Analysis of utility and use of a web-based tool for digital signal processing teaching by means of a technological acceptance model

This paper presents an exploratory study about the development of a structural and measurement model for the technological acceptance (TAM) of a web-based educational tool. The aim consists of measuring not only the use of this tool, but also the external variables with a significant influence in its use for planning future improvements. The tool, designed with Shockwavee and Macromedia Directore, is a web-based educational environment that has been applied as a teaching methodology in an undergraduate course involved with modern microprocessors architectures and applications. The proposed methodology may be extensible to similar tools and tries to fill the lack of scientific studies in the validation and acceptance of computer-based educational tool

A technological acceptance of e-learning tools used in practical and laboratory teaching, according to the European higher education area

The application of scientific tools to analyse the use of Internet-based e-learning tools in academic settings is in general an ignored area. E-learning tools are actually an emergent topic as a result of the new ideas introduced by the European Higher Education Area. Lifelong learning, or the promotion of student initiative, is the new paradigm of a learner-centred education. In this context, e-learning tools can represent an effective way of supporting this new trend in education. Assuming the premise that successful use of these web-based tools depends primarily on a user’s behaviour, the objective of this research is to examine the technology acceptance model (TAM) of web-based elearning tools used in practical and laboratory teaching. The research hypotheses derived from this model have empirically been validated using the responses to a survey on e-learning usage among 220 users. These responses have been examined through partial least square. The obtained results strongly support the extended TAM in predicting a student’s intention to use e-learning and define a set of external variables with a significant influence in the original TAM variables. Surprisingly, perceived ease of use did not posit a significant impact on student attitude or intention towards e-learning tool usage. Therefore, early evaluation of e-learning material is considered essential to providing a framework for further improvements of the too

Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse

The Impact of Teaching Innovative Strategy on Academic Performance in High Schools

The study focuses primarily on the impact of creative teaching on learning effectiveness in a certain technical vocational school in Vietnam. The satisfaction in the learning of students is like a variable mediator. The sample population of the research was the student organ of the technical-professional college in Taiwan. Comfort samples were included for taking the samples. To validate the whole study model and to calculate its success fit, the structural model. Analysis showed that the direct and optimistic impact of creativity in teaching on student quality was insignificant. Secondly, there is a strong positive effect on the enjoyment of learning from innovation. The satisfaction of the learners affects their academic success significantly and explicitly. In short, student satisfaction is as mediating as possible between learning and schools. It will also improve students comprehension and progress. Thus, this study has attempted to monitor and acknowledge the effect of learning creativity on learning performance in vocational, technical, and schools in Taiwan – with the mediation variable being learning satisfaction