As an extension to our work on portals and portlets as user interfaces for remote access to instruments we are developing a set of Web Services to capture and implement tasks in a scientific workflow. The workflow described here, controlled through JSR 168 portlets, composites many different time varying data streams captured during an X-ray diffraction crystallography experiment into a single ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of three keyword caption modes on the listening comprehension of Arab learners of English as a foreign language (N = 90) while viewing authentic video clips. The keyword caption modes contained approximately 10%, 30% or 50% of the words in the video scripts. The participants watched three different video clips from three science videos, ea...

The primary goal of this study is to examine the effects authentic and interactive video tasks on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ listening practices, perceptions (interest enjoyment level) regarding using multimedia learning in improving their skills. involved students from preparatory school university Turkey. To analyze tasks, pretest post-test werexs given students. After impl...

Multimedia data becomes more and more relevant for applications that require a certain level of trust in the integrity and the authenticity of documents. Examples include scanned contracts and documents which integrity needs to be verified, photos or video clips attached to news reports which contents should be provably authentic or recordings of interviews which shall be used as evidence in th...

In some approaches to dialogic pedagogy research, authentic questions have long attracted attention, since the prevalence of has been used as an indicator quality classroom activities. However, this article offers analysis concept in research literature and shows that is less clear than commonly assumed. For instance, descriptions definitions offered are very heterogeneous even within particula...

The value co-creation has gained much attention in sales research, but less is known about how salespeople and customers interact in the authentic business to business (B2B) sales meetings. The study presented in this paper empirically contributes to existing research by presenting authentic B2B sales meetings that were video recorded and analyzed using observation and qualitative content analy...

Project-based learning is an approach that able to facilitate authentic learning. Authentic as experiential process prepares future educators can help the development of necessary teaching skills. Assessment project-based required evaluate how it successfully promotes students’ A survey was conducted assess perspectives on implementation Undergraduate students who enrolled in a mathematics stra...

One of the greatest obstacles to Taiwan’s English learners is the lack of an environment rich in authentic English input used for real communication. A system entitled IWiLL (Intelligent Web-based Interactive Language Learning) has been designed to provide such an environment. The IWiLL online environment consists of an array of integrated components which support the needs of language learners...