What is Expected for E-Learning Instructional Designers in China?

Fan Yang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1613–1622

As a profession with a complex nature, the role of e-learning instructional designers and the competencies for them are being studied constantly yet still remain ambiguous. Existing research neglected the employers’ perspectives about the role or...

Topics: Social & Cultural Issues, Other

Optimization of Multimedia English Teaching in Context Creation

Weiyan Yang; Fan Fang

Online Submission Vol. 1, No. 4 (November 2008) pp. 136–142

Using multimedia to create a context to teach English has its unique advantages. This paper explores the characteristics of multimedia and integrates how to use multimedia to optimize the context of English teaching as its purpose. In this paper,...

Building an Affordable Learner-Centered Hybrid Classroom

Fan Yang; James Callahan

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 518–521

This paper is a report on the experience of building a hybrid classroom in order to bring online students into classes primarily taught in a face-to-face format. A videoconferencing system and a variety of supplement technology was utilized in the...

Topics: Tools & Systems, Implementation Examples & Issues, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

Implementing Virtual Reality Technology in E-learning

Yang Fei; Wei-Fan Chen

Innovate Learning Summit 2020 (Nov 03, 2020) pp. 552–557

This paper proposes a coalition of virtual reality technology and E-learning. The collaboration of these two new types of technology brings increased profits to stakeholders. Many are integrating virtual reality technology into traditional education ...

Topics: E-learning/E-training

What Health-Related Information Flows through You Every Day? A Content Analysis of Microblog Messages on Air Pollution

Qinghua Yang; Fan Yang; Chun Zhou

Health Education Vol. 115, No. 5 (2015) pp. 438–454

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the information about haze, a term used in China to describe the air pollution problem, is portrayed on Chinese social media by different types of organizations using the theoretical framework ...

Study on student performance estimation, student progress analysis, and student potential prediction based on data mining

Fan Yang; Frederick W.B. Li

Computers & Education Vol. 123, No. 1 (August 2018) pp. 97–108

Student performance, student progress and student potential are critical for measuring learning results, selecting learning materials and learning activities. However, existing work doesn't provide enough analysis tools to analyze how students...

Language: English

A study of social participation and knowledge sharing in the teachers' online professional community of practice

Fan-Chuan Tseng; Feng-Yang Kuo

Computers & Education Vol. 72, No. 1 (March 2014) pp. 37–47

To facilitate professional development of teachers in the online context, the online community of practice (CoPs) has become an important platform in which individuals with similar interests or common goals get together to share their resources,...

Language: English

Application in the Training of Automatic Weather Station Based on Web3D Technology

Rui Yang; WenJie Fan; Jingrong Sun

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 10, No. 4 (Sep 22, 2015) pp. 34–39

Automatic weather station, one of the most significant observation instruments in China, has several particular characteristics, including precise parts, complex structure and various failures. Traditional training mode always relies on physical...

Undergraduate Research Experience in Cybersecurity for Underrepresented Students and Students with Limited Research Opportunities

Dazhi Yang; Dianxiang Xu; Jyh-haw Yeh; Yibo Fan

Journal of STEM Education Vol. 19, No. 5 (Feb 27, 2019)

Undergraduate research opportunities have expanded from elite universities in the United States to universities and learning institutions of all ranks and sizes. Research studies have showed some positive outcomes of the research experience for...

Language: English

Community-organizing agent: An artificial intelligent system for building learning communities among large numbers of learners

Fan Yang; Minjuan Wang; Ruimin Shen; Peng Han

Computers & Education Vol. 49, No. 2 (September 2007) pp. 131–147

Web-based (or online) learning provides an unprecedented flexibility and convenience to both learners and instructors. However, large online classes relying on instructor-centered presentations could tend to isolate many learners. The size of these...

Language: English

Three-Dimensional Temperature Field Simulation for the Rotor of an Asynchronous Motor

Yanwu Wang; Chunli Fan; Li Yang; Fengrui Sun

European Journal of Physics Vol. 31, No. 4 (July 2010) pp. 701–715

A three-dimensional heat transfer model is built according to the rotor structure of an asynchronous motor, and three-dimensional temperature fields of the rotor under different working conditions, such as the unloaded, rated loaded and that with...

Chinese preschool teachers' knowledge and practice of teacher-child interactions: The mediating role of teachers' beliefs about children

Bi Ying Hu; Xitao Fan; Yi Yang; Jennifer Neitzel

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 63, No. 1 (April 2017) pp. 137–147

This study contributes to the discussion regarding the relationship between teachers' knowledge about effective teacher-child interactions, beliefs about children, and observed teacher-children interaction practice in Chinese kindergartens. Data...

Language: English

Exploring Doctoral Students’ Experience in Project Based Learning in an Instructional Design Course

Emily McCarren; Fan Yang; Thomas Conway; Yahna Kawa'a; Eduard Merc; Youxin Zhang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 873–879

This paper reports the findings from an exploration of doctoral students’ experience involved in project-based learning in a yearlong graduate level instructional design course. Interpretive self-study was employed to conduct this research. Three...

Topics: Instructional Design, Implementation Examples & Issues

Critical success factors for motivating and sustaining women's ICT learning

Feng-Yang Kuo; Fan-Chuan Tseng; Cecilia I.C. Lin; Wen-Hui Tang

Computers & Education Vol. 67, No. 1 (September 2013) pp. 208–218

Information Communication Technology (ICT) has changed the way people think, behave, communicate, and work. As a result, digital literacy, an essential skill for career development, lifelong learning, freedom of expression and social inclusion, is...

Language: English

The influence of learners' perceptions of virtual humans on learning transfer

Noah L. Schroeder; Fan Yang; Tanvi Banerjee; William L. Romine; Scotty D. Craig

Computers & Education Vol. 126, No. 1 (November 2018) pp. 170–182

Virtual humans are often integrated into novel multimedia learning environments. However, little is known about learner's perceptions of the agents or the relationship between the perceptions and learning. In this study, the authors revise the Agent ...

Language: English