How to Push an Elephant Through a Straw: Using Wireless Technology in a Web-enhanced Skills Program

No student left behind: a collaborative and competitive game-based learning environment to reduce the achievement gap of EFL students in Taiwan

“…Mobile technologies and one-on-one digital classroom environment Researchers in recent years have demonstrated the benefits of applying wireless communication to exert a significant effect on group performance (Chan et al, 2006;Joiner, Stanton, & Luckin, 2003;Goldman & Kaufman, 2001;Kraut et al, 2002;Liu et al, 2003;Shih, Chu, Hwang, & Kinshuk, 2011;Squire & Klopfer, 2007). In addition to the use of a wireless interactive environment, game-based learning can be a very efficient tool in a real educational setting (Hong et al, 2009).…”

“…Wireless and mobile technologies bring forth a unique opportunity to construct a seamlessly integrated learning environment (Joiner et al, 2003) and the term 'one-to-one technology-enhanced learning' (1:1 TEL), at least one computing device for each student, was coined (Chan et al, 2006). A wireless technologyenhanced classroom (WiTEC) with integrated mobile devices, wireless communication, and network technologies can reduce the time for tedious work, engage students in learning activities, empower the teacher to monitor students' learning status, facilitate group collaborative learning, record teaching and learning processes as portfolios, and make portable wirelessly networked technologies that have become ubiquitous and pervasive in the everyday lives of learners (Gay, Stefanone, Grace-Martin, & Hembrooke, 2001;Goldman & Kaufman, 2001;Liu et al, 2003). Previous research has indicated that the connectivity and mobility of technological devices enable students to become active participants.…”

Constructing the face-to-face collaborative game-based interacted environment for portable devices in English vocabulary acquisition

“…Wireless and mobile technologies bring forth a unique opportunity to construct a seamlessly integrated learning environment (Joiner et al, 2003) and the notion of "one-to-one technology-enhanced learning" (1:1 TEL), a ratio of at least one computing device for each student, was coined (Cheng et al, 2006). A wireless technology enhanced classroom (WiTEC) which integrated with mobile devices, wireless communication, and network technologies can reduce the time for tedious work, engage students in learning activities, empower the teacher to monitor students' learning status, facilitate group collaborative learning, record teaching and learning processes as portfolios, and make portable wirelessly-networked technologies that has become ubiquitous and pervasive in the everyday lives of learners (Gay et al, 2001;Goldman & Kaufman, 2001;Liu et al, 2003).…”

Applying Wireless Classroom to Build a Highly Interactive Learning Environment

“…M-Education is designed to support a wireless online virtual community that is linked to the existing MOOsYangtze community. This will enable users who are interacting from either handheld devices or desktop computers to merge their learning experiences in a shared collaborative environment, both synchronously and asynchronously, with reference to the same underlying data (Goldman, 2001;Park, 1998;Good, 1994). The communication between a handheld and desktop is similar to that between two desktops.…”