From the imagined to the practiced: A case study on novice EFL teachers' professional identity change in China

Hao Xu

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 31, No. 1 (April 2013) pp. 79–86

This paper reports on a four-year longitudinal case study of four Chinese EFL teachers on their professional identity change in the first years of teaching in K-12 schools in China. Teachers' cue-based and exemplar-based imagined identities formed...

Language: English

The Application of KINECT Motion Sensing Technology in Game-Oriented Study

Hui Yang; Hao Zhang; Wei Xu; Ping Zhang; Liang Xu

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 9, No. 2 (Mar 18, 2014) pp. 59–63

The learning environment based on the KINECT Motion Sensing technology is able to fully mobilize the learners' multi-sensory organs, closely combine study with sports and enhance human-computer interactions, which can be conducive to the learners'...

Assisting Instructional Assessment of Undergraduate Collaborative Wiki and SVN Activities

Jihie Kim; Erin Shaw; Hao Xu; G V. Adarsh

International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) 2012 (June 2012)

In this paper we examine the collaborative performance of undergraduate engineering students who used shared project documents (Wikis, Google documents) and a software version control system (SVN) to support project collaboration. We present an...

Pedagogical usability in the design of a learning module on virtual reality

Minh Pham; Xinhao Xu; Jhon Bueno; Hao He

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 547–551

In this project, we are going to present the pedagogical usability dimensions we employed in the design of a learning module for an online eight-week course on Digital Media for undergraduate and graduate students at a Mid-west university, USA....

Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Perseverance and Engagement for the Success in a 3D Virtual Reality Learning Environment – A Cube Quest Activity

Gayathri Sadanala; Xinhao Xu; Hao He; Jhon Bueno; Fan Yu; Shangman Li

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1034–1039

The purpose of the study was to investigate students’ learning outcomes and their ability to persevere and complete the activities in a 3D virtual reality learning environment (VRLE). The VRLE served as a virtual place for an orientation session for ...

Topics: Designing Learning Spaces, X Realities and Learning

Through the Lens of the Limited-Capacity Assumption in Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML): A Discussion on the Desktop Virtual Reality (VR) Online Orientation

Shangman Li; Xinhao Xu; Jhon Bueno; Hao He; Gayathri Sadanala; Fan Yu

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 521–527

Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML) and Virtual Reality (VR) have received much attention from practitioners and researchers in the field of education, especially in instructional design. For CTML, although it has been well-established...

Topics: Digital Games & Simulations

Technostress and Student’s Intention to use VR for Learning

Jhon Bueno Vesga; Xinhao Xu; Hao He; Gayathri Sadanala; Shangman Li; Fan Yu

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1021–1026

Studies show that different forms of VR such as desktop VR, immersive VR (using head-mounted displays), and augmented reality (AR) have been used to improve online learning experiences due to their enhanced interactivity and engaging characteristics....

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, X Realities and Learning