Digital Teaching Materials Research Articles

The Development and Application of Adaptive Digital Teaching Materials Focused on ‘Dissolution and Solution’ Unit of Elementary School Science

The Development and Application of Adaptive Digital Teaching Materials Focused on ‘Dissolution and Solution’ Unit of Elementary School Science

An empirical study on the incorporation of APP and progressive reasoning teaching materials for improving technical creativity amongst students in the subject of automatic control

This study reformed teaching materials for automatic control, a mandatory course for engineering students, and designed a set of digital teaching materials based upon progressive reasoning with hand-mind combinations. The teaching materials were mainly delivered via a hands-on APP. The authors conducted an empirical study as well as pre-tests and post-tests for a total of 118 sophomore students majoring in engineering at two Universities. Outcomes found that the progressive reasoning teaching materials designed for this course were helpful in improving student creativity and scientific reasoning. Significant improvements were also achieved in product design, technical methods, and technological ideas aspects of technological creativity and every scientific reasoning skill, with the exception of proportional reasoning. Results also identified strong correlation between technical creativity and scientific reasoning. This relationship may be further investigated in follow-up studies. This study also proposed recommendations for coordinating designs of digital teaching materials in other engineering courses with the development of student thinking.

A Method Based on Self-Study Log Information for Improving Effectiveness of Classroom Component in Flipped Classroom Approach

The flipped classroom approach has recently begun to attract attention. In a flipped classroom, the conventional roles of classroom and homework are reversed: students study on their own using digital teaching materials or e-learning prior to class and then apply their learning in classroom activities. The authors have developed a method for improving the effectiveness of the classroom component: the students in a class are grouped on the basis of the time they spent studying (as recorded in their self-study logs) and their degree of understanding (as revealed by a self-study achievement test), and a different learning model is used for each group to improve their degree of understanding. Although they were unable to find a meaningful statistical difference in the test scores obtained in an experiment using one class of 34 students, there was a notable difference in the way questions were answered. The results of a free-description questionnaire indicate that the group learning encourages active learning.

An approach to the design of digital classic Chinese article learning system for undergraduate students using “the homecoming” as an example

The age of digitalization has come. As a result, learning has developed from the traditional way in a classroom to digital learning through multimedia. The main advantage of digital learning is a convenient learning channel for learners. Therefore, in all fields, there have been trends of digitalization of teaching content. However, the teaching materials of undergraduate Chinese courses have not been digitalized yet. And most undergraduate students find learning classical Chinese content very difficult and boring. Consequently, digitalizing the teaching material content for undergraduate Chinese courses can definitely increase undergraduate students' interest in learning Chinese and the corresponding benefits. For this reason, this study aims to explore the design method to digitalize the content of "Homecoming" using a qualitative research method. The research results include the design concept of the "Homecoming" digital teaching materials and systematic learning process. It is hoped that this study can present the design concept of digitalization of an undergraduate Chinese course for the first time as a reference.

Educational potential of topic maps and learning objects for m-learning in the knowledge society

The aim of the article is to present topic maps as a model for managing digital education content and learning objects for the design of digital teaching materials as the building blocks for an ideal educational model for the knowledge society: mlearning. We assess the educational benefits of topic maps using double entry tables for m-learning and propose criteria for determining the effectiveness of learning objects in mlearning. The findings reveal a need for further research for the effective management of educational content specific to mlearning, which is considered in pedagogical models such as in connectivism.

Los libros de texto digitales en México: un apoyo al trabajo didáctico en las aulas de educación básica

Este artículo expone los elementos fundamentales para el proceso de configuración del trabajo didáctico en las aulas de educación básica de México, mediante el uso de libros de texto digitales. Así también, se presentan los antecedentes de la digitalización de materiales que se han utilizado en el sistema educativo mexicano –centrándose en las políticas y los programas que se han creado para consolidar el proceso de digitalización– y la perspectiva de los libros de texto digitales en la educación básica de ese país. Las conclusiones indican que la digitalización<br />de los libros de texto se plantea como un apoyo didáctico en las aulas de educación básica para facilitar el proceso educativo y ampliar experiencias de aprendizaje, sin la intensión de reemplazar los libros de texto impresos; sin embargo, para lograr que el uso de la tecnología en clases sea exitoso es necesario capacitar al personal docente de manera que este sector cuente con las condiciones necesarias para la planificación escolar y el trabajo con materiales didácticos digitales y programas de cómputo educativos.

Time Series Analysis of the in class Page View History of Digital Teaching Materials using Cross Table

With the intention to be used in preparation and review during class, digital teaching materials corresponding to a class on introductory statistics were created in PDF format on the Moodle learning management system. Data regarding the use of the digital teaching materials in the weekly class, such as the date and time, student ID number, and page view history(for example, the page title) were collected. Via the cross table of the page view history of digital teaching materials, was revealed when materials were opened by students in the class, and from analysis of the page view history there were many students who opened the digital teaching materials that the teacher did not instruct them to open. It is possible to identify these students, when and which digital teaching materials were accessed, by the time series data via cross table. Furthermore, we were able to identify cases in which materials were opened by students at a later time than that instructed by the teacher from the time series analysis of the page view history during class. This information can serve to improve instructions given to students in future classes.

Application of Digital Teaching Materials in Art Education – Example of “Ethnic Arts Research Topics” at National Dong Hwa University

This paper focuses on the use digital teaching materials and innovative method in instruction on the anthropology of art, including the world's cultures and ethnic arts. Taking the class “Ethnic Arts Research Topics” in the master's program at National Dong Hwa University in 2009 an example, this paper examines the relationship between ethnic arts and the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and also explores the nearly-forgotten oral cultures and art traditions of non-Western ethnic groups. From a geographical perspective, research on the world's ethnic arts may focus on Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Oceania, and each of these regions has its own artistic characteristics. Research on the relationship between Taiwan’s art and culture and that of other global regions is also included in this class, which combines the research methods of art history with those of anthropology, and it is hoped that this approach will enable a new interchange platform to be established. Thinking about artifacts also leads into the complex relationship between material culture and contemporary art. At least three stages can be identified when a historical perspective is applied to non-Western art: primitive art, colonial art, and contemporary art. The class also examines the historical development of Taiwan's indigenous art, and further discusses how contemporary ethnic art is handed down from one generation to another, while adopting innovations along the way. When designing teaching materials for the class, different sessions variously included ethnographic films, exhibits of cultural artifacts, displays of music and dance ceremonies and performances, field videos and photographs, introduction to e-Museum sites and relevant films, and use of a blog to discuss visual art and images with students. In general, digital teaching materials comprised an important part of the program. In addition, students’ assignments could be completed employing multimedia methods, including use of online materials, music, film, ethnography, tourism advertisements, exhibitions, cultural performances, and interviews. With regard to visual art, it was necessary to find images connected with cultural artifacts, and then convert them to PowerPoint documents. Topics requiring use of visual art included the cultural implications of Maya stone carving, the Kingdom of Benin’s sculpture, the consumptive function of visual art of Vietnamese restaurants, and transformation of Taroko indigenous cloth weaving into a cultural innovative industry. With regard to cultural heritage, many images concerning field research and films from community websites are employed in an introductory role. Some relevant topics in the class include

Classification of Haptic Tasks based on Electroencephalogram Frequency Analysis

In recent years, it is difficult to inherit high level sensory skill, because the number of experts is not so much or the experts are too busy to teach their skill to the beginners. Therefore, many learners do the experiential learning through visual and haptic digital teaching materials. In such a system, however, it is difficult to evaluate whether the learner could recognize the sensation and obtain the sensory skill. In the paper, we investigate whether the biological signal such as EEG can be used for the evaluation of the haptic task skill level.

Peer-Review of Digital Educational Resources—A Rigorous Review Process Developed by the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)

ABSTRACTEducators seek to develop 21st century skills in the classroom by incorporating educational materials other than textbooks into their lessons, such as digitally available activities, videos, and visualizations. A problem that educators face is that no review process similar to the formal adoption processes used for K–12 textbooks or the college-textbook review process exists for these types of online educational resources. However, educators need authoritative high-quality digital teaching materials. The scientific journal peer-review system offers a well-established model to adapt to the requirements of a peer review of educational materials. In this paper, we review ten review processes developed to evaluate digital geoscience educational resources and focus in detail on a rigorous iterative peer-review process recently developed by the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) project. This process builds upon existing efforts and emphasizes the “curation” of a digital collection that addresses the Essential Principles of Climate Literacy and the Energy Literacy Principles. Providing educators with thoroughly reviewed educational materials is especially important for fast changing, societally important, and sensitive areas such as climate and energy science.

Effect of Novak Colorful Concept Map with Digital Teaching Materials on Student Academic Achievement

This study explores whether the Novak colorful concept map with digital teaching materials can enhance student academic achievement in learning Advanced Accounting. Four different teaching materials included conventional digital teaching materials (CDMs), Novak monotonic concept maps digital teaching materials (MCMDMs), hierarchical Novak colorful concept maps digital teaching materials (hierarchical CCMDMs) and clustered CCMDMs. Three major results were found in this study. First, the MCMDMs and CCMDMs can significantly improve student achievement than CDMs. Second, CCMDMs can significantly improve student long-term memory than MCMDMs and CDMs. Third, no significant differences exist in student achievement by using different coloring methods.

The Research of Digital Learning Applying to Industrial Wiring Course Excerpt

“Industrial Wiring” Generally Use in Industrial Circle for High Pressure Switchboard, Low Pressure Switchboard, Motor Starters and Control Panel Etc. Assembly, and Is One of the Main Events of Vocational Training. in Traditional Learning, Teachers Will Explain the Circuit and Do the Demonstration, and then Students Will Proceed Self Study or Practice Etc Training Method. in this Kind of Method, Students Mostly Can Not Prove Immediately and Cause Inaccuracy with Wiring Concept. in View of Digital Teaching Material Is Producing and Developing Maturely, and it Has Been Promoted Generally as a Popular Way for Teaching. Digital Learning’s Advantages Include No Time Limit or Space Limit, Saving the Human Recourse and Consumables Cost, and Lively and Abundant in Teaching Material. as a Result, this Research Would Put Digital Learning into Industrial Wiring Course, to Create Digital Teaching Material to Build up Learning Benefit Result and to Spirit up Learning Interest. this Research Takes 70 Electric Machinery and Electron Students from Vocational High School and the Experiment Makes Two People as a Group to Proceed Academic and Technical Learning. during the Experiment, 36 Students Will Use Computer Simulated Mode as Digital Learning, and the other 34 Students Learn by Dictated Demonstration in Traditional Learning Way. after the Class, the Two Groups of Class Take a Quiz Separately, Including Electrical Science Basic Ability Test, Industrial Wiring Achievement Test, Cognition Load Chart and Space Ability Test to Comprehend the Benefit Result of Applying Digital Learning. Students’ Composite Grade Indicates that Digital Learning (M=24.87) Overmatch the Traditional Learning (M=19.63). Therefore Could Make Four Conclusions. First, Digital Learning Benefit Is Better than Traditional Learning. Second, Digital Learning Create a Higher Cognition Load than Traditional Learning Does. Third, Digital Learning’s Learning Result Does Not Have any Difference for Different Space Ability Learner. Fourth, Computer Is a Useful Communication Tool in Digital Learning and it Helps to Group Interaction.

Influences on children's visual cognition capabilities through playing ‘intelligent matrix’ developed by the augmented virtual reality technology

In the development of young children's senses and action mobility, good visual cognition could help them with good habits of reading, writing, and logical learning. Digital teaching materials are common in use of enhancing the creativity and learning effects. Within them, the interacting manners and their influences on learning effects and learning attitudes lead to enhance the learning motivations and effects. The fun of game maintains a longer learning attention and advances the cognitive skills in easy manners. Thus, this study intends to design a learning system – GoGoBox – by using augmented virtual technology. The methodology is to device a testing game, pre-test and after-test, to test a group of young children so as to understand the learning effects of augmented virtual game of GoGoBox on their visual cognitive skills. The esult of this study is: this learning system – GoGoBox can enhance the young children's cognitive skills. Furthermore, after experiencing this learning system, children's cognitive capability of visual discerning, figure and background, visual memory, and visual closure is all enhanced. The learning effects of visual discerning stand out of four. The capability of special relationship is with no apparent influences. There is no differentiation between male and female. Apparently the older children of 6 have better cognitive skills than those of 5.

The Evaluation And Using Intention For Digital Teaching Materials Of Penghu Basalt

The Bureau of Culture of Penghu County produced the Penghu Basalt Digital Teaching Materials, which are supplementary teaching materials for local curriculums in elementary and middle schools in Penghu County. But just what are the teachers’ and students’ opinions of the said teaching materials? Are they willing to use them? Are they suitable? These questions are, indeed, worth further research. The questionnaire survey was conducted to gather the opinions of 142 teachers and 151 students of elementary and middle schools in Penghu County. In addition, using the quasi-experimental and experimental teaching methods, after comparing the pre-test and post-test results to the control group, the learning effectiveness was determined. The results indicate that teachers and students have the highest evaluation for the interface design aspect of this teaching material. The teachers’ evaluation for the teaching materials is significantly higher than the students’. Furthermore, the teaching materials are evaluated highly in terms of attracting attention, generating interest and willingness to use, indicating that the digital teaching materials have potential for promotion in Penghu. After the experimental teaching, only the vocational high school students’ scores before and after the experiment showed significantly improvement, while the scores of the students in the other levels of schools did not.

Guidelines for supporting re-use of existing digital learning materials and methods in higher education

The literature on the re-use of learning materials has largely focused on the development of materials. This paper explores how re-use can be stimulated after learning materials have been developed and made available. We searched for and developed guidelines that support staff and/or management most frequently adopt in cases of (un)successful re-use of existing digital teaching and learning materials and methods by teachers in higher education. In a grounded theory approach, we collected existing guidelines from 11 literature studies, and developed new guidelines from 19 (mainly Dutch) case studies. Through constant comparison, we developed ‘low-level’ guidelines, which were classified into high-level guidelines. Five high-level guidelines turned out to be robust when subjected to repeated comparison with the case studies. Further, this paper elaborates existing guidelines by showing specific elaborations of them in our case studies.Keywords: educational innovation; higher education; teacher support; re-use; digital learning materialsDOI: 10.1080/09687760903033074

Guidelines for supporting re-use of existing digital learning materials and methods in higher education

The literature on the re-use of learning materials has largely focused on the development of materials. This paper explores how re-use can be stimulated after learning materials have been developed and made available. We searched for and developed guidelines that support staff and/or management most frequently adopt in cases of (un)successful re-use of existing digital teaching and learning materials and methods by teachers in higher education. In a grounded theory approach, we collected existing guidelines from 11 literature studies, and developed new guidelines from 19 (mainly Dutch) case studies. Through constant comparison, we developed ‘low-level’ guidelines, which were classified into high-level guidelines. Five high-level guidelines turned out to be robust when subjected to repeated comparison with the case studies. Further, this paper elaborates existing guidelines by showing specific elaborations of them in our case studies. Keywords: educational innovation; higher education; teacher support; re-use; digital learning materials DOI: 10.1080/09687760903033074

Practice and Evaluation of Media Education which Utilizes NHK Digital Teaching Materials(<Special Issue>Classroom Instruction and Media)

Practice and Evaluation of Media Education which Utilizes NHK Digital Teaching Materials(<Special Issue>Classroom Instruction and Media)

A Study on the Effects of a Physical Education Lesson Using Digital Teaching Materials and Digital Portfolios

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a physical education lesson performed by using digital teaching materials and digital portfolios in an elementary school. This study discussed a lesson of vaulting box exercise which took place 8 hours in November, 2005. The subjects were 37 fourth graders and were taught by one male teacher with 13-year teaching experience. In this lesson, the digital teaching materials developed in advance were applied in order that they could be used at any time according to each child's skill. Moreover, digital portfolios were utilized in order that children could do both self and mutual evaluation of his/her improvement of the learning subject and motor skills. Their skill levels, their perceived motor competence score, the actual state of using the digital teaching materials and children's feelings of effectiveness of using them were measured before and after the unit. And, their formative evaluation scores and their feelings of effectiveness of using the digital portfolios were measured during the unit. The results were as follows:1. The motor skills of all the children improved notably: they came to be able to perform forward roll on the vaulting box with three or more stairs after the unit.2. The children's formative evaluation scores were highly maintained through the unit.3. The actual state of using the digital teaching materials and the changing process of effectiveness of using them through the unit became clear.4. The feelings of effectiveness of using the digital portfolios improved significantly after the unit.5. The perceived motor competence scores improved significantly after the unit.

A Semantics-Based Information Distribution Framework for Large Web-Based Course Forum System

We propose a novel data distribution framework for developing a large Web-based course forum system. In the distributed architectural design, each forum server is fully equipped with the ability to support some course forums independently. The forum servers collaborating with each other constitute the whole forum system. Therefore, the workload of the course forums can be shared by a group of the servers. With the secure group communication protocol and fault tolerance design, the new distribution framework provides a robust and scalable distributed architecture for the large course forum system. The forum servers can be settled in anywhere as long as a broadband network connection to Internet is provided. Our experimental performance testing results show that the large forum system is a high performance distributed system with very low communication overhead cost. In addition, all course forums are classified by their teaching content relevance. Relevant course forums can be arranged on the same forum server together. Hence our distribution framework also provides a knowledge-based taxonomic storage solution to build a large digital course teaching material library.

Entomology Digital Library (EntDigiL)

American Entomologist • Spring 2008 The importance of the Internet in student education continues to grow rapidly. According to a report by the National Center for Education Statistics Postsecondary Education Quick Information Systems, during 2000-2001, approximately 56% of twoand four-year degree-granting universities offered distance education courses. During this time period, approximately 3,077,000 students were enrolled in all distance education courses offered by these institutions. (Institute of Education Sciences 2003). With the help of universities, virtual high schools with student enrollments in the thousands are also being formed. Along with an increase in virtual high schools, the number of homeschooled students in the United States is currently estimated to exceed 1.7 – 2.1 million and is increasing rapidly (Home School Legal Defense Association 2008). Homeschool educators, many of whom do not have a science background, rely on sources of information and educational materials that are inexpensive or free to help them teach their students about science. As a result, web-based learning offers tremendous potential for science education. Digital materials, such as video clips and electronic presentations, can be excellent teaching tools to help illustrate scientific concepts or demonstrate biological behavior in distance learning situations, classrooms, and homeschool environments. However, three issues can constrain the expanding use of digital insect-related materials to teach science or entomology. Because the majority of entomologically related digital materials used in teaching are developed by individual educators or institutions for internal use, they are not publicly available or widely known. Further, although the Internet is the most likely source to which most educators turn when looking for digital teaching materials, educators face a significant challenge when attempting to locate suitable, high-quality teaching materials on the Internet. Not only does no mechanism exist to assure the quality and accuracy of materials obtained on the Internet, but there also is no efficient mechanism for locating subjectand grade-specific educational materials. By making entomologically related, quality-assured educational materials and resources more readily available and easier to access, an entomology digital library has the potential to become a primary vehicle for promoting education in the insect sciences and the use of entomology-related materials to teach science. To address this need, the Entomology Digital Library (EntDigiL) project was initiated.