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The mathematical competence of first year students is an important success factor at least for technical studies. As a significant percentage of students do not have sufficient mathematical skills, universities often utilise blended learning courses to increase these skills prior to the start of studies. Due to the diversity of students and their educational backgrounds, individual strategies are needed to achieve the necessary competence for successfully managing their studies. This paper describes our approach at the University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West, where we are using personalized blended learning concepts based on the measurement of individual mathematical competences at the beginning of a coaching process. This is used to gain a better matching between the individual learner level and the adapted learning concepts. We combine individual presence learning groups and a personalized e-learning environment. This environment is adapted based on mathematical skills of each stud ent. It uses individual learning advices, short-term optical feedback and up to date e-learning material in a Moodle-based LMS (learning management system). The coaching concept is approved by the results of summative and formative evaluations.
Durch Anpassung der Mathematik-Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen in der Studieneingangsphase an die einzelnen Kompetenzen der Studienanfängerinnen und Studienanfänger wird die individuelle Passgenauigkeit der Maßnahmen erhöht und ein hoher Lernfortschritt erzielt. Dies führt zu einer wesentlichen Verbesserung der
Eingangsqualifikation im Bereich der Mathematik und zu einer Homogenisierung der Leistungsfähigkeit von
Studierenden
The term “Cloud Computing” does not primarily specify new types of core technologies but rather addresses features to do with integration, inter-operability and accessibility. Although not new, virtualization and automation are cor features that characterize Cloud Computing. In this paper, we intend to explore the possibility of integrating cloud services with educational scenarios without re-defining neither the technology nor the usage scenarios from scratch. Our suggestion is based on certain solutions that have already been implemented and tested for specific cases.
"Quarter agile" aims to promote older people's social participation and community
via physical and cognitive training which the participants also help create. The project relies heavily on the use of smartphones as training support. Loneliness
and loss of physical and cognitive skills are to be prevented by means of training
and participation in groups. We want to investigate the effects of technology-
assisted training on physical and cognitive performance and social participation of
older people. "Quarter agile" is geared towards healthy people ages 65 and up who are residents of the specified neighborhood.
Design and Evaluation of a Platform Independent Application for Mobile Access of Moodle Quizzes
(2013)
The use of Web Services in modern software development is widely accepted and provides (integrated in an according architecture) a fast, flexible and scalable way for the implementation of modern software products. On the other hand, the development of mobile applications, so called apps, becomes more and more important. While using Web Services also from mobile devices is an already accepted scheme in the development of mobile apps, there is not much work done yet for providing Web Services on mobile devices. Therefore, this paper presents a new perspective to Web Services that could be run on mobile devices and, by this, become mobile Web Services.
One of the most stressing challenges in our culture is the demographic change. On the one hand, people become older and older, at the same time less young people are available in order to support the elderly. Currently, this fact already provides a number of social impacts that need to be solved in the near future. This paper concentrates on the integration of mobile devices in scenarios that allow elderly people to age successfully. Here, the term "aging successfully" refers to broad range of aspects from health to social life of elderly people. A special focus of this paper lies in the question whether services deployed to a mobile device provide advantages in the area of aging successfully. In order to answer this question, both technical challenges are explained and solved by example architectures, and scenarios that benefit from services deployed to mobile devices are explained.
In jedem Unternehmen gibt es Stellen, an denen es nicht rund läuft. In manchen Organisationseinheiten ist Sand im Getriebe, es knirscht und knackt – schon bereits bei der Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Abteilungen. Was kann man tun?
Eine Möglichkeit besteht darin, ein großes Veränderungsprojekt aufzusetzen und alle Mitarbeiter und Führungskräfte ins kalte Wasser zu werfen.
Doch viele dieser großen Veränderungsprojekte scheitern. Hauptgrund ist, dass Führungskräfte von der Notwendigkeit der Änderungen nicht überzeugt sind.
Die Autoren dieses Buchs haben daher einen anderen Ansatz entwickelt:
Veränderung ja, aber in kleinen, nachhaltigen Schritten. In einem solchen kontinuierlichen Veränderungsprozess geht es darum, nach und nach stabil laufende Prozesse einzuführen bzw. bestehende Prozesse zu optimieren. Mit dieser Methode wird die Akzeptanz der Mitarbeiter erreicht. Sie bietet Führungskräften die Möglichkeit, Veränderungen und Prozesse mitzugestalten und sich im Rahmen ihrer Linienverantwortung gezielt einzubringen.
Pedestrian movement analysis at airports - videobased analysis across multiple camera systems
(2013)
Die Entwicklung des automobilen HMI verläuft in immer kürzer werdenden Zyklen. Nichtsdestoweniger läßt sich kaum erahnen, inwieweit sich die Zukunft automobilen HMIs darstellen wird. Im Rahmen eines Experten-Workshops wurden verschiedene zukünftige Szenarien in 5, 10 und 20 Jahren auf Basis von Cockpitskizzen bearbeitet. Als Hilfestellung dienten hierbei drei unterschiedliche Personas, basierend auf verschiedenen prototypischen Kunden.
Das Automobil wird weltweit von verschiedensten Nutzergruppen in Anspruch genommen. Die Notwendigkeit der Anpassung der Benutzerschnittstelle ergibt sich für Automobilhersteller, die weite Kundenkreise erschließen möchten. Dies zielt zum einen auf ältere Autofahrer, aber auch auf Anpassungen, die für andere Märkte nötig sind. Nicht zu vergessen ist auch der generelle Wunsch von Kunden, die Benutzerschnittstelle im Fahrzeug an die eigenen Vorlieben anzupassen. Diese Herausforderungen werden im folgenden erörtert.
One of the latest hypes in IT is the well-known Cloud
Computing paradigm. This paradigm that showed up in recent years
is a paradigm for the dynamic usage of computational power, memory and other computational resources. With respect to hypes, the author strongly believes that the
Cloud Computing paradigm has the potential to survive the hype and to become a usual technology used for the provision of IT based services. Therefore, it will be necessary to deploy Cloud Computing based infrastructures in a professional, stable and reliable way. This would lead to the idea that the Cloud Computing paradigm needs to be concerned with respect to IT Service Management, since cloud based infrastructures have to be managed differently in comparison to a usual infrastructure. This paper discusses, based on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), as the de-facto standard for IT Service Management, whether this de-facto standard might also be able to manage Cloud Computing based infrastructures, how the according processes might change and whether ITIL supports a division of labor between the customer and the service provider
of a Cloud Computing based infrastructure.
The role of mobile devices as Web Service consumers is widely accepted and a large number of mobile applications already consumes Web Services in order to fullfill their task. Nevertheless, the growing number of powerful mobile devices, e.g. mobile phones, tablets even raise the question whether these devices can not only be used as Web Service consumers but at the same time also as Web Service providers. Therefore, this paper presents an approach that allows to deploy Web Services on mobile devices by the usage of the well-known protocols and standards, e.g. SOAP/REST and WSDL.
Collaboration and Technology
(2012)
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Raesfeld, Germany, in September 2012. The 9 revised papers presented together with 12 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are grouped into five themes that represent collaborative learning, social media analytics, conceptual and design models, formal modeling and technical approaches and collaboration support in emergency scenarios.
Applications and research efforts in Mobile Learning constitute a growing field in the area of Technology Enhanced Learning. However, despite a permanent increase of mobile internet accessibility and availability of mobile devices over the past years, a mobile learning environment that is easy to use, widely accepted by teachers and learners, uses widespread off-the-shelf software, and that covers various application scenarios and mobile devices, is not yet available. In this paper, we address this issue by presenting an approach and technical framework called "Mobile Contributions" ("MoCo"). MoCo supports learners to create and send contributions through various channels (including third-party solutions like Twitter, SMS and Facebook), which are collected and stored in a central repository for processing, filtering and visualization on a shared display. A set of different learning and teaching scenarios that can be realized with MoCo are described along with first experiences and insights gained from qualitative and quantitative evaluation.