Weblogs are a popular form of easy-to-use personal publishing that has attracted millions of bloggers to share their personal thoughts, opinions, and knowledge on the web. The versatility of weblogs as a communication medium has attracted interests from educators. Educational applications of weblogs have so far included journals, e-portfolio, learning diaries, and logbooks. As in the case of ot...

The diversity of datasets published according to Linked Data (LD) principles has increased in the last few years and also led to the emergence of a wide range of data suitable in educational settings. However, sufficient insights into the state, coverage and scope of available educational Linked Data seem to be missing, for instance, about represented resource types or domains and topics. In th...

Rapid growth in mobile computing has given rise to a dramatic evolution in communication tools that have the potential to transform the educational experience. Because of the complexities of mathematical communication, however, progress towards the realization of that potential has been particularly slow in the mathematical sciences. We are addressing this by developing iCE (interface for Colla...

This paper discusses an education-centric approach towards ambient intelligence in the classroom, raising fundamental requirements that should be taken into consideration, in order to efficiently provide genuine students’ education enhancement. These requirements are addressed by an integrated architecture for pervasive computing environments, named ClassMATE, which facilitates all necessary me...

This report describes research into gender and educational background and its relationship with computer self-efficacy and perceptions of Computer Science amongst university students and school students in South Africa. It is important to understand these issues in the specific cultural and economic environment of South Africa. The main focus of this report is on self-efficacy which is defined ...

The emergence of tablet devices, cloud computing, and abundant online multimedia content presents new opportunities to transform traditional paper-based textbooks into tablet-based electronic textbooks. Towards this goal, techniques have been proposed to automatically augment textbook sections with relevant web content such as online educational videos. However, a highly relevant video can be c...

Many have had high expectations for the impact of computer-based technology on educational practice. By and large, these expectations have not been realised. It has become evident that innovative technology alone does not necessarily guarantee progress nor perhaps even significant change in educational practice. This has led educational researchers to place greater emphasis on cultural issues t...

Design sketching is an important and versatile skill for engineering students to master. Through it, students translate their design thoughts effectively onto a visual medium, whether to produce hand-drawn sketches onto paper, seamlessly interact with intelligent sketch-based modeling interfaces, or reap the advantages of educational benefits associated with drawing in general. Traditional inst...

Parallel computing is a topic of interest for a broad scientific community since it facilitates many time-consuming algorithms in different application domains.In this paper, we introduce a novel platform for parallel computing by using MPI and OpenMP programming languages based on set of networked PCs. UMZHPC is a free Linux-based parallel computing infrastructure that has been developed to cr...