The purpose of this paper is to focus on the effectiveness of online collaborative learning especially using the wiki to improve student learning motivation. This paper also seeks the possibility gender will affected to the learning motivation in this environment. The article explores for the possibility to design the collaborative learning on the Jig Saw technique framework using wiki. The pap...

Undo is an important feature of editors. However, even after over two decades of active research and development, support of undo for real-time collaborative editing is still very limited. We examine issues concerning undo in collaborative text editing and present an approach using a layered commutative replicated data type (CRDT). Our performance study shows that it provides sufficient respons...

We describe an “expert coach” for students’ collaborative information seeking and knowledge construction. This coach compares an expert’s prespecification of the evidential relations among “snippets” of HTML-based text with the current state of a diagram constructed by students in the course of collaborative scientific inquiry. The expert advises the students by pointing out information that ma...

Apoptosis or programmed cell death is a gene regulated phenomenon which is important in both physiological and pathological conditions. It is characterized by distinct morphological features including chromatin condensation, cell and nuclear shrinkage, membrane blebbing and oligonucleosomal DNA fragmentation. Although, two major apoptotic pathways including 1) the death receptor (extrinsic) and...

This study aimed to examine the effect of two types of collaborative output tasks on Iranian EFL learners’ comparative adjectives with two or more syllables. Thirty Iranian EFL learners participated in this study which were then divided into two experimental and one control groups; one experimental group received dictogloss task in 4-pairs and the other experimental group was given text reconst...

This paper presents a comparative study on the usage of digital elements in networked collaborative virtual environments (NCVE). The focus of this study is to explore the characteristic of digital elements that promote social awareness. Social awareness is defined as the understanding of a contextual situation at a present time. In networked collaborative virtual environments (NCVE), awareness ...

In this paper, we discuss a methodology for automatic prosodic modeling in Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems. The proposed methodology can be seen as a data-driven strategy to train prosodic rules from the automatic analysis of a specific text and its related speech material. Therefore, our corpus-based training procedure is based on an automatic linguistic analysis of the text and on an acoustic an...

Asset-mapping is a strategy used in disaster preparedness planning, however participation is typically limited to a small number of organizations with specific expertise related to disaster response. Broader strategies are needed to ensure identification of assets is comprehensive and to stimulate innovative thinking about which attributes of a community are potential assets for response and re...