The World Wide Web (WWW) is an increasingly important source of educational material. However, only scant research has been directed towards making this educational information accessible to the deaf. Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) is an area of research that aims to enhance the functionality of hypermedia systems, such as the WWW, by enabling users to personalise their interaction with the digital c...

This paper describes a system to teach programming on an interactive electronic whiteboard that combines the merits of classroom lectures using a black/white board and those of computer processing. Using this system, a teacher can write a program on the board, explain it, make the system recognize it and run the program in front of the class while keeping the attention of the students focused o...

In this paper, the development of an electronic simulator named Mo-Phong-Doi-Tuong (MPDT) is presented. This newly developed MPDT simulator can simulate, in real-time, nonlinear processes (for instance, inverted pendulums, acrobots, autonomous vehicles, coupled liquid-level systems, and others) as well as linear processes. Besides, the developed MPDT has a 3D motion animation mode and allows us...

Two-year college teachers face great difficulty when they teach the principle of operation of the bipolar junction transistor – a subject which forms the basis for electronics studies. The difficulty arises from both the complexity of the device and by the lack of adequate scientific background among the students. We, therefore, developed a unique learning unit based on computer animation that ...

JCDA • www.cda-adc.ca/jcda • December 2008/January 2009, Vol. 74, No. 10 • The publication in 1995 of the Institute of Medicine’s report on the state of dental education, Dental Education at the Crossroads, spelled out what dental leaders already knew — that wholesale curriculum changes were needed to modernize the teaching of dentistry. One suggested solution for curriculum renewal was the ado...

Electronic portfolios have been created by students ranging from elementary to post secondary, and by professionals in divergent fields ranging from art to business. The specific intentions of the portfolios are equally disparate, including showcases of accomplishment, competency, and self-reflection. For students in the teacher education programs advocating electronic portfolios, the initial d...

In response to calls for ‘Innovation in Higher Education’ from the Flemish Community in Belgium, an innovative course ‘ILO’ is being developed as an alternative approach to traditional introductory statistics courses. It is a cooperative project of the universities of Gent, Leuven and Brussel. The innovative course is characterized by: independent learning, adaptation of the delivered materials...

Nowadays, reconfigurable systems, in general, and FPGA (field-programmable gate array) based devices, in particular, constitute an essential part of engineering practice. The paper argues the importance of reconfigurable systems in engineering and especially in education and proposes effective learning and design methods and tools, which include laboratory templates, animated tutorials, problem...

In Finnish universities and polytechnics students and staff members have access to several information systems and services requiring user authentication. Traditionally authentication is based on username-passwords pairs. In the information systems the passwords or alternatively, some one-way hash values deriving from them are stored in a user database. When the user is to be authenticated to t...