Voice interactive classroom: best practices and design strategies

García, Víctor Manuel Álvarez; Ruiz, María del Puerto Paule; Gonzalez, Moises; Pérez, José Manuel Errasti

doi:10.1002/cpe.2814

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“…As illustrated by the articles in the issue [36], [37], [40] and [43], the role of middleware is not always explicit, yet closely examining any distributed or network application, the middleware functionalities will be there at some level. It is important to keep in mind the broad definition of middleware and the diverse roles it could take within a distributed environment.…”

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“…The middleware allowed for rapid development of the system and also helps the runtime operations where multiple users are collaborating online or within a classroom using the system. Another example in this area is the introduction of middleware services to support voice-enabled learning Copyright [43]. In this paper, included in this issue, the distributed interactive learning application is supported by a service-oriented architecture (middleware), which enables cross-platform multichannel access to Internet-based learning.…”

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Middleware is STILL Everywhere!!!

Al-Jaroodi

Mohamed

2012

Concurrency and Computation

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Middleware! It was somewhere, and now it is definitely everywhere. Over the past four decades, the term middleware has been tossed around, picked up, and investigated vigorously. Yet, if you ask 10 different people "what is middleware?" You will most likely get 10 different answers. It started as some additions on top of operating systems to facilitate complex applications development, moved to become data integration features, then became network applications facilitator, and eventually became an important component of every distributed environment, application, system and platform there is. To-date, if you examine any type of distributed system or application, you must find middleware or some middleware functionality involved. Although recently, the term itself is becoming less used, yet it still exists in mobile and sensor networks, service-oriented architectures, grid computing, cloud computing, online multi-player games, networked robotics, the Internet of things, and much more. So as is, middleware is really still everywhere and most likely will remain everywhere for a very long time. MIDDLEWARE THROUGH TIMEMiddleware as a term appeared in the early 1970s according to [1]. The main mention refers to middleware as program enhancements to the operating system that help reduce the complexity of applications development and offer features not generally available in the operating system. However, until the early 1990s, the term was not much in use. During that period, several notions relevant to middleware started to appear although they did not carry the name middleware. There were several programming environments that provided abstractions and extended libraries to facilitate applications development, and these by essence belong to the middleware era. In addition, some tools and integration techniques were also used that resemble middleware functionality. Following the two-tier architecture that was becoming very common since the 1980s (the client/server model in particular), the three-tier architecture appeared. In this model, a third layer was introduced to facilitate the operations between the clients and the servers. This layer is usually referred to as the application server [2]. However, examining the model closely shows that the middle layer is actually nothing but the middleware. One interesting view of middleware is that it is the slash in "client/server" [3]. In the 1990s, another issue was becoming of high importance, and that is the integration between legacy systems that cannot be rebuilt or replaced with new applications designed and built using new programming models and tools. The two entities could not be merged, and it is usually very hard to match the interfaces among the two. Therefore, one notion of middleware appeared to help solve this problem. Data integration middleware such as Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) [4] came into the picture in 1991 and provided an excellent solution to the application integration and data interfacing issues. CORBA offered data and process ...

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Middleware is STILL Everywhere!!!

Al-Jaroodi

Mohamed

2012

Concurrency and Computation

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“…This framework finds application in a software process that allows for the design, development and integration of voice-based learning features onto e-learning platforms [2]. We employed this process to produce a series of voice-based educational services that have been tested with postgraduate Computer Science students from our University.…”

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Voice interactive learning

Paule-Ruiz

Álvarez-García

Pérez

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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Multi-channel access to information has gained interest in the past years. Yet, the usage of alternative modes of interaction has not been extended into mainstream e-learning systems. This paper illustrates how the elements of a multi-channel learning framework can be identified and used in practice to enable complementary aural access to visual-only web-based environments. To complement these findings, this research proposes an evaluation method that considers usability and didactic effectiveness parameters to support the assessment of voice interactive learning solutions, and allows for the exploration of the meaning and measure of enabling voice interaction in traditional Internet-based learning systems. The results obtained from developing and evaluating audio features with postgraduate students from the University of Oviedo, allow us to present an analysis of the benefits and implications of following the proposed approach, and better understand the influence of voice interaction in e-learning.

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Voice interactive classroom: best practices and design strategies

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Middleware is STILL Everywhere!!!

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