Electronic classrooms offer instructors a variety of multimedia presentation tools such as the VCR, document camera, and computer projection, allowing for the display of video clips, transparencies, and computer generated simulations and animations. Unfortunately, even the most elegant user interfaces still frustrate many would-be users. The technology tends to be underutilized because of the c...

Freehand Sketch Recognition for Computer-Assisted Language Learning of Written East Asian Languages. (December 2010) Paul Piula Taele, B.S., The University of Texas at Austin Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Tracy Hammond One of the challenges students face in studying an East Asian (EA) language (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) as a second language is mastering their selected language’s w...

Computer-supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is a widely accepted group-teaching and learning methodology. It focuses on communication and collaboration aspects among learning entities, between instructors and students. The contribution of this paper is twofold. Firstly we introduce a novel, role-based concept of collaborative learning where both instructors and students/student groups oper...

In a computer supported learning environment both in the synchronous and asynchronous mode, interaction is a prerequisite to facilitate learning. Hence to facilitate effective interaction, a good working team of learners and instructors is important. For this to happen, social presence is necessary to create sound social interaction for instructional effectiveness. Social presence is the abilit...

1 Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, [email protected] 2 Tony M. Louca, North Carolina State University, Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, [email protected] Abstract  A Web-based database of course materials in computer architecture is being developed. Its goal is to allow...

The study has identified the areas of strengths and weaknesses in the current use of Computer Based Learning (CBL) tools in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institutions in Nigeria. To achieve these objectives, the following research questions were proposed: (i) What are the computer-based learning tools (soft and hard ware) that are actually in use in ODL institutions in Nigeria?, (ii) What ar...

Projects play an important role in most Computer Science courses. Plagiarism in projects, how to discourage it and how to detect it have always been of concern to instructors. In this paper, we propose a technique for designing projects to detect and prevent plagiarism, called polymorphic projects. We also catalog several other techniques currently used to address plagiarism in projects.

The public has high hopes for computer technologies in the public schools. An issue to be addressed is how best to utilize this investment. Computer technologies utilizing multiple media and interactivity are beneficial in teaching and learning. The production and sharing of learning objects demands that the educators possess the ability to create them. Numerous studies reveal that most instruc...