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Web access patterns can provide valuable information for website designers in making website-based communication more efficient. To extract interesting or useful web access patterns, we use data mining techniques which analyze historical web...

Recorded multimedia presentations in the form of lectures, conference proceedings, commercial demonstrations or tutorials, are becoming increasingly available in multiple, diverse, and often heterogeneous formats. These materials are stored in...

The IRT (Item Response Theory) has been studied and applied in computer-based test for decades. However, almost of all these existing studies evaluated focus merely on test questions with text-based (or static text/graphic) type of presentation form ...

Podcasting which is a way to automatically download and synchronize digital audio as well as video files from the Internet to any portable devices, such as iPods, Palm handhelds, and Pocket PCs has advanced learning to an unprecedented format,...

Interactive whiteboard, also called "Chalkboard of the Future" requires users to use a special, battery-free, wireless pen that worked much like a mouse instead of writing upon the board with a dry-erase marker. This system worked in tandem to...

E-District is a technology implementation project adopted by Hayward Unified School District, located at Hayward, California. The project has been launching since February 2006. It is a Web-based wireless network adoption project with a goal to...

With the popularity of online education, the use of Learning Management System (LMS) is gaining tremendous attention by educators. LMS is known to be able to deliver contents with a variety of formats, such as audio, video, text, photos, and so on. ...

Handheld learning is an emerging pedagogical method. Handheld learning can significantly reduce dependence on fixed locations for learning, and thus have the potential to revolutionize the way that students learn. The purpose of this case study is ...

Professional development has been gaining a lot of attention in education. The state of California encourages professional development a few days prior to school through financial incentives to districts. However, the primary strategy for improving ...

With the growing needs to address the challenges that new teachers face and the popularity of social networking technology, this study is to explore how to increase the effectives of teaching through the use of such technology, and how the...

Educators had been gaining great attention on the teaching potential of Second Life and has been teaching a variety of subjects with the tool for several years. In this paper, the author will focus on how to teach language arts in Second Life. ...

The presentation will present a three-way partnership project between California State University at East Bay (CSUEB), the Junior League of Oakland-East Bay, inc. (JLOEB) and STAND! For Families Free of Violence. The purpose of the project is to...

The learning impact of iPad for students with special needs has been gaining great attention in education since its inception in April 2010. Some sporadic case reports have testified how these students can benefit from the integration of iPad into...