No description available.

In recent years, E-learning has become more and more popular, and reflection is one of the most important factors that affect learning. Therefore, the issue on how to motivate learners to reflect on web-based learning is worth discussing. Our study use high level prompts and peer assessment to investigate how these two factors influence learners¡¦ reflection level, reflection attitude, and reflection intention. 157 college students were asked to use the system designed in this research, and the experimental learning subject was biology. Fourteen learning situations are presented in this research according to the difference of high level prompts (giving/not giving prompts), peer assessment (no peer assessment, peer observation, and peer feedback), observation (high quality/low quality observation), feedback (positive/negative feedback). The learners were randomly assigned to one situation. The result showed that giving high level prompts and high quality observation can improve learners¡¦ reflection level. If a learner is only given high quality observation, though not given high level prompts, his reflection level is still equal to the one who is given high level prompts but not given high quality observation. The result also showed that if a learner receives positive feedback, his reflection attitude and reflection intention will be higher than the one who receives negative feedback.

The current trend of learning is towards distant learning. Using distance learners¡¦ learning portfolios recorded by Web Site can help teachers understanding the learning state of students. Teachers can encourage or supervise students through Email based on their different behavior. Eventually, we hope to enhance students¡¦ participation and interest when they are attending distant learning. We develop learning support mechanisms using portfolios in order to help teacher understanding the learning status of students conveniently and easy to apply mechanisms in distant learning environment. Finally, we will assess the effects of mechanisms to prove it can help students positively. The results will drawing in two parts. First, students accepted encouragement and supervision from teachers were enthusiastically than students don¡¦t accepted encouragement and supervision from teachers when attended each unit of test and synchronous conference. Second, according the questionnaire appears both groups of students agreed that teacher should encourage or supervise them according their learning behavior. In a word, students really need help from teacher at the right moment. And our research have proved that distant learning environment need provide convenient mechanisms for teachers.

The purposes of this study are: 1.To investigate the effect of web-based English Learning on English teaching 2.To understand the results of practicing the AJET¡¦ Project¡]Advanced Joint English Telecommunication¡^ in Kaohsiung Girls' High School 3.To understand the expectations of the teachers, students and students' parents in the activities of the AJET Project, and 4.To find out the problems in implementing the AJET Project and the ways to solve them. The samples for this study are drawn from the teachers, students and students' parents taking part in the AJET Project in Kaohsiung Girls' High School from 1997.10 to 2002.6. Through careful observations and interviews, the conclusions of this study are as follows: 1.The AJET Project is of much help for the students in learning English because the Project facilitates them to share the living experiences and learning effects with the students of other schools at home and abroad. 2.The students taking part in the AJET Project get many excellent results in the contests held internationally and in the papers contributed to international journals. 3.The teachers participating in the AJET Project also have won the prizes for superb computer application and web-based learning. Despite the the exciting results, there are still many difficulties, such as the program scheduling and the organization of the student participants of the AJET. The teachers of the AJET cannot take part in the Project full time because of being busy in their other routine work and the teaching resources provided by the school are limited. The participant students are divided into so many small learning groups that they cannot be taken good care of. Therefore they have to cooperate with their counterparts of other schools. The students have to spend so much of their time on the regular tests of other subjects that they cannot help themselves from neglecting the AJET. Many students have wrong conceptions of the AJET target. As a result, many students do not devote themselves earnestly to all the activities of the AJET and in the long run some students even abandon the project. The targets of the AJET are not only for students to learn English for the traditional purposes but also to introduce the technique, logic thinking and algorithm of the computer and to train students' leadership. In view of the problems mentioned above, in this study some suggestions are made in the hope that they will be of help for the authorities concerned and all the participants (teachers, students and students' parents) of the AJET.

Since personal computers and broadband Internet connections have become more and more prevalent, the application of e-Learning using the Internet is regarded as an important issue. In the literature, reflection plays an important role on improving learning performance. Hence, the issue on how to promote learners¡¦ reflection levels in a web-based learning environment becomes an essential research topic. The purposes of this research were to explore whether there are fits between reflection teaching strategies and thinking styles for better promoting learners¡¦ reflection levels. Further, learners¡¦ satisfactions on reflection learning were also discussed. A total of 223 graduate and undergraduate students, voluntarily participated to use the developed reflection learning system in this research. Twenty four learning situations are presented in the experiment according to the differences of reflection teaching strategies (constructive, guiding, and inductive) and thinking styles (legislative, executive, and judicial). And these learning situations are simplistically classified as fit or non-fit group. Learners were randomly assigned to either fit or non-fit group, and their reflection content was evaluated by two experts who have been well-trained. The results showed that there are fits between reflection teaching strategies and thinking styles for better improving learners¡¦ reflection levels. On the other hand, there is no significant difference on learners¡¦ satisfactions of reflection learning, but learners¡¦ average satisfactions on this kind of reflection learning is positive. Furthermore, this research also finds out that learners with at least one thinking style ranking on top of 25% adopting inductive reflection teaching strategy have higher satisfactions on reflection learning than learners adopting guiding reflection teaching strategy.

Web-based learning has become an important component of education. Higher education institutions in Thailand have become increasingly aware of the widespread use and effectiveness of web-based learning systems. However, the adoption of such learning systems is growing at a slow pace in Thailand. The purpose of this study was to test the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, and facilitating conditions have a positive effect on usage intention and adoption of web-based learning systems by instructors, in the Departments of Education at the Rajabhat Universities, Thailand; and to test whether experience of use, age, and gender have moderating effects in the adoption of web-based learning systems there. The research design used in this study was a cross-sectional survey design. Data were collected by means of a self-administered paper questionnaire. The study was conducted among the instructors in the departments of education at the Rajabhat Universities in Thailand. A total of 725 surveys were sent out, 454 questionnaires were returned by the respondents, and 14 were eliminated as outliers; thus, the final data set for the study was 440 samples. The two-step approach of SEM was used to test the model and the study's hypotheses; first, the measurement model was measured to examine the validity and reliability of the data; next, the structural model was measured to test the hypotheses of the study and the fitness of the data to the model. The results of this study revealed several factors that can affect instructors’ adoption of a web-based learning system and which can enhance the web-based learning performance of instructors in the Rajabhat Universities and throughout higher education in Thailand.

Cette recherche se situe au croisement de quatre domaines différents : la didactique du FOS ; l’analyse de discours ; l’autonomisation de l’apprenant et l’apprentissage sur le web. Nous avons recueilli un corpus qui nous a fourni des données permettant de concevoir des activités discursives et contextualisées exploitant le web (web-based learning, web comme outil de communication, web comme artéfact intégrant dans l’environnement d’apprentissage) pour l’apprentissage du français dans le cadre du FOS – tourisme. Nous avons choisi de mettre l’accent sur l’activité discursive parce qu’elle nous permet de répondre à deux questions : - que faut-il enseigner/apprendre dans un contexte du FOS du tourisme ? - quelles sont les caractéristiques des discours impliqués ? Notre corpus comporte deux guides imprimés sur le Vietnam (environ 1000 pages) et le discours oral des guides touristiques transcrit à partir des enregistrements dont la durée totale est d’environ 10 heures continues. Il s’agit donc à la fois de l’extraction de données dans le corpus, du transfert de ces données à la didactique et de leur réutilisation directe dans la conception des activités d’apprentissage. Le transfert consiste en l’application des conclusions tirées de l’analyse du corpus pour l’élaboration des activités discursives tandis que la réutilisation de ces données consiste en d’extractions des éléments du corpus pour les intégrer aux activités discursives. Pour analyser le corpus et pour structurer, programmer les activités discursives, nous avons fait appel au langage XML et conçu des scripts informatiques permettant son exploitation (analyse et activités d’apprentissage). Enfin, notre recherche débouche sur une perspective didactique. Nous recommandons la démarche discursive pour la conception d’un programme de formation et d’activités discursives. Nous illustrons cette démarche par des activités d’apprentissage concrètes. Il est à noter que s’il agit d’une étude exploratoire et non expérimentale. / This research lies at the intersection of four different areas: French for specific purposes; discourse analysis; learner autonomy and web based learning. We’ve collected a corpus which provided data for designing contextualized discursive activities exploiting the web (web-based learning : web as a communication tool, web as artifact integrated into the learning environment ) in the context of FOS for tourism. We chose to focus on the discursive activity because it allows us to answer two questions: - What should be taught / learned in a context of FOS for tourism ? - What are the characteristics of speech involved ? Our corpus comprises two printed travel guides on Vietnam (approximately 1000 pages) and oral discourse transcribed from records of tour guide speeches (about 10 hours in total). It is therefore both data mining in the corpus, the transfer of this data for applied linguistic and their direct reuse in the design of learning activities. The transfer is the application of the conclusions drawn from the analysis of the corpus for the development of discursive activities while the reuse of these data consists in extracting corpus elements to integrate them into discursive activities. To analyze the corpus, to structure and to program discursive activities, we used the XML and developed scripts for computer operations (analysis and learning activities ). Finally, our research leads to a didactic perspective. We recommend the discursive approach for the design of syllabus and discursive learning activities. We illustrate this approach with some learning activities. It should be noted that this is an exploratory study and not an experimental one.

This study was designed to identify and examine certain individual factors that contribute to Louisiana Technical College (LTC) student success in Web-based developmental education (DE) courses among the academically underprepared students. The independent variables (IV) selected for this study included students' prior academic preparation (PAP), comfort with technology (CWT), interaction with faculty (IWF), and motivation (MOT). The dependent variable (DV) was students’ course success measured by their mid-term scores (MTSCORE). Research methodologies included correlational statistics using multiple and logistic regression, and t-test for group comparisons. Data were gathered through an online survey using SurveyMonkey.com from the DE students at LTC that use PLATO Web Learning Network using a survey instrument (WBLSS) designed by the researcher for this study. The study found two predictor variables, IWF and PAP, to be statistically significant and two variables, MOT and CWT, statistically not significant. Based on the IVs' combined identified relationship with the DV, the researcher designed a predictive model of LTC students' course success in Web-based DE courses. The model employed in this study explained 17% of the variance in the MTSCORE. For many academically underprepared students at LTC, college and career success first depend on their success in the DE courses. Therefore, identifying individual characteristics related to course success is the key to building academic success models for underprepared students at two-year colleges like the LTC.

Thesis (M.Mus.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, School of Music, 2012 / This exploratory research project investigated the multifarious effects of incorporating computer music software in the form of a computer game into beginner piano lessons. The design and implementation of an animated computer game, designed by the researcher for the purpose of the study was used to assist young beginner pianists master the layout of the piano keyboard in relation to a score with basic music notation. A detailed description of the game is included. Contributing elements central to knowing, understanding and applying the layout of the piano keyboard when sight-reading were also investigated. A pilot study which formed the basis and point of departure for the study is discussed in detail; the findings of which conclude the report. The results of a case study conducted on two control and experiment groups aged three to six, which involved the use of the specially designed computer game to teach beginner piano students the keyboard layout and introductory notation in the form of an interactive story, is recorded. Through narrative enquiry, a series of interviews with world renowned pianists and piano teachers on the value and importance of sight-reading is expounded. The researcher’s personal reflections on the entire project as well as her own personal philosophy with regard to basic piano tuition, the continued enculturation and propagation of new beginners and sight-teaching are included

The aim of this diploma thesis is to create derivative-focused web pages as a new part of a high school mathematics educational web portal. The web portal is operated by the Department of Mathematics Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. It is primarily intended as an additional learning resource for high school students. The diploma thesis consists of two main parts. The first part describes a search for and evaluation of similar web pages in Czech, Slovak, English and Hebrew, which deal with the topic of derivative. The second part details the creation of new web pages. In creating the web pages the author integrated interactive elements based on JavaScript, and interactive applets created with use of GeoGebra software. To display mathematical expressions on the web, the author used the technology MathJax, which works with languages of the typesetting systems TeX and LaTeX.