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This paper discusses the findings from a study on teaching in practical work on automotive courses at Vocational Colleges in Malaysia. The random sampling technique was used in selecting 283 students and 63 teachers as respondents from the automotive courses. The findings of the research indicate that teachers have strong preference in using the demonstration and questioning technique during the set induction stage of teaching. Teachers also prefer group monitoring and problem solving during the teaching phase, and re-explaining and report writing in the post-teaching stage. This research provides the combination of teaching techniques that could be used in teaching vocational skills in general and automotive practical work in particular. This study has concluded that vocational teaching method in automotive practical work to be applied in teaching for other practical courses to improve current practices. Thus, teachers are proposed to use this method to improve students’ knowledge ...

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to present an analysis of how the structure and design of the Interactive 3D Graphics Learning Objects can be effective and efficient in terms of Performance, Time on task, and Learning Efficiency. The study explored two treatments, ...

The main goal of this paper is to examine the fine granularity of learning content and its impact of the adaptability process in Adaptive Learning Systems (ALS). For that purpose, we present the concept and the essence of learning objects. Then, we approach some content models by clarifying the adopted levels of granularity and/or aggregation. After that, we discuss the fine-grained as a fundamental characteristic to reach the adaptability and individualization required in ALS. Finally, we propose our own model of learning objects by underlining the levels of granularity considered and by presenting a use case of its ability to meet the properties associated with fine-grained and adaptability.

Fully residential schools (FRS) or boarding schools in Malaysia produce quality candidates with towering personalities. This study seeks to explore the choice of career as well as the parents and gender influences on the career as a teacher among top FRS students in Malaysia. A survey design, which is mainly quantitative in nature, was used in this empirical study. A self-designed questionnaire was used in collecting data from 305 participants from three top FRS in Malaysia. This study revealed that only 6.2% of students selected 'teacher' as a career of choice. Other respondents opted for different professions such as medical doctors, engineers, and scientists. Of the students who chose ‘teacher’ as their career of choice, 31.6% have one or both parents from a teaching background. The study also found that the influence of gender on the career as a teacher was not significant with t (303) = 0.446, p = 0.656. Several recommendations were made. This study suggests further inc...

This panel describes the refugees’ crisis and its impact on school age children. The focus is on the Syrian children refugees in Mount Lebanon, an area that is usually forgotten. The United Nations offers schooling to primary school children in this remote region, but lack of resources in Mount Lebanon schools is evident, access to technologies and applications integration is very limited, and teachers’ frustration is obvious. There are a quarter of a million Syrian refugees in the country who still do not have access to formal education in the Lebanese school system. The country is looking to integrate and develop better educational opportunities to provide better access to education via technologies. Quality education is the key to achieve sustainable development in all aspects, especially if this continues in emergency and crises, this was the topic of discussion at the UNESCO headquarter in Paris during the Mobile Learning Week 2017, and the presented case study is to deal with ...

The purpose of this study is to present an analysis of how the structure and design of the Interactive 3D Graphics Learning Objects can be effective and efficient in terms of Performance, Time on task, and Learning Efficiency. The study explored two treatments, namely whole versus Part Presentations of the Interactive 3D Graphics Learning Objects, using two samples of pre-service teachers at the College of Education, Helwan University. Participants in the study were 40 pre-service teachers randomly assigned to one of two experimental groups. Data analyses were conducted to test the hypotheses derived from research questions. Independent-Samples T-Test was used to investigate the main effect of the instructional approach (Whole-Task versus Part-Task) on the dependent Variables.
Based on suitable instructional design models and testing of the above mentioned dependent variables, the study provided statistical evidence that part presentation of the Interactive 3D Graphics Learning Objects is significantly better than the whole treatment, in terms of Performance and Learning Efficiency. However, no significant difference was found between the treatments in terms of Time on Task.

Las bases de datos relacionales constituyen una de las fuentes de datos más utilizadas. Sin embargo, como fuente de almacenamiento presenta un grupo de limitaciones. En las bases de datos relacionales se dificulta almacenar conocimiento semántico. Para solventar las carencias en la representación de conocimiento de las bases de datos relacionales, una tendencia ha sido el uso de las ontologías. Las ontologías poseen una mayor riqueza semántica y son más cercanas al vocabulario del usuario final que los esquemas de las bases de datos relacionales. El objetivo de la presente investigación consiste en realizar un mapeo sistemático acerca de los escenarios en que se vinculan las bases de datos relacionales y las ontologías para brindar una mejor integración, consulta y visualización de los datos almacenados. El mapeo se llevó a cabo aplicando una propuesta metodológica establecida en la literatura. Como resultado de la investigación, se detectó que el mapeo de bases de datos relacionale...

The aim of the study was to develop the web-based teaching course for use in the process of ICT learning by the Tatar-speaking students. We developed the training materials in computer science, based on Wikia, and conducted educational experiment on their usage. The first-year students of Higher School of Tatar Philology and Intercultural Communication of Kazan Federal University took part in the experiment. They were divided into two groups. The experimental group consisted of 25 trainees, control group included 25 students. The educational experiment was carried out during one semester of the academic year 2015/16 and 2016/17. In teaching of the subject “Computer science” (36 hours) the technology CLIL and Web 2.0-based training materials were used in the experimental group. Computer science teaching in the control group was provided in Russian, by means of traditional methods. The students were tested at the final stage of educational experiment. Processing of the results with th...

Este artículo propone una arquitectura para la recomendación de objetos de aprendizaje en el área de Educación Ambiental utilizando el estándar LOM con el fin de representar recursos educativos en dicha área. La información necesaria para el proceso de recomendación será obtenida mediante la tecnología de datos enlazados en asocio con ontologías para recuperar los recursos desde repositorios de Objetos de Aprendizaje existentes en la Web. Paralelamente este sistema de recomendación hace uso de técnicas de filtrado basado en contenidos y colaborativos que favorece la selección de los objetos de acuerdo a los requerimientos del usuario dando como respuesta el material más adecuado al perfil del usuario

RESUMEN En este trabajo trataremos el problema del diseño del “Modelo Inteligente para Sistemas de Bases de Datos Distribuidas”. Particularmente, nos proponemos diseñar el modelo canónico a través del manejo ontológico de la información. Para esto se diseñan ...

This study was aimed at: (1) developing an observation instrument for assessing English teaching at vocational secondary schools (VSSs), (2) examining the validity of the developed instrument, (3) examining the inter-rater reliability, and (4) assessing the effectiveness of the developed  instrument.  The subjects of the three-phase field-tests were English teachers and students of four VSSs. Observation sheets, questionnaires, and interviewes were employed to collect the data. The instruments were field-tested in three phases. Expert judgment, Kappa Coefficient, and Kane’s (2006) argument-based validation and Bachman & Palmer’s intepretive and use argument were used to determine the instrument validity and reliability. The field-test which involved stakeholders prove that the observation instrument could be implemented effectively to assess the teaching of English at VSSs.

RESUMEN En este trabajo trataremos el problema del diseño del “Modelo Inteligente para Sistemas de Bases de Datos Distribuidas”. Particularmente, nos proponemos diseñar el modelo canónico a través del manejo ontológico de la información. Para esto se diseñan ...

The paper proposes the use of an activity-based approach to acquiring the competencies of software engineering with the help of the author’s model of level acquiring professional competencies. The approach allows the teacher to organize training software engineering so that students acquire needed knowledge, skills and abilities on the basis of a student’s independent productive action aimed at mastering the levels of organization of thinking and professional activities of the software engineer in the process of designing and developing software products. The author’s model is implemented to design level assignments for students to master some basic concepts of a software engineering course.

This research develops an interactive module system that can be used to explore and build a self-assessment checklist on significant learning content in the daily life and work of students in the future. The purpose of this interactive module system is to contribute to the teacher in choosing the appropriate learning content for teaching. This study will focus on the contents of Form 1 history subjects involving teachers and students. In addition, with a self-assessment checklist of teachers, educators can use it in determining significant learning content with the life and nature of student work. The built-in interactive module system also benefits pupils when the learning takes place content and skills that can be used all the time. The data were obtained through field observations in the classroom and teacher work. In general, the use of interactive module systems developed is very good and effective. The findings show that the majority of users have stated that the developed sys...

Abstract: - Learning Objects (LOs) may be defined in multiple ways - such as reusable, self-standing pieces of training content. LOs provide the possibility for world-wide brokering of learning content resources. Yet the connotations about the concept of LO are multiple and there is a lack of ...

The aim of the study was to develop the web-based teaching course for use in the process of ICT learning by the Tatar-speaking students. We developed the training materials in computer science, based on Wikia, and conducted educational experiment on their usage. The first-year students of Higher School of Tatar Philology and Intercultural Communication of Kazan Federal University took part in the experiment. They were divided into two groups. The experimental group consisted of 25 trainees, control group included 25 students. The educational experiment was carried out during one semester of the academic year 2015/16 and 2016/17. In teaching of the subject “Computer science” (36 hours) the technology CLIL and Web 2.0-based training materials were used in the experimental group. Computer science teaching in the control group was provided in Russian, by means of traditional methods. The students were tested at the final stage of educational experiment. Processing of the results with th...

En la busqueda de informacion en la Web hay diversos factores que dan como resultado que un alto porcentaje de los recursos recuperados con una herramienta de busqueda no cumplan con las condiciones o las expectativas especificadas. Entre estos factores, uno de los mas relevantes es la carencia de informacion semantica para que los buscadores electronicos puedan recuperar los recursos de forma mas eficiente. La Web semantica plantea dotar a la Web actual de capacidades para hacer mas potentes las busquedas, interpretando mejor las peticiones de los usuarios y localizando con mayor precision los recursos pertinentes. Se utilizara la arquitectura Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) para el repositorio y las herramientas con que interactuara (Herramienta de autor, Plataforma Moodle, Herramienta de migracion) mediante el uso de Servicios Web Semanticos. En este trabajo se exponen algunas aportaciones que la Web semantica puede tener en la educacion al hacer mas efectivo el acceso a los ...

The article describes the results of the research work devoted to the designing of content of the bilingual elective course "Information and Communication Technologies" for high school students by means of Russian and English languages. According to the Concept of profile education at the senior stage of general education in the Russian school (2003) elective courses are associated with the satisfaction of individual educational interests, needs and inclinations of each student. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), that has become widespread in Europe, was taken as the bases of bilingual education. Thus, the use of a foreign language (English) along with the Russian language becomes a way of comprehending knowledge from different subject areas. The introduction of bilingual elective course by means of Russian and English languages allowed students to form additional linguistic and information competence. It was formed at a sufficiently high level in 35% of stud...