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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB-BASED LEARNING ICWL 2015 5-8 November 2015 Programme Booklet South China University of Technology Higher Education Mega Centre , Guangzhou, P.R.China http://www.cityu.edu.hk/merc/icwl/icwl2015home.htm

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Table of Contents

 Welcome Message from Conference and Program P.4 Co-Chairs  Message from the Workshop Co-Chairs P.5  Organizing Committee P.6  International Program Committee P.7-8  Conference Venue P.9  Direction to the Conference Venue P.10  Accommodation P.11  Travel Tips P.12-14  ICWL 2015 Programme P.15  Programme in detail  Day 1 (5th Nov., 2015) P.16-20  Day 2 (6th Nov., 2015) P.21-28  Day 3 (7th Nov., 2015) P.29-31  Day 4 (8th Nov., 2015) & Introducing P.32 “Lingnan Impression Garden”

ICWL 2015 - Programme Booklet 3 Welcome Message from Conference and Program Co-chairs

Welcome all of you and it is so happy to have you participating ICWL 2015. The annual International Conference on Web-Based Learning (ICWL) started in Hong Kong in 2002 and has so far been held in Asia (Beijing, Hong Kong, Jinhua, Kenting, Penang, Shanghai), Australia (Melbourne), and Europe (Aachen, Edinburgh, Sinaia, Tallinn). This year, the 14th ICWL conference is organized by South China University of Technology, Sun Yat-sen University (China) and the Hong Kong Web Society. The conference is held in Guangzhou, the third largest Chinese city and the capital of province in South China, which owns a large tertiary education complex, housing ten higher education institutions that educate up to 200,000 students. This year we received 79 submissions from 27 countries worldwide. After a rigorous double-blind review process, 18 papers were accepted as full papers, yielding an acceptance rate of 22.8%. In addition, two invited papers and seven short papers were accepted. These contributions covered the latest findings in various areas of Web-based learning. Moreover, ICWL 2015 features two distinguished keynote presentations and workshops, including Go-Lab, KMEL and IWUM, which covered a wide range of active and emerging topics in Web-based learning, complementing the main conference areas. We would like to thank all the authors for their contribution in maintaining a high-quality conference. We count on your continual support for playing a significant role in the Web-based learning community in the future. We would also like to thank all conference participants for spending your precious time to attend the conference and to share your research ideas and experience. And last but not least, we would like to thank the entire Organizing Committee for putting a lot of effort in conference organization matters.

November 2015 Frederick W.B. Li Mart Laanpere Ralf Klamma Jun Zhang Baltasar Fernández Manjón Rynson W.H. Lau

ICWL 2015 - Programme Booklet 4 Message from the Workshop Co- Chairs

Since its inception in 2002, the International Conference on Web-Based Learning (ICWL) has become an important forum for exchange and dissemination of Web-Based Learning techniques among researchers, educators, and practitioners from the world. In 2015, the conference (ICWL 2015) was held in Guangzhou, China. This volume comprises papers from two workshops, KMEL 2015 and IWUM 2015, which were selected from several proposals for workshops associated with the main conference ICWL 2015. As the collocated events with the main conference, the ICWL 2015 Workshops concentrated on novel ideas and new technologies and developments in the related area of Web-Based Learning. We are glad to find the Workshop Organizers put great effort into soliciting, reviewing and selecting papers through a rigorous process and extensive communications. A total of 20 paper from a wide range of countries were finally accepted. We would like to thank the ICWL organizers for their arrangement and coordination of the presentation sessions of the workshops. We also thank all the authors for their contributions.

November 2015

Zhiguo Gong Yiwei Cao ICWL 2015 Workshop Co-Chairs

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Honorary Conference Chair Guoqiang Han South China University of Technology, China Conference Co-chairs Jun Zhang Sun Yat-sen University, China Baltasar Fernández Manjón Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Rynson W.H. Lau City University of Hong Kong, SAR China Program Co-chairs Frederick W.B. Li University of Durham, UK Mart Laanpere Tallinn University, Estonia Ralf Klamma RWTH Aachen University, Germany Steering Committee Representative Qing Li Hong Kong Web Society, SAR China Organization Chair Wenyin Liu MERC, City University of Hong Kong, SAR China Workshop Co-chairs Zhiguo Gong Macau University, SAR China Yiwei Cao Information Multimedia Communication AG, Germany Special Session Chair Yong Tang South China Normal University, China Poster Chair Yi Cai South China University of Technology, China Publicity Co-chairs Elvira Popescu University of Craiova, Romania Tianyong Hao Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China Finance Chair Howard Leung Hong Kong Web Society, SAR China Publication Chair Jeff K.T Tang Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong SAR, China Local Arrangements Chair Xiaonan Chen Sun Yat-sen University, China Zhiwen Yu South China University of Technology, China Conference Secretary Christina Tai MERC, City University of Hong Kong, SAR China Webmaster Zhangjun Yan MERC, City University of Hong Kong, SAR China

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Carlos Alario-Hoyos Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Dirk Börner Open University of the Netherlands Adolfo Calleja Tallinn University, Estonia Yiwei Cao imc information multimedia communication AG, Germany Dickson K.W. Chiu The University of Hong Kong Maria De Marsico University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Yunhua Deng City University of Hong Kong Michael Derntl RWTH Aachen University, Germany Giuliana Dettori Istituto di Tecnologie Didattiche del CNR, Italy Erik Duval K.U.Leuven, Belgium Maka Eradze Tallinn University, Estonia Denis Gillet Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Eelco Herder L3S Research Center, Germany Pedro Isaias Universidade Aberta, Portugal Malinka Ivanova Technical University - Sofia, Bulgaria Mirjana Ivanovic University of Novi Sad, Serbia Roland Klemke Open University of the Netherlands Tomaž Klobučar Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Milos Kravcik RWTH Aachen University, Germany Lam-For Kwok City University of Hong Kong Elise Lavoué MAGELLAN, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France Howard Leung City University of Hong Kong Xiangfeng Luo Shanghai University, China George Magoulas Birkbeck College, UK Ivana Marenzi L3S Research Center, Germany Alke Martens University of Rostock, Germany Harald Mayer JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria Kai Pata Tallinn University, Estonia Elvira Popescu University of Craiova, Romania Francesca Pozzi Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche - CNR, Italy Maria Jesus Rodriguez Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Triana Demetrios Sampson Univ of Piraeus & CERTH, Greece

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Olga C. Santos aDeNu Research Group (UNED), Spain Hubert Shum Northumbria University, UK Sonia Sousa Tallinn University, Estonia Marc Spaniol Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France Gary KL Tam Swansea University, UK Marco Temperini Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Vladimir Tomberg Tallinn University, Estonia Stefan Trausan-Matu University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Lorna Uden Staffordshire University, UK Carsten Ullrich DFKI GmbH, Germany Carlos Vaz De Carvalho Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto , Portugal Riina Vuorikari Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), European Commission Jianxin Wang Central South University, China Fridolin Wild The Open University, UK Xu Zheng Shanghai University, China

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The conference will be organized in Building B3 (School of Computer Science and Engineering), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou,

Building B3 School of Computer Science and Engineering South China University of Technology Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre Panyu District Guangzhou,P.R.China,510006

广州番禺大学城 华南理工大学 计算机科学与工程学院B3栋 邮编：510006

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SCUT Map

The conference venue From subway Line 4 station "Higher Education Mega Center South" to Building B3.

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The hotel is a nearby 5-star hotel ALOFT GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY PARK

Aloft Guangzhou University Park No.66 Li De Street Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510006, China Phone: (86)(20) 3100 0888 Fax: (86)(20) 3110 1111 Email: [email protected]

广州立德街 66 号,小谷围街 广州大学城雅乐轩酒店 邮政编码 510006 电话: (86)(20) 3100 0888 传真: (86)(20) 3110 1111 电邮: [email protected]

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From Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport to hotel

By Taxi The taxi ride from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport to Aloft Guangzhou University Park is about one hour's drive, and it should cost about CNY200. You should make sure the driver to use the taxi meter. You can also use apps such as UBER( https://www.uber.com.cn/ ) and DiDi(http://www.xiaojukeji.com/en/index.html ), in order to reduce the cost. Google map link : https://goo.gl/maps/coM21yLagjN2

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From Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport to hotel

By Subway Google map link : https://goo.gl/maps/FXoo52xKmDo

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Guangzhou Metro System Map

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Venues Room 213, Building B3 Room 308, Building B3 5th November 2015 (Thursday) 09:00 – 17:00 Registration 10:00 – 12:30 Workshop: Go-Lab 12:30 – 13:30 Break 13:30 – 15:30 Workshop: KMEL Session1 Workshop: IWUM Session1 (starts at 14:00) 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 – 17:30 Workshop: KMEL Session2 Workshop: IWUM Session 2 18:00 – 21:00 Reception, Aloft Western Restaurant 6th November 2015 (Friday) 09:00 – 10:00 Opening Speech by General Co-Chair: Prof. Jun Zhang Keynote speech 1 by Prof. Baltasar Fernandez-Manjon 10:00 – 11:15 Coffee break 11:15 – 12:15 Paper session 1: Personalized and Paper session 2: Pedagogical Issues Adaptive Learning 12:15 – 13:45 Lunch, Aloft Western Restaurant 13:45 – 15:45 Paper session 3: Collaborative & Paper session 4: Intelligent Tutoring Peer Learning and Tools 15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 – 18:00 Paper session 5: Web 2.0 and Social Paper session 6: E-learning Learning Environments Platforms, Tools, Models and Frameworks 18:30 – 20:00 Conference banquet, Aloft Chinese Restaurant 7th November 2015 (Saturday) 09:00 – 10:00 Keynote speech 2 by Prof. Horace Ip 10:00 – 10:15 Coffee break 10:15 – 12:00 Panel discussion 12:00 – 14:00 Lunch, Aloft Western Restaurant 14:00 – 17:00 Invited talks session 8th November 2015 (Sunday) 09:00 – 18:00 Social event (optional)

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•DayDay 1 1: 5Nov.th Nov., 5 2015 (Thursday)

Workshop: Go-Lab Time 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room 213 Session Chair Yiwei Cao 网上实验室 及学习方法

Which approaches available for Scan & Join STEM Study? . Learn about an advanced inquiry learning platform: Go-Lab . Discuss about inquiry learning methods in China & Europe . Explore opportunities for research cooperation & collaboration

Teachers may discover Students are guided through the inquiry phases Teachers and students may have ready to use inquiry spaces, labs and apps where apps, labs and resources are embedded access to remote labs

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Day 1 5th Nov., 2015 (Thursday)

KMEL Session 1 Time 13:30 – 15:30 Room 213

Session Chair Dickson Chiu

Presentations: • KMEL Co-chair Keynote - New Frontiers in International and Comparative Studies in Information Science Research: a Focus on Services vs User Needs. Dickson Chiu • A Clustering Algorithm based on Minimum Spanning Tree with E- learning Applications. Siyang Wang, Zeping Tang, Yanghui Rao, Haoran Xie and Fu Lee Wang. • Analysis of Heart Rate Monitors for Evaluating Student’s Mental Working Capacity. Elena Berdnikova, Andrey Lyamin and Anton Skshidlevsky. • Pedagogical principles of the implementation of social networks at schools. Blanka Klimova and Petra Poulova • Virtual Reality Assistant Technology for Learning Primary Geography. Zhihan Lu • Setting up an integrated tool environment for practical exercises in eLearning courses for eHealth. Alexander Mense, Juliane Herzog, Mathias Forjan, Philipp Urbauer and Stefan Sauermann.

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Day 1 5th Nov., 2015 (Thursday)

KMEL Session 2 Time 16:00 – 18:00 Room 213

Session Chair Dickson Chiu

Presentations: • Development of the ‘Learning to Learn’ Competence through Wiki Tools in CA-CLIL: Pilot Course. Ivana Simonova and Vladimira Froldova. • Learning Styles in the e-Learning Environment: Meta-analysis of Longitudinal Changes. Jiri Skoda, Pavel Doulik and Ivana Simonova. • Social Networks Supporting the Higher Education in the Czech Republic. Petra Poulova and Ivana Simonova • e-Learning in Practice: Tracking Students’ Performance. Ivana Simonova and Petra Poulova • Investigating the Determinants of Information Sharing Intentions of Learners in Collaborative Learning. Yong Wee Sek, Hepu Deng, Elspeth McKay and Wei Xu • Towards an Architecture for e-Learning Infrastructures on a National Level: a Case Study of AfgREN. Salim Saay, Alex Norta and Mart Laanpere.

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Day 1 5th Nov., 2015 (Thursday)

IWUM Session 1 Time 14:00 – 15:30 Room 308

Session Chair Yanghui Rao

Presentations: • Predicting Pre-knowledge on Vocabulary from e-Learning Assignments for Language Learners. Di Zou, Haoran Xie, Tak-Lam Wong, Yanghui Rao, Fu Lee Wang and Qingyuan Wu • Personalized Resource Recommendation for Staff Training in Complaint Management Systems. Guangjie Li, Junming Ling, Shengguang Meng and Liao Yumin • Designing an Online Learning and Peer Feedback Platform for GRE Writing Test Preparation. Simon Wang • A Density-based Clustering Algorithm with Educational Applications. Zitong Wang, Peng Kang, Zeiwei Wu, Yanghui Rao and Haoran Xie

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Day 1 5th Nov., 2015 (Thursday)

IWUM Session 2 Time 16:00 – 18:00 Room 308

Session Chair Yanghui Rao

Presentations: • Exploring Reviews and Ratings on Reviews for Personalized Search. Yang Yang, Shuyue Hu, Yi Cai, Ho-fung Leung, Y.K. Raymond Lau and Qing Du • Social Network Application Development based on Cloud Computing for Web-based Learning. Zhongyin Guo, Yanghui Rao and Fu Lee Wang • Research on Visualized Design for Role-based Online Learning Analytics. Lamei Wang, Jun Xiao, Yuanyi Qi and Ye Yu • Construction on Learning Analytics Object for Sharing and Interoperation of Educational Big Data. Yonghe Wu, Wei Zhong, Chun Zhou and Xiaoling Ma • Using Learning Analytics to Support Personalized Learning and Quality Education: A Case Study of China's "Everyone Connected" Project. Xiaohua Yu, Jueqi Guan and Jing Leng • Individualization of foreign language teaching through adaptive eLearning. Katerina Kostolanyova and Stepanka Nedbalova

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Day 2 6th Nov., 2015 (Friday)

Opening Speech by General Co-Chair: Prof. Jun Zhang Sun Yat-sen University Time 09:00 Room 213 Session Chair Frederick Li

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th Day 2 6 Nov., 2015 (Friday)

Keynote Speech 1: Serious Games: current uses and emerging trends

Speaker Prof. Baltasar Fernandez-Manjon Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Time 09:00 – 10:00

Room 213 Session Chair Ralf Klamma

Biography Dr. Baltasar Fernández-Manjón is a full professor (catedrático) in the Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (DISIA) at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He leads the Complutense e-learning research group eUCM (www.e-ucm.es) and is the holder of an honorary Telefonica-Complutense Chair in Digital Education and Serious Games. In 2010-2011 he has been Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University and Visiting Scientist at LCS-MGH. He is IEEE Senior Member and associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Learning Technologies. His main research interests are educational uses of (serious) games, learning analytics, e-learning technologies, and application of educational standards. He is involved in different EU projects (e.g. H2020-RAGE, FP7 NoE GALA, LLP SEGAN, CHEMURG) and other projects about technology transfer with industry. He also act as R&D evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission and Spanish research programs.

Abstract In this talk we will introduce serious games as games which purpose is not only amusement and can be effectively used for educational or training purposes. This kind of games are also frequently named as educational games or even as game-like simulations. We will describe the general characteristics of serious games and how they are used in several domains (e.g. military, medicine), describing their main advantages (e.g. engagement, student motivation) and some of the shortcomings that prevent a wider generalization in educational settings (e.g. cost, deployment). We will also describe new emerging trends in the field of serious games such as gaming for solving scientific problems or how the application of learning analytics techniques can improve and simplify serious games application in different domains.

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Day 2 6th Nov., 2015 (Friday)

Session 1: Personalized and Adaptive Learning Time 10:15 – 12:15 Room 213

Session Chair Frederick Li

Presentations: • Tracing Self-Regulated Learning in Responsive Open Learning Environments. Dominik Renzel, Ralf Klamma, Milos Kravcik and Alexander Nussbaumer • ZhihuRank: A Topic-Sensitive Expert Finding Algorithm in Community Question Answering Websites. Xuebo Liu, Shuang Ye, Xin Li, Yonghao Luo and Yanghui Rao • Micro Learning Adaptation in MOOC: a Software as a Service and a Personalized Learner Model. Geng Sun, Tingru Cui, William Guo, Ghassan Beydoun, Dongming Xu and Jun Shen • Investigating students’ use of lecture videos in online courses: A case study for understanding learning behaviors via data mining. Ying- Ying Kuo, Juan Luo and Jennifer Brielmaier (short paper)

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Day 2 6th Nov., 2015 (Friday)

Session 2: Pedagogical Issues Time 10:15 – 12:15 Room 308 • Day 2: Nov. 6 Session Chair Yanghui Rao

Presentations: • Teaching Simulation for Management Students in LMS. Pavel Pražák • Orchestrating Inquiry-Based Learning Spaces: an Analysis of Teacher Needs. María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana, Adrian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk and Denis Gillet • Re-thinking Digital Textbooks: Students as Co-authors. Terje Väljataga, Sebastian H.D. Fiedler and Mart Laanpere • Analysis of Tools and Methods for Describing and Sharing Reusable Pedagogical Scenarios. Marina Kurvits, Mart Laanpere and Terje Väljataga (short paper)

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Day 2 6th Nov., 2015 (Friday)

Session 3: Collaborative and Peer Learning Time 13:45 – 15:45 Room 213

Session Chair Ralf Klamma

Presentations: • Closing the Circle: Use of Students’ Responses for Peer-Review Rubric Improvement. Yang Song, Zhewei Hu and Edward Gehringer • The Use of Online Corpora as Reference Resources for Revision Tasks in Writing. Qinqin Luo, Weizhen Huang and Ying Liao • Topic-specific Recommendation for Open Education Resources. Jun Wang, Junfu Xiang and Kanji Uchino • Modelling factors influencing digital readiness: a case of teachers in Ghana’s basic school system. James Sunney Quaicoe and Kai Pata (short paper)

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Day 2 6th Nov., 2015 (Friday)

Session 4: Intelligent Tutoring and Tools Time 13:45 – 15:45 Room 308

Session Chair Yiwei Cao

Presentations: • Highlights in the literature available in Serious Games for intellectual disabilities. Ana R. Cano, Álvaro J. García-Tejedor and Baltasar Fernández-Manjón • Multilingual Access to Educational Material through Contributive Post-editing of MT Pretranslations by Foreign Students. Ruslan Kalitvianski, Valérie Bellynck and Christian Boitet • Applying speech-to-text recognition with computer-aided translation to facilitate a web-based cross-cultural project. Rustam Shadiev, Yueh-Min Huang, Ting-Ting Wu and Wu-Yuin Hwang • A Generic Software Framework for Intelligent Integrated Computer- Assisted Language Learning (iiCALL) Environment. Harald Wahl, Rudolf Galler and Werner Winiwarter (short paper) • Learning to assemble building blocks with a leap motion controller. Juncong Lin, Wei Yang, Xing Gao, and Minghong Liao (short paper)

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Day 2 6th Nov., 2015 (Friday)

Session 5: Web 2.0 and Social Learning Environments Time 16:00 – 18:00 Room 213

Session Chair Mart Laanpere

Presentations: • A Microservice Approach for Near Real-time Collaborative 3D Objects Annotation on the Web. Petru Nicolaescu, Georgios Toubekis and Ralf Klamma • Blogging Activities in Higher Education: Comparing Learning Scenarios in Multiple Course Experiences. Elvira Popescu, Zuzana Kubincová and Martin Homola • Integrating data across workplace learning applications with a social semantic infrastructure. Adolfo Ruiz-Calleja, Sebastian Dennerlein, Vladimir Tomberg, Tobias Ley, Dieter Theiler and Elisabeth Lex • Optimizing the Student and Supervisor Interaction During the SciPro Thesis Process - Concepts and Design. Preben Hansen and Henrik Hansson (short paper)

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Day 2 6th Nov., 2015 (Friday)

Session 6: E-learning Platforms, Tools, Models and Frameworks Time 16:00 – 18:00 Room 308

Session Chair Yueh Min Huang

Presentations: • Educational program BigData EduCloud at the Faculty of Informatics and Management. Dagmar El-Hmoudova and Monika Borkovcova • Adaptive E-Lecture Video Outline Extraction Based on Slides Analysis. Xiaoyin Che, Haojin Yang and Christoph Meinel • The Web-based InterUniversity Study. Petra Poulova and Ivana Simonova • STEM Teachers’ Community Building through a Social Tutoring Platform. Yiwei Cao, Eleftheria Tsourlidaki, Rob Edlin-White, Diana Dikke, Nils Faltin, Sofoklis Sotiriou and Denis Gillet (short paper)

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th Day 3 7 Nov., 2015 (Saturday)

Keynote speech 2: Pedagogical Design Issues for Virtual Reality

Learning Environment Speaker Prof. Horace Ip

City University of Hong Kong

Time 09:00 – 10:00 Room 213

Session Chair Qing Li

Biography Professor Horace H. S. Ip is the Vice-President and a Chair Professor of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. He received his B.Sc. degree in Applied Physics and Ph.D. degree in Image Processing from University College London (UCL), United Kingdom. His research interests include multimedia content analysis and retrieval, and virtual reality for education. Professor Ip’s research has won many awards including Prix Ars Electronica, and a Gold Medal of the Geneva Salon International Des Inventions. He has published over 300 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Prof. Ip was an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and the Journal of Pattern Recognition. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) and a Fellow of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

Abstract Advances in Virtual Reality (VR) technologies have led to the emergence of a variety of Virtual Reality based Learning Environments (VRLE). Unlike physical learning environments such as classrooms and laboratories, VRLE is able to provide learning scenarios and interactivities that are not possible or easily created in real world settings, for students to experience in a safe and controlled manner. VRLE when designed appropriately can be an effective learning platform for a variety of pedagogical approaches, such as inquiry-based, collaborative and game-based learning. In this talk, several types of VRLEs and the associated pedagogical design issues will be discussed, and our experience of designing and implementing VR-based training programmes for special education will be highlighted.

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Day 3 7th Nov., 2015 (Saturday)

Panel discussion: Discovery Enriched Curriculum for e-Learning

Time 10:15 – 12:00 Room 213 Conveners Howard Leung and Mart Laanpere

Invited talks session Time 14:00 – 17:00

Room 213

Session Chair Qing Li Presentation • Keynote speech 3: Ensemble learning and its applications in web- based learning, Prof. Zhiwen Yu, South China University of Technology (details on next page) • Discovering Commonly Shared Semantic Concepts of Eligibility Criteria for Learning Clinical Trial Design. Tianyong Hao, Xieling Chen and Guimin Huang • Strategies in Designing a Media Computing Course to Provide a Discovery-Enriched Curriculum to Students with Diverse Technical Background. Howard Leung and Yang Yang • SCHOLAT---A social network system for researchers. Jing Xiao, South China Normal University • Semantic knowledge based relatedness measures and its application in e-learning. Yuncheng Jiang, South China Normal University

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th Day 3 7 Nov., 2015 (Saturday)

Keynote speech 3: Ensemble learning and its applications in

web -based learning

Speaker Prof. Zhiwen Yu South China University of Technology

Time 14:00

Room 213

Session Chair Qing Li

Biography Dr. Zhiwen Yu is a Professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, and an adjunct professor in Sun Yat-Sen university. He is a senior member of IEEE, ACM, IRSS (International Rough Set Society ), CCF (China Computer Federation), CAAI (China Association of Artificial Intelligence), and a council member of CCF (2016-2020). Dr. Yu obtained the PhD degree from City University of Hong Kong in 2008. The research areas of Dr. Yu focus on data mining, machine learning, and pattern recognition. Until now, Dr. Yu has been published more than 90 referred journal papers, and international conference papers. He has published 19 papers in the journals of ACM/IEEE Transactions (such as TKDE TEVC, TCYB, TMM, TCBB, TCSVT, TNB, and so on). The paper “Sparse Representation based Spectral regression” won the Lotfi Zadeh Best Paper Award in 2011 The International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2011). Dr. Yu is in charge of or take part in 23 research projects from the government in China, Guangdong province and Guangzhou city, or from the university. He gained the new star award from Guangzhou Chapter of ACM China and CCF in 2014. Please refer to the following homepage for more information: http://www.hgml.cn/yuzhiwen.htm Abstract Different learners have different interests and properties. It raises an interesting issue that which kinds of learning styles, such as distance learning, face-to-face learning and blending learning, are more suitable for the learners, according to the attributes of the learners. The ensemble learning methods provide one of the possible ways to solve this problem. When compared with single learning methods, the ensemble learning methods are able to integrate multiple learning methods into a unified ensemble model that can provide more accurate, stable, and robust final results. In this presentation, we first present different kinds of ensemble learning algorithms, such as classifier ensemble methods, cluster ensemble methods and semi-supervised ensemble methods. Then, several newly proposed ensemble learning methods are proposed, such as hybrid adaptive ensemble learning framework, adaptive noise immune cluster ensemble, probabilistic cluster structure ensemble, and so on. Finally, the applications of the ensemble learning methods, especially in web-based learning, are introduced.

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Day 4 8th Nov., 2015 (Sunday)

Social Events Time 09:00 – 18:00 Venue Lingnan Impression Garden Lingnan Impression Garden Located in the southern area of the Guangzhou University Park, the Lingnan Impression Garden has a total area of 50 acres (or 20 hectares) which is the tourist destination with the elements of tourism, leisure, entertainment, dining, shopping and accommodation and is a great place to experience local customs and Lingnan folk culture. Lingnan culture constitutes the historical and exuberant Han culture and is the important element of Han Chinese culture. It includes the branches of culture, Teochew culture and Hakka culture. At the “South Food Thirty-six Square” inside the Garden, you can enjoy over 100 types of authentic Lingnan delicate cuisines. Moreover, you can also appreciate the Guangdong Intangible Cultural Heritage and personally experience the charm of Lingnan local arts and crafts.

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB-BASED LEARNING (ICWL 2015)

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