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A special issue on new technologies and the future of education and training
Accepted Manuscript A Special Issue on New Technologies and the Future of Education and Training Fernando Moreira, Álvaro Rocha PII: DOI: Reference:
S0736-5853(17)30177-6 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.03.004 TELE 924
To appear in:
Telematics and Informatics
Please cite this article as: Moreira, F., Rocha, A., A Special Issue on New Technologies and the Future of Education and Training, Telematics and Informatics (2017), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.03.004
This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
Telematics and Informatics Journal A Special Issue on New Technologies and the Future of Education and Training
Guest Editors Fernando Moreira Universidade Portucalense, Portugal [email protected] Álvaro Rocha University of Coimbra, Portugal [email protected]
Guest Editorial The world is facing a paradigm shift concerning technologies used in the day-today life of every citizen. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are subject to constant change. With the exponential growth of smart devices (mobile and wearable) in recent years and the combination of computing technologies with Internet connectivity has shifted from our offices and homes for our pockets. Thus, it is necessary to identify the major changes that can be expected in the next 5-10 years in order to prepare and reflect those changes in the teaching-learning process. In coming decades, systems of education and training in organizations (schools – all levels – and companies) will embrace new technologies more than today. Now, experts are predicting that the devices that can be used in the body, or even inside the body, will be the next important step in this trend more pervasive or even 'ubiquitous' computing – the idea that computer technology and the internet will be accessible anywhere, as an integral part of our ecosystem. In 2014 a Morgan Stanley analysis is stated that wearable devices will have a far-reaching impact for disruption or even accelerate change in nontechnological industries. In order to realize this growth rate, in November 2015 the database Vandrico Wearable Technologies (http://vandrico.com/wearables) included 347 wearable devices, while in April 2015 included 296. Organizations have evolved regarding to approaches used in teaching-learning process. These approaches range from traditional classroom lectures, to online and blended learning. There is an increasing demand for inexpensive, high quality, global education and training for e-learning, m-learning, u-learning, social learning, MOOCs, and more. Thus, it is necessary to, firstly, examine whether such approaches are pedagogically sound – this implies learning strategies which will change to include techniques like serious gaming,
customized testing, simulated learning, real-time chat, and so on – and, secondly, to determine which types of content are best suited to particular approaches and how they should be made available to students and workers. The growing popularity of mobile networks has been one of the most important factors for the development of wearable technology. Bluetooth headphones, watches and smart glasses, and web-enabled glasses enable people to access data with the hands-free from Wi-Fi networks. In this context, the increasing use of these technologies have led to an exponential increase in volume of data produced in all areas of activity. Mobile devices expose people to an immeasurable wealth of data and enable communication anywhere. This development also reached the area of education with the emergence, among others, the MOOCs with algorithms that analyze, for instance, the student’s actions. New technologies empower an organization to adopt an education and training approach that anticipates future trends. As new technologies for education and training make access to information and communication easy, the teachinglearning process can become more reliable. The areas covered by this special issue were topics at the World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST 2016). The following research papers were selected from the conference proceedings as the best papers in the area of Information Technologies in Education. The papers were reviewed and extended specifically for this special issue of the Telematics and Informatics Journal. This special issue is composed by six research papers. The first entitled of “Design and Evaluation of an Alternative Programming Paradigms Course” presents the approach followed in the design of the Programming Technology and Paradigms course to teach object-oriented, functional, concurrent and parallel programming to second year undergraduate students with basic knowledge of Java. The second one entitled: “A Global Perspective on an Emotional Learning Model Proposal” presents an emotional learning model and a software prototype in order to find out whether it performs live identification of the students’ emotions, by using affective computing techniques, and whether it automatically performs adjustments to their individual learning process. Through a deeper analysis and multidisciplinary discussion of the achieved results the authors stated that it is possible to acknowledge that not only emotions impact students’ learning, but also that an application that performs live emotion recognition and which integrates this feature with adjustable online learning environments will trigger improvements in students’ learning. The third research paper “Evolution and use of mobile devices in higher education: A case study in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions between
2009/2010 and 2014/2015” analyzes the use of mLearning, particularly the acceptance rate and uses of mobile technologies devices in higher education Portuguese institutions. In order to answering this issue, this paper analyzes the evolution and trends in the use of mobile technologies in higher education institutions in Portugal (North region) between 2009/2010 and 2014/2015 The fourth paper “Examining the Use of YouTube as a Learning resource in higher education: Scale development and Validation of TAM model” has two aims: scale development, and validating the basic Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). It defined constructs and developed scales to measure the factors explaining the behavioral intention and established the significance of relationship between different variables and the behavioral intention validating the TAM. The fifth research paper “The Electronic Booklet on Teaching-Learning Process: Teacher and parents vision of students in primary and secondary education” presents the first phase of a research project whose purpose is to introduce a new form of collaboration and communication between the school and the family through an Electronic Booklet (EB). The EB was developed due to the increasing necessity of collaboration between the school and the family, promoting the teaching-learning process and educational success, supported by information and communication technologies. And the sixth and last paper “Comprehensive Classification of Collaboration Approaches in E-learning” has as main aim to give a comprehensive overview about the state-of-art in collaborative learning, especially by integrating social media tools. To do so, the study adopts a classification framework based on four different views (subject, purpose, method, and tool). The framework has been used to compare ten collaborative e-learning approaches. The finding indicates the potential of all approaches in developing an online learning environment for remote collaborative learning despite the lack of fulfilling all the requirements highlighted in the four views
S0736-5853(17)30177-6 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.03.004 TELE 924
To appear in:
Telematics and Informatics
Please cite this article as: Moreira, F., Rocha, A., A Special Issue on New Technologies and the Future of Education and Training, Telematics and Informatics (2017), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2017.03.004
This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.
Telematics and Informatics Journal A Special Issue on New Technologies and the Future of Education and Training
Guest Editors Fernando Moreira Universidade Portucalense, Portugal [email protected] Álvaro Rocha University of Coimbra, Portugal [email protected]
Guest Editorial The world is facing a paradigm shift concerning technologies used in the day-today life of every citizen. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are subject to constant change. With the exponential growth of smart devices (mobile and wearable) in recent years and the combination of computing technologies with Internet connectivity has shifted from our offices and homes for our pockets. Thus, it is necessary to identify the major changes that can be expected in the next 5-10 years in order to prepare and reflect those changes in the teaching-learning process. In coming decades, systems of education and training in organizations (schools – all levels – and companies) will embrace new technologies more than today. Now, experts are predicting that the devices that can be used in the body, or even inside the body, will be the next important step in this trend more pervasive or even 'ubiquitous' computing – the idea that computer technology and the internet will be accessible anywhere, as an integral part of our ecosystem. In 2014 a Morgan Stanley analysis is stated that wearable devices will have a far-reaching impact for disruption or even accelerate change in nontechnological industries. In order to realize this growth rate, in November 2015 the database Vandrico Wearable Technologies (http://vandrico.com/wearables) included 347 wearable devices, while in April 2015 included 296. Organizations have evolved regarding to approaches used in teaching-learning process. These approaches range from traditional classroom lectures, to online and blended learning. There is an increasing demand for inexpensive, high quality, global education and training for e-learning, m-learning, u-learning, social learning, MOOCs, and more. Thus, it is necessary to, firstly, examine whether such approaches are pedagogically sound – this implies learning strategies which will change to include techniques like serious gaming,
customized testing, simulated learning, real-time chat, and so on – and, secondly, to determine which types of content are best suited to particular approaches and how they should be made available to students and workers. The growing popularity of mobile networks has been one of the most important factors for the development of wearable technology. Bluetooth headphones, watches and smart glasses, and web-enabled glasses enable people to access data with the hands-free from Wi-Fi networks. In this context, the increasing use of these technologies have led to an exponential increase in volume of data produced in all areas of activity. Mobile devices expose people to an immeasurable wealth of data and enable communication anywhere. This development also reached the area of education with the emergence, among others, the MOOCs with algorithms that analyze, for instance, the student’s actions. New technologies empower an organization to adopt an education and training approach that anticipates future trends. As new technologies for education and training make access to information and communication easy, the teachinglearning process can become more reliable. The areas covered by this special issue were topics at the World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST 2016). The following research papers were selected from the conference proceedings as the best papers in the area of Information Technologies in Education. The papers were reviewed and extended specifically for this special issue of the Telematics and Informatics Journal. This special issue is composed by six research papers. The first entitled of “Design and Evaluation of an Alternative Programming Paradigms Course” presents the approach followed in the design of the Programming Technology and Paradigms course to teach object-oriented, functional, concurrent and parallel programming to second year undergraduate students with basic knowledge of Java. The second one entitled: “A Global Perspective on an Emotional Learning Model Proposal” presents an emotional learning model and a software prototype in order to find out whether it performs live identification of the students’ emotions, by using affective computing techniques, and whether it automatically performs adjustments to their individual learning process. Through a deeper analysis and multidisciplinary discussion of the achieved results the authors stated that it is possible to acknowledge that not only emotions impact students’ learning, but also that an application that performs live emotion recognition and which integrates this feature with adjustable online learning environments will trigger improvements in students’ learning. The third research paper “Evolution and use of mobile devices in higher education: A case study in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions between
2009/2010 and 2014/2015” analyzes the use of mLearning, particularly the acceptance rate and uses of mobile technologies devices in higher education Portuguese institutions. In order to answering this issue, this paper analyzes the evolution and trends in the use of mobile technologies in higher education institutions in Portugal (North region) between 2009/2010 and 2014/2015 The fourth paper “Examining the Use of YouTube as a Learning resource in higher education: Scale development and Validation of TAM model” has two aims: scale development, and validating the basic Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). It defined constructs and developed scales to measure the factors explaining the behavioral intention and established the significance of relationship between different variables and the behavioral intention validating the TAM. The fifth research paper “The Electronic Booklet on Teaching-Learning Process: Teacher and parents vision of students in primary and secondary education” presents the first phase of a research project whose purpose is to introduce a new form of collaboration and communication between the school and the family through an Electronic Booklet (EB). The EB was developed due to the increasing necessity of collaboration between the school and the family, promoting the teaching-learning process and educational success, supported by information and communication technologies. And the sixth and last paper “Comprehensive Classification of Collaboration Approaches in E-learning” has as main aim to give a comprehensive overview about the state-of-art in collaborative learning, especially by integrating social media tools. To do so, the study adopts a classification framework based on four different views (subject, purpose, method, and tool). The framework has been used to compare ten collaborative e-learning approaches. The finding indicates the potential of all approaches in developing an online learning environment for remote collaborative learning despite the lack of fulfilling all the requirements highlighted in the four views