Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Advanced ICT (ICAICTE 2014)

Session: Education Technologies

13 articles
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Evaluating ICT use in Saudi Arabian secondary schools

Sami Alshmrany, Brett Wilkinson
In the recent past, ICT has been incorporated in several educational institutions globally as an effective tool used in facilitating high quality teaching. It is unfortunate that developing countries such as Saudi Arabia have not yet been able to enjoy the various advantages of the usage of ICT in teaching....
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Managing m-learning application development: Roles and Responsibilities

Amir Dirin, Marko Nieminen
in this paper we reveal m-learning applications’ engaged role-players in various phases of User Centered Design (UCD) framework for m-learning application. Additionally this paper elaborate the contribution of role-players to m-learning application at the design and development phases based on UCD framework...
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Teaching Taxation: A Comprehensive Method

Tao Zeng
In this paper, I have shared the method that has been used in my tax classes. The method is a comprehensive method, to the extent that in classes, I use tax cases including court cases and real world cases, and share empirical results from my tax researches in my teaching. The purpose of using such a...
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Exploration and reformation of teaching methods for “Software Engineering” Course

Xiao-jun Tang, Ying Lu, Na Liu
Traditional teaching method does not work well for teaching SE. Without hands-on experience, the methods and concepts are difficult for students to apply in industrial-scale software development. This paper proposes four approaches, i.e., case-based teaching, project-based training, integrated practice,...
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Instance of Practical Engineering Application for Professional Education

BiYing Ren, LiQiang Zhu, Shihong Zhang
The experiment was divided into parts, one is about the concentration of exhaust gas when heating potteries, the other is about the content while heating without potter inside catalytic combustion furnace of natural gas. The potteries used for decorating by catalytic combustion furnace are more fine...
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Instantiating Abstract Knowledge to Deepen Students’ Understanding

Dong Hua, Ce Zhang, Jun Bai
This paper explores the importance of instantiating abstract knowledge to students’ learning. It takes the course of Computer Organization as an example and presents some practice-tested methods and real cases of abstract knowledge teaching, aiming to discuss what a college teacher should do to effectively...
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Teaching Design Practice of Microlecture Based on Knowledge Point

Xinhe Gong, Weiwen Zhu
This paper has promoted the teaching design mode of microlecture based on the knowledge point by learner-centered. By using smart technology and various format of resources including mobile learning, it has formed the knowledge network at multi-level and overall coverage that adapted to diverse learning...
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Analysis and thinking on current situation and training strategy of professional teachers in secondary vocational education

Yuan Gao, Yimin Li, Qiuping Chen, Yongfa Qin, Jiping Zhou
As the state has made great financial investment and showed strong policy support for secondary vocational schools, vocational education development has entered a new historical stage. An in-depth research has been made about the present status of professional teachers in secondary vocational education...
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Research on innovative personnel training mode of Interdisciplinary graduate

Keyong Shao, Huizhen Zhang, Weijian Ren, Li Yang
Interdisciplinary graduate education is conducive to optimizing the knowledge structure of graduate students for fostering graduate creative ability, to strengthen the discipline construction of graduate education for fostering the cultivation of innovative talents. At present our country university...
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Study On the Background of Differentiated Postgraduate Education in China

Ying Xing, Feifei Yue
This paper analyze the international implementation of differentiated education exemplified by Japan, United State and France, then analyze the differentiation of teaching resources and culture of colleges and universities in China, as well as the quality, character, background and occupation objective...
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Research on the application and training of intercultural communication competences in German teaching

Yusi Teng
It is very common to stress on language rather than culture in the process of German language learning in China, and cultural differences are ignored, so that misunderstanding and conflict are often inevitably occurred. In this paper, the concept of culture and intercultural communication will be illustrated...
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Value-added Evaluation of College Students' English learning efficiency based on Hierarchical linear model

Su -ran Kong, Li-hui Jiang, Guang-li Li, Hui-chuan Wang
“Value-added evaluation” is widely applied to school efficiency evaluation of primary and secondary school. But there are few applications of college students’ evaluation. Firstly, null model of College students' English learning efficiency has been established based on Hierarchical linear model in order...
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Using Innovative Web Tools to Empower Language Learners

John Paul Loucky
Whether in ELI or TESOL programs in English-speaking countries, or in their home countries, English language learners (ELLs) have special needs for programs that can help them to overcome low levels of L2 vocabulary and other barriers to their success. Though technology has great potential to help language...