Chien Yun Dai

The research on user satisfaction of easy teaching Web of Taipei assessed via information quality, system quality, and Technology Acceptance Model

In the digital era, using information technology to search valuable information is one of the important skills. Taipei City Government set up Easy Teaching Web of Taipei, integrates scattered knowledge in the field of education and human resources, and build a knowledge-sharing platform for teachers. However, it is still important to understand how to improve the usage of Easy Teaching Web of Taipei to teachers. This research applied the Technology Acceptance Model as research foundation, and the Information Systems Success Model was also considered as impact factor in this research, to understand the teachers to the satisfaction of the digital platform. There are 318 valid samples by random selected from members to fill out a developed pencil-paper questionnaire. The multiple-regression was used for data analysis, the empirical results lead to four conclusions. First, Information Quality (IQ) can predict Perceived Usefulness (PU) and Perceived Ease of Use (PEOU). Second, System Quality (SQ) can predict PU and PEOU. Third, PEOU can predict PU and Attitude toward using (ATU). Fourth, ATU can predict User Satisfaction (US). According to research finding that Easy Teaching Web can promote the user satisfaction by improve easy use of the system.

The application of mobile-learning in collaborative problem-based learning environments

This article describes the design and delivery of a history course in visit historical tourism guild at elementary schools in Taiwan. The course was devised and deployed to supplement learning activities in the traditional classroom. A series of quasi-experiments was conducted with innovative instructional designs, that is, collaborative problem-based learning (PBL) environment, and their combinations. The impacts of these problem-based learning pedagogies on students, instructors, and course design were evaluated. The effects of problem-based learning pedagogies were mostly positive, thus reinforcing the instructor’s confidence for further application to the rest of his courses. The authors further discuss the implications for schools, scholars, and teachers who plan to implement, or are already engaged in. In this study, the main goal was to improve students’ learning, explore the problem-based learning effects, refine the history course, and reinforce the teacher’s professional development. Therefore, mixed methods were applied. Specifically, the case study method was adopted to describe how students and the teacher adapted to the history course, and to detect deficiencies in design ideas and associated implementations for possible remedies in future trials. The authors intervened in students’ learning via different instructional designs and deployed quasi-experiments to explore the effects of the intervention. In this study that is PBL class as the first step in our analysis, we used movie of history which about historical tourism guild, and change the classroom to visit historical tourism guild. The instructor designed and explained questions before visit. We need to observe and record students’ behavior.

The study on exploring the user satisfaction of easy teaching web of Taipei by information-seeking and technology acceptance model

E-learning has become a new technology in the educational field recently because of development of information communication technology. Therefore, the Department of Education, Taipei City Government constructed a digital platform based on the internet, named Easy Teaching Web of Taipei (ET Web), for teachers and academic staffs to surf in 2003. For the purpose of analyzing the effectiveness of the ET Web, the technological acceptance model (TAM) and information-seeking model, the Big Six, have been employed in this study. There are 318 valid samples totally selected randomly from members in the ET Web to fill out a pencil-paper questionnaire. The result shows that the perception of ease use (PEOU) can predict the perception of use (PU), the attitude toward using (ATU), and the Big Six. Meanwhile, PU can predict ATU. In addition, the user scarification can be predicted by ATU, and Big Six respectively. According to results of this study, we find the ET Web can promote the satisfaction of users by improving the easy use of the system.

Investigating Vocational High School Students’ Cognitive Load of Infusing Nanotechnology into Electronics Subjects

The purposes of this study were to develop a novel material which was infused nanotechnology into electronics subjects to vocational high school students’with no background in nanotechnology. And then to investigate the cognitive load of them, after they learnedthenovel curriculum pattern. The researchers began todevelop a novel electricsmaterial which is consisted of four chapters includedseven sectionsby experts of electronics, nanotechnology and vocational education. Theexperimentswere conducted by using PPT pedagogy to teach the nanotechnology infused into electronicscourse between twodepartments ofvocational high schools. After four months and four times in one month experimental teaching, cognitive load scale questionnaireand K of KAP scale questionnairewere examined.Finally, the applications of this materialare illustrated that the performances of K scores weresignificant differencebetween electronic engineering department and information engineering department.