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 Communications in Computer and Information Science 510 Commenced Publication in 2007 Founding and Former Series Editors: Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Dominik Ślęzak, and Xiaokang Yang Editorial Board Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Phoebe Chen La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Xiaoyong Du Renmin University of China, Beijing, China Joaquim Filipe Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal Orhun Kara TÜBİTAK BİLGEM and Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Igor Kotenko St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia Ting Liu Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China Krishna M. Sivalingam Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India Takashi Washio Osaka University, Osaka, Japan More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/7899 Susan Zvacek Maria Teresa Restivo (cid:129) James Uhomoibhi Markus Helfert (Eds.) (cid:129) Computer Supported Education 6th International Conference, CSEDU 2014 – Barcelona, Spain, April 1 3, 2014 Revised Selected Papers 123 Editors 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 Portugal Dublin Ireland ISSN 1865-0929 ISSN 1865-0937 (electronic) Communications in Computer andInformation Science ISBN 978-3-319-25767-9 ISBN978-3-319-25768-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25768-6 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015952065 SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2015 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartofthe material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynow knownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerInternationalPublishingAGSwitzerlandispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia (www.springer.com) 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
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