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Amarpreet Singh Gill; Derek Irwin; Pinzhuang Long; Linjing Sun; Dave Towey; Wanling Yu; Yanhui Zhang; Yaxin Zheng – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to examine the effects on student motivation and perception of technological interventions within undergraduate mechanical engineering and product design and manufacture programs at a Sino-foreign international university. The authors use an augmented reality game application within a class on Design for Manufacturing and…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education, Game Based Learning, Student Motivation
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Ranjbarfard, Mina; Heidari Sureshjani, Mahboobeh – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2018
Purpose: This research aims to convert the traditional teacher-student models, in which teachers determine the learning resources, into a flexible structure and an active learning environment so that students can participate in the educational processes and value co-creation in virtual academic learning environments (VALEs).…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Simulated Environment, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Fadiyah Almutairi; Su White – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to develop a model of measuring student engagement in a blended-massive open online course (MOOC) context. MOOCs are those that are delivered, usually by leading universities, with a promise to provide free high-quality education to an unlimited number of learners. They offer an opportunity for "blended" course…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Blended Learning, Educational Technology
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Jimoyiannis, Athanassios; Tsiotakis, Panagiotis; Roussinos, Dimitrios – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on an investigation of university students' participation and learning presence in a blogging activity, designed to support collaborative learning. There are three main reasons justifying the current research: to better understand the structure and the dynamics of students' blogging subgroups; to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Electronic Publishing, Student Projects, Social Networks
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Shao, Kun; Maher, Peter – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2012
Purpose: Teaching advanced technical concepts in a computer science program to students of different technical backgrounds presents many challenges. The purpose of this paper is to present a detailed experimental pedagogy in teaching advanced computer science topics, such as computer networking, telecommunications and data structures using…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Active Learning, Telecommunications, Computer Networks
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Hogue, Andrew; Kapralos, Bill; Desjardins, Francois – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2011
Purpose: Problem/project-based-learning (PBL) approaches have traditionally been shown to be effective for learning within many professional programs that are directly related to the students' future career. The PBL approach has been adopted for over four decades in such fields as medicine and engineering and studies have demonstrated that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Information Technology, Laptop Computers