Distance Education: New Technologies and New Directions

Harris, Dale; Krousgrill, Chuck

doi:10.1109/jproc.2008.921612

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“…Distance education is a process to create and provide access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance, or both. This emerging technology is becoming widely used in universities and institutions around the globe [4,5]. The assessment of distance education has been studied by some other investigators; however, these traditional studies have almost been based upon statistical approaches.…”

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A QoE Assessment System in Distance Education

Zhang¹,

Xu²,

Cheng³

2011

ENG

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It is a challenging task to improve the real-time property and objectivity of the effect assessment for the distance education. This paper presents a QoE (Quality of Experience) assessment system based on the attention of online user. The system captures the video frames from two cameras periodically and synchronously, using the adaptive image binarization based on the linear average threshold for the pretreatment, then processing with edge detection and filtering in the cross-directions at the same time. System gets the position of computer screen and user eyeball. Analyzing the detection results comprehensively obtains the attention of online user by some judging conditions, and finally acquires the quality of user experience. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency

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A QoE Assessment System in Distance Education

Zhang¹,

Xu²,

Cheng³

2011

ENG

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“…Today's advanced technologies enable distance education to use both synchronous and asynchronous approaches much like the events of an in-class environment. The distinction between synchronous and asynchronous distance education programs have been that (i) synchronous programs were delivered by broadcast and closed circuit technologies, set in real time, allowing the student to participate from a distance, but imposing scheduling constraint [2]. (ii) Traditional asynchronous programs on the other hand were exemplified by correspondence and videotape courses.…”

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“…Harris and Krousgrill [2] state that current distance education has two primary components, namely technology supporting self-study and technology supporting interaction between students and between student and instructor. In this paper we consider an interactive distance education classroom whose technology must support real-time interaction between students and instructor and enable for clear presentation of lectures, clear display of course content and a good view of the distance education classroom occupants.…”

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Impact of new technologies on an electrical engineering distance education classroom

Nyathi

Talarico

Rodriguez-Marek

et al. 2011

2011 11th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology

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Advancement in technology has seen correspondence education evolve into distance education and eLearning. A large number of universities across the United States of America have established some form of distance education and/or eLearning in an effort to offer opportunities to many people aspiring to obtain an education, but with limitations when it comes to accessing institutions of higher learning. Most states have specialized high speed networks intended specifically for use to enhance education and make it accessible to virtually anyone with an inclination to attend school. The networks serve students in programs starting with K-12 up to college and university. The specialized networks are of the integrated service digital network type carrying lecture content, participants' video and audio signals. The networks are configured for point-to-point as well as multi-point connections.This paper discusses a synchronous electrical engineering distance education classroom, the associated technologies, instructors and students' perceptions as well as the program's effectiveness. Concepts of nanotechnology in this case nanoelectronics as they pertain to lecture content and technologies used to deliver lectures will be discussed as well. Ideally the synchronous distance education classroom must be indistinguishable from the local classroom allowing the students to interact with the instructor and view the notes in real-time.

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“…mobile telephone, electronic bank, digital television) and as commented above, at teaching level (e.g. digital sliders, distance education, interactive information, virtual and remote labs) opening an innumerable number of possibilities 1–4. From an educational point of view, the impact of the NICT have caused the appearance of teaching techniques and methods which facilitate the distribution of information to the students, enhancing their motivation by the use of new learning tools 1.…”

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“…These methods allow the teachers to find innovative techniques to enhance the students motivation and improve their education: multimedia tools, hypertext systems, interactive systems, information exchange between teacher and student through the Internet, information access from any part of the world without temporal constraints, etc., where the biggest revolution has been produced by the World Wide Web (WWW). All these advantages are useful for subjects without a relevant practical component, but there exist other subjects with strong experimental contents that require a new element allowing the students to apply the acquired knowledge 2, 10. Traditionally, this element has been a local simulation tool or a local laboratory, used by the students to perform several practical exercises over real systems but with space and time constraints.…”

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Interactivity in education: An experience in the automatic control field

Guzmán

Dormido

Berenguel

2010

Comp Applic In Engineering

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ABSTRACT:Looking back 30 years ago, the advances in teaching have accompanied the technology evolution.As soon as the technology progressed, new teaching tools began to appear. This work describes one of these technological advances, Interactivity. Several definitions of Interactivity are presented from different points of view. Afterwards, the influence of Interactivity on teaching is discussed presenting the advantages and drawbacks of this information methodology on education. The Automatic Control education field is one of the areas where Interactivity has had a major influence. Hence, this works also describes why Interactivity is very important in engineering education, focusing in the Automatic Control field and presenting some interactive tools as examples of this fact.

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Distance Education: New Technologies and New Directions

Cited by 26 publications

References 17 publications

A QoE Assessment System in Distance Education

A QoE Assessment System in Distance Education

Impact of new technologies on an electrical engineering distance education classroom

Interactivity in education: An experience in the automatic control field

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