Hearing Impaired (HI) persons need to keep on practicing and repeating their lessons as well as their exercises. Teaching methodology of HI students differ than normal students. HI students need to be involved in practicing more and more using their modes of visual communication like sign language to cover their audio disability. Teaching methodology of HI students recommends demonstration and repeating with slow presentations of instructional material. A teacher displays his lesson directly face to
face without visual noise. More reinforcement and encouragement to HI students , fun & enjoyment should
be strongly included in the e-lessons as well as continuous interaction between teacher and HI students. As
per previous factors the decision of researchers is to develop Drill & Practice (D&P) e-learning modules(eLMs) for selected topics like Mathematics. D&P eLMs of Mathematics for HI persons would be the case study of this research including Developing & Evaluating.
The authors selected D&P eLMs Because eLMs match the requirements and mechanism of teaching methodology for HI students.
The mechanism of developing eLMs is represented by Developing an Authoring System which allows teachers of HI persons to generate any eLM of any selected topic for HI students. Also they can generate multiple eLMs in the project.
The evaluating producer & tools for the experimental eLMs were view points of Experts through openQuestionnaire to list their evaluating comments. Besides view points of experts. There are experiments which were held in real environment of HI students to test the eLMs of D&P of Mathematics to get valuable feedback from them.
Word Problems are designed to help students to learn the application of mathematical concepts, algebraic identities and formulae in the real world. Variables are assigned the values of „real-world‟ entities and a logical approach in solving them is established. They help the students to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and the real world application of it by giving them hypothetical situations about the same. Probability is a measure or estimation of how likely it is that a particular event will happen. Probability concepts need to be properly understood before attempting to solve any problem related to it. In view of this a survey was conducted. Students from various schools and coaching classes were approached for the same. The study shows that majority of the students experience difficulties in identifying and understanding what exactly the word problem signifies and what approach it demands. Also, the process of learning Probability needs to be specialized given the different understanding levels of each and every student in contrast to the generalized education techniques that are being used in traditional classrooms. Keeping in mind these issues, Word Problem Solver for Probability is implemented, which caters to the learning needs of each and every student individually by providing a step-by-step solution to all problems from the Probability domain.
E-Learning Student Assistance Model for the First Computer Programming CourseIJITE
E-Learning applied to computer programming course design is a promising area of research. The student
having clear understanding of the programming constructs can apply it to solve various problems. Because
of limited time and availability, the instructor can go back to some extent to cover the weaknesses of their
students that hinder the understanding of the problems. As more lessons are covered, the weak students
become weaker in programming. To cope up with these problems an e-learning system is devised which the
student can use anywhere and at any time as a web application. It comprises of both tutoring and
assessment and also provides guiding the students to error correction using back-tracking technique to
refine the concepts and reattempt the programming problem.
Word Problems are designed to help students to learn the application of mathematical concepts, algebraic identities and formulae in the real world. Variables are assigned the values of „real-world‟ entities and a logical approach in solving them is established. They help the students to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and the real world application of it by giving them hypothetical situations about the same. Probability is a measure or estimation of how likely it is that a particular event will happen. Probability concepts need to be properly understood before attempting to solve any problem related to it. In view of this a survey was conducted. Students from various schools and coaching classes were approached for the same. The study shows that majority of the students experience difficulties in identifying and understanding what exactly the word problem signifies and what approach it demands. Also, the process of learning Probability needs to be specialized given the different understanding levels of each and every student in contrast to the generalized education techniques that are being used in traditional classrooms. Keeping in mind these issues, Word Problem Solver for Probability is implemented, which caters to the learning needs of each and every student individually by providing a step-by-step solution to all problems from the Probability domain.
E-Learning Student Assistance Model for the First Computer Programming CourseIJITE
E-Learning applied to computer programming course design is a promising area of research. The student
having clear understanding of the programming constructs can apply it to solve various problems. Because
of limited time and availability, the instructor can go back to some extent to cover the weaknesses of their
students that hinder the understanding of the problems. As more lessons are covered, the weak students
become weaker in programming. To cope up with these problems an e-learning system is devised which the
student can use anywhere and at any time as a web application. It comprises of both tutoring and
assessment and also provides guiding the students to error correction using back-tracking technique to
refine the concepts and reattempt the programming problem.
From the CALPER/LARC Testing and Assessment Webinar Series
Download the handouts and ppt: https://larc.sdsu.edu/archived-events/
View the recording: http://vimeo.com/63784749
Presentation Description:
While the use technology in language teaching classrooms has become increasingly more common, fewer teachers are comfortable using technology as they assess leaner progress. In this webinar on assessing language using computer technology, I will outline ways in which technology can be used to help inform the assessment of language learners.
Webinar Date: April 10, 2013
Abstract
This paper has presented our interest in wireless human graphical interfacial system along with proper tools for learning. Considering the present scenario in learning system, in our proposed project, we aim at developing a system mainly focusing on two main aspects: 1. a way in which e-slate would provide an effective learning tool for such rural and government aided schools at a primary teaching level and 2. Also prove helpful in cases where it is difficult for a teacher to teach a particular subject or make understanding easier along with giving the teacher a freedom of remotely teaching as well as communicating with a larger group of students in rural places where there is shortage of able teachers.
Keywords – e-slate, wireless RF communication- RF transmitter/receiver, ATMEGA controller, touchscreen, Smart algorithm recognition.
Teaching Programming to Non-Programmers at Undergraduate LevelDr. Amarjeet Singh
This paper focuses on solving the problems faced by
non-IT (Information Technology) background students at
undergraduate level in learning programming language who
are at the same time non-native English language speakers. In
this regard a step by step methodology has been proposed
here which try to take into account the difficulties faced by
this particular niche of programmers and counteract them
with possible solutions. Following this approach may help
lower the problems faced by the non-IT background students
to some extent and fulfill their aim in being professional or
conversational or end- user programmers according to their
career choices.
The ever increasing explosion of highly attractive multimedia resources (electronic gadgets) on offer has boosted the use of information and communication technology (ICT) almost all fields of life, including in education.
SECURED FRAMEWORK FOR PERVASIVE HEALTHCARE MONITORING SYSTEMS ijscai
Pervasive Healthcare Monitoring System (PHMS)’ is one of the important pervasive computing
applications aimed at providing healthcare services to all the people through mobile communication
devices. Pervasive computing devices are resource constrained devices such as battery power, memory,
processing power and bandwidth. In pervasive environment data privacy is a key issue. In this
application a secured frame work is developed for receiving the patient’s medical data periodically,
updates automatically in Patient Record Database and generates a Checkup Reminder. In the present
work a light weight asymmetric algorithm proposed by the authors [26] is used for encrypting the data to
ensure data confidentiality for its users. Challenge response onetime password mechanism is applied for
authentication process
OrganicDataNetwork Comprehensiveness & Compatibility of different organic mar...Raffaele Zanoli
The presentation is an abridged compilation of the following OrganicDataNetwork publications:
Feldmann, C. and Hamm, U. (2013). Executive summary report on the comprehensiveness and compatibility of organic market data collection methods. University of Kassel, Witzenhausen (D3.2) available at http://orgprints.org/23011/.
Feldmann, C. and Hamm, U. (2013). Report on collection methods: Classification of data collection methods University of Kassel, Witzenhausen (D3.1) available at http://orgprints.org/23010/.
From the CALPER/LARC Testing and Assessment Webinar Series
Download the handouts and ppt: https://larc.sdsu.edu/archived-events/
View the recording: http://vimeo.com/63784749
Presentation Description:
While the use technology in language teaching classrooms has become increasingly more common, fewer teachers are comfortable using technology as they assess leaner progress. In this webinar on assessing language using computer technology, I will outline ways in which technology can be used to help inform the assessment of language learners.
Webinar Date: April 10, 2013
Abstract
This paper has presented our interest in wireless human graphical interfacial system along with proper tools for learning. Considering the present scenario in learning system, in our proposed project, we aim at developing a system mainly focusing on two main aspects: 1. a way in which e-slate would provide an effective learning tool for such rural and government aided schools at a primary teaching level and 2. Also prove helpful in cases where it is difficult for a teacher to teach a particular subject or make understanding easier along with giving the teacher a freedom of remotely teaching as well as communicating with a larger group of students in rural places where there is shortage of able teachers.
Keywords – e-slate, wireless RF communication- RF transmitter/receiver, ATMEGA controller, touchscreen, Smart algorithm recognition.
Teaching Programming to Non-Programmers at Undergraduate LevelDr. Amarjeet Singh
This paper focuses on solving the problems faced by
non-IT (Information Technology) background students at
undergraduate level in learning programming language who
are at the same time non-native English language speakers. In
this regard a step by step methodology has been proposed
here which try to take into account the difficulties faced by
this particular niche of programmers and counteract them
with possible solutions. Following this approach may help
lower the problems faced by the non-IT background students
to some extent and fulfill their aim in being professional or
conversational or end- user programmers according to their
career choices.
The ever increasing explosion of highly attractive multimedia resources (electronic gadgets) on offer has boosted the use of information and communication technology (ICT) almost all fields of life, including in education.
SECURED FRAMEWORK FOR PERVASIVE HEALTHCARE MONITORING SYSTEMS ijscai
Pervasive Healthcare Monitoring System (PHMS)’ is one of the important pervasive computing
applications aimed at providing healthcare services to all the people through mobile communication
devices. Pervasive computing devices are resource constrained devices such as battery power, memory,
processing power and bandwidth. In pervasive environment data privacy is a key issue. In this
application a secured frame work is developed for receiving the patient’s medical data periodically,
updates automatically in Patient Record Database and generates a Checkup Reminder. In the present
work a light weight asymmetric algorithm proposed by the authors [26] is used for encrypting the data to
ensure data confidentiality for its users. Challenge response onetime password mechanism is applied for
authentication process
OrganicDataNetwork Comprehensiveness & Compatibility of different organic mar...Raffaele Zanoli
The presentation is an abridged compilation of the following OrganicDataNetwork publications:
Feldmann, C. and Hamm, U. (2013). Executive summary report on the comprehensiveness and compatibility of organic market data collection methods. University of Kassel, Witzenhausen (D3.2) available at http://orgprints.org/23011/.
Feldmann, C. and Hamm, U. (2013). Report on collection methods: Classification of data collection methods University of Kassel, Witzenhausen (D3.1) available at http://orgprints.org/23010/.
T OWARDS A S YSTEM D YNAMICS M ODELING M E- THOD B ASED ON DEMATELijcsit
If System Dynamics (SD) models are constructed based
solely on decision makers' mental models and u
n-
derstanding of the context subject to study, then the resulting systems must necessarily bear some d
e
gree of
deficiency due to the subjective, limited, and internally inconsistent mental models which led to t
he conce
p-
tion of these systems. As such, a systematic method for constructing SD models could be esse
n
tially helpful
in overcoming the biases dictated by the human mind's limited understanding and conceptualization of
complex systems. This paper proposes a
novel combined method to su
p
port SD model construction. The
classical Dec
i
sion Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) technique is used to define causal
relationships among variables of a system, and to construct the corresponding Impact Relatio
n Maps
(IRMs). The novelty of this paper stems from the use of the resulting total influence m
a
trix to derive the
system dynamic's Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) and then define variable weights in the stock
-
flow chart
equations. This new method allows to overc
ome the subjectivity bias of SD
mode
ling while projecting D
E-
MATEL in a more d
y
namic simulation environment, which could significantly improve the strategic choices
made by an
a
lysts and policy makers
Fulfillment request management (the approach)ijcsit
In this paper we introduce the term FRM (Fulfillment Request Management). According to the FRM in a
BSS / OSS environment we can use a unified approach to implement a SOA in order to integrate BSS with
OSS and handle 1. Orders 2. Events 3. Processes. So in a way that systems like ESB, Order Management,
and Business Process Management can be implemented under a unified architecture and a unified
implementation. We assume that all the above mentioned are 'requests' and according to the system we
want to implement, the request can be an event, an order, a process etc. So instead of having N systems we
have 1 system that covers all the above (ESB, Order Management, BPM etc) With the FRM we can have
certain advantages such as: 1. adaptation 2. Interoperability. 3. Re-usability 4. Fast implementation 5.
Easy reporting. In this paper we present a set of the main principles in order to build an FRM System.
Analysis of key considerations of the public when choosing recreational activ...ijcsit
This study aims to investigate the key considerations of the public when choosing recreational activities, and concludes the key factors to be considered when choosing recreational activities, as well as the influence of various factors by means of literature review, expert interview, questionnaire survey, and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). Through analysis, this study identified 12 influential factors for selecting recreational activities, among which the most important 6 influential factors are improving physical ability, body building, pressure relief, traffic convenience, cost, and comfort of exercise environment, at 77.6%.
SYMMETRICAL WEIGHTED SUBSPACE HOLISTIC APPROACH FOR EXPRESSION RECOGNITIONijcsit
Human face expression is one of the cognitive activity or attribute to deliver the opinions to others.This paper mainly delivers the performance of appearance based holistic approach subspace methods based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA). In this work texture features are extracted from face images using Gabor filter. It was observed that extracted texture feature vector space has higher dimensional and has
more number of redundant contents. Hence training, testing and classification time becomes more. The expression recognition accuracy rate is also reduced. To overcome this problem Symmetrical Weighted 2DPCA (SW2DPCA) subspace method is introduced. Extracted feature vector space is projected in to subspace by using SW2DPCA method. By implementing weighted principles on odd and even symmetrical
decomposition space of training samples sets proposed method have been formed. Conventional PCA and 2DPCA method yields less recognition rate due to larger variations in expressions and light due to more number of feature space redundant variants. Proposed SW2DPCA method optimizes this problem by reducing redundant contents and discarding unequal variants. In this work a well known JAFFE databases
is used for experiments and tested with proposed SW2DPCA algorithm. From the experimental results it was found that facial recognition accuracy rate of GF+SW2DPCA based feature fusion subspace method has been increased to 95.24% compared to 2DPCA method.
INTEGRATIONS OF ICT IN EDUCATION SECTOR FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE DEVELOPING...ijcsit
Bangladesh is a developing country with the literacy rate of 62.5%. Challenges in education sector are huge. There is no doubt that IT is going to bring about a tremendous change in education. The use of ICT in education was more student-centred learning. Because of the world moving rapidly into digital media and information, the role of ICT in education is becoming more and more important. In developing countries like Bangladesh, The implementation of ICT in education sector is a greatest challenge. In this paper, challenges are discussed and some recommendations are provided. The development of Bangladesh through the implementation of ICT in education also discussed here.
In economical societies of today, using cash is an inseparable aspect of human’s life. People use cash for
marketing, services, entertainments, bank operations and so on. This huge amount of contact with cash and
the necessity of knowing the monetary value of it caused one of the most challenging problems for visually
impaired people. In this paper we propose a mobile phone based approach to identify monetary value of a
picture taken from a banknote using some image processing and machine vision techniques. While the
developed approach is very fast, it can recognize the value of the banknote by an average accuracy rate of
about 97% and can overcome different challenges like rotation, scaling, collision, illumination changes,
perspective, and some others.
In a Power plant with a Distributed Control System ( DCS ), process parameters are continuously stored in
databases at discrete intervals. The data contained in these databases may not appear to contain valuable
relational information but practically such a relation exists. The large number of process parameter values
are changing with time in a Power Plant. These parameters are part of rules framed by domain experts for
the expert system. With the changes in parameters there is a quite high possibility to form new rules using
the dynamics of the process itself. We present an efficient algorithm that generates all significant rules
based on the real data. The association based algorithms were compared and the best suited algorithm for
this process application was selected. The application for the Learning system is studied in a Power Plant
domain. The SCADA interface was developed to acquire online plant data.
Evaluation of image segmentation and filtering with ann in the papaya leafijcsit
Precision agriculture is area with lack of cheap technology. The refinement of the production system brings
large advantages to the producer and the use of images makes the monitoring a more cheap methodology.
Macronutrients monitoring can to determine the health and vulnerability of the plant in specific stages. In
this paper is analyzed the method based on computational intelligence to work with image segmentation in
the identification of symptoms of plant nutrient deficiency. Artificial neural networks are evaluated for
image segmentation and filtering, several variations of parameters and insertion impulsive noise were
evaluated too. Satisfactory results are achieved with artificial neural for segmentation same with high
noise levels.
P REPROCESSING FOR PPM: COMPRESSING UTF - 8 ENCODED NATURAL LANG UAGE TEXTijcsit
In this paper,
several new universal preprocessing techniques
are described
to improve Prediction by
Partial Matching (PPM) compression of UTF
-
8 encoded natural language text. These methods essentially
adjust the alphabet in some manner (for exampl
e, by expanding or reducing it) prior to the compression
algorithm then being applied to the amended text.
Firstly,
a simple bigraphs (two
-
byte) substitution
technique
is described
that leads to significant improvement in compression for many languages whe
n they
are encoded by the Unicode scheme (25% for Arabic text, 14% for Armenian,
9% for Persian, 15% for
Russian, 1% for Chinese text, and over 5% for both English and Welsh text)
.
Secondly,
a new
preprocessing technique t
hat outputs separate vocabulary
an
d symbols streams
–
that are subsequently
encoded separately
–
is also investigated
. This also leads to significant improvement in compression for
many languages (24% for Arabic text, 30% for Armenian, 32% for Persian and 35% for Russian). Finally
,
novel p
reprocessing and postprocessing techniques for lossy and lossless text compression of Arabic text
are described for dotted and non
-
dotted forms of the language
Current multi-document summarization systems can successfully extract summary sentences, however with
many limitations including: low coverage, inaccurate extraction to important sentences, redundancy and
poor coherence among the selected sentences. The present study introduces a new concept of centroid
approach and reports new techniques for extracting summary sentences for multi-document. In both
techniques keyphrases are used to weigh sentences and documents. The first summarization technique
(Sen-Rich) prefers maximum richness sentences. While the second (Doc-Rich), prefers sentences from
centroid document. To demonstrate the new summarization system application to extract summaries of
Arabic documents we performed two experiments. First, we applied Rouge measure to compare the new
techniques among systems presented at TAC2011. The results show that Sen-Rich outperformed all systems
in ROUGE-S. Second, the system was applied to summarize multi-topic documents. Using human
evaluators, the results show that Doc-Rich is the superior, where summary sentences characterized by
extra coverage and more cohesion
Change management and version control of Scientific Applicationsijcsit
The development process of scientific applications is largely dependent on scientific progress and the
experimental research results. Thus, dealing with frequent changes is one of the main problems faced by
the developers of scientific software. Taking into account the results of the survey conducted among
scientists in the HP-SEE project, the implementation of change management and version control software
processes is inevitable. In this paper, we propose software engineering principles that should be included
in the development process to improve the version control and change management. Moreover, we give
some specific recommendations for their implementation, thereby making a slight modification of already
generally accepted templates and methods. The development steps practiced by scientists should not be
replaced completely, but they need to be supplemented with appropriate practices, documents and formal
methods. We also emphasize the reasons for the inclusion of these two processes and the consequences that
may arise as a result of their non-application.
A N E XTENSION OF P ROTÉGÉ FOR AN AUTOMA TIC F UZZY - O NTOLOGY BUILDING U...ijcsit
The process of building ontology is a very
complex and time
-
consuming process
especially when dealing
with huge amount of data. Unfortunately current
marketed
tools are very limited and don’t meet
all
user
needs.
Indeed, t
hese software build the core of the ontology from initial data that generates
a
big number of
information.
In this paper, we
aim to resolve these problems
by adding an extension to the well known
ontology editor Protégé in order to work towards a complete
FCA
-
based framework
which resolves the
limitation of other tools in
building fuzzy
-
ontology
.
W
e will give
, in this paper
, some
details on
our
sem
i
-
automat
ic collaborative tool
called FOD Tab Plug
-
in
which
takes into consideration another degree of
granularity in the process of generation
.
In fact, i
t follows a bottom
-
up strategy based on conceptual
clustering, fuzzy logic and Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) a
nd it defines ontology between classes
resulting from a preliminary classification of data and not from the initial large amount of data
.
E-Learning Student Assistance Model for the First Computer Programming CourseIJITE
E-Learning applied to computer programming course design is a promising area of research. The student having clear understanding of the programming constructs can apply it to solve various problems. Because of limited time and availability, the instructor can go back to some extent to cover the weaknesses of their students that hinder the understanding of the problems. As more lessons are covered, the weak students become weaker in programming. To cope up with these problems an e-learning system is devised which the student can use anywhere and at any time as a web application. It comprises of both tutoring and assessment and also provides guiding the students to error correction using back-tracking technique to refine the concepts and reattempt the programming problem.
E-LEARNING STUDENT ASSISTANCE MODEL FOR THE FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAMMING COURSE IJITE
E-Learning applied to computer programming course design is a promising area of research. The student
having clear understanding of the programming constructs can apply it to solve various problems. Because
of limited time and availability, the instructor can go back to some extent to cover the weaknesses of their
students that hinder the understanding of the problems. As more lessons are covered, the weak students
become weaker in programming. To cope up with these problems an e-learning system is devised which the
student can use anywhere and at any time as a web application. It comprises of both tutoring and
assessment and also provides guiding the students to error correction using back-tracking technique to
refine the concepts and reattempt the programming problem
21st Century School Presentation - Acorn High SchoolLisa Nielsen
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E-Learning: Education for Everyone? Special Requirements on Learners in Inter...Richter Thomas
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The paradigm shift from traditional learning to digital learning in mathematics Dr. C.V. Suresh Babu
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Language Oriented Approach of Teaching Programming SkillsIJCI JOURNAL
Owing to the lost of real meaning after translated English textbook into Chinese, the author carries on using English textbook for the software programming teaching. This paper introduce the author’s practice focus on the native language of technology inventor.The teaching reform detail include selecting textbook from all language version, giving lessons in inventor’s native language, concentrating the content based on the predecessor courses, demonstrating occupational operating environment in experimental scenes, and so on. After four years practices, the renovation have achieved good effective and efficiency. With causality analysis and induction method the author proposed a new issue of Language Oriented Approach of Teaching.
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Authoring system of drill & practice elearning modules for hearing impaired students
1. International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology (IJCSIT) Vol 7, No 1, February 2015
DOI:10.5121/ijcsit.2015.7113 131
AUTHORING SYSTEM OF DRILL & PRACTICE E-
LEARNING MODULES FOR HEARING IMPAIRED
STUDENTS
Dr. Karim Q Hussein
Computer Science Dept./ Faculty of Science / Mustansiriyah University /Baghdad , Iraq
ABSTRACT
Hearing Impaired (HI) persons need to keep on practicing and repeating their lessons as well as their
exercises. Teaching methodology of HI students differ than normal students. HI students need to be
involved in practicing more and more using their modes of visual communication like sign language to
cover their audio disability. Teaching methodology of HI students recommends demonstration and
repeating with slow presentations of instructional material. A teacher displays his lesson directly face to
face without visual noise. More reinforcement and encouragement to HI students , fun & enjoyment should
be strongly included in the e-lessons as well as continuous interaction between teacher and HI students. As
per previous factors the decision of researchers is to develop Drill & Practice (D&P) e-learning
modules(eLMs) for selected topics like Mathematics. D&P eLMs of Mathematics for HI persons would be
the case study of this research including Developing & Evaluating.
The authors selected D&P eLMs Because eLMs match the requirements and mechanism of teaching
methodology for HI students.
The mechanism of developing eLMs is represented by Developing an Authoring System which allows
teachers of HI persons to generate any eLM of any selected topic for HI students. Also they can generate
multiple eLMs in the project.
The evaluating producer & tools for the experimental eLMs were view points of Experts through open
Questionnaire to list their evaluating comments. Besides view points of experts. There are experiments
which were held in real environment of HI students to test the eLMs of D&P of Mathematics to get
valuable feedback from them.
KEYWORDS
eLMs : e-Learning Modules, HI: Hearing Impaired, D&P: Drill & Practice.
1. OBJECTIVE OF RESEARCH
This research aims at :
i) Developing an Authoring System which allows teachers of HI students to generate their
required eLMs of D&P lessons on desired topics for HI students. However, the generated eLMs
should be enhanced with effective multimedia technique to translate all the entry material of the
teacher into sign language video clips and finger spelling pictures.
ii) Applying this Authoring System to develop an experimental eLMs of D&P lessons for
Mathematics (Mathematics 2nd Standard Indian Schools).
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iii) Trying / Showing the experimental eLMs of D&P lessons to Experts and teachers of HI
students to obtain the needful feedback from them. Also some of HI students have tried these
eLMs, another valuable feedback would obtained.
The authors applied the eLMs in real HI school to evaluate the system.
2. DEVELOPMENT OF ELMS OF D&P LESSONS
Purpose : practicing and enhancement of skills of the learning mind, particularly to grasp the
information by solving different exercises ( e. g. Mathematics )
The main goal of Drill & Practice is to solve and practice more exercises of the concern topic.
Steps
Introduction (D & P) session select item ( Q & A ) Score/evaluationClosing
Feedback.
Drill and Practice method is suitable for solving problems and exercises for subjects like
mathematics , statistic , physics , etc.
Our Authoring System offers six exercises for the teacher. Each exercise should be presented by
a question(the exercise) and three multiple choices for answering , one is correct answer others
are incorrect. The teacher may enters the question with multiple choice as required by the Author
system,
Also the teacher must enter the positive reinforcement for the correct answer and suitable
feedback for each incorrect answer , even feedback of incorrect answer should not scold student
but encourage him to try again with funny message as friendly feedback from computer to
student. Particularly standard level primary school students. For HI students standard level
primary school it should more importance for eLMs so as to be friendly learning tools.
Q) How many D&P eLMs could be developed via the Authoring system?
Our Authoring system allows the instructor to generate his required number of D&P eLMs in the
computer. But as experimental research work twenty D&P eLMs could be generated via the
Authoring system.
The following diagram represents the general integrated diagram for drill practice eLMs.
The following diagram represents the general integrated diagram for drill practice e-learning
module.
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Fig .1: Diagram of Drill & Practice Method
Drill and Practice method is suitable for solving problems and exercises like Mathematics,
Statistic, Physics, etc.
3. DIAGRAM OF AUTHORING SYSTEM OF THE RESEARCH
The Authoring System includes two projects, teacher project and student project. Both projects
present an empty template. Teacher enters his exercises with required feedback and
reinforcement. Student project will receive entry material of teacher in corresponding empty
templates.
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Figure.2: Block Diagram of the Authoring System Which Generates the desired eLMs of D&P for HI
students
4. LIMITATIONS AND TOOLS
1- Modes of communications with HI person
a- Sign language (Indian Sign language Standard Dictionary).
b- Finger Spelling (ASL – American Standard Language).
2- Software and Multimedia
Around 3000 mpg video files have been linked with the system (we based on Indian Sign
Language Dictionary) .
In the next section real Run-Out forms of eLMs of D&P of Mathematics would be presented as
case study of the Authoring System. The generated D&P eLM includes 8 multiple choices
exercises. The authors would present the 1st, 2nd and 3rd screen of teacher project and the
corresponding screens of student project.
5. SAMPLES OF REAL RUN-OUT FORMS
The forms shown below represent an experimental eLM for HI students (Mathematics 2nd
standard, Indian Schools.
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Enter
Exercise 1
Enter 3
multiple
choices for
the question
display of
finger
spelling
display of
sign
language
clips
Figure.3: Form of exercise1 and multiple-choices in Teacher Project & the
corresponding Form in student project
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6. APPLYING AND EVALUATING THE GENERATED D&P ELMS
After completing the system the authors selected Mathematics as case study. To evaluate the
applied D&P eLMs of Mathematics, the decision is show/try these experimental eLMs to Experts
and Teachers of HI persons then obtain the valuable feedback from them. Three different eLMs
have been tried and they were successfully developed (as shown in previous pictures). Many
selected experts and teachers of HI students have tried/practiced the experimental D&P eLMs.
Incorrect
choice 1
Enter
feedback for
incorrect
choice
Incorrect choice1 has been selected
display of
sign
language
clips
display of
finger
spelling
feedback of incorrect choice 1
Figure.4: Form of incorrect choices and reasons of mistake in Teacher Project & the
Corresponding Form in student project
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6. CONCLUSIONS
1. The System supports the teacher to introduce the D&P eLMs for several topics to be displayed
in one list on screen. The teacher needs simple basic skills of suing computer also he needs not
for experience in sign language or finger spelling. The teacher is asked to submit his exercises
and keys of questions only.
2. Reinforcement is the key of learning. Such visual reinforcement is displayed with fun &
enjoyment in our system. Also feedback of incorrect answer leads to friendly learning tool to HI
learner.
3. HI learner takes the central role in the teaching / learning process via eLMs, as computer
provides continuous interaction between HI learner and computer.
4. Authoring System provides individualization in teaching / learning process. It accommodates
diversity through universal design.
5. The System translates the input word into sign language if the word is present in the
vocabulary and displays as sign language video clip. If it is not present, it would be displayed as
finger spelling letter by letter through sequential clip.
6. This system is a valuable for HI students who learn English language. Therefore to develop
modified system which can process any desired language of teacher is a great challenge step
forward supporting HI persons round the world.
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Author
Dr. Karim Q Hussein
Academic Certificates :
Ph.D. in Computer Science.
Faculty of Computer Studies / Symbiosis International University / India /2008
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Experience :
July.2012 till now : Head of Information Technology branch – Department of Computer Science – Faculty
of Science – Mustansiriyah University – Baghdad-Iraq, Teaching Postgraduate as well as Undergraduate. I
am guiding many M.Sc. researches in the field of interest.
Sep.2008 till July.2012 : Assistant Professor – Department of Multimedia System – Faculty of Information
Technology – Al-Isra University – Amman-Jordan
I have 30 years of experiences in the academic work in Iraq , Libya and Jordan My promotion to Assistant
professor is under process.
The Publishing Researches :
There are 29 papers have been published or accepted for publishing in many several international journals
( USA , U.K , Europe Union , Korea ,India and others) and conferences .
Books: (One Chapter)
Karim .Q Hussein , Learning-Oriented Technologies, Devices and Networks, Chapter 13: pages 259-273
Evaluating System for E-Learning Modules for Hearing Impaired Students (Technical Criteria in
Review) .
Published by Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 978-3-8433-9000-2
Publication Year: 2011, EUROPE
Research Interests and Teaching Subjects
Mainly e-learning particularly Multimedia and e-learning for handicapped persons ( Deaf & Blind ). Also
2D Animation (Director & Flash), 3D Animation using (MAYA), Instructional Computer Applications ,
Generic software and Authoring Systems , besides other computer science subjects ( Visual Programming ,
OOP , Algorithms , Data Structures , Operation Research , Internet programming , System Software
,Numerical Analysis Applications ,etc.)
Software Skills: Mainly Multimedia S/W interest : MAYA , Director , Flash , C++ , Java , Visual Basic ,
Premiere Pro, php , Dreamweaver , HTML, ASP.net ,etc.
