TY - BOOK AU - Iskander,Magued ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Innovative Techniques in Instruction Technology, E-learning, E-assessment, and Education SN - 9781402087394 AV - QA76.758 U1 - 005.1 23 PY - 2008/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer Netherlands KW - Computer science KW - Computer network architectures KW - Software engineering KW - Electronics KW - Computer Science KW - Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems KW - Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks KW - Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation N2 - Innovative Techniques in Instruction Technology, E-Learning, E-Assessment and Education is a collection of world-class paper articles addressing the following topics: E-Learning including development of courses and systems for technical and liberal studies programs; online laboratories; intelligent testing using fuzzy logic; evaluation of on line courses in comparison to traditional courses; mediation in virtual environments; and methods for speaker verification. Instruction Technology including internet textbooks; pedagogy-oriented markup languages; graphic design possibilities; open source classroom management software; automatic email response systems; tablet-pcs; personalization using web mining technology; intelligent digital chalkboards; virtual room concepts for cooperative scientific work; and network technologies, management, and architecture. Science and Engineering Research Assessment Methods including assessment of K-12 and university level programs; adaptive assessments; auto assessments; assessment of virtual environments and e-learning. Engineering and Technical Education including cap stone and case study course design; virtual laboratories; bioinformatics; robotics; metallurgy; building information modeling; statistical mechanics; thermodynamics; information technology; occupational stress and stress prevention; web enhanced courses; and promoting engineering careers. Pedagogy including benchmarking; group-learning; active learning; teaching of multiple subjects together; ontology; and knowledge representation. Issues in K-12 Education including 3D virtual learning environment for children; e-learning tools for children; game playing and systems thinking; and tools to learn how to write foreign languages UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8739-4 ER -