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A scalable cloud Platform for Active healthcare monitoring applications

- Balasubramanian, Venki, Stranieri, Andrew

  • Authors: Balasubramanian, Venki , Stranieri, Andrew
  • Date: 2015
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: 2014 IEEE Conference on e-Learning, e-Management and e-Services, IC3e 2014; Melbourne, Australia; 10th-12th December 2014 p. 93-98
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  • Description: Continuous, remote monitoring of patients using wearable sensors can facilitate early detection of many conditions and can help to manage the growing healthcare crisis worldwide. A remote patient monitoring application consists of many emerging services such as wireless wearable sensor configuration, patient registration and authentication, collaborative consultation of doctors, storage and maintenance of electronic health record. The provision of these services requires the development and maintenance of a remote healthcare monitoring application (HMA) that includes a body area wireless sensor network (BASWN) and Health Applications (HA) to detect specific health issues. In addition, the deployment of HMAs for different hospitals is not easily scalable owing to the heterogeneous nature of hardware and software involved. Cloud computing overcomes this aspect by allowing simple and easy maintenance of ICT infrastructure. In this work, we report a real-time-like cloud based architecture known as Assistive Patient monitoring cloud Platform for Active healthcare applications (AppA) using a delegate pattern. The built AppA is highly scalable and capable of spawning new instances based on monitoring requirements from the health care providers, and are aligned with scalable economic models. © 2014 IEEE.

The tin-man and the TAM: A journey into M-learning in the Land of Aus

- Peck, Blake, Deans, Cecil, Stockhausen, Lynette

  • Authors: Peck, Blake , Deans, Cecil , Stockhausen, Lynette
  • Date: 2010
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: World Journal on Educational Technology Vol. , no. (2010), p. 16-26
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  • Description: Within the past few years the virtues and pitfalls of Podcasting specifically within the higher education environment have been extolled. However, there is little, if any discussion of how academic staff have undergone this period of transformation in an era of technological adoption and sweeping pedagogic change. Using the technology adoption model (Davis 1989) as a theoretical platform and the characters from the classic film the Wizard of Oz as signposts, this paper explores and describes a staff development journey that M-Learning pedagogies. More specifically the way in which Podcast technology was introduced in an undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing program conducted in a regional University in Victoria, Australia. The journey's resultant destination reveals that courage; passion and an openness to try something new are essential for the successful introduction of new electronic pedagies by academics.
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E-Learning challenges for electronics and mechatronics education during lockdowns

- Jayawardena, Amal, Kahandawa, Gayan, Petty, Mark

Extending the technology acceptance model for use of e-learning systems by digital learners

- Hanif, Aamer, Jamal, Faheem, Imran, Muhammad

  • Authors: Hanif, Aamer , Jamal, Faheem , Imran, Muhammad
  • Date: 2018
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: IEEE Access Vol. 6, no. (2018), p. 73395-73404
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  • Description: Technology-based learning systems enable enhanced student learning in higher-education institutions. This paper evaluates the factors affecting behavioral intention of students toward using e-learning systems in universities to augment classroom learning. Based on the technology acceptance model, this paper proposes six external factors that influence the behavioral intention of students toward use of e-learning. A quantitative approach involving structural equation modeling is adopted, and research data collected from 437 undergraduate students enrolled in three academic programs is used for analysis. Results indicate that subjective norm, perception of external control, system accessibility, enjoyment, and result demonstrability have a significant positive influence on perceived usefulness and on perceived ease of use of the e-learning system. This paper also examines the relevance of some previously used external variables, e.g., self-efficacy, experience, and computer anxiety, for present-world students who have been brought up as digital learners and have higher levels of computer literacy and experience. © 2018 IEEE.

Enhancing the management of deteriorating patients with Australian on line e-simulation software : Acceptability, transferability, and impact in Hong Kong

- Sparkes, Louise, Chan, Maggie, Cooper, Simon J., Pang, Michelle, Tiwari, Agnes

  • Authors: Sparkes, Louise , Chan, Maggie , Cooper, Simon J. , Pang, Michelle , Tiwari, Agnes
  • Date: 2016
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Nursing and Health Sciences Vol. 18, no. 3 (2016), p. 393-399
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  • Description: International concerns relating to healthcare professionals’ failure to rescue deteriorating patients exist. Web-based training programs have been developed and evaluated in Western settings but further testing is required before application in non-Western countries, as traditional modalities of learning may differ between cultures. We trialed an Australian English language online simulation program for the management of deteriorating patients, Feedback Incorporating Review and Simulation Techniques to Act on Clinical Trends (FIRST2ACTWeb), to test cultural acceptability, transferability, and educational impact. The study was designed as a quasi-experimental evaluation of the FIRST2ACTWeb program with final year nursing students from a Bachelor of Nursing program at the University of Hong Kong. Participants completed pre-course and post-course tests, three interactive scenarios, and program evaluations. The program was positively evaluated, with significant improvements in knowledge, skills, self-rating of performance, confidence, and competence. Outcomes were comparable to earlier evaluations with Australian students, demonstrating that an interactive simulation-based program of patient deterioration management has cultural and language acceptability and transferability across communities with significant educational impact. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.

The preliminary investigation of the factors that influence the E-learning adoption in higher education institutes: Jordan case study

- Al-Hawari, Maen, Al-Halabi, S.

  • Authors: Al-Hawari, Maen , Al-Halabi, S.
  • Date: 2010
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 8, no. 4 (2010), p. 1-11
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  • Description: Creativity and high performance in learning processes are the main concerns of educational institutions. E-learning contributes to the creativity and performance of these institutions and reproduces a traditional learning model based primarily on knowledge transfer into more innovative models based on collaborative learning. In this paper, the authors focus on the preliminary investigation of factors that influence e-learning adoption in Jordan. As a pioneer country for e-learning systems in the Middle East, an investigation has been completed for one of Jordan's universities that has implemented e-learning. Factors are defined through the analysis of unstructured interviews with developers and users of the e-learning systems, and Leximancer content analysis software is used to analyze the interview's content. Main factors include Internet, legislations, human factors, and Web content. Copyright © 2010, IGI Global.

As simple as pressing a button? A review of the literature on BigBlueButton

- Ukoha, Chukwuma

  • Authors: Ukoha, Chukwuma
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: 6th Information Systems International Conference, ISICO 2021, Virtual, Online 7 August 2021through 8 August 2021, Procedia Computer Science Vol. 197, p. 503-511
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  • Description: BigBlueButton is an open source virtual classroom software. Since this software was released in 2009, many studies have explored how to use it, especially for e-learning. However, to date, there is no published systematic synthesis of the relevant literature on the subject. This literature review appraises the effectiveness of BigBlueButton in educational settings and pulls relevant pieces of information together into a readable format. The main conclusion is that BigBlueButton is intuitive, interoperable with other software and has the potential to positively affect the learning performance of students. Despite the features and functionalities of BigBlueButton, several limitations are apparent: web conference educators have less control over online teaching compared with their face-to-face counterparts, practical subjects are difficult to teach through web conferencing, technical challenges may affect web-conferencing sessions, web conferencing requires skills additional to those of conventional teaching, cultural differences may affect students' attitudes towards web conference-based learning and educators that teach through web conferencing may feel isolated in their role, both geographically and collegially. By reviewing the features, potential impacts and limitations of BigBlueButton, this study contributes to the growing literature on web conferencing systems and provides insights into the role of BigBlueButton in e-learning. © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

When technology-based learning is the only option : evaluating perceived usefulness of social media

- Hanif, Aamer, Imran, Muhammad

  • Authors: Hanif, Aamer , Imran, Muhammad
  • Date: 2022
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education Vol. 23, no. 2 (2022), p. 107-119
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  • Description: During unusual times involving discontinued face to face sessions in formal education settings, mobile learning (m-learning) involving social networking sites has become a popular alternative since students are always in possession of handheld electronic devices. When connection through technology was the only option due to social distancing in current pandemic, students who were already active extensive users of social networks found online learning as a new way of getting formal education. The objective of this study was to explore how the state of student’s behavioral intention for social media based online learning is driven by external factors like subjective norm and self-efficacy. To fulfill this aim, this study uses a quantitative approach to study the factors that mediate the decision behavior of students towards social media employed as a learning platform and use of m-learning involving social networks. A sample of management science students (n= 255) from four universities participated in the research. Analysis of data suggested that subjective norm and self-efficacy were significant predictors for student participation in e-learning initiatives involving social media and networks. The proposed serial mediation model revealed that self-efficacy and perceived usefulness in that order were playing a positive significant role in student use of social networking for learning. No significant differences were observed between either gender when self-efficacy, perceived usefulness, and use of social media in education were considered. © 2022

Virtual worlds : A new window to healthcare education

- Rogers, Luke

  • Authors: Rogers, Luke
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference proceedings
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  • Description: Computer-based clinical simulations are powerful teaching tools due to their ability to expand healthcare students' clinical experience by providing practice-based learning. These simulations encourage active participation and can enhance the retention and transfer of learning. Despite the benefits of such clinical simulations there are significant issues which arise when incorporating them into an educational healthcare strategy. For many healthcare educators the key issue becomes; how to apply computer-based simulations in a cooperative and collaborative self-directed environment. Second Life provides healthcare students with an online social presence, enabling a comprehensive environment for online interaction and collaborative practice-based learning. The purpose of this poster is to investigate how the benefits of virtual worlds, such as Second Life, can be employed to overcome the barriers involved in traditional computer-based clinical simulations. This poster presents how a virtual clinical simulation developed within Second Life can be used by healthcare educators to deliver hands-on team-oriented online interactive learning. The virtual clinical simulation provides healthcare students with an experience that simulates the feel of a clinical setting, while removing the costs and challenges of traditional simulations as well as the barriers involved in traditional computer-based simulations. Healthcare educators should consider incorporating interactive virtual worlds into teaching strategies to further enhance clinical simulations. For this practise to be successful, however, further research among healthcare professionals and educators is required to design a model which outlines the key concepts and practical approach to developing an online virtual simulation for healthcare students. © 2008 Luke Rogers.
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Synchronous learning and teaching in engineering education in response to COVID situations

- Phung, Truong

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