Despite the rapid use of e-Learning in higher education, the beliefs of instructors about and their practices during online instruction have been seldom addressed. This study explores the role perceptions of e-instructors in higher education. In total, 106 instructors from 20 Taiwanese universities filled out a questionnaire. Analytical results indicate that “content expertise” and “instruction...

BACKGROUND This randomized, single-blinded, controlled study compares the effectiveness of two modes of delivering the same set of oral hygiene instructions: those loaded on a computer-assisted teaching format versus those given personally by a self-care instructor. METHODS 60 participants with mild to moderate periodontitis were randomized to either the computer-teaching format or the self-c...

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses are currently well-established university programs. These courses are run independently by English Language Teaching (ELT) instructors and content instructors without any collaboration. However, ELT instructors and content instructors do not receive the same level of collegiality and social support from the organizations and students. This paper probe...

Students’ emotions and attitudes are discernible in messages posted to online question and answer boards. Understanding student sentiment may help instructors identify students with low confidence or high frustration, optimize help-seeking, and potentially improve performance. Towards this end, we present a set emotion speech acts that were used by students in a university-level computer scienc...

This report is an overview of computer-based training (CBT) hardware, software, and instructional design. It will assist aviation maintenance training and FAA inspection personnel in making informed decisions about CBT. A central part of this report is the description of a process for analyzing the instructional requirements for a specific task and then selecting a CBT program or designing and ...

In recent years Mashups are increasingly found in the eLearning field to offer instructors the opportunity of linking students to multiple sources of information as well as offering students the ability of accessing learning tools and services in an easy manner. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of our Mashup web application that offer the SimpleScalar simulator as an eLea...

For E-learning such as web based teaching (WBT), in order to reduce the cost of making questions, a computer system that generates questions and answers is desirable. However, such a system does not always generate them correctly. As a result, human instructors have to check the generated questions and remove the errors. In this paper, we propose a technique for removing errors in the generated...

The aim of this work is to bring together the traditional way of teaching and work using a computer-supported environment. This means increasing the flexibility of the learning processes application, giving the chance to instructors to introduce variations on runtime. Besides, learning processes are refined through their use, by making permanent the modifications which have shown to improve the...

Project DoCTA focuses on understanding interaction in a set of collaborative telelearning scenarios aimed at teacher training. Rooted in a sociocultural perspective, two scenarios were studied from thirteen views including ethnographic flavoured studies focused on understanding work organisation, usability studies of groupware systems, evaluations of computer logs, and questionnaire studies. Th...