Journal of Information Technology and Application in Education

125-131

Authors: Ana M. Fermoso García, Alberto Pedrero Esteban

There are many educational resources on the Internet. Learning objects are conceived as a way of resusing these resources. The Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a common model for learning objects that makes the reuse of educational contents among different systems. The objective of this paper was to show how it is possible to view and access from a mobile device educational content formatted as a learning object and packaged under the SCORM model. This is very useful in mobile learning (m-learning), where it is common that the materials created are very specific to a particular learning environment and unable to be reused in other platforms compared to those for which they were created. The application created for this purpose, named SCORMmobile, has been used at present in real environments by several e-learning businesses.

143-149

Authors: Whei-Jane Wei, Lai-Chung Lee

This paper presents an experimental study on young children’s off-task behaviors with and without the designed system called e-PAYA (PA for pat, YA for yell) which comprises learning devices, a sensory input device, a wireless local network and RFID software. We demonstrate the impacts on learning by applying e-PAYA in storytelling. The research methods include observation, questionnaire survey, interviewing and experiment. Sixty 4-year-old children were selected from a private preschool in Taipei City. Half of them were arranged in an experimental group with e-PAYA, with the others in a control group without e-PAYA. The proposed framework was designed, implemented and validated through a prototype system. The results show that there are significant differences in regard to group and gender. With e-PAYA, frequency analysis shows that on-task performance is significantly greater than that in the control group (p=.001).

157-160

Authors: Na Sun, Qian Qiao

High coding efficiency is the ultimate goal of developing video coding technology, but it is usually achieved at the cost of increased computation complexity. Thus, how to reduce as much computation complexity as possible while ensuring high coding efficiency becomes an important subject in the study of video coding technology. This paper has introduced several typical fast algorithms which are based on residual coefficients.

166-169

Authors: Hui-Zhen Lin, Ching-Ting Hsu, Wei-Hua Ho

An ADHD patient joining into a class is a big challenge for teachers. For taking care of all students, it is difficult for teachers to pay more attention to the ADHD patient. Thus, an activity detection and warning system for ADHD patient is proposed in this paper to help teachers controlling whole class. We extract discrete cosine transform coefficients in pre-coded video bitstream to measure the activity. If the activity of the ADHD patient is higher than the average activity of whole class, the proposed system will remind the teacher to take care the ADHD patient. Experimental results show that the proposed system can detect the activity of ADHD patient efficiently.

175-178

Authors: Jen-Yang Chen, Chuan Hsi Liu, Kuei-Fu Lu

The problem of educational resources and urban/rural learning achievement for indigenous students living in remote areas has become significant. Some scholars proposed that the teaching material based on indigenous culture can improve the learning performance. In addition, indigenous students prefer using the senses to help learning, especially dynamic, visual image, informal, and lively learning methods. Augmented reality (AR) is a technique for visual sensation of virtual objects combined with the real environment, using image processing technology to interact with virtual objects, also allowing users to blend into a situational virtual reality. It has been comprehensively applied to various fields, and its importance has also been recognized in education. To motivate the learning interest, this study developed the gear instructional module using AR. The trial teaching and observational records from the instructional activity were used to show that the developed module can promote the learning interest and the learning motivation.