Between Theory and Practice: The Importance of ICT in Higher Education as a Tool for Collaborative Learning

Duţă, Nicoleta; Martínez-Rivera, Óscar

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.02.294

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“…Moreover, Wi-Fi coverage causes a waste of time, due to an out-dated infrastructure which collapses with a multiplicity of electronic devices. These results bring to light a different ICT reality to the positive approach in the literature [50][51][52][53]. ICT research applied in education normally focuses on control groups, while, in this case, a population in its natural state is studied, in which there seems to be a lack of use of ICT methodology, which may explain the inverse correlations with GPA.…”

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“…In fact, their inclusion alters the classroom temperature and may require the use of artificial light instead of daylight, due to its reflection on the screens. They may promote student interaction and opportunities for motivating learning in collaborative environments [50]. Moreover, ICT is related with student participation through the use of social networks [51].…”

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Architectural Indoor Analysis: A Holistic Approach to Understand the Relation of Higher Education Classrooms and Academic Performance

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The influence of learning space on users has been broadly accepted and tested. However, the literature has focused on single factor research, instead of holistic approaches. Additionally, lower educational levels have been the focus of interest, while higher education is moving towards multi-method teaching. This paper focuses on how learning spaces for different purposes (practice and lecture rooms) may influence academic performance from a holistic approach of learning physical environment perception. For this, the iPEP scale (Indoor physical environment perception) is used and validated through Cronbach Alpha and Exploratory Factorial Analysis. Then, multiple linear regression is conducted. The results indicate that iPEP measures near to 63 percent of the construct, which is structured in six factors. Moreover, linear regression analyses support previous literature concerning the influence of learning physical environment on academic performance (R 2 = 0.154). The differences obtained between practice and lecture room in terms of predictor variables bring to the light the need to diagnose learning environments before designing changes in educational buildings. This research provides a self-reported way to measure indoor environments, as well as evidence concerning the modern university, which desires to combine several teaching methods.These studies provide evidence that acoustic comfort is fundamental to support sustainable learning environments, which implement active pedagogies [15].Illumination combines artificial lighting and daylight to offer visual support and it influences visual perception, cognitive processing, behaviour, learning and academic performance [16][17][18]. Therefore, lighting design perspectives should be task-driven, as well as focusing on comfort to human health and perception [19]. Appropriate levels of visual comfort have been evidenced to improve social relations [20]. While daylight helps students to retain and learn information [21], long exposure to artificial lighting may cause stress and lead to irritability [22]. Buildings are highly artificial lighting dependent, as there was no concern about energy efficiency when educational facilities were designed, and nowadays represent a major factor of energy consumption.In traditional learning, the views through windows are considered as distractor, which may explain the lack of daylight through windows, despite its importance for children [23], who distinguish lighting requirements given the task performed. Nature inspires students through its aesthetic value and entails a restorative effect on the mind, which fosters concentration [24]. It stabilizes students' psychology and reduces their negative emotions [25], and leads to a proactive knowledge of the natural environment. This fact may foster a culture in which life-based learning is a must and encourage positive social interaction [26]. Landscape views and walls with living plants are correlated with better academic results [27,28] and may reduce stress [29], whilst increasing le...

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“…The quality and number of services are improved in new technology; therefore, there is an increase in the number of HEIs that switch from the traditional form to the online service form. [5,6]. Cloud Service is a developing innovation.…”

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Proposing a New Model for Quality of Service Acceptance

Bsharat¹,

Ibrahim²,

Bsharat³

2019

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 Abstract: Quality of service (QoS) has been proofed to be a great significance effect in the utilization of cloud service in higher education institutions (HEI's), due to having many aspects determine the acceptance level of QoS while providing cloud service, QoS acceptance not given sufficient attention from HEIs and decision-makers. In this research, previous QoS studies are review in this field to identify QoS acceptance variables by review studies for the last 5 years. Thus, with the aim to discover QoS aspects this research intends to develop an integrated model to understand these variables and relationship between QoS acceptance variables, which must be efficiently studied. Hence, the integrated model between TOE (Technological, Organizational, and environmental) and HOT (Human, Organizational, and Technological) theory is presented in this research to be the core contribution. The integrated model helps HEIs to evaluate and explore QoS aspects to increase utilizing of cloud service, improving HEIs efficiency, and help decision-makers to facilitate the acceptance of QoS in HEIs.

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“…Thus, based on literature research, Jupyter Notebook self-regulated learning is growing in importance in recent years [12,14,17,18,20,24,25,27,31] through its interactive environment, making possible to touch the code and make changes to parameters without requiring the compilation of the entire program [12,31]. But it should be emphasized that the use of this type of tools in the educational field is recent [11], so it was not found any application in the area of manufacturing teaching.…”

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Teaching optimization of manufacturing problems via code components of a Jupyter Notebook

Suarez¹,

Álvarez-Feijoo²,

Fernández‐González

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The Degree in Mechanical Engineering combines knowledge and skills of the academic STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). The teaching of the STEM subjects must give prominence to the association of the physical, chemical, and mathematical concepts with the real world. The Jupyter Notebook can be defined as a scientific interactive framework. They can contain text, mathematical equations, interactive graphs, and videos. It allows creating a workspace for watching and playing with the concepts to be learned. Because of their didactic usefulness and easy divulgation, they are highly recommended as a learning environment. In the present work, there are reflected the experiences of using interactive Jupyter Notebook in virtual laboratory sessions within a 4th year subject of Mechanical Engineering related with manufacturing processes. Students' judgments on the efficacy of this resource were evaluated. The results showed that students are in agreement on the effectiveness of using Jupyter notebooks as a teaching‐learning tool.

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Between Theory and Practice: The Importance of ICT in Higher Education as a Tool for Collaborative Learning

Cited by 69 publications

References 8 publications

Architectural Indoor Analysis: A Holistic Approach to Understand the Relation of Higher Education Classrooms and Academic Performance

Architectural Indoor Analysis: A Holistic Approach to Understand the Relation of Higher Education Classrooms and Academic Performance

Proposing a New Model for Quality of Service Acceptance

Teaching optimization of manufacturing problems via code components of a Jupyter Notebook

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