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An Architecture for Augmenting the SCORM Run-Time Environment with a Personalised Link Service
Get PDFAs the result of recent advances in the business of e-learning there has been a growing interest in e-learning standards, particularly SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model). SCORM is a reference model that integrates a collection of e-learning resource standards and specifications. In a SCORM compliant courseware, content and the pedagogic approach to be taken are predefined by the course author. As a consequence, users are unable to learn according to their preferences, and implicitly they will all encounter the same learning experience. Recent attempts to personalise learning in SCORM often resulted in either modifying SCORM or substituting its course sequencing mechanism with Adaptive Hypermedia techniques. Nonetheless, SCORM is a widely-used solution to interoperability problems with e-learning resources and can realise not only content sharing and reusability but also a consistent sequencing of course content across different systems and tools. For these reasons, this thesis focuses on supplementing SCORM sequencing rather than redefining it. The novelty of this work is that it builds an adaptive environment around the existing SCORM, without extending or modifying SCORM itself. The work integrates Adaptive Hypermedia principles into the SCORM Run-Time Environment as an independent service to support the environment with learning materials that are preferable to both teachers (primary materials of their choice) and students (supplementary materials that are pre-selected to suit some aspects of their user models to assist their understanding of the primary materials). This SCORM-complementing approach can also enable the SCORM Run-Time Environment to include on-demand external resources into the environment in order to address SCORM’s limitation of static pool of learning resources. The novel contribution of this work is the design of an authoring architecture which enables the automatic generation of a concept map and consequently links to alternative learning resources, and a run-time service oriented architecture which delivers these alternative resources, alongside the SCORM defined resources, according to a dynamic user model
Manual for Intermediate Accounting ACC 2001
Get PDFThis book include the material for teaching Intermediate Accounting (ACC 2001). The topics are as follows.
1.0 Ethics in Accounting
2.0 Accounting for Sole Proprietorship
3.0 Accounting for Small Medium Enterprise (SME)
4.0 Limited Companies
5.0 Partnership- Part 1
6.0 Partnership- Part 2
7.0 Club
8.0 Joint Ventur
Colour appearance descriptors for image browsing and retrieval
No full textIn this paper, we focus on the development of whole-scene colour appearance descriptors for classification to be used in browsing applications. The descriptors can classify a whole-scene image into various categories of semantically-based colour appearance. Colour appearance is an important feature and has been extensively used in image-analysis, retrieval and classification. By using pre-existing global CIELAB colour histograms, firstly, we try to develop metrics for wholescene colour appearance: “colour strength”, “high/low lightness” and “multicoloured”. Secondly we propose methods using these metrics either alone or combined to classify whole-scene images into five categories of appearance: strong, pastel, dark, pale and multicoloured. Experiments show positive results and that the global colour histogram is actually useful and can be used for whole-scene colour appearance classification. We have also conducted a small-scale human evaluation test on whole-scene colour appearance. The results show, with suitable threshold settings, the proposed methods can describe the whole-scene colour appearance of images close to human classification. The descriptors were tested on thousands of images from various scenes: paintings, natural scenes, objects, photographs and documents. The colour appearance classifications are being integrated into an image browsing system which allows them to also be used to refine browsing
Dynamic augmentation of SCORM pre-authored course materials with adaptive links to supplementary resources
No full textIn a SCORM compliant courseware, content and the pedagogic approach to be taken are predefined by the course author. As a consequence, users are unable to learn according to their preferences, and implicitly they will all encounter the same learning experience. Recent attempts to personalise learning in SCORM often resulted in either modifying or substituting SCORM specification elements. Nonetheless, SCORM is a widely-used solution to interoperability problems. For this reason, this work focuses on supplementing SCORM rather than redefining it. This is accomplished by dynamically associating each pre-authored learning material in a SCORM package with adaptive links to relevant supplementary resources upon delivery. As a result, we have developed a Personalised Link Service (PLS) to deliver these links into user’s SCORM-compliant learning environment. In this paper, we present the design of a PLS authoring architecture which enables the automatic generation of a concept map from a SCORM package and consequently links to alternative learning resources, and a PLS run-time service oriented architecture which delivers these alternative resources, alongside the SCORM defined resources, according to a user model. We demonstrate the feasibility of our architecture by implementing a service to support a simple notion of a user model (Preferred Learning style)
Smart Alarm / Nur Aniza Abdul Horim
Get PDFThis project paper describes the hardware and the software development of smart alarm for boarding school using Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC). The equipment is designed to remind the students and teachers about the school routine in the academie calendar year. Three alarm sectors are set in the boarding school. The sectors are academie building which operates during academie period, the girls hostel and the boys hostel which operate during the non-academic period including weekend. Separate sectors for academie, boys and girls are required so the minimal disturbance to other sectors is achieved. The system allows automatic setting up to alarm or siren in the appropriate sectors according pre planning list table. It also provide for alarm sounding in all sectors during emergencies
Tunggu sekejap / Nur Aniza Mohd Lazim
Get PDFSeni digital medium gabungan ini, terhasil dari 15 keping lapisan fotografi yang telah dirakam di tempat yang sama sepanjang pandemik. Kemudiannya, kesemua fotografi tersebut dikolaj serta dihimpunkan pagi, petang, siang dan malamnya menjadi sebuah art piece. Ianya adalah dari sebuah perspektif seorang ibu yang kasihan melihat anaknya tidak dapat bermain di luar seperti tahun sebelumnya. Beberapa tona warna yang dramatis digunakan bagi menimbulkan situasi terkesan kepada artis serta umumnya. Proses Kolaj ini sebenarnya memberi efek kepada artis sendiri. Ketika sedang mengolah hasil seni ini, lagu ‘tunggu sekejap’ dari Allahyarham Tan Sri P.Ramlee berkumandang. Lalu lagu ini diambil menjadi peneman kepada artis untuk meneruskan karyanya. Di satu rangkap lirik, ‘jangan mengenang orang jauh’ hati ini terasa sangat sayu
Medical records officer competency in Malaysia / Aniza Jamaluddin
No full textHealthcare delivery in Malaysia has grown to become a huge sector that is recognized to provide patient care in most efficient and effective way. There are rapid increases in the produced information has had dual consequences as the management of particular health information has become even more complicated. Individuals are now struggle with the huge amounts of information that comes from diverse sources. Medical record officer plays important in ensuring the effective and efficient of medical records management throughout the healthcare service and therefore, Medical Records Officer should have the competencies and skills required of medical records professionals in healthcare industry. There are insufficiency skills in managing medical records program as there is no specific comprehensive scheme in measuring Medical Records Officer’s competency that suit to Malaysia environment. In this study, the roles and responsibilities related to the delivery of Medical Records management are determined and customized based on the Malaysia environment. This study served to contribute to the development of activities supporting the competencies required for Medical Records Officer as well as the development of university curriculum in Medical Records Management. Thus, it is also created to serve as a baseline for the acquisition and development of corresponding training. Interviews instruments were used and it participated of Medical Records Officer from three private hospitals. The results of the findings were analyzed and discussed in order for the researcher to formulate the Medical Records Officer competency framework at the end of the research stud
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Software defined networking for monitoring QoS / Nor Aniza Noor Amran
Get PDFNetwork connectivity is most crucial component for an organization especially for business organization. It is now seen as one of the requirements that must be included for every organization. In the traditional approach to networking, most network functionalities are implemented using dedicated appliances; i.e., switches, routers, etc. Not only that, some functionalities are implemented in dedicated hardware. In summary, traditional network is hardware centric. Software Defined Networking has been a buzzword in the recent years. SDN move away from traditional architectures into a revolutionary service delivery platform able to readily and easily address changes within industry. Some of the core function of SDN are network flow can be controlled, and the important one, SDN is based on open standard and vendor neutral. However when SDN is being deployed, it is hard to track which packet goes to which path or go to which virtual switch. This is dependent on how the network administrator programs the network path. Hence a monitoring software for SDN is required. This paper introduces Software Defined Network Application for Monitoring QoS. This application will monitor the traffic and interact with the controller after monitoring the QoS traffic
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