Month: January 2014
Roles of Community Colleges to Enhance strengthening Community in Thailand
The important role of community colleges apart from expanding educational opportunities to develop professional development for people in community is …
The Elements of Creative Culture in Thai Higher Education Institutions
Creative culture is the shared values reflected by the organization's behavior and attitude in the joint task of the people …
Invigorating Literature Teaching in Taiwan through Drama
English Literature courses are elective and considered minor courses in the departments of Applied English in institutes of technology in …
Training of Technical Teachers through Integration of Information & Communication Technology in India
Technology has provided the platform for learning i.e anyone can learn anything, any where any time. The potential of technology …
Diversity and Assistive Technology: Focusing on the analysis of special education magazines from 1999 to 2009 in Japan and The United States
People with disabilities who are able to make use of adequate Assistive Technology (hereafter referred to as AT), are more …
Students with Visual Disability and Active Touch: Levels of Understanding and Think Aloud Protocols
There is a lot of ongoing research regarding the key functions of the sense of active touch and their links …
Making of a Japanese Traditional Automation, Namely Renrigaeri, and Its Application to Education
We report results of science classes in which the fourth, fifth, or sixth year pupils in elementary schools made Renrigaeri …
Developing International Professional Qualification Standards in the Computer Field for Academic Personnel of Rajamangala University of Technology
The purpose of the research study was to develop international professional qualification standards in computer for academic personnel of Rajamangala …
Adoption of a Personal Learning Environment & Network to Support Learning
The 21st century is a knowledge and digital era. The issues of changing condition and information overload challenge people’s abilities …
The Effect of Game Design on Game Play Time and Learning Outcomes
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the design of a social studies mobile game on game play time …
Effect of Assessment on Group Work Activities Using Wiki
This study investigates the implementation of wiki in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning environment. Many research works have proceeded to identifying …
Feasibility Analysis of Investment Projects on Housing Development in Thailand with Valuation Technique Based on Economy Factor
This research concerns feasibility analysis of investment project in housing development in Thailand with valuation technique based on economy factor. …
A Computer Game for Cultural Learning and Promotion: A Case Study of Thai Risk-Loss Cultures
In this modern world, communication and transportation has become more convenient and faster than before. This rapid growth of globalization …
The Relevance of Software Development Education for Students
According to Bill Gates the 3 R's: Rigour, Relevance and Relationaships are the most important aspects of education reform. In …
Knowledge Engineering for Developing Knowledge Management System: College of Arts, Media and Technology, Thailand
Research and Development are crucial to every university aiming at being the world-class educational institute internationally accepted. The College of …
The OrBITal Map: A New Design Tool for an Effective Representation of Knowledge Systems and Instructional Objectives
In search of tools for effective content analysis and representation of knowledge systems, instructional designers usually use concept or mental …
The Different Involvement of Kinect Games in Physical Education Courses Effect on the Baseball Batting Skill Learning Performance of High School Students
The purpose of this study was to discuss the different involvement of kinect games in high school physical education courses. …
The Action Research of Synthesizing Lessons of Suitable Radio Program for Children in the East of Thailand
This paper contains three objectives, which are (i) to examine present styles and contents of the appropriate radio programs for …
Female Teenager’s Perseption toward Indonesian Boyband’s Masculinity in the 2010
This research figure out gender discourse which stored in Indonesian Boyband performance as one of the popular culture’s text. The …
Social Media and Online Activism in Kazakhstan: A New Challenge for Authoritarianism?
The internet provides new channels for citizen voices, expression of minority viewpoints, and political mobilisation. In Egypt, Russia, Syria and …
Visual Social Communication Through Photographic Images
Social commentary is a method of photographic images that could change public perception towards a better life. It is an …
Applying the Conjoint Technique in Identifying Preschool Preference of an Ideal Computer Game for Nutrition Literacy
The advancements and innovations in the industries of healthcare and education are at the threshold of a breakthrough. The main …
Nutrition-related Computer Game Use Resulted to Improved Health Literacy among Preschoolers in the Philippines
Health education aided with technology has been recently examined by experts as a new approach in extending universal efforts to …
Predictors of Nutrition-related Game Utilization among Preschoolers in the Philippines
ith the pending issues on malnutrition and healthy illiteracy, the focus has been turned towards the potentials share of the …
Teachers as Actors: Lecturing Theory Classes for Students in Vocational Education and Training Institutes
When Confucius and Socrates taught, they had one thing in common: they lectured. Using vocal control, body languages and questioning …
Comparative Analysis of Thinking Process Between Designer and Engineer Based on Case Application of Multispace Design Method
This paper describes each feature of thinking process for a designer and an engineer based on comparative analysis applying Multispace …
Planning and Evaluation Skills: A Search With the Teachers of Italian Schools
This contribution proposes a reflection on the centrality of the construct of competence, which, especially in the last twenty years, …
The Effect of English Visual Presentation in a Second Language Class
The recent years, a great tendency towards the use of technology and its integration into the curriculum has gained a …
Monitoring Progression and Personalized Coaching in a Virtual Gaming World for Learning Sciences
It is important to better integrate the use of web learning applications in classrooms and also to ensure that some …
Sound Used in the Movies: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Wong Kar-Wai’s Film Works
Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Wong Kar-Wai's film work has always been full of controversial topics. Their filming technique often raise extensive …
Identity, Responsibility, then Politics: The Uyghur Diaspora, Facebook and the Construction of Identity Online
This paper presents findings from an examination of the use of online social media among the Uyghur diaspora. The Uyghur …
Characterizing Health-Related Cues to Action: Using Yelp Reviews of Restaurants in Hawaii’s Oahu Island
Even though Yelp’s ability to reflect consumers’ real voices has been questioned (Kuehn, 2013), this social media site—with a platform …
Relationship between Belief Factors with the Teenagers’ Acceptance of the Newspapers
Newspapers contain an abundance of information which enables to enhance the teenagers’ knowledge. Nevertheless, in the current situation, the teenagers’ …
Chinese Social Media as a Dominated Public Sphere: A Case Study of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Sina Weibo
The Internet has long been the focus of Utopian arguments proposing its democratic potential. Most recently, social media has been …
Non-verbal Communication Training with an Interactive Multimedia Application
Non-verbal communication incorporating visual, audio, and contextual information are important to make sense of and navigate the social world. We …
Realizing e-Learning for Higher Education in a Low-Speed Internet Environment
As information and communication technology (ICT) becomes more robust and widely used, there is an increasing number of higher educational …
Application of Designers’ Sketching Skills in Design Education
The use of sketches in the generation of design ideas is thought to have various effects. However, previous studies have …
Screening Otherness: The Potential of Screen Literacy Learning for Cosmopolitan Knowledge and Understanding
Recent cineliteracy projects for young people in Japan and Australia indicate that knowledge and understanding of the moving image impacts …
Development of Scales on the Effects of Gaming in Cyber Cafés in Manila
This study attempted to develop valid and reliable scales towards the effects of gaming in cyber cafés in Manila. In …
The Strategies of Improving Instruction Qualities in Taiwan Senior High Schools from the Perspective of TQM
The purpose of this study was to find out the strategies of improving instruction qualities in senior high schools from …
Theories and Practices in English as an International Language(EIL), World Englishes (WE), English as an Lingua Franca (ELF) Seen in Students Perception Data (1)
This symposium addresses the issues of the gap between theoretical stances and inferential data in WE, EIL and ELF, on …