Overview
- All communications between the authors, reviewers, and conference organizing committee were done online, which permitted a short six week period from the paper submission deadline to the beginning of the conference
- PowerPoint presentations, final paper manuscripts were available to registrants for three weeks prior to the start of the conference.
- The conference platform allowed live presentations by several presenters from different locations, with the audio and PowerPoint transmitted to attendees through the internet, even on dial up connections
- Attendees were able to ask both audio and written questions in a chat room format, and presenters could mark up their slides as they deemed fit
- The live audio presentations were also recorded and distributed to participants along with the PowerPoint presentations and paper manuscripts within the conference DVD
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About this book
Innovative Techniques in Instruction Technology, E-Learning, E-Assessment and Education is a collection of world-class paper articles addressing the following topics: (1) E-Learning including development of courses and systems for technical and liberal studies programs; online laboratories; intelligent testing using fuzzy logic; evaluation of on line courses in comparison to traditional courses; mediation in virtual environments; and methods for speaker verification. (2) Instruction Technology including internet textbooks; pedagogy-oriented markup languages; graphic design possibilities; open source classroom management software; automatic email response systems; tablet-pcs; personalization using web mining technology; intelligent digital chalkboards; virtual room concepts for cooperative scientific work; and network technologies, management, and architecture. (3) Science and Engineering Research Assessment Methods including assessment of K-12 and university level programs; adaptive assessments; auto assessments; assessment of virtual environments and e-learning. (4) Engineering and Technical Education including cap stone and case study course design; virtual laboratories; bioinformatics; robotics; metallurgy; building information modeling; statistical mechanics; thermodynamics; information technology; occupational stress and stress prevention; web enhanced courses; and promoting engineering careers. (5) Pedagogy including benchmarking; group-learning; active learning; teaching of multiple subjects together; ontology; and knowledge representation. (6) Issues in K-12 Education including 3D virtual learning environment for children; e-learning tools for children; game playing and systems thinking; and tools to learn how to write foreign languages.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovative Techniques in Instruction Technology, E-learning, E-assessment and Education
Editors: Magued Iskander
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8739-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8738-7Published: 02 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7974-9Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8739-4Published: 20 August 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 601
Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation