An Integration of Item Bank and Concept Map

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 317–321

This study described the INCOMAS system. The INCOMAS is an item bank based and networked concept map assessment system that combines the Web technologies, computer networks, and the database: concept map items, electronic test papers, and students'...

Topics: Computers, Databases, Networking Technologies

Peer and Self Assessment for Mobile Learning

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4370–4372

In the past, the peer and self assessment were proved useful for adult learner [8,10,11]. Author's purposes are to propose a new peer and self assessment model for mobile learning and try to propose some open questions for future works. Does peer...

Topics: Assessment

Feedback and achievement of college students under networked peer assessment

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Sunny S. J. Lin

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2067–2070

This study focused on the relationship between the types of thinking skills and types of peer feedback and the relationship between the types of thinking skills and the students' achievement under networked peer assessment. In this system, students...

Topics: Achievement, Assessment, Students

To propose an algorithm for team forming: Simulated annealing K team-forming algorithm for heterogeneous grouping

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2645–2646

Some researchers have compared the performance of some teams, they were formed through some grouping method, with other teams formed via random assignment, but the results were not consistent. Why the results were not consistent? In my point of view,...

Topics: Students

A Pilot Study of College Students' Attitudes toward Web-based Forum and Community

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Yu-Fang Chang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 434–440

In this pilot, we try to construct a web-based forum and community scale (hereinafter referred as "WFCS"). According to related studies, we adapted five factors about attitudes toward web-based forum and implemented two factors about attitudes...

Topics: Community, Attitudes

A Pilot Study of E-tutor System

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Chun-Hung Lin; Hwa-Wei Ko

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 2579–2584

As the development of information technology, more and more tools can be utilized in learning. Chunghwa Telecom held an E-tutor program in 2005. The program used MCS2 system to be the distance learning tool. There are 27 teachers and 18 students...

Topics: Tutoring

To provide baseline algorithm for team forming: K team-forming algorithm

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1584–1585

In recent studies, some researchers were eager for the answer of how to group a perfectly dream team. There are various grouping methods, e.g. random assignment, homogeneous grouping with personality or achievement and heterogeneous grouping with...

Topics: Achievement, Students, Personality, Information Sciences

A Pilot Framework of Essential Designs of User Interface in Young Students' Web-based Learning Sites

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2780–2781

In this study, author has defined twenty-four essential designs from the ideas of mind tools, transactional distance theory, and ARCS model. Then, author has created a best web site for youth to learn scale (in short, BeYou), with twenty-four...

Topics: Information Sciences, Interaction

Networked portfolio system and students' learning effect

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2643–2644

This system incorporates two distinct types of function; one focuses on peer-assessment, the other involves the design of portfolio-assessment (included self-assessment and portfolio). The functions designed to assist peer-assessment include on-line ...

Topics: Assessment, Portfolios, Students

Experiencing mobile learning of senior high school: From the perspective of college teacher

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Chun Hung Lin

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 19–20

Basically, The Affiliated Jhongli Senior High School of National Central University doesn’t need to apply any research project to improve the popularity of the school. Due to the trend of E-learning, and the teachers’ sense of mission, The...

Topics: Institution-Specific Cases, Exemplary Projects

Developing and Validating a Media Literacy Self-Evaluation Scale (MLSS) for Elementary School Students

Chiung-Sui Chang; Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Chun-Yi Lee; Nian-Shing Chen; Da-Chian Hu; Chun-Hung Lin

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 10, No. 2 (April 2011) pp. 63–71

The arrival of new media technology has the potential to radically change education. It has become important for both academics and practitioners to understand the behavioural intentions of students towards media technology. Many scales have been...

Effects of an Online Rational Emotive Curriculum on Primary School Students' Tendencies for Online and Real-World Aggression

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; H C. Ho; Y J. Song

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 10, No. 3 (July 2011) pp. 83–93

This study investigated the relationship between online and real-world aggressive behavior among primary school students as well as the effects of an online rational emotive curriculum on reducing the tendency of students to display aggression...

University Faculty's Perspectives on the Roles of E-Instructors and Their Online Instruction Practice

Chiungsui Chang; Hun-Yi Shen; Eric Zhi-Feng Liu

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 15, No. 3 (Jun 16, 2014) pp. 72–92

Despite the rapid use of e-Learning in higher education, the beliefs of instructors about and their practices during online instruction have been seldom addressed. This study explores the role perceptions of e-instructors in higher education. In...

Cluster Analysis of Adolescent Blogs

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Chun-Hung Lin; Feng-Yi Chen; Ping-Chuan Peng

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 11, No. 2 (April 2012) pp. 69–79

Emerging web applications and networking systems such as blogs have become popular, and they offer unique opportunities and environments for learners, especially for adolescent learners. This study attempts to explore the writing styles and genres...

Factors Influencing Women's Attitudes towards Computers in a Computer Literacy Training Program

Sung-Lu Chang; Ruey S. Shieh; Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Pao-Ta Yu

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 11, No. 4 (October 2012) pp. 177–187

In the "Digital Divide" research, adult women have generally been found to be the weakest group when compared with others. There is thus a need to provide this particular group with computer literacy training, and to give them opportunities to learn ...

The Effects of Online Discussion Forum Aggressive Messages and Cognitive Distortion on Users' Negative Affect and Aggression

Yu-Tzu Chiang; Sunny S. J. Lin; Eric Zhi-Feng Liu

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 11, No. 2 (April 2012) pp. 238–245

This research is comprised of two studies designed to explore the effects of online discussion forum aggressive messages and Internet cognitive distortion on users' negative affect and aggression. The results of study 1 revealed 69 users could...

A Case Study of Low-Status Women's Attitudes towards Computers

Ruey S. Shieh; Sung-Lu Chang; Eric Zhi-Feng Liu

Educational Studies Vol. 37, No. 2 (May 2011) pp. 233–243

This study investigates the attitudes of a group of low-status women towards computers through a deliberately designed computer training programme. Four aspects of the women's attitudes were examined, including computer anxiety, confidence, liking...

Assessing Higher-Order Thinking Using a Networked Portfolio System with Peer Assessment

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Yi-Chin Zhuo; Shyan-Ming Yuan

International Journal of Instructional Media Vol. 31, No. 2 (Mar 22, 2004)

In the past, the quantitative evidences of portfolio assessment have been explored under online instruction. Liu, Lin, and Yuan provide a long-term measure of peer-self, peer-instructor and self-instructor correlation coefficients under networked...

A Networked Peer Assessment System Based on a Vee Heuristic

Chin-Chung Tsai; Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Sunny S. J. Lin; Shyan-Ming Yuan

Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 38, No. 3 (2001) pp. 220–30

This study implements a networked peer assessment system based on the use of a Vee heuristic. Students submit their homework via the underlying network, then assess each other's homework by offering suggestions through the network. Preliminary...

A Pilot Study of Workshop-Based Instruction Via the Web

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu

International Journal of Instructional Media Vol. 31, No. 4 (Sep 22, 2004)

Industry and academia often hold workshops to promote products or disseminate technical information. This study defined workshop-based instruction (WIW) that coordinates student learning in a manner similar to researchers and scientists attending a...

An Analysis of Teacher-Student Interaction Patterns in a Robotics Course for Kindergarten Children: A Pilot Study

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Chun-Hung Lin; Pey-Yan Liou; Han-Chuan Feng; Huei-Tse Hou

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 12, No. 1 (January 2013) pp. 9–18

Compared with other media, programmable bricks provide children with the opportunity to create their own product and, through this process, to express creative thinking. Studies have found that learning robotics or integrating programming bricks...

Using Peer Feedback to Improve Learning via Online Peer Assessment

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Chun-Yi Lee

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 12, No. 1 (January 2013) pp. 187–199

This study investigates the influence of various forms of peer observation and feedback on student learning. We recruited twelve graduate students enrolled in a course entitled, Statistics in Education and Psychology, at a university in northern...

Application of poly(aspartic acid-citric acid) copolymer compound inhibitor as an effective and environmental agent against calcium phosphate in cooling water systems

Yu-ling Zhang; Cai-xia Zhao; Xiao-dong Liu; Wei Li; Jiao-long Wang; Zhi-guang Hu

Journal of Applied Research and Technology Vol. 14, No. 6 (December 2016) pp. 425–433

Poly(aspartic acid-citric acid) copolymer (PAC) is a new product of poly(carboxylic acid) scale inhibitor. The study aims to develop a “green” water treatment agent for calcium phosphate scale. The article compares the efficiency of three polymeric...

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Discovering the Two-Step Lag Behavioral Patterns of Learners in the College SPOC Platform

Zhi Liu; Hercy Cheng; Sanya Liu; Jianwen Sun

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education Vol. 13, No. 1 (January 2017) pp. 1–13

Due to high retention rates, small private online course (SPOC) has become increasingly popular among universities. However, existing analyses of learning behavioral patterns in SPOC remain extremely lacking. This present study conducts an empirical ...

Mining Individual Learning Topics in Course Reviews Based on Author Topic Model

Sanya Liu; Xian Peng; Zhi Liu; Cheng Ni; Hercy Cheng

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 15, No. 3 (July 2017) pp. 1–14

Nowadays, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) has obtained a rapid development and drawn much attention from the areas of learning analytics and artificial intelligence. There are lots of unstructured data being generated in online reviews area. The...

Mining Learning Behavioral Patterns of Students by Sequence Analysis in Cloud Classroom

Sanya Liu; Zhenfan Hu; Xian Peng; Zhi Liu; H. Cheng; Jianwen Sun

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 15, No. 1 (January 2017) pp. 15–27

In a MOOC environment, each student's interaction with the course content is a crucial clue for learning analytics, which offers an opportunity to record learner activity of unprecedented scale. In online learning, the educators and the...

How Teachers Use and Manage Their Blogs? A Cluster Analysis of Teachers' Blogs in Taiwan

Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Huei-Tse Hou

International Conference on Educational Technologies (ICEduTech) 2013 (2013)

The development of Web 2.0 has ushered in a new set of web-based tools, including blogs. This study focused on how teachers use and manage their blogs. A sample of 165 teachers' blogs in Taiwan was analyzed by factor analysis, cluster analysis and...

Investigating Relationship Between Discourse Behavioral Patterns and Academic Achievements of Students in SPOC Discussion Forum

Zhi Liu; Jianwen Sun; Wenjing Zhang; Hercy Cheng; Sannyuya Liu

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 16, No. 2 (April 2018) pp. 37–50

As an overt expression of internal mental processes, discourses have become one main data source for the research of interactive learning. To deeply explore behavioral regularities among interactions, this article firstly adopts the content analysis ...

Interaction between gaming and multistage guiding strategies on students' field trip mobile learning performance and motivation

Chih‐Hung Chen; Guan‐Zhi Liu; Gwo‐Jen Hwang

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 47, No. 6 (November 2016) pp. 1032–1050

In this study, an integrated gaming and multistage guiding approach was proposed for conducting in-field mobile learning activities. A mobile learning system was developed based on the proposed approach. To investigate the interaction between the...

University faculty’s perspectives on the roles of e-instructors and their online instruction practice

Chiungsui Chang; Hun-Yi Shen; Zhi-Feng Liu

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 15, No. 3 (Jun 16, 2014)

Despite the rapid use of e-Learning in higher education, the beliefs of instructors about and their practices during online instruction have been seldom addressed. This study explores the role perceptions of e-instructors in higher education. In...

Effects of Online College Student's Internet Self-Efficacy on Learning Motivation and Performance

Chiung-Sui Chang; Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Hung-Yen Sung; Chun-Hung Lin; Nian-Shing Chen; Shan-Shan Cheng

Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 51, No. 4 (2014) pp. 366–377

This study investigates how Internet self-efficacy helps students to transform motivation into learning action, and its influence on learning performance. In this study, the effects of Internet self-efficacy on motivation and the learning...