This paper deals with the issue of the accessibility of multimedia educational software. The problem is tackled from the viewpoint of standards, that is of the rules to be adopted at institutional level in order to guarantee access to educational software to all students, including those with special needs. The key question to be answered is if regulations in force for ICT tools also fully cove...

We have developed an English pronunciation learning system which estimates the intelligibility of students’ speech and ranks their errors from the viewpoint of improving their intelligibility. We have begun using this system in a CALL class at Kyoto University. We have evaluated system performance through the use of questionnaires and analysis of speech data logged in the server, and will prese...

We propose a web-based training system and courseware for advanced computer graphics for undergraduate students. By using the system, the students have no temporal and spatial limitations for learning computer graphics technologies. Once they can connect to the Internet, they can study for as much time as they wish and in any place. We have designed more than 50 Java applets from the educationa...

Teachers are builders of society and students of today will definitely determine our tomorrow. The teachers perform the roles of a teacher, manager, administrator, and researcher. As such their viewpoints are pivotal and vital for planning and executing the curricula in medical schools and universities. Many studies have been conducted to determine the student viewpoints on the teaching innovat...

The role-reversal learning approach is a powerful pedagogy that helps students develop higher-order thinking skills by gaining understanding of an opposing viewpoint. However, the use of this in the classroom has previously encountered several obstacles. New technologies provide innovative and situated learning methods that are able to overcome these obstacles. In this study, we developed a tec...

background and purpose: the aim of this research is to determine the factors contributing to academic attrition among day – course students of lorestan university of medical sciences. methods: in this case – control study all the day – course students who had at least one semester of an average mark under 12 in academic year 2000-2001 were chosen and then the same number of students with an ave...

Computation of good viewpoints is important in several fields: computational geometry, visual servoing, robot motion, graph drawing, etc. In addition, selection of good views is rapidly becoming a key issue in computer graphics due to the new techniques of Image Based Rendering. Although there is no consensus about what a good view means in Computer Graphics, the quality of a viewpoint is intui...

When students select a university, one of the important parameters is the average class size. This average is usually estimated as an arithmetic average of all the class sizes. However, it has been recently shown that to more adequately describe students’ perception of a class size, it makes more sense to average not over classes, but over all students – which leads to a different characteristi...

The nature of vocational education needs has changed. In authentic vocational classroom contexts, there is a rising need to develop new ways to integrate ongoing and overlapping processes of students’ personal learning environments and collaborative knowledge construction. However, there is currently very little knowledge about how teachers integrate these two approaches in arranging learning. ...