Technology Enhanced Learning: Quality of Teaching and Educational Reform

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Reforming Education, Quality of Teaching and Technology Enhanced Learning, TECH-EDUCATION 2010, held in Athens, Greece, in May 2010, as a part of the World Summit on the Knowledge Society Conference Series. The 100 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 194 submissions. The topics addressed include - but are not limited to - quality of the education; technology enhanced learning; strategies for the education of the 21st century; collaborative, constructivist, pedagogical, teaching approaches; formal, informal, professional, corporate and lifelong learning perspectives; the contribution of education to sustainable development.

Moodle 2.0: Shifting from a Learning Toolkit to a Open Learning Platform.- Technology Enhanced Learning for People with Intellectual Disabilities and Cerebral Paralysis: The MAS Platform.- Student Blogging: Implications for Learning in a Virtual Text-Based Environment.- Confidence-Based Learning in Investment Analysis.- Language Teaching across the Digital Divide.- EduSynergy: A Simulation-Based Change Management Experience for Higher Education Institutions.- The Study of Educative Network Organizations in the City of Barcelona, Spain: The Nou Barris District.- Experimenting Design and Implementation of an Educational Services Management System Based on ISO/IEC 20000 Standard.- Having Your Own Automatic Judge: EEWS.- Mii School: New 3D Technologies Applied in Education to Detect Drug Abuses and Bullying in Adolescents.- KP-Lab System: A Collaborative Environment for Design, Realization and Examination of Different Knowledge Practices.- Machine Learning Support for Human Articulation of Concepts from Examples – A Learning Framework.- Oratoria Online: The Use of Technology Enhaced Learning to Improve Students’ Oral Skills.- Legibility for Users with Visual Disabilities.- Assessment of Andragogical Attributes of Distance Learners.- Moodle 2.0 Web Services Layer and Its New Application Contexts.- Didactic Scenarios and ICT: A Good Practice Guide.- Interactive Whiteboard Integration in Classrooms: Active Teachers Understanding about Their Training Process.- Teaching Business Simulation Games: Comparing Achievements Frontal Teaching vs. eLearning.- The VOLARE Methodology: Using Technology to Help Changing the Traditional Lecture Model.- Towards an Automatic Forum Summarization to Support Tutoring.- Efficiency Assessment of a Blended-Learning Educational Methodology in Engineering.- TELL(Technology-Enhanced Language Learning) and Less-Commonly Taught Languages: The Case of Modern Greek.- A Case Study of Modular-Based Project Oriented Learning in Electrical Engineering.- Origami in Education Enhanced by Computer Technology: A Case Study of Teaching Hexaflexagon in Math Class.- Challenges of Implementing ESD in the Education Sector; Experiences in Norway.- Using Automated Assessment Feedback to Enhance the Quality of Student Learning in Universities: A Case Study.- Lessons Learned from Deploying a Video-Based Web 2.0 Platform in an Executive Education Context.- Improving the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through Classroom Research.- Which Are the Determinants of Online Students’ Efficiency in Higher Education?.- On the Utility of ICT in the European Higher Education Area: The Bologna Process and Its Implications in the Innovation of the Teaching and Learning Process.- Computer Programming: Fail Fast to Learn Sooner.- Experiential Collaborative Learning and Preferential Thinking.- Computer Sciences Applied to Management at Open University of Catalonia: Development of Competences of Teamworks.- From Workshop to the Web: Reflections on the Journey in Producing Vidcasts to Enhance Student Learning.- ‘Virtual Learning-by-Doing’ Teamwork KSA: Strategic Management Simulation as an Effective Tool.- The Digital Board in a University Setting: Two Real Cases in Europe and East Africa.- E-Learning across Cultural Boundaries: A European Perspective on Technology Acceptance.- Using Collaboration Strategies to Support the Monitoring of Online Collaborative Learning Activity.- Knowledge Construction with Social Web Tools.- Information Security Threats Analysis for E-Learning.- Employability: Challenges for Education and Training Systems.- System and User Characteristics in the Adoption and Use of e-Learning Management Systems: A Cross-Age Study.- A Comparative Study on the Influence between Interaction and Performance in Postgraduate In-Class and Distance Learning Courses Based on the Analysis of LMS Logs.- Education for Sustainable Development through the Use of the Second Life: The Case of a Virtual Museum for Sharks.- Quality of Project Management Education and Training Programmes.- ICT in the Education of Students with SEN: Perceptions of Stakeholders.- A Haptic-Based Framework for Chemistry Education: Experiencing Molecular Interactions with Touch.- The Academic Advising System in a Virtual University.- Course Evaluation Study in Europe: The Current Picture.- Enhanced Learning Methodologies and the Implementation of an Identification Course.- The Reforming of Vocational Teacher Training Colleges in Turkey.- Multicultural Interdisciplinary Handbook (MIH): Tools for Learning History and Geography in a Multicultural and ICT Perspective.- A Process for Improving Course Quality Based on Mid-semester Feedback.- The Challenges of Digital Literacy in the Context of the Spanish Government Educational Policies: The Statement of the Question.- The Role That Web 2.0 Currently Has and Could Have in the Future in Supporting the Teaching of ICT Design for All.- Measuring Technological and Content Knowledge of Undergraduate Primary Teachers in Mathematics.- The Workbook Service in a Learning Virtual Communities’ Platform.- Representations of Disability: School and Its Cultural Effects.- Adaptative Peer to Peer Data Sharing for Technology Enhanced Learning.- E-Learning as an Opportunity for the Public Administration.- Embedding Educational Design Pattern Frameworks into Learning Management Systems.- A Technology Enhanced Learning Model for Quality Education.- A Hybrid Teaching and Learning Model.- Integration of Subject Related ICT in Schools Is Failing; Could Revival of System Dynamics and Simulations Be an Example towards Improvement?.- Student Development in Higher Education: A Constructivist Approach.- Balancing Teacher Quality and Quantity.- An Automatic Indicator of the Reusability of Learning Objects Based on Metadata That Satisfies Completeness Criteria.- Recognizing the “Transformational” in Preservice Digital Literacy Assignments.- Getting Ready for the “School of the Future”: Key Questions and Tentative Answers.- Modeling Project Management Competences: An Ontology-Based Solution for Competency-Based Learning.- Measuring the Quality of the u-Learning Service Using the Zone of Tolerance SERVQUAL.- The Social Network Classroom.- A Process-Oriented Model for Technology-Enhanced Learning.- Extending LMS to Support IRT-Based Assessment Test Calibration.- Family Involvement as a Priority Element for an Educational Action Based on Dialogic Learning.- A Threats Blocking Plug-in for Open Source Learning Management Systems.- Design of an Interactive Game for Teaching War Ethics.- BriteStep: Automation in IT Assessment.- From Empiricism to Total Quality Management in Greek Education.- Evolutionary Approach of Virtual Communities of Practice: A Reflection within a Network of Spanish Rural Schools.- Union Catalogs of Learning Objects: Why Not?.- Evaluation Study of Pedagogical Methods and E – Learning Material via Web 2.0 for Hearing Impaired People.- Towards a Pragmatic Model for Group-Based, Technology-Mediated, Project-Oriented Learning – An Overview of the B2C Model.- Video Conferencing and Knowledge Management in In-Service Teacher Distance Lifelong Training and Development.- Supporting Teachers to Automatically Build Accessible Pedagogical Resources: The APEINTA Project.- Developing the School of the Future Based on Quality Principles.- Digital Literacy Development of Students Involved in an ICT Educational Project.- SOLE: Applying Semantics and Social Web to Support Technology Enhanced Learning in Software Engineering.- Retracted: Design Education in the Global Era.- Integrated Design of Basic Training, Practicum and End-of-Course Assignment Modules in the Teacher Training Degree: Perception of University Teachers, Students, and School Teachers.- Students’ Satisfaction with an Undergraduate Primary Education Teaching Practicum Design on Developing Technological, Pedagogical and Mathematical Knowledge.- Web-Based Optimization System Applied to the Teaching of Mathematical Programming.- New Insights and New Approaches for Lifelong Learning.- GeoGebra: A Global Platform for Teaching and Learning Math Together and Using the Synergy of Mathematicians.- Reducing Stress within the Rehabilitative Work Setting – A Report on the ROSE Project.- Teaching for Multiple Intelligences in Undergraduate Education.- New Learning – The IPP Programme: Improvements in Learning and Self Esteem by Changing the Organization of Learning.- Recruitment and Rotation of the Trainers in the Lifelong Learning Context.- Erratum: Design Education in the Global Era.