TY - GEN
T1 - Hybrid teaching assistant for developing students interactivity and comprehension
AU - Awwad, Yousef
AU - Lin, Hsien Tang
AU - Yuan, Shyan-Ming
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - The hybrid teaching assistant for developing interactivity and comprehension is a model to enhance students ' learning by involving them in different testing types and discussions, providing them with advices and allowing them to send their feedbacks. The system makes use of the Internet and Communication Technologies (ICT) to provide a reliable and secure environment. The system consists of exams, discussions, query, charts and feedbacks. Web and mobile phone SMS are used as a communication base among the system's users. The system is hybrid two directional because students can answer the questions using the web form or the SMS form. In addition, students can receive advices and send their comments in both ways. Experiments results showed that students were more enthusiastic during the lesson, they were totally involved in the class room and they achieved better grades. Answers charts improved students' cooperation since they need to discuss the choices to find the correct answer.
AB - The hybrid teaching assistant for developing interactivity and comprehension is a model to enhance students ' learning by involving them in different testing types and discussions, providing them with advices and allowing them to send their feedbacks. The system makes use of the Internet and Communication Technologies (ICT) to provide a reliable and secure environment. The system consists of exams, discussions, query, charts and feedbacks. Web and mobile phone SMS are used as a communication base among the system's users. The system is hybrid two directional because students can answer the questions using the web form or the SMS form. In addition, students can receive advices and send their comments in both ways. Experiments results showed that students were more enthusiastic during the lesson, they were totally involved in the class room and they achieved better grades. Answers charts improved students' cooperation since they need to discuss the choices to find the correct answer.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=49649083915&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISMW.2007.4475940
DO - 10.1109/ISMW.2007.4475940
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:49649083915
SN - 0769530842
SN - 9780769530840
T3 - Proceedings ISM Workshops 2007 9th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia - Workshops
SP - 29
EP - 34
BT - Proceedings ISM Workshops 2007 - 9th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia - Workshops
Y2 - 10 December 2007 through 12 December 2007
ER -