Computer Supported Education: 6th International Conference, CSEDU 2014 Barcelona, Spain, April 1–3, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

400 Pages·2015·26.83 MB·English

by  Susan Zvacek

Susan Zvacek · Maria Teresa Restivo
James Uhomoibhi · Markus Helfert (Eds.)
Communications in Computer and Information Science 510
Computer Supported
Education
6th International Conference, CSEDU 2014
Barcelona, Spain, April 1–3, 2014
Revised Selected Papers
123
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Computer Supported
Education
6th International Conference, CSEDU 2014
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Barcelona, Spain, April 1 3, 2014
Revised Selected Papers
123
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SusanZvacek James Uhomoibhi
University of Denver Schoolof Engineering
Denver,CO University of Ulster
USA Newtownabbey
UK
Maria Teresa Restivo
Faculdade deEngenharia daUniversidade Markus Helfert
doPorto Schoolof Computing
Porto DublinCity University
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Communications in Computer andInformation Science
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Preface
This book includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from
CSEDU 2014 (The 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education),
heldinBarcelona,Spain,in2014,whichwasorganizedandsponsoredbytheInstitute
for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
(INSTICC). This conference was held in cooperation with the Association for Com-
puting Machinery – Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education,
European Council for Business Education (ECBE), and Association des Technologies
de l’Information pour l’Education et la Formation (ATIEF). The conference was also
technicallyco-sponsoredbytheIEEEEducationSociety–CapituloEspañolandSPEE
(Sociedade Portuguesa para a Educação em Engenharia).
ThepurposeoftheCSEDUseriesofconferencesistobringtogetherresearchersand
practitionersinterestedinmethodologiesandapplicationsrelatedtotheeducationfield.
It had five main topic areas, covering different aspects of computer-supported educa-
tion, including “Information Technologies Supporting Learning,” “Learning/Teaching
Methodologies and Assessment,” “Social Context and Learning Environments,”
“Domain Applications and Case Studies,” and “Ubiquitous Learning.”
CSEDU 2014 received 242 paper submissions from 57 countries in all continents.
From these, only 32papers wereselected tobe published and presentedas full papers
andanother69papers,describingwork-in-progress,wereselectedasshortpapersfora
20-minuteoralpresentation.Thesenumbers,leadingtoafull-paperacceptanceratioof
13 % and an oral paper presentation ratio of 29 %, show the intention of preserving a
high-quality forum for the next editions of this conference.
Thisbookcontainstherevisedpapersselectedamongthebestcontributions,taking
alsointoaccountthequalityoftheirpresentationattheconference,assessedbysession
chairs.Therefore,wehopethatyoufindthesepapersinterestingandwetrusttheymay
represent a helpful reference for all those who need to address any of the aforemen-
tioned research areas.
Wewishtothankallthosewhosupportedandhelpedtoorganizetheconference.On
behalf of the conference Organizing Committee, we would like to thank the authors,
whoseworkmostlycontributedtoaverysuccessfulconference,andthemembersofthe
Program Committee, whose expertise and diligence were instrumental in ensuring the
qualityoffinalcontributions.WealsowishtothankallthemembersoftheOrganizing
Committee,whoseworkandcommitmentwasinvaluable.Lastbutnotleast,wewould
like to thank Springer for their collaboration ingetting this book toprint.
April 2015 Susan Zvacek
Maria Teresa Restivo
James Uhomoibhi
Markus Helfert
Organization
Conference Chair
Markus Helfert Dublin City University, Ireland
Program Co-chairs
Susan Zvacek Fort Hays State University, USA
Maria Teresa Restivo FEUP, Portugal
James Uhomoibhi University of Ulster, UK
Organizing Committee
Marina Carvalho INSTICC, Portugal
Helder Coelhas INSTICC, Portugal
Ana Guerreiro INSTICC, Portugal
André Lista INSTICC, Portugal
Filipe Mariano INSTICC, Portugal
Andreia Moita INSTICC, Portugal
Raquel Pedrosa INSTICC, Portugal
Vitor Pedrosa INSTICC, Portugal
Andreia Pereira INSTICC, Portugal
Cláudia Pinto INSTICC, Portugal
Cátia Pires INSTICC, Portugal
Ana Ramalho INSTICC, Portugal
Susana Ribeiro INSTICC, Portugal
Rui Rodrigues INSTICC, Portugal
Sara Santiago INSTICC, Portugal
André Santos INSTICC, Portugal
Fábio Santos INSTICC, Portugal
Mara Silva INSTICC, Portugal
José Varela INSTICC, Portugal
Pedro Varela INSTICC, Portugal
Program Committee
Mehdi Adda Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada
Shirley Agostinho University of Wollongong, Australia
Carlos Alario-Hoyos Universidad Carlos III, Spain
Peter Albion University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Nelma Albuquerque People-Inspired Technologies, The Netherlands
VIII Organization
Efthimios Alepis University of Piraeus, Greece
Vassil Alexandrov Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Colin Allison University of St. Andrews, UK
Marilisa Amoia Saarland University, Germany
George Anastassakis University of Piraeus, Greece
Terry Anderson Athabasca University, Canada
Galia Angelova Institute of Information and Communication
Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Bulgaria
Leonard Annetta George Mason University, USA
Juan Ignacio Asensio University of Valladolid, Spain
Michael E. Auer Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria
Anders Avdic Örebro University, Sweden
Breno Fabrício Terra Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia
Azevedo Fluminense, Brazil
Paul M.A. Baker Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Adriano Baratè Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Jorge Barbosa UNISINOS, Brazil
Patrícia Brandalise Scherer Universidade Feevale, Brazil
Bassani
Clemens Bechter TBS, Thailand
Patricia Alejandra Behar Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Kay Berkling Cooperative State University Baden Württemberg,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Marlies Bitter-Rijpkema Open Universiteit, The Netherlands
Emmanuel G. Blanchard University of Montreal, France
Lars Bollen Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands
Andreas Bollin Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Katrin Borcea-Pfitzmann Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Federico Botella Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain
Jacqueline Bourdeau Télé-université, UQAM, Canada
Ghizlane El Boussaidi École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
Patrice Bouvier Université de Lyon, France
Claudio da Rocha Brito COPEC, Brazil
Dumitru Burdescu University of Craiova, Romania
Santi Caballé Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Chris Campbell University of Queensland, Australia
Alberto Cardoso University of Coimbra, Portugal
Carlos Vaz de Carvalho ISEP, Portugal
Chia-Hu Chang National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Amitava Chatterjee Jadavpur University, India
Weiqin Chen University of Bergen, Norway
Line Clemmensen Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Jo Coldwell-Neilson Deakin University, Australia
Marc Conrad University of Bedfordshire, UK
Gennaro Costagliola Università di Salerno, Italy
Organization IX
Maria Cristina Costa-Lobo Universidade Portucalense, Portugal
Manuel Perez Cota Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Caroline M. Crawford University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA
Beno Csapó University of Szeged, Hungary
John Philip Cuthell Virtual Learning, UK
Mats Daniels Uppsala University, Sweden
Thanasis Daradoumis University of the Aegean, Greece/Open University
of Catalonia, Spain
Sergiu Dascalu University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Stavros N. Demetriadis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
John Dempsey University of South Alabama, USA
Giuliana Dettori Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche (ITD-CNR), Italy
Alicia Diaz La Plata National University, Argentina
Yannis Dimitriadis University of Valladolid, Spain
Danail Dochev Institute of Information and Communication
Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Bulgaria
Toby Dragon Ithaca College, USA
Amalia Duch-Brown UPC – Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Spain
Ishbel Duncan University of St. Andrews, UK
Erik Duval Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Olga Dziabenko Universidad de Deusto, Spain
Martin Ebner Technische Universität Graz, Austria
Paula Escudeiro Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Barbara Di Eugenio University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Si Fan University of Tasmania, Australia
Mingyu Feng SRI International, USA
Richard E. Ferdig Kent State University, USA
Davide Fossati Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU- Qatar),
USA
Rita Francese Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
José Ricardo Franco Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jun Fujima Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany
Serge Garlatti TELECOM Bretagne, France
Isabela Gasparini UFRGS and UDESC, Brazil
Xun Ge University of Oklahoma, USA
Sébastien George Université du Maine, France
Henrique Gil Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico
de Castelo Branco, Portugal
Denis Gillet École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
Ana González-Marcos Universidad de la Rioja, Spain
Anandha Gopalan Imperial College London, UK
Grami Grami King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Angela Guercio Kent State University, USA
Christian Guetl Graz University of Technology, Austria
X Organization
Matej Guid University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
David Guralnick Kaleidoscope Learning/Columbia University, USA
Laurence Habib Oslo and Akerhus University College of Applied
Sciences, Norway
Leontios Hadjileontiadis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ibrahim A. Hameed Aalborg University, Denmark
Yasunari Harada Waseda University, Japan
Andreas Harrer Technical University Clausthal, Germany
Roger Hartley University of Leeds, UK
Markus Helfert Dublin City University, Ireland
Richard Helps Brigham Young University, USA
George Hloupis Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
Mark van’t Hooft Kent State University, USA
Janet Hughes University of Dundee, UK
Kin-chuen Hui Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
SAR China
Nataliya V. Ivankova University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Ivan Ivanov SUNY Empire State College, USA
Romina Jamieson-Proctor University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Marc Jansen University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West, Germany
Stéphanie Jean-Daubias Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1/LIRIS, France
Lars Johnsen University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Katerina Kabassi Tei of the Ionian Islands, Greece
Michail Kalogiannakis University of Crete, Greece
Achilles Kameas Hellenic Open University, Greece
Charalampos Karagiannidis University of Thessaly, Greece
Ilias Karasavvidis University of Thessaly, Greece
Göran Karlsson KTH Stockholm, Sweden
David Kaufman Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jalal Kawash University of Calgary, Canada
ChanMin Kim The University of Georgia, USA
John Kinnebrew Vanderbilt University, USA
Dimitris Kiritsis EPFL, Switzerland
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Rob Koper Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands
Maria Kordaki University of the Aegean, Greece
Miroslav Kulich CzechTechnicalUniversityinPrague,CzechRepublic
Chronis Kynigos University of Athens and CTI, Greece
Jean-Marc Labat Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Timo Lainema Turku School of Economics, Finland
H. Chad Lane University of Southern California, USA
Reneta Lansiquot New York City College of Technology, USA
Rynson Lau City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
SAR China
José Paulo Leal University of Porto, Portugal
Dominique Leclet UPJV, France