Nodes and Connections for implementing connectivist learning in online education

Harris Wang

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 966–975

Connectivist learning is learning through connections and networking. Although it is yet to be widely accepted as a new learning theory, compared to three existing learning theories known as cognitivism, constructivism and behaviorism, it has, in...

Topics: Schools, research, Tools & Systems, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

Towards Autonomous Education Online

Harris Wang

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 529–538

Education is very important for an individual, a community and a country. Throughout the history of human civilization, education has been carried out by teachers or senior scholars and mostly inside classrooms. Even till recent years in online...

Topics: Design of Distance Learning Systems

Using RSS in Collaborative Course Development

Harris Wang

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 764–770

RSS (for Really Simply Syndication) is a new technology for syndicating contents on the World Wide Web, whereas collaborative course development in today’s Web-based distance education is to have several professors or subject matter experts to work...

A Logic Framework for Reasoning towards Better Learning Outcomes in Education

Harris Wang

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 793–801

In this paper, we present a logic framework intended to be used by intelligent agents in online education to formalise the relationships among all involved objects, including all parties, learning contents, the interests and personalities of...

Topics: research

Running Virtual Schools in EduPalace

Harris Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3510–3515

This paper reports in detail about how to run virtual schools in EduPalace – an integrated system for E-Education. An overview of EduPlace is presented in brief, while the focus of this paper will be on the process of course development and delivery ...

Towards the Implementation of Informal Learning on the Web for All

Harris Wang

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 802–809

In this paper, we report our exploration of how informal learning can be implemented on the Web for people of all ages of all colours. We will first talk about why informal learning is needed, why it is the best way or the only way to learn for some ...

Topics: research, Tools & Systems

Using Simulation and Demonstration in Teaching Computer networking and Network Programming

Harris Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4424–4429

This paper reports how simulation and demonstration have been used in teaching computer networking and network programming at university level. Some simulation programs are presented in detail and uses of simulation and demonstration in teaching are ...

Using Virtual Programming Lab for Web-based Distance Education

Harris Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1745–1751

In Web-based distance education, our experience has shown that some courses are more challenging than others for both students and instructors when offered at a distance. Among those challenges, providing students with access to laboratories is a...

Towards a Real Virtual Classroom

Harris Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 1123–1129

Distance education is well regarded as a better way to bring education to those who are unable to attend classes at traditional schools and universities. In recent years, new Web technologies and systems such as Ajax, RSS, Wikis, blogs, social...

Enabling Technologies for Incidental Learning on the Web

Harris Wang

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 1997–2002

Incidental learning is learning without intent, which usually happens during the time of doing something else other than learning. By incidental learning on the web, we mean incidental learning happened to a learner while he or she is browsing the...

Topics: research, Tools & Systems

An Intelligent System for Generating and Managing FAQs

Harris Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1571–1576

With the development of the Web, online course delivery is gaining its popularity everyday. But no matter how courses are delivered, there are two things that never change in education. For students, they will need to have their questions answered,...

Topics: Teachers, Students

Teaching Asynchronous Online Course—Where Does the Time Go?

Qi Wang; Mark Harris

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 651–656

Abstract: A doctoral course in instruction design for online learning required each student to design and facilitate a three-week mini-term course. Post-mini-term surveys collected facilitator perceptions of how much time and effort he or she had...

Topics: Instructional Design

Promoting Online Collaborative Learning Experiences for Teenagers

Minjuan Wang; Melissa Poole; Bruce Harris; Paul Wangemann

Educational Media International Vol. 38, No. 4 (2001) pp. 203–15

Describes a project conducted in England and Scotland that engaged teenagers in using Internet-based tools to collaborate in problem-based learning. Explains Motorola Expeditions, designed to help young people develop skills in using new network...

Construct Validity and Measurement Invariance of Computerized Adaptive Testing: Application to Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Shudong Wang; Marty McCall; Hong Jiao; Gregg Harris

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2012 (April 2012)

The purposes of this study are twofold. First, to investigate the construct or factorial structure of a set of Reading and Mathematics computerized adaptive tests (CAT), "Measures of Academic Progress" (MAP), given in different states at different...

How Do Youth and Mentors Experience Project-Based Learning in the Internet-Based Shared Environment for Expeditions (iExpeditions)

Minjuan Wang; Jim Laffey; Paul Wangemann; Carl Harris; Tom Tupper

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2000 (April 2000)

The Internet-Based Shared Environment for Expeditions (iExpeditions) is both a development effort of the Center for Technology Innovations in Education, University of Missouri, Columbia, and a research project conducted in partnership with Motorola, ...

Connecting Incoming Freshmen with Engineering through Hands-On Projects

Suxia Cui; Younhui Wang; Yonggao Yang; Felecia M. Nave; Kendall T. Harris

American Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 2, No. 2 (2011) pp. 31–42

Engineering programs suffer a high attrition rate, which causes the nation to graduate much less engineers. A survey of the literature reveals that the high attrition rate is due mainly to the fact that the first year of an engineering program is...

The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Framework: Lineages of the First Ten Years of Research: Part 1

Aaron Kessler; Michael Phillips; Matthew Koehler; Punya Mishra; Joshua Rosenberg; Denise Schmidt-Crawford; Wei Wang; Judith Harris; Chrystalla Mouza; Daniel Mourlam; Aroutis Foster; Mamta Shah

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2376–2380

The purpose of this symposium is to provide the TPACK community with a snapshot of the first ten years of the TPACK framework with the hope that this comprehensive review will provide the researchers with an opportunity to reflect on the development ...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK): Revision and Rethinking

Petra Fisser; Joshua Rosenberg; Jolene Teske; Matthew Koehler; Punya Mishra; Joke Voogt; Jo Tondeur; Johan van Braak; Judi Harris; Charoula Angeli; Nicos Valanides; Andri Christodoulou; Karin Forssell; Leanna Archambault; Vicky Smart; Glenn Finger; Denise Schmidt-Crawford; Shu-ju Diana Tai; Wei Wang; Mary Herring

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 907–911

The Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) for Educators was critical to the development of the field of educational technology research and practice, but much has changed since its publication. The Handbook of Technological...

Topics: Graduate Education & Faculty Development