Stephen J. H. Yang

National Central University | NCU · CSIE

As the adoption of digital learning materials in modern education systems is increasing, the analysis of reading behavior and their effect on student performance gains attention. The main motivation of this workshop is to foster research into the analysis of students' interaction with digital textbooks, and find new ways in which it can be used to...

A conversational chatbot or dialogue system is a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users, especially over the Internet. These chatbots can be integrated into messaging apps, mobile apps, or websites, and are designed to engage in natural language conversations with users. There are also many applications in which chatbot...

Learning analytics (LA) is maturing as a research discipline in its own terms, focusing on multiple perspectives of data-informed understanding and supporting teaching and learning activities in different educational contexts. With the development of learning technology platforms, it is now possible to gather users’ interaction traces in a standard...

Emerging science requires data collection to support the research and development of advanced methodologies. In the educational field, conceptual frameworks such as Learning Analytics (LA) or Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) also require data. Prior studies demonstrated the efficiency of academic data, for example, risk student prediction and lear...

Human-guided machine learning can improve computing intelligence, and it can accurately assist humans in various tasks. In education research, artificial intelligence (AI) is applicable in many situations, such as predicting students’ learning paths and strategies. In this study, we explore the benefits of repetitive practice of short-answer questi...

Providing early predictions of academic performance is a necessity in identifying at-risk students and subsequently providing them with timely intervention for critical factors affecting their academic performance. Although e-book systems are often used to provide students with teaching/learning materials in university courses, seldom research has...

The purpose of learning analytics is to promote student success in the classroom. To implement the framework of learning analytics, researchers have adopted machine learning methodologies to identify at-risk students at an early stage. In theory, machine learning is a mathematical algorithm that improves automation through experience. The experienc...

The inevitable rise and development of artificial intelligence (AI) was not a sudden occurrence. The greater the effect that AI has on humans, the more pressing the need is for us to understand it. This paper addresses research on the use of AI to evaluate new design methods and tools that can be leveraged to advance AI research, education, policy,...

As addressed by Stephen Yang in his ICCE 2019 keynote speech (Yang, 2019), precision education is a new challenge when applying artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and learning analytics to improve teaching quality and learning performance. The goal of precision education is to identify at-risk students as early as possible and provide...

We discuss the new challenges and directions facing the use of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) in education research, policy-making, and industry. In recent years, applications of big data and AI in education have made significant headways. This highlights a novel trend in leading-edge educational research. The convenience and embeddednes...

To help students’ learning, finding at-risk students is an important issue in education. This study has collected students’ learning logs in ebook reading environment for 17 blended learning courses in Taiwan. Then, we have construct students’ learning performance prediction model based on learning logs by using eight classification methods. To imp...

Background The detection of dyskalemias—hypokalemia and hyperkalemia—currently depends on laboratory tests. Since cardiac tissue is very sensitive to dyskalemia, electrocardiography (ECG) may be able to uncover clinically important dyskalemias before laboratory results. Objective Our study aimed to develop a deep-learning model, ECG12Net, to detec...

In order to enhance the experience of learning, many educators applied learning analytics in a classroom, the major principle of learning analytics is targeting at-risk student and given timely intervention according to the results of student behavior analysis. However, when researchers applied machine learning to train a risk identifying model, th...

As the adoption of digital learning materials in modern education systems is increasing, the analysis of reading behavior and their effect on student performance gains attention. The main motivation of this workshop is to foster research into the analysis of students' interaction with digital textbooks, and find new ways in which it can be used to...

The flipped classroom pedagogy has been widely used recently. Despite many researches have paid attention with the learning outcome of flipped classroom, there has been limited attention in regard to investigate the relationship between learning behavior and learning outcomes in a flipped classroom. In this paper, we proposed to investigate the inf...

Physical education emphasizes learning sports skills, which is why it is usually conducted in a face-to-face manner. Instructors focus on explaining rules and demonstrating moves, which the learners are required to repeat and imitate. Flipped classrooms have become a trend; thus, the present study investigated their influence on physical education....

With the rise of big data analytics, learning analytics has become a major trend for improving the quality of education. Learning analytics is a methodology for helping students to succeed in the classroom; the principle is to predict student’s academic performance at an early stage and thus provide them with timely assistance. Accordingly, this st...

Blended learning combines online digital resources with traditional classroom activities and enables students to attain higher learning performance through well-defined interactive strategies involving online and traditional learning activities. Learning analytics is a conceptual framework and as a part of our Precision education used to analyze an...

As information technology continues to evolve rapidly, programming skills become increasingly crucial. To be able to construct superb programming skills, the training must begin before college or even senior high school. However, when developing comprehensive training programmers, the learning and teaching processes must be considered. In order to...

This chapter will address the reason that MOOCs brought our interests (MOE, The Ministry of Education, Taiwan), and the purpose and core mission of MOOCs in Taiwan, as well as MOOCs mean to the future of education in Taiwan. Taiwan’s MOOCs movement has been developed in two directions, one is led by MOE’s MOOCs project, government-funding projects;...

Mathematics education in contemporary elementary schools is mainly conducted in a conventional way by giving lectures. A teacher would pass on knowledge to students by giving lectures, and this type of one-way teaching method is prone to cause poor learning achievement. Many researchers have suggested the use of a collaborative problem solving to i...

p>Mathematical skills have been recognised as a core competence for engineering and science students. However, learning mathematics has been recognised as a difficult and challenging task for most students, in particular, calculus for first-year students in university. Consequently, the development of effective learning strategies and environments...

Computer-supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is a pedagogical strategy associated with how learners construct knowledge with a group by computer-based learning system. In recent years, most of the computer-based learning systems record the interaction log of each learner when developing course assignments. However, the recorded data is facing a...

Elementary school students’ mathematical abilityplays an important role in the development of their future, butthe proportion of low-achieving elementary students inmathematics in Taiwan is high due to their aversion tomathematics. The aim of this study is to establish a learningsystem to help low-achieving students' learning in mathematics.A 3D ga...

This study developed a 5-step vocabulary learning (FSVL) strategy and a mobile learning tool in a situational English vocabulary learning environment and assessed their effects on the learning motivation and performance of English as a foreign language (EFL) students in a situational English vocabulary learning environment. Overall, 80 EFL students...

The purpose of this study was to explore effects of different roles on learning satisfaction. For better hosting a e-learning service, there is a need to understand user’s satisfaction of the learning service. Data was collected from an on-line learning system. Based upon course learning activities, each course was assign to a certain role for the...

The purpose of this study was to identify whether an open ceremony affects on-line learning platform account keeping behavior. This is a longitudinal non-experimental study. Total 9959 user accounts on a e-learning server since 2009 were reviewed. The server provides on-line learning courses to the publics. There are two types of courses, one with...

The purpose of this study was to verify a model of user’s satisfaction of an e-learning environment based upon platform using behaviors. This is a non-experimental study. The data was collected from system management logs and users satisfaction survey after learning service. Total 314 users were invited in this study. First, theory model was identi...

French is the ninth most widely used language globally, but French-learning environments in Taiwan have been insufficient. Language acquisition is easier in a natural setting, and so such a setting should be available to language learners wherever possible. This study aimed to (1) create an authentic environment for learning French in Second Life (...

The flipped classroom approach has recently gained prominence in education. However, a review of previous studies shows that the relationship associated with gender difference, student perceptions and learning outcomes has still remained unexplored, and there has been little discussion regarding flipped classroom environment. To fill this gap, this...

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to present a pilot electronic portfolio (e-portfolio)-integrated learning environment by integrating library resources into an e-portfolio system for its application, and to explore reader’s satisfaction of the integrated system. Design/methodology/approach – This study develops a research model by modifying...

Computer programming is an important skill for engineering and computer science students. However, teaching and learning programming concepts and skills has been recognized as a great challenge to both teachers and students. Therefore, the development of effective learning strategies and environments for programming courses has become an important...

The 5E teaching model which was based on a constructivism approach is used in the education field. It can be used in classrooms and can also effectively improve learning motivation. Besides, there are safety concerns when a teacher takes a whole class to a nearby water area to observe ecological activities. This study will be discussed the effects...

In Taiwan elementary schools, Scratch programming has been taught for more than four years. Previous studies have shown that personal annotations is a useful learning method that improve learning performance. An annotation-based Scratch programming (ASP) system provides for the creation, share, and review of annotations and homework solutions in th...

Inquiry learning has been developed for years and many countries have incorporated inquiry learning into the scope of K-12 education. The knowledge-sharing process of inquiry learning tends to be complex. Therefore, we propose using location-based augmented reality (AR) to immerse students in the inquiry learning process. Mobile devices were used t...

This study extended a conventional ePortfolio by proposed Wikipedia knowledge recommendation service (WKRS). Participants included 100 students taking courses at National Central University which were divided into experimental group and control group. The control group students and experimental group students have created their learning portfilios...

In this study, an augmented reality-based mobile learning system is proposed for conducting inquiry-based learning activities. An experiment has been conducted to examine the effectiveness of the proposed approach in terms of learning achievements and motivations. The subjects were 57 fourth graders from two classes taught by the same teacher in an...

The Internet has become the most important information source for students; however, most students lack adequate search processes and search abilities when solving problems using Web search. Current Web search with a single-user environment does not require students to seek assistance in solving their problem. Therefore, how to use information prob...

For more than 2 years, Scratch programming has been taught in Taiwanese elementary schools. However, past studies have shown that it is difficult to find appropriate learning methods or tools to boost students’ Scratch programming performance. This inability to readily identify tutoring tools has become one of the primary challenges addressed in Sc...

Computer programming is an important competence for engineering and computer science students. Teaching and learning programming concepts and skills have been recognized as being a big challenge to both teachers and students. Accordingly, researchers have indicated that 'learning strategy,' 'lack of study' and 'lack of practice' are the causal attr...

The number of learners using e-learning has been increasing at an enormous rate in the past decade due to easy access to higher educational resources via the Internet. On the other hand, the number of teachers in most universities is growing slowly. As a result, instructional problems have emerged due to the lack of sufficient support to learners i...

This study aimed to investigate an effectiveness of unidirectional and reciprocal teaching strategies on programming learning supported by web-based learning system (VPen); particularly, how differently effective these two teaching strategies would work. In this study novice programmers were exposed to three different conditions: 1) applying no str...

This study investigates the impact of a 3D virtual learning environment based on Second Life on student motivation and achievement in learning English as a second language. Twenty-one university students participate in this study, with the support of an English instructor. The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) was used to evalu...

This study implements co-interest recommending service embedded in ePortfolio for managing and sharing reader reading book experience from library records. We also propose five hypotheses based on proposed research model. Two hundred eleven Taiwanese graduate and undergraduate students participated in this research. The experimental results have sh...

In this study, an adaptive learning system is developed by taking multiple dimensions of personalized features into account. A personalized presentation module is proposed for developing adaptive learning systems based on the field dependent/independent cognitive style model and the eight dimensions of Felder-Silverman's learning style. An experime...

Problem solving has been increasingly used as an important approach to learning especially in ill-structured domains. It is assumed that knowledge can be better consolidated and extended through problem-solving experience. However, many learners do not have the ability to separate general knowledge from specific cases, which inhibits successful tra...

Improving students' reading comprehension is of significance. In this study, collaborative learning supported by Group Scribbles (GS), a networked technology, was integrated into a primary reading class. Forty-seven 10-year-old students from two 4th grade classes participated in the study. Experimental and control groups were established to investi...

This study aimed to investigate effects of unidirectional versus reciprocal teaching strategies on computer programming learning. Thus, this study conducted an experiment with participating novice programmers, who applied no strategies, unidirectional, and reciprocal teaching strategies for computer programming learning by using a web-based learnin...

The aims of this research were to develop guidelines for designing interaction tasks for learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) and to investigate the attitudes of CFL learners toward a full CFL class in Second Life (SL). Three research questions were addressed in this research: (1) what are the attitudes of CFL learners toward the languag...

The purpose of this thesis is to implement a 3D situational English learning process which is based on Task-based approach. To achieve this goal, we created situational setting on Second Life and combined the framework of Task-Based Learning approach proposed by Jane Willis in 1996 to design a three-stage teaching process. Under the topic of daily...

In this study, a multi-dimensional personalization approach is pro-posed for developing adaptive learning systems by taking various personalized features into account, including learning styles and cognitive styles of student. In this innovative approach, learning materials were categorized into several types and associated as a learning content ba...

We present Dynamic Out-of-Order Java (DOJ), a dynamic parallelization approach. In DOJ, a developer annotates code blocks as tasks to decouple these blocks from the parent execution thread. The DOJ compiler then analyzes the code to generate heap examiners that ensure the parallel execution preserves the behavior of the original sequential program....

Computer programming is a high-level thinking activity. In the educational area, using learning styles to understand how students learn is a significant issue. The electronic Portfolio (ePortfolio) is a popular educational management and assessment tool. Unfortunately, few researchers investigate programming learning style diagnosis. This paper add...

Unstructured peer-to-peer (p2p) networks usually employ flooding search algorithms to locate resources. However, these algorithms often require a large storage overhead or generate massive network traffic. To address this issue, previous researchers explored the possibility of building efficient p2p networks by clustering peers into communities bas...

While HTML will continue to be used to develop Web content, how to effectively and efficiently transform HTML-based content automatically into formats suitable for mobile devices remains a challenge. In this paper, we introduce a concept of coherence set and propose an algorithm to automatically identify and detect coherence sets based on quantifie...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework (CEP) of processing learning portfolios (e-portfolios, eP) based on ubiquitous learning activities. The cloud technology is employ to conduct context-aware u-learning environment and provide proper service through cloud platform as a service (PaaS) approaches. CEP was integrated into the course st...

In this era of Web 2.0, many young people are keeping blogs sharing their ideas, their feelings or their hobbies as a way of showing themselves. Taiwan, as a leading area of information technology, is not an exception. To explore the characteristics of blogging profiles of student bloggers in Taiwan, this study conducted a content analysis on a pop...

Recent wide acceptance of e-Portfolios has occurred because researchers believe it helps promote students' learning in higher education. This study uses goal orientation theory to investigate the relationship between goal orientations, metacognitive strategies, and enjoyment when students use e-Portfolio. This paper contributes to research by goal...

Recent rapid development of advanced information technology brings high expectations of its potential to improvement and innovations in learning. This special issue is devoted to using some of the emerging technologies issues related to the topic of education and knowledge sharing, involving several cutting edge research outcomes from recent advanc...

We present Dynamic Out-of-Order Java (DOJ), a dynamic parallelization approach. In DOJ, a developer annotates code blocks as tasks to decouple these blocks from the parent execution thread. The DOJ compiler then analyzes the code to generate heap examiners that ensure the parallel execution preserves the behavior of the original sequential program....

Quantitative analysis is the process of presenting and interpreting numerical data. With the rise of internet technologies, distance courses have migrated to the Web, teachers can spend their time to study in-serve teacher advancement education online. This study aims to identifying a structure of in-service teachers studied online related courses...

This study examined the relationships between Singaporean in-service teachers' technology and non-technology related knowledge aspects of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TAPCK) through second order factor analysis. The technology related knowledge aspects involved TPCK, TCK, TPK and TK, and the non-technology related knowledge aspects...

The emergence of Web 2.0 has brought along the trend of community. It is also the trend that contributes to socialization of the Internet. The essence of Web 2.0 is creation and sharing which give rise to social networking communities such as Blog, Wikipedia and Facebook. Through Wikipedia, Blogs, Facebook and other kinds of social networking websi...

This article presents our design and development of a description logics-based planner for providing context-driven content adaptation services. This approach dynamically transforms requested Web content into a proper format conforming to receiving contexts (e.g., access condition, network connection, and receiving device). Aiming to establish a se...

The emergence of Web 2.0 has brought along the trend of community. It is also the trend that contributes to socialization of the Internet. The essence of Web 2.0 is creation and sharing which give rise to social networking communities such as Blog, Wikipedia and Facebook. Through Wikipedia, Blogs, Facebook and other kinds of social networking websi...

This article presents an intelligent social grouping service for identifying right participants to support CSCW and CSCL. We construct a three-layer hierarchical social network, in which we identify two important relationship ties – a knowledge relationship tie and a social relationship tie. We use these relationship ties as metric to measure the c...

Firewall is one of the most critical elements of the current Internet, which can protect the entire network against attacks and threats. While configuring the firewalls, rule configuration has to conform to, or say be consistent with, the demands of the network security policies such that the network security would not be flawed. For the security c...

Current endeavors to integrate competency-based learning approaches with e-learning systems designed for delivery of training to adult learners in the workplace are growing. However, academic efforts in examining learners’ perceptions of, and reactions toward, this technology-delivered pedagogical innovation are limited. Drawing together perspectiv...

E-learning is emerging as a popular learning approach utilized by many organizations. Despite the ever increasing practices of e-learning in the workplace, most e-learning applications fail to meet learners’ needs or serve organization’s quests for success. Significant gaps exist between organizational interests and individual needs when they come...

To facilitate wide adoption of handheld devices for mobile Internet access, it is important to enable the "develop once and use everywhere" concept. This means that a Web page can be developed in HTML for presentation on desktop machines, and then be automatically adapted and displayed on any devices including handheld devices. In this paper, we pr...