Yuan-Hsun Liao

Interactive Whiteboard Teaching in English Education Based on Dual Code Theory and Bloom Teaching Quality

The current trend is towards multimedia educational materials in the classroom for Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. Electronic Interactive Whiteboard which is innovative equipment can be used to improve instructional environment and to increase the teacher-student interaction. But there is no appropriate management and integration of teaching with multimedia and whiteboard. This thesis designs a humanized teaching system with two-column whiteboard which conveniently manages activities in the classroom. A teacher uses two-column scenario to present the teaching materials of dual-channels, image and text to integrate the teaching materials of complete lecture and the designs of teaching activities for classroom management. In summary, teachers will be more lively and interesting in teaching and easily to realize classroom management and students have more motivation in learning.

Utilizing an Online Group Study Environment to Enhance Student Reading Ability and Learning Effectiveness

This paper proposes an online reading system that incorporates group study, called the OGS system, to enhance student reading ability and learning effectiveness. With the OGS system, a student can immediately share the experience of reading e-books with other group study students. Students can also use an online social network for the exchange of knowledge with other students. Teachers can provide guidance before students read or during the reading process. After the conclusion of group study, teachers and students can review their portfolios during this online social network meeting to discover deficiencies in their activities. In this study, an exploratory test was conducted with 32 males and 10 females at a college. Research data were collected using a questionnaire for the students. The results revealed that the OGS system is helpful to students in terms of reading skills, cooperative learning, and friendship.

Digital microscope recording system to enhance students' understanding of biological observation

Electronic microscopy is a widely used instrument to observe micro movement or system of an object. Keeping the snapshot and phenomenon of the observing object is an important theme during the observation process. However, much literature described that people have to record the observed phenomenon under a microscope into text by hands, meaning that they need to spend more time and cost on handling the text records after the observation. A system to improve such a situation is needed, particularly in the teaching process. Therefore, we propose a Digital Microscope Recording System (DMRS) to help to digitalize the observation. DMRS can receive the real-time images captured by a USB digital microscope and the then students can select the pictures they want, draw symbols on them and add textual descriptions for these symbols. Finally, students can convert these records into a web page file or a document file so that they can discuss the observed biological phenomenon with the classmate easily or poste the results via internet.

Multi-media e-Learning Platform Using Green Design with Near-Real Approach

The most of e-Learning and video conference platform receives the limitation of population and the file format, the inconvenience to the users, and requirement of specific software. This paper proposes an effective method and the solution for this problem. The solution uses well-known multimedia stream format and uses green design concept with near real approach. The limitation of extra software installations, the limitation of user licensees and the limitation of location will be solved with this design.