Although perceived as a means of bringing people together, the online environment can also create isolation. Technology alone does not create a community of learning, and a learning community with critical discourse does not just happen. Rather, online, formalized learning carried out remotely using computer-mediated technology relies on good instructional design, a learning management system s...

This study was conducted to estimate agreement and explain differences between treatment decisions and associated fees recommended by dentists and by a computer-based decision-support program (TxDENT 2.0). The treatment fees associated with forty-eight clinical records of patients attending a dental school clinic provided a measure of correlation and agreement between treatments recommended by ...

Pair programming has been shown to be an effective method of improving the learning outcomes of students in introductory computer science courses. However, much of the existing literature related to pair programming does not focus how to effectively implement pair programming. Researchers studying multiple aspects of pair programming have conducted several empirical studies at our university ov...

The Intelligent Essay Assessor is commercial software that grades essays as accurately as skilled human graders. It was used to critique senior officers’ papers in both the Army’s and Air Force’s Command and General Staff Colleges. The Army Research Institute has supported development of this software, which understands the meaning of written essays. Automatic essay scoring is well-suited to di...

With the progress of research on cluster computing, more and more universities have begun to offer various courses covering cluster computing. A wide variety of content can be taught in these courses. Because of this, a difficulty that arises is the selection of appropriate course material. The selection is complicated by the fact that some content in cluster computing is also covered by other ...

Some individuals (instructors) taught a card trick to two other individuals (pupils). Prior to teaching the card trick, instructors acquired a theory about the nature of ability. Some instructors learned that ability is produced by factors extrinsic to the pupil, such as thorough instruction (extrinsic theory); others learned that ability emerges spontaneously from the natural development of pu...

This study aims to investigate if learners of English can improve computer-assisted writing skills through the analysis of the data from the post test. In this study, the focus was given to intermediate-level students of English taking final writing tests (integrated and independent responses) in preparation for TOEFL iBT. We manually scored and categorized the students’ writing responses into ...

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are widespread in higher education today, typically used to deliver instructional materials and facilitate communication within a course. This study aimed to investigate the tasktechnology fit of VLEs for their two main groups of users: instructors and students, using the VLE WebCT. Tasktechnology fit, user satisfaction, attitude towards use and anticipated ...

It is a serious problem that universities worldwide, especially in the middle east, have high rate of failure programming courses. To overcome this issue which could probably be due to students’ lack engagement, motivation and problem-solving skills, Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) can an effective tool for enhancing student learning. Despite its effectiveness, no prior research has been cond...

This paper discusses the critical need for instructors to bring aspects of computing forensics into Information Technology courses and posits that we make computer forensics a course—or a major portion of a course—offered under the auspices of IT security across all IT-related disciplines, but especially those with a business orientation. To facilitate computer forensics implementation in IT co...