An Introductory Course on Service-Oriented Computing for High Schools

W T. Tsai; Yinong Chen; Calvin Cheng; Xin Sun; Gary Bitter; Mary White

Journal of Information Technology Education: Research Vol. 7 (2008) pp. 315–338

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new computing paradigm that has been adopted by major computer companies as well as government agencies such as the Department of Defense for mission-critical applications. SOC is being used for developing Web...

iAbstract: Game-Driven Keyword Auction and Summarization for Academic Reading

Hercy N. H. Cheng; Calvin C. Y. Liao; Wan-Chen Chang

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 21, No. 4 (2018) pp. 248–258

Graduate students usually lack sufficient ability to read academic papers effectively and efficiently. For facilitating their reading comprehension, this study adopts summarization as a main reading strategy under the scaffold of keyword evaluation. ...

Equal opportunity tactic: Redesigning and applying competition games in classrooms

Hercy N.H. Cheng; Winston M.C. Wu; Calvin C.Y. Liao; Tak-Wai Chan

Computers & Education Vol. 53, No. 3 (November 2009) pp. 866–876

Competition, despite its potential drawbacks, is an easily adopted and frequently used motivator in classrooms. Individual abilities, in the years of schooling, are inevitably different, and performance in competition is heavily ability dependent,...

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An Introductory Course on Service-Oriented Computing for High Schools

W T. Tsai; Yinong Chen; Calvin Cheng; Xin Sun; Gary Bitter; Mary White

Journal of Information Technology Education: Research Vol. 7, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2008) pp. 315–338

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new computing paradigm that has been adopted by major computer companies as well as government agencies such as the Department of Defense for mission-critical applications. SOC is being used for developing Web...