Adaptive Tutorial’s Constructivist Basis for the Teaching-Learning Process of an OOPL

The articles are under a license Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2,5 Spain, of Creative Commons. All the conditions of use in: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/es/deed.en_USThis work proposes an adaptive tutorial’s constructivist basis for the teaching-learning process of an OOPL. The teaching-learning process model is based on the combination of Constructivism, Bloom’s Taxonomy and learning strategies in an iterative process. The objective of the incorporation of the Bloom’s Taxonomy is to measure how well the learning goals are met. Furthermore, the objective of incorporating the learning strategies is to provide an easy and effective framework for mastery an OOPL. The evaluations given after completing each learning strategy make possible to personalize the teaching-learning process to meet the learner’s needs.ArticleInteractive Educational Multimedia. 12:1-7 (2006)journal articl

Specifying Runtime Environments and Functionalities of Downloadable Components under the Sandbox Model

ISPSE, Kanazawa, Japan, Nov. 2000In this paper, we propose a specification of both runtime environments and software components which can be loaded not only from your local system but also from the other systems over the computer network. Because components from the other system are not always enough reliable or safe to act freely in your own system, you should limit their activities to a certain context. Such assumption is based on the sandbox security model. Because such components are largely influenced by the runtime environments, users sometimes lose sight of the abilities and limitations of such components. Therefore, they fail to reuse the components in the right way. We provide a way to specify such properties, so that component users can precisely understand the abilities and limitations.ArticleProceedings of the International Symposium on Principles of Software Evolution. 138-142 (2000)conference pape

A detection of ill-formed patterns about programming style

Programming style plays an important role in program understanding andmaintenance. We have implemented a plan recognition system for source code search,and have attempted detection of ill-formed patterns about programming style through it. In this paper, we present experimental result obtained from a prototype system. Weascertained that our system is able to diagnose various items about programming style,so it may be used as an effective tool of programming style diagnosis.ArticleKnowledge-based software engineering : proceedings of the Third Joint Conference on Knowledge-based Software Engineering in Smolenice, Slovakia, 1998. 165-168 (1998)conference pape

Conducting Requirements Evolution by Replacing Components in the Current System

As new software components become available for an existing system, we can evolve not only the system itself but also its requirements based on the new components. In this paper, we propose a method to support requirements evolution by replacing a component with another component, and by changing the current requirements so as to adapt to the new component. To explore the possibilities of such a replacement, we use the technique of specification matching. To change the current requirements, we modify the structure by following the concept of Design by Contract.ArticleProceedings : sixth Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference. 224-227 (1999)conference pape

Reliable Authentication Method by Using Cellular Phones in WBT

Institutions of higher education that give the credits by distance learning using WBT have increased recently. In these situations, the authentication model by (ID, password) pair is general. However, this authentication model cannot prevent “Identity theft” effectively. In this paper, we propose a new authentication model to solve this problem by using cellular phones.ArticleProceedings of the International Conference on Networking, International Conference on Systems and International Conference on Mobile Communications and Learning Technologies (ICNICONSMCL’06)conference pape

Specifying Downloadable Properties for Reusing Software Components : A Case Study of Java

In this paper, we propose a specification of software components which can be loaded not only from your local system but also from the other systems over the computer network. Because components from the other system are not always enough reliable or safe to act freely in your own system, you should limit their activities to a certain context. Because some existing systems like Java RMI and an Applet provide a mechanism for such limitation implicitly, users sometimes lose sight of the abilities and limitations of such components. Therefore, they fail to reuse the components in the right way. We provide a way to specify such properties, so that component users can precisely understand the abilities and limitations.ArticleKnowledge-based software engineering : proceedings of the fourth joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, Brno, Czech Republic, 2000. 123-128 (2000)conference pape

Overview of a Factual Question Generator System

Vienna, Austria, June 30 - July 4, 2008The simultaneous fostering of formative assessment from the point of view of the Social Constructivism is a challenge for the teacher in science education. We assume this challenge through the implementation of the Factual Questions Generator System (FQGS). The FQGS uses text documents as its underlying knowledge source and combines various natural language processing techniques to extract and construct questions. The implemented techniques include: a shallow parser and rules, which match the Spanish grammar patterns and it will include: named-entity recognition and co-reference resolution. The FQGS generates what, how and why questions. One interesting characteristics of this prototype is that learners will be able to decide by themselves, what are their best learning paths trough the selection of the topics that they want to evaluate. The FQGS is the result of the implementation of the first prototype of SPEBC, an adaptive computer-based assessment system.ArticleED-MEDIA 2008 : World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. 5094-5099 (2008)conference pape

Reliable Authentication Method by Using Cellular Phones in Web Based Training

Articles are the intellectual property of the author. The Creative Commons copyright permits copy or dissemination for education or non-profit purposes so long as author and title of the article are included with title, volume, number and URL for the Journal.Institutions of higher education that offer credits through distance learning using web based training (WBT) have increased recently. In these situations, an authentication model using the IDpassword pair is generally used. However, this authentication model cannot prevent “identity theft” effectively. We propose a new authentication method that solves this problem by using cellular phones as an authentication token. The authentication accuracy is expected to be improved by combining the ID-password pair with the subscriber ID of cellular phones. We realized a prototype system and prepared a questionnaire in order to validate the effectiveness of our proposed method, and as a result, we demonstrated the effectiveness and realizability of our method.ArticleInternational Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning. 3(12):35-45 (2006)journal articl

Static Adaptations Of Personalization Factors Included In The Development Of An Adaptive Web-Based Tutorial

The articles are under a license Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2,5 Spain, of Creative Commons. All the conditions of use in: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/es/deed.en_USThe present research divides the adaptation process into dynamic and static adaptations. The present paper introduces the static adaptations of personalization factors included in the development of an Adaptive Web-based Tutorial system. The included personalization factors are: Learning styles, intelligence types, knowledge background, special interests, learning goals and beliefs. The personalization factors were determined in order to improve the teaching-learning process of Object-Oriented Programming Languages.ArticleInteractive Educational Multimedia. 12:8-16 (2006)journal articl

A Support Environment for Project-Based Learning Using a Digital Portfolio

In computer-supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), a bulletin board system (BBS) is ordinarily used as a collaboration media, but if WWW pages are used as presentation media, the discussion site and the presentation site become isolated, so the correspondence between these two resources becomes ambiguous. This paper will describe the environment in which learners can comment and discuss the presentation pages easily. We received positive results from using this system in a course on information literacy at our university.ArticleProceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE’04). 1601-1606 (2004)conference pape