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Internet Information Retrieval for Enabling Student Projects
"... Project-based learning (PBL) is becoming an integral part of many information technology (IT) courses. Students are guided through individual or group projects to learn and apply many of the IT concepts they learn in a course. However, a significant percentage of IT projects depend on the existence ..."
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Project-based learning (PBL) is becoming an integral part of many information technology (IT) courses. Students are guided through individual or group projects to learn and apply many of the IT concepts they learn in a course. However, a significant percentage of IT projects depend on the existence of large sets of information or live data. Therefore, it becomes difficult to complete and properly test many of the implemented projects. Some examples of such projects are financial data mining, information notification systems, weather monitoring systems, and decision support systems. While the needed information for the student projects is usually available over the Internet, there is no easy way to retrieve and reuse the required information. In this paper, we propose, describe, and discuss a tool called InetRetriever. This tool can be easily used by students to retrieve in real-time any required real information from the Internet. The students can use this tool to implement, execute, and test their projects with real life data. This tool was tested in different information technology courses to enable effective and realistic project-based learning. Using this tool we observed increased student interest in the project development and higher levels of interactions and learning.
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"... Abstract-Project-based learning (PBL) was proven to be a very useful model to give students hands on experiences and allow them to be active learners rather than passive listeners. In this paper we introduce a tool to help enhance the project development experiences for information technology (IT) ..."
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Abstract-Project-based learning (PBL) was proven to be a very useful model to give students hands on experiences and allow them to be active learners rather than passive listeners. In this paper we introduce a tool to help enhance the project development experiences for information technology (IT) students. The main purpose of this tool is to help reuse web information to enable IT projects for students. This tool is called InetRetriever and it can be easily used by students to retrieve, in real-time, any required real information from the web and to implement, execute, and test their projects with real life data. As PBL is becoming an integral part of many information technology (IT) courses, and in many cases real data is essential for many types of projects, it becomes important to make such data available and accessible easily. In various cases, students focus gets shifted from the real objectives of a project when they spend a lot of their time trying to find data or create methods to get them this data. Furthermore, many projects fail and cannot demonstrate their real capabilities when they are tested and demonstrated using small sets of sample data or some fabricated data sets because the students could not include real data available on the Internet. Another possibility here is that students could not even complete their projects because of the difficulties in retrieving the required data and the excess amount of time they spend on that tasks rather than on the real tasks in the project. Therefore, InetRetriever was developed to overcome this obstacle. It was tested in different information technology courses to enable effective and realistic project-based learning. Using this tool we observed increased student interest in the project development and higher levels of interactions and learning.
The Impact of Type of Approach (CLIL Versus EFL) and Methodology (Book-Based Versus Project Work) on Motivation Porta Linguarum 42 42 42
"... ABSTRACT: This study analyses the effect of type of approach and methodology on different types of motivation: intrinsic, extrinsic, instrumental and integrative motivation; interest in other cultures and learning environment are also considered. The two types of approaches under scrutiny are CLIL ..."
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ABSTRACT: This study analyses the effect of type of approach and methodology on different types of motivation: intrinsic, extrinsic, instrumental and integrative motivation; interest in other cultures and learning environment are also considered. The two types of approaches under scrutiny are CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and non-CLIL or EFL (English as a foreign language), and the two types of methodology are based on either the textbook or project work (PW). Previous studies have examined the effect of PW and/or CLIL on secondary education El efecto del tipo de enfoque (AICLE versus ELE) y de metodología (libro de texto versus trabajo por proyectos) en la motivación RESUMEN: En este estudio se examina el efecto del tipo de enfoque y de la metodología en diferentes tipos de motivación: intrínseca, extrínseca, motivación instrumental e integradora, al tiempo que también se presta atención al interés en otras culturas y al ambiente de aprendizaje. Los dos tipos de enfoque bajo estudio son AICLE (Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lengua Extranjera) y no-AICLE o enseñanza tradicional del inglés como asignatura de lengua, y los dos tipos de metodología se basan o bien en el libro de texto o bien en el trabajo por proyectos. Mientras estudios anteriores han analizado el efecto del TP y/o AICLE en educación secundaria
