Study on Design and Development E-learning System Based on Learning Flow

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2015

Mobile cloud-based learning is a novel trend that allows collaborative learning to happen among distributed learners, but it still lacks of mechanisms to enhance teamwork performance. Combining the features of the cloud, we have identified a learning flow based on Kolb team learning experience, executed by cloud-hosting learning management systems in conjunction with our newly designed system, 'Teamwork as a Service (TaaS)'. Each of TaaS's five web services aims to organize a certain type of learning activities, providing learners with an introduction, a 'jigsaw classroom', schedule planning, and mutual supervision during the whole collaborative learning process. In particular, enabling a rational group mechanism realized by the simulated annealing method, TaaS is able to allocate learners to their appropriate tasks in order to give their best performance. We also introduce details of the implementation of TaaS over the Amazon cloud. Abstract. Mobile cloud-based learning is a novel trend that allows collaborative learning to happen among distributed learners, but it still lacks of mechanisms to enhance teamwork performance. Combining the features of the cloud, we have identified a learning flow based on Kolb team learning experience, executed by cloud-hosting learning management systems in conjunction with our newly designed system, 'Teamwork as a Service (TaaS)'. Each of TaaS's five web services aims to organize a certain type of learning activities, providing learners with an introduction, a 'jigsaw classroom', schedule planning, and mutual supervision during the whole collaborative learning process. In particular, enabling a rational group mechanism realized by the simulated annealing method, TaaS is able to allocate learners to their appropriate tasks in order to give their best performance. We also introduce details of the implementation of TaaS over the Amazon cloud.

Section: Motivation and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Teamwork Performance in Mobile Cloud-Based Learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2015

“…In addition, the needs for data and computation during the team learning process can be controlled by the cloud, thus the complexity of system will not be aggravated by the limitations of the mobile devices. Using Kolb's team learning experience (KTLE) as the main concept [8], we implemented a teamwork-enhanced learning flow within our newly designed service-oriented system, TaaS [9]. TaaS works in conjunction with cloud-hosting LMSs, and emphasizes building a better context for team learning.…”

Section: Motivation and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Teamwork as a Service: A Cloud-Based System for Enhancing Teamwork Performance in Mobile Learning

2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

2013

Although cloud computing helps learners to access online learning content through commonly used devices, it can be difficult to collaborate in the mobile environment. We develop a service-oriented system, 'Teamwork as a Service' (TaaS), to facilitate learners' team learning activities. The five main services of TaaS facilitate a teamwork-enhanced learning flow associated with the theory of Kolb's team learning experience, providing learners with an introduction, a 'jigsaw classroom', schedule planning, and mutual supervision during the whole process. Specifically, TaaS enables a rational grouping mechanism that allocates learners to their appropriate tasks in order to give their best performance. TaaS is implemented on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and is proven to work with cloud-hosting learning management systems. Abstract-Although cloud computing helps learners to access online learning content through commonly used devices, it can be difficult to collaborate in the mobile environment. We develop a service-oriented system, 'Teamwork as a Service' (TaaS), to facilitate learners' team learning activities. The five main services of TaaS facilitate a teamwork-enhanced learning flow associated with the theory of Kolb's team learning experience, providing learners with an introduction, a 'jigsaw classroom', schedule planning, and mutual supervision during the whole process. Specifically, TaaS enables a rational grouping mechanism that allocates learners to their appropriate tasks in order to give their best performance. TaaS is implemented on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and is proven to work with cloud-hosting learning management systems.

“…In such a new environment, a feasible way to realize the whole teamwork-enhanced learning process is to orchestrate a learning flow. Learning flow, a specification of workflow, refers to the formal description of a set of rules and the process during which the learning activities happen and change [53].…”

Section: Teamwork-enhanced Learning Flowmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards organizing smart collaboration and enhancing teamwork performance: a GA-supported system oriented to mobile learning through cloud-based online course

Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber.

2014

(2014). Towards organizing smart collaboration and enhancing teamwork performance: a GA-supported system oriented to mobile learning through cloud-based online course. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 7 (3), 391-409. Towards organizing smart collaboration and enhancing teamwork performance: a GA-supported system oriented to mobile learning through cloud-based online course AbstractAt present, people's learning styles become diverse, for which mobile learning is a significant trend that enables distributed learners to achieve collaborative learning and allows them to be engaged in virtual teams to work together. In this research, we develop a system to cope with the problem in current mobile learning circumstance, where learners in virtual teams generally lack proper communications, guidance and assistances between each other. Following the theory of Kolb team learning experience, we use our system, Teamwork as a Service (TaaS), to work in conjunction with cloud-based learning management systems. This system targets at organizing a series of learning activities and then forming a learning flow in order to allow learners to participate into smart collaborations. Executing the five web services of TaaS sequentially, learners can have their collaborative learning arranged in a better environment, where they are able to know about one another, be grouped into cloud-based 'Jigsaw Classroom', plan and publish tasks and supervise other learners mutually. In particular, one primary point of enhancing learners' teamwork performance is to offer them computational choice of task allocation. For this reason, we model the social features related to the collaborative learning activities, and introduce a genetic algorithm (GA) approach to group learners into appropriate teams with two different team formation scenarios. The technical details of the operation principle of GA are illustrated thoroughly. Finally, experimental results are presented to prove our approach is workable to facilitate teamwork with considerations of learner's capabilities and preferences. We also demonstrate our implementation details of the newly designed TaaS over the Amazon cloud and discuss the main improvements for collaborative learning brought by TaaS. Abstract At present, people's learning styles become diverse, for which mobile learning is a significant trend that enables distributed learners to achieve collaborative learning and allows them to be engaged in virtual teams to work together. In this research, we develop a system to cope with the problem in current mobile learning circumstance, where learners in virtual teams generally lack proper communications, guidance and assistances between each other. Following the theory of Kolb team learning experience, we use our system, Teamwork as a Service (TaaS), to work in conjunction with cloud-based learning management systems in order to organize a series of learning activities and then form a learning flow. Executing the five web services of TaaS sequentially, learner...