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A preliminary study of course information on i-Learn perspective: focusing on accessibility, contents and user interface parameters
No full textA preliminary study of training effectiveness on i-Learn Portal at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
No full textEffective training ensures that lecturers use the tools and test equipment, documentation, and spare parts efficiently to provide the required system operational reliability, through the proper installation, operation and maintenance of the prime mission equipment (IALA/AISM, 2001). i-Learn Center (i-LeC) was established on the 30th of December 2005 and operated under the Academic Affairs Division (HEA). The center is responsible for handling adaptation of e-learning in UiTM and providing two parts of training for UiTM lecturers across faculties and campuses throughout the country. The first part is i-Learn Portal System Training that deals with hands-on training of the system. The second part is e-Note Training that focuses on the optimization in using Microsoft Office (MS Word, MS Power Point and MS Excel) and Macromedia Flash MX in teaching environments. Questionnaires to gauge the effectiveness of the training were distributed to the lecturers in training and the data analyzed. Thus in this study, we present the findings and the results obtained reflecting the response of the lecturers about the effectiveness of i-Learn Portal System Training and e-Note Training. Finally, we also discuss on the direction of the findings in this study
A preliminary study of training effectiveness on i-Learn portal at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) / Mohd Nor Hajar Hasrol Jono . .. [et al.]
Get PDFEffective training ensures that lecturers use the tools and test equipment, documentation, and spare parts efficiently to provide the required system operational reliability, through the proper installation, operation and maintenance of the prime mission equipment (IALA/AISM, 2001). i-Learn Center (i-LeC) was established on the 30th of December 2005 and operated under the Academic Affairs Division (HEA). The center is responsible for handling adaptation of e-learning in UiTM and providing two parts of training for UiTM lecturers across faculties and campuses throughout the country. The first part is i-Learn Portal System Training that deals with hands-on training of the system. The second part is e-Note Training that focuses on the optimization in using Microsoft Office (MS Word, MS Power Point and MS Excel) and Macromedia Flash MX in teaching environments. Questionnaires to gauge the effectiveness of the training were distributed to the lecturers in training and the data analyzed. Thus in this study, we present the findings and the results obtained reflecting the response of the lecturers about the effectiveness of i-Learn Portal System Training and e-Note Training. Finally, we also discuss on the direction of the findings in this study
A preliminary study of course information on i-Learn perspective: focusing on accessibility, contents and user interface parameters / Mohd Nor Hajar Hasrol Jono . .. [et al.]
Get PDFi-Learn serves as UiTM’s Learning Management System (LMS) portal; launched by the i-Learn Center (iLeC) in its aim to provide strategic adaptation of e-learning at the university. The portal includes, as one of its contents, the Course Information module useful as a guideline for lecturers as well as students to understand the structure and content of the courses or subjects being offered. This study aims at analyzing the characteristic effectiveness of the i-Learn portal particularly the Course Information Module focusing on aspects of accessibility, content and user interface parameters. The analysis was based on the results of questionnaires, taking UiTM’s lecturers as the respondents. We measured whether the course information tool is useful in terms of speed and ease of use based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Finally, we present a brief discussion concerning the obtained results as well as future plans for utilizing the findings of this study
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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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