17th International Conference eLearning and Software for Education

This article describes the Blended Teaching and Learning methodologies and the pedagogical approaches that use Information and Communication Technologies in the field of Electrical and Computers Engineering (ECE) Education Programs. The paper also reflects the collaboration in the field of Online Engineering between the Technical University “Gh. Asachi” from Iasi, Romania and Menoufia University, Egypt, in the context of the Erasmus Plus Program of the European Union. In this paper, we have reviewed the recent documents of: European Society for Engineering Education, International Society for Engineering Education, Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, International Association of Online Engineering, and American Society for Engineering Education to identify the specific pedagogical characteristics used in the computerized training process. The integration of online laboratories in the engineering training process, the use of Virtual Learning Environments, the inclusion of Open Educational Resources are the strategies used in this project. The impact of using Massive Open Online Courses in Education Programs is also analyzed. The cooperation between our universities began in 2017 and have result in the publication of a number of articles in International Conferences Proceedings in 2018 and 2019: International Conference on Virtual Learning, eLearning and Software for Education, International Conference on Electromechanical and Energy Systems. Between August 1, 2020 and July 31, 2021, an exchange of teachers and students will take place within an Erasmus Plus Action.KeywordsBlended Teaching and LearningVirtual and remote laboratoriesOpen Educational ResourcesElectrical and computers engineering education programsVirtual Learning Environments

Open source software has dramatically reduced the cost of computing. Initiatives to replicate this cost reduction in educational software have initially been slow to take off. Here the development and release of open educational resources are considered and the problems of overcoming issues of shared copyright with, and liability of, the institution (i.e. university) are addressed. Solutions for the long-term sustainability of open educational resources appear to be the commitment of external funding for their development and the scholarly recognition of the production of such resources.

To teach histology with the computer instead of the microscope seems to be like “a fight against the wave” especially for those countries with a “frozen in time” learning methods. Such changes seem to have an unexpected impact on teachers, students and society being paved with challenges and pitfalls solvable by own “step by step” experience overlapped on young generation actual needs. Present work started in 2017 at Department of Histology, by acquisition of E-School System. Conventional microscopes were replaced by computers and glass slides were scanned. We evaluated the e-Learning and eAssessment impact on student’s skills and performance and on teachers and tutors work. “Computer gaming” with histology was delightful for students. By contrast, teachers were afraid initially of losing jobs. Standardized information’s given to students helped them to pass evaluations easier. Exams stress decreased while attendance increased. Students’ confidence in the accuracy of the exam was improved. Time for evaluation was significantly reduced giving to teachers more time for research. Teaching and exam module software was periodically updated, being adapted to our curriculum. Conclusions. Implemented for the first time in preclinical medical education in Romania, eLearning and e-Assessment had a quick positive impact on students and teachers.

IntroductionPharmacological interventions to address behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) can have undesirable side effects, therefore non-pharmacological approaches to managing symptoms may be preferable. Past studies show that music...

Event Summary Join one of our upcoming webinars to discuss community-supported routes for convening the first-ever international research software conference in 2025/26, or provide feedback asynchronously on the options paper, Towards an international research software conference (version 2). ReSA is engaging with key stakeholders to identify and recommend possible options, with three conference options proposed currently.

This issue’s column reports on presentations at the 11th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 13th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering, and 21st International Systems and Software Product Line Conference.

The 9th International Workshop on Theorem-Proving Components for Educational Software (ThEdu'20) was scheduled to happen on June 29 as a satellite of the IJCAR-FSCD 2020 joint meeting, in Paris. The COVID-19 pandemic came by surprise, though, and the main conference was virtualised. Fearing that an online meeting would not allow our community to fully reproduce the usual face-to-face networking opportunities of the ThEdu initiative, the Steering Committee of ThEdu decided to cancel our workshop. Given that many of us had already planned and worked for that moment, we decided that ThEdu'20 could still live in the form of an EPTCS volume. The EPTCS concurred with us, recognising this very singular situation, and accepted our proposal of organising a special issue with papers submitted to ThEdu'20. An open call for papers was then issued, and attracted five submissions, all of which have been accepted by our reviewers, who produced three careful reports on each of the contributions. The resulting revised papers are collected in the present volume. We, the volume editors, hope that this collection of papers will help further promoting the development of theorem-proving-based software, and that it will collaborate to improve the mutual understanding between computer mathematicians and stakeholders in education. With some luck, we would actually expect that the very special circumstances set up by the worst sanitary crisis in a century will happen to reinforce the need for the application of certified components and of verification methods for the production of educational software that would be available even when the traditional on-site learning experiences turn out not to be recommendable.

This article aims to describe student responses when implementing SFH and provide an outline of six recommendations for the implementation of online learning during COVID-19, with the expectancy that learning under any conditions will continue to run benevolently. This study had a total of 693 participants with 416 (60%) women and 277 (40%) men, with a vulnerable age 17-24 years. In total, 34 universities across Indonesia participated in this study. This study uses online surveys as a method of collecting qualitative research. In this situation, the state, to respond to instruction on integrating online learning during the epidemic in universities, was given recommendations. In order to make conclusions easily understood by researchers and readers, data is organized into categories and described as units. During COVID-19, the Ministry of Education and Culture prepares educational regulations that are socialized via digital media. Online learning rose by 10.3% between COVID-19 and prior. WhatsApp is utilized 38.2% and Google Classroom 34.92%. This article also discusses some student feedback and complaints. The education office and school have strong communication. However, it is vital to adopt national rules connected to online learning that do not burden schools, students, teachers, or parents. Aside from that, the government should work with local and international online education software developers. Ensuring that education continues to run ideally in Indonesia, despite its limitations and issues, by developing a standard operating process for online learning evaluation.

This case study follows an international e-learning software development project between the India and China Technology Centers of the largest independent software company in the world. The case presents many of the major intercultural project challenges that can typically arise in an information technology workplace. This example focuses on the customization and deployment of an e-learning framework supporting online and physical libraries of technical publications. This library forms an integral component of blended e-learning solutions for the technical workforce. The case uses a running narrative, project artifacts, e-mails, and team debriefings. Students will encounter reflective questioning and be given the opportunity to recognize key milestones and strategies that they might consider adopting when working with intercultural, virtual teams in their professional careers.

Network-based physical education in m iddle schools is a new research subject and a new field of m iddle school physical educational re form, playing a very im portant role in the improvement of the overall quality of physical teachers of senior m iddle schools, the application of information technology, the propelling of m iddle school students to go deeply into the field of physical education and improvement of humanistic qualities of athletes. OBJECT AND METHOD OF RESEARCH1.1 Object of research Make research of the m iddle school network conditions as well as the network attitude of middle school students through surfing the Internet and making on-line consultation, and understanding the common conditions of schools and universities th rough understanding the current conditions of college and university.1.2 Researching method 1.2.1 Survey research Understand the general conditions of the 45 m iddle schools' campus networks with the method of surfing the Internet for survey.1.2.2Mathematical statistic method Make statistic processing and analyzing to the data achieved through survey.1.2.3 Theoretic analyzing method Put forward the measures for the development of the physical education of middle schools through using theories and methods in information theory and teaching theory.1.2.4 Documental material method Make reference to documental materials related to progresses and results of the research of middle school physical education 2. SURVEY RESULT AND ANALYSIS 2.1 Conditions of sports web pages in middle schools' websites 2.1.1Number of sports websites in middle school's websites Among all the middle schools, 85% have not set sports websites in their websites, and 14.5% have set sports websites in th eir websites, among which, national level key m iddle schools accounts for 95.3%, provincial level key m iddle schools accounts for 3.3%, and other middle schools accounts for 1.4%, showing that the national level key middle schools attach m ore importance to the network-based physical education comparatively.2.1.2Columns of the sports web pages in the websites of middle schools The columns of the sports web pag es, mainly includes spo rts news, sp orts competition, sports exercise, sports news and sports consultation, w hich can generally showing the contents of physical education in m iddle schools.However , comparing with the needs of middle school students, the number of the columns is smaller and the capacity of columns is lower.Since sports webpage is one of the fastest m edia in the speed of exchanging inform ation, we should increase the num ber of

These proceedings contain the papers from the 29th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2021), held online November 2-5, 2021. The conference started as a series of workshops and symposia back in 1993 with the aim of promoting interdisciplinary discussions among researchers, developers, users, and practitioners and fostering research in all aspects of geographic information systems, especially in relation to novel systems based on geospatial data and knowledge. It continues to provide a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design and implementation aspects of geospatial data ranging from applications, user interfaces and visualization, to data storage, query processing, indexing and data mining. The conference is the premier annual event of the ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (ACM SIGSPATIAL).

As we assemble at the beautiful Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, to attend the IRMMW-THz Conference, it is proper and fitting to look back at what was accomplished in the past to help us arrive at this landmark fiftieth meeting of this highly successful conference series. The International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) is the oldest and largest continuous forum specifically devoted to the field of ultra-high frequency electronics and long-wave electromagnetics. The first conference in this series was held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, in 1974. In his Foreword to the Conference Digest, Kenneth Button of MIT predicted that the Conference would "be the first of a long series because the submillimeter wave specialty has become well-defined and moderately well populated." This prediction was very prescient. In 2004, the original conference series – The International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves (IRMMW) - joined with The International Conference on THz Electronics to form the Joint 29th International Conference on Infrared and Millimeter Waves and the 12th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics (IRMMW-THz 2004). In 2008, the conference name was shortened to the International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves. In 2009, the conference series was incorporated as a science society registered in the USA, and in 2016 it was converted into a non-profit international science organization. The society hosts the website https://www.irmmw-thz.org/. With this strong foundation, the Conference is sure to continue as an extremely valuable resource for scientists and engineers in our field.

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Welcome to the special issue on selected papers from the ELECO-2013 Conference!, the 8th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, held 28–30 November 2013, in Bursa-Turkey. ELECO conferences go back to 1986, when it was initially organized as national ELMEKSEM Electromechanical Conference by the Chamber of Electrical Engineers (EMO) Bursa Branch and upon that success repeated in 1988 and 1993 and 1997. The Bursa Branch has further gone on to organize a series of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Conferences in Bursa. ELECO conferences are organized at international level in odd numbered years and as national conferences in even numbered years, such as ELECO’2013 is the eight international conference which participants coming from various countries, presenting papers from the wide spectrum of electrical and electronics engineering. ELECO 2013 is jointly organized by Uludag University, Bursa; Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul and the Chamber of Turkish Electrical Engineers (EMO) Bursa Branch. The IEEE Region 8, IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Turkey section and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey are co-sponsors of ELECO 2013. Taking the broad scope of the technical program, it is probably the largest electrical and electronics engineering conference ever held in Turkey. The scope of the conference covers topics ranging over electric power systems, electrical machines and drives, power electronics, high voltage techniques, electrical materials, electronics, circuits and systems, signal processing, electromagnetics, antennas and propagation, microwave theory, communication systems, mechatronics, control theory, control applications, automation systems, robotics and intelligent control systems. Two hundred and thirty five papers have been submitted for presentation and 138 papers have been accepted. If we look at the contributions with respect to geographical point of view, it is seen that ELECO 2013 contributions are coming from 17 different countries. Selected papers from previous international ELECO Conferences were invited to be published in extended form in special ELECO issues of international journals, under peer review. Three special ELECO issues appeared in the journal Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing containing selected papers from ELECO’2001, ELECO’2007 and ELECO’2011. Furthermore, four special ELECO issues appeared in the journal TJEECS: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences where selected papers from ELECO’2003, ELECO’2005, ELECO’2007, and ELECO’2009 were published in extended form, respectively. This special issue on selected papers from ELECO’2013 contains extended versions of 12 papers presented at the conference, chosen among 19 recipients of the call for the papers for the special issue. All papers had to undergo the usual ALOG review process before they were finally accepted for this special issue. One of these papers is selected from invited talks given by world-known scientists during the conference. Six papers are selected from the papers presented in Special Session on Advances and New Design Possibilities for Analog Signal Processing. The other five are chosen from regular submitted manuscripts. H. H. Kuntman (&) S. Ozoguz O. Cicekoglu Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey e-mail: kuntman@itu.edu.tr