's e-School has many features that contribute to its success, among these are that lecture contents are transmitted with an image quality that allows students to easily read what is written on the blackboard. In addition, online classes are relatively small—21 students on average—and new classes are created to respond to students' needs and interests. This chapter outlines the e-School's first 10 years of operation: Its history, curriculum, administration, and management learning system. Data are also presented for student engagement with the e-School system for the first ten years of operation (2003-2012).

Introduction to Use and Analysis of Big Data in E-Learning

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
Renuka Mahajan
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Big Data Analysis ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Interaction Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Learner Interaction ◽  
E Learning ◽  
One Year ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Data Analytic

In today's world everything is connected and is either consuming data or generating data. The world is changing so fast that even one-year-old data may not be useful, and hence, big data analysis plays a very vital role for higher management of any organizations for decision making. Data warehousing helps in gathering and storing verifiable information into a single entity. Data can be of different types like speech, text, etc. It can be structured or unstructured. Each data point is characterized in terms of volume or variety. This chapter gives an overview of how to utilize the learner interaction data from a particular website and how patterns can be captured by analyzing learner interaction data with big data analytic tools. Big data has risen in the field of education and has many challenges like storage, combining, analysis, and scalability of big data. It covers tools and techniques that can be used. The results from this study will have implications for new learners to the e-learning website, website designers, and academicians.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Features and Platforms

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
Abhishek Kumar ◽  
Shweta Nishad Brahmbhatt
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter aims to provide an up-to-date snapshot of the current state of application called MOOCs, which are one of the subset of e-Learning. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) provide a new way of learning, which is open, participatory, distributed and lifelong. Various premier universities of the world are now offering courses in the form of MOOCs. The MHRD, Government of India has also started a MOOCs platform called SWAYAM. This chapter covers the definition of MOOCs, its features and different MOOC platforms being used for e-learning i.e. edX, Coursera, SWAYAM, Udacity.

A Comparative Study on Various Vocabulary Knowledge Scales for Predicting Vocabulary Pre-Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Zou ◽  
Haoran Xie ◽  
Yanghui Rao ◽  
Tak-Lam Wong ◽  
Fu Lee Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Knowledge Levels

The world has encountered and witnessed the great popularity of various emerging e-learning resources such as massive open online courses (MOOCs), textbooks and videos with the development of the big data era. It is critical to understand the characteristics of users to assist them to find desired and relevant learning resources in such a large volume of resources. For example, understanding the pre-knowledge on vocabulary of learners is very prominent and useful for language learning systems. The language learning effectiveness can be significantly improved if the pre-knowledge levels of learners on vocabulary can be accurately predicted. In this research, the authors model the vocabulary of learners by extracting their history of learning documents and identify the suitable vocabulary knowledge scales (VKS) for pre-knowledge prediction. The experimental results on real participants verify that the optimal VKS and the proposed predicting model are powerful and effective.

scholarly journals AN OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT STATUS OF BRIDGE-BUILDING IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Alexander Zabolotskiy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Transport Networks ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The World ◽  
Bridge Building

China’s increasing global competitiveness in the transport sector is linked to the development of transport networks with wider coverage and higher speed. By 2035, the country is expected to have a comprehensive modern transport system consisting of three parts: high-speed railways and highways, as well as civil aviation, waterways and oil and gas pipelines. China’s strongest competencies are in bridge building. China has no equal in terms of building the highest bridges in the world today.

scholarly journals E-Learning in Times Of COVID-19: Insights into Management and Communication Students’ Perspectives Throughout the Global Coronavirus Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Jasmin Séra ◽  
Georg Feldmann
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Conference Theme ◽  
University Of Applied Sciences ◽  
E Learning ◽  
One Year ◽  
And Shifts

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought not only a global health crisis, but also many changes and shifts towards a more digitalized working environment. In line with the GlobalET conference theme of this year, this paper looks at how particularly the education sectors has been affected by these new forms of working. One year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic the Competence Team for the Digitalization of Communication at the FHWien der WKW – University of Applied Sciences for Management and Communication conducted two comparative online surveys with students as well as 60 in-depth interviews. The results of this research help to identify and improve ongoing Distance Learning practices, starting with logistics such as the preferred study mode, recommended duration of the Distance Learning units or mandatory attendance of students during class. The outcome of the research will further contribute to sharpen the clarity of the purpose of digital activities to understand the required support services or online material and to develop possibilities to track students’ study progress. Even though there is an understanding that more than one year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic the findings can only represent the current status and cannot give a long-term outlook, they might be useful to further develop students’ needs for future Distance Learning and its practices.

scholarly journals Research of the current Egyptian roads service facilities placement condition

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (52) ◽  
pp. 170-178
Author(s):  
Iryna Tkachenko ◽  
Tetyana Lytvynenko ◽  
Volodymyr Ilchenko ◽  
Mohamed Elgandour
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Status ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The World

The state and provision level of road traffic participants to the objects of service on Egypt highways have been analysed. Ingeneral, there are a number of significant shortcomings regarding the systematic approach in justifying and standardizing thedistances of the road services location, considering the requirements of road users. With the help of Google Earth and realsurvey, the current status of the service objects along the Egypt highways and in foreign countries of the world has been surveyed.The obtained data show that service facilities are unevenly located in Egypt, often do not meet normative requirementsand are not characterized by complexity. Instead, in foreign countries there is even more distribution of complex servicefacilities along highways, all service facilities has transition-high-speed bands and the vast majority have separate congresses.

Learning without Boundaries MOOCs in Malaysia

2016 ◽  
pp. 177-190
Author(s):  
Rachel Thomas Tharmabalan
Keyword(s):  
Public Universities ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Entire World

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been the focus of mainstream media which promises to change the entire world education and create a meaningful impact for all. This book chapter reports on the design and implementation of Malaysian MOOC. Malaysia is the first country in the world to implement the MOOCs initiative for public universities. This new platform of learning is also in line with the National Higher Education Strategic Plan that includes life-long learning, e-Learning, internationalization, and knowledge transfer.

Utilization of MOOCs Platform for E-Learning Environment in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdus Samim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning

This chapter is a study of the utilization of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for learning in the higher education, given by the top universities in the world. As we know, MOOC platforms are widely popular in the field of e-learning, in the dissemination of higher education all over the world. Such initiatives are essential for students or people who want to be involved in higher education without going to a university for the completion of degree courses. This study found that most of the top universities started MOOCs in 2012 and found that a 72.7% majority of universities offered diploma and certificate courses to people through MOOCs. It was also found that the eDX platform was used by all the selected universities in providing MOOCs.

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