Smart Education and e-Learning 2020

610 Pages·2020·14.92 MB·English

by  Vladimir L. Uskov, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 188
Vladimir L. Uskov
Robert J. Howlett
Lakhmi C. Jain   Editors
Smart Education
and e-Learning
2020
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Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Volume 188
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Robert J. Howlett, Bournemouth University and KES International,
Shoreham-by-sea, UK
Lakhmi C. Jain, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology,
Centre for Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology Sydney,
Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Lakhmi C. Jain
Editors
Smart Education
and e-Learning 2020
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Editors
Vladimir L. Uskov RobertJ. Howlett
Department ofComputer Science BournemouthUniversity
andInformation Systems Poole, UK
InterLabs Research Institute
KESInternational
Bradley University
Shoreham-by-sea, UK
Peoria, IL, USA
LakhmiC. Jain
Faculty of Engineering andInformation
Technology
Centrefor Artificial Intelligence
University of Technology Sydney
Sydney,Australia
KESInternational
Shoreham-by-sea, UK
Faculty of Science
LiverpoolHope University
Liverpool, UK
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Preface
Smart education,smart e-learning,and smart universities areemerging and rapidly
growing areas. They have a potential to transform existing teaching strategies,
learningenvironments,educationalactivities,andtechnologyinaclassroom.Smart
educationande-learningarefocusedatenablinginstructorstodevelopnewwaysof
achieving excellence in teaching in highly technological smart classrooms and
smartuniversities,andprovidingstudentswithnewopportunitiestomaximizetheir
successand select thebest optionsfor theireducation,location, learning style,and
mode of learning content delivery.
In accordance with the recent October 21, 2019, report “Gartner Identifies the
Top10StrategicTechnologyTrendsfor2020”bytheGartnercompany—theworld
leadingresearch,strategictechnology,andadvisorycompany—“Asmartspaceisa
physical environment in which people and technology-enabled systems interact in
increasingly open, connected, coordinated and intelligent ecosystems. Multiple
elements—including people, processes, services and things—come together in a
smart space to create a more immersive, interactive and automated experience.”
In accordance with the recent November 25, 2019, report “2019 EDUCAUSE
Top10ITIssuesList”bytheEDUCAUSE—theleadinginternationalprofessional
community of IT leaders and professionals in higher education—“Security and
student success are the two most pressing priorities of colleges and universities
today. A modern IT infrastructure equipped with smart solutions can help in both
of these areas.”
We believe that our international professional research and academic commu-
nities—those who perform research in smart education, smart e-learning, smart
universities, smart classrooms, smart pedagogy, and smart campus areas—made
valuable contributions to those areas.
FromJune2014,theenthusiasticandvisionaryscholars,faculty,Ph.D.students,
administrators, and practitioners from all over the world have an excellent oppor-
tunity for a highly efficient and productive professional meeting—the annual
international conference on Smart Education and Smart e-Learning (SEEL).
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The KES International professional association initiated SEEL conference as a
major international forum for the presentation of innovative ideas, approaches,
technologies, systems, findings, and outcomes of research, and design and devel-
opment projects in the emerging areas of smart education, smart e-learning, smart
pedagogy, smart analytics, applications of smart technology and smart systems in
educationande-learning,smartclassrooms,smartuniversities,andknowledge-based
smartsociety.
The inaugural international KES conference on Smart Technology-based
Education and Training (STET) has been held at Chania, Crete, Greece, June
18–20,2014.The2ndinternationalKESconferenceonSmartEducationandSmart
e-Learning took place in Sorrento, Italy, June 17–19, 2015; the 3rd KES SEEL
conference—in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, June 15–17, 2016; the 4th
KES SEEL conference—in Vilamoura, Portugal, June 21–23, 2017; the 5th
KES SEEL conference—in Gold Coast, Australia, June 20–22, 2018; and the 6th
KES SEEL conference—in St. Julian’s, Malta, June 17–19, 2019.
The main topics of the SEEL international conference are grouped into several
clusters and include but are not limited to:
(cid:129) Smart Education (SmE cluster):Conceptual frameworksfor smarteducation;
smartuniversity; smart campus;smartclassroom; smart learningenvironments;
stakeholders of smart university; mathematical modeling of smart university;
academic or institutional analytics; university-wide smart systems for teaching,
learning, research, management, safety, and security; research projects, best
practices, and case studies on smart education; partnerships, national and
international initiatives, and projects on smart education; and economics of
smart education;
(cid:129) Smart Pedagogy (SmP cluster): Innovative smart teaching and learning tech-
nologies;learning-by-doing;activelearning;experientiallearning,games-based
learning, and gamification of learning; collaborative learning; analytics-based
learning;flippedclassroom;crowdsourcing-basedlearning;project-basedlearn-
ing;adaptivelearning;badging-basedlearning;productivefailure-basedlearning;
smart learning analytics; research projects, best practices, and case studies on
smart pedagogy; smart curriculum and courseware design and development;
smartassessmentandtesting;smartuniversity’sstudent/learnermodeling;faculty
modeling, faculty development, and instructor’s skills for smart education;
university-wide smart systems for teaching and learning; learning management
systems;smart-blended,distance,online,andopeneducation;andpartnerships,
nationalandinternationalinitiatives,andprojectsonsmartpedagogy;
(cid:129) Smart e-Learning (SmL cluster): Smart e-learning: concepts, strategies, and
approaches; Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs); Small Personal Online
Courses (SPOCs); assessment and testing in smart e-learning; serious games-
basedsmarte-learning;smartcollaborativee-learning;adaptivee-learning;smart
e-learning environments; courseware and open education repositories for smart
e-learning; smart e-learning pedagogy, teaching, and learning; smart e-learner
modeling; smart e-learning management, academic analytics, and quality
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assurance; faculty development and instructor’s skills for smart e-learning;
research, design, and development projects, best practices, and case studies on
smarte-learning;standardsandpoliciesinsmarte-learning;social,cultural,and
ethicaldimensionsofsmarte-learning;andeconomicsofsmarte-learning;
(cid:129) Smart Technology, Software and Hardware Systems for Smart Education
and e-Learning (SmT cluster): Smart technology-enhanced teaching and
learning; adaptation, sensing, inferring, self-learning, anticipation, and
self-organizationofsmartlearningenvironments;Internetofthings(IoT),cloud
computing, RFID, ambient intelligence, and mobile wireless sensor network
applications insmartclassroomsandsmart universities;smartphonesandsmart
devices in education; educational applications of smart technology and smart
systems;mobility,security,access,andcontrolinsmartlearningenvironments;
smart gamification; smart multimedia; and smart mobility;
(cid:129) “FromSmartEducationtoSmartSociety”Continuum(SmScluster):Smart
school; applications of smart toys and games in education; smart university;
smartcampus;economics of smart universities;smartuniversity’s management
and administration; smart office; smart company; smart house; smart living;
smarthealthcare;smartwealth;smartlifelonglearning;smartcity;nationaland
international initiatives and projects; and smart society;
(cid:129) “Smart University as a Hub for Students’ Engagement into Virtual
Business and Entrepreneurship (SmB cluster): Entrepreneurship and inno-
vation at university; student role and engagement; student engagement with
virtualbusinessesandvirtualcompanies;virtualteamsandvirtualteamworking
(technology, models, and ethics); university curricula for entrepreneurship and
innovation (core and supplemental courses); new student goal—start his/her
own business (instead of getting a job in a company); students and start-up
companies (approaches, models, best practices, and case studies).
This year, several subgroups in our international research and academic com-
munities proposed in-depth discussion on a number of specific topics in smart
education and smart e-learning. We strongly support those pioneering initiatives
andareverythankfultotheorganizersandchairsofthefollowingspecialsessions
at SEEL-2020 international conference:
(cid:129) IS01: Smart University Development: Organizational and Managerial
Issues (organizers and co-chairs: Prof. Anna A. Sherstobitova and Prof.
Lyudmila V. Glukhova);
(cid:129) IS02: Smart Education and Smart Universities and their Impact on
Students with Disabilities (organizer and chair: Prof. Jeffrey P. Bakken);
(cid:129) IS03: Mathematical Models in Smart Education and e-Learning (organizer
and chair: Prof. Natalia A. Serdyukova);
(cid:129) IS04: Models of Professional Practice in Higher Education (organizers and
co-chairs: Prof. Djordje Nadrljanski, Prof. Vladimir Simovic, and Prof. Mila
Nadrljanski).
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One of the advantages of the SEEL conference is that it is organized in con-
junction with several other Smart Digital Future (SDF) high-quality conferences,
including Agent and Multi-Agent Systems—Technologies and Applications
(AMSTA), Human Centred Intelligent Systems (HCIS), Intelligent Decision
Technologies (IDT), Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (InMed), and Smart
Transportation Systems (STS). This provides SEEL conference participants with
unique opportunities to attend also AMSTA, HCIS, IDT, InMed, and STS con-
ferences’ presentations, and meet and collaborate with subject matter experts in
those“smart”areas—fieldsthatareconceptuallyclosetosmarteducationandsmart
e-learning.
This book contains the contributions presented at the 7th International KES
ConferenceonSmartEducationande-Learning(SEEL-2020),whichbeingheldas
a virtual conference on June 17–19, 2020. It contains fifty-three high-quality
peer-reviewed papers that are grouped into several interconnected parts: Part I—
Smart Education, Part II—Smart e-Learning, Part III—Smart Pedagogy, Part IV—
Smart Education: Systems and Technology, Part V—Smart Education: Case
StudiesandResearch,PartVI—SmartUniversityDevelopment:Organizationaland
Managerial Issues, Part VII—Smart Education and Smart Universities and their
Impact on Students with Disabilities, Part VIII—Mathematical Models in Smart
Educationande-Learning,andPartIX—ModelsofProfessionalPracticeinHigher
Education.
We would like to thank many scholars—members of the SEEL-2020
International Program Committee—who dedicated many efforts and time to make
SEELinternationalconferenceagreatsuccess,namely:Dr.FarshadBadie(Aalborg
University,Denmark),Prof.JeffreyP.Bakken(BradleyUniversity,USA),Dr.Elena
Barbera (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain), Dr. Janos Botzheim (Budapest
University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Prof. Dumitru Burdescu
(University of Craiova, Romania), Prof. Adriana Burlea Schiopoiu (University of
Craiova, Romania), Prof. Nunzio Casalino (Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy),
Prof.MicheleCole(RobertMorrisUniversity,USA),Prof.RobertasDamasevicius
(Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania), Prof. Jean-Pierre Gerval (ISEN,
France), Prof. Lyudmila V. Glukhova (Volzhsky University, Russia), Dr. Foteini
Grivokostopoulou(UniversityofPatras,Greece),Assoc.Prof.SvetlanaA.Gudkova
(Togliatti State University, Russia), Dr. Karsten Henke (Ilmenau University of
Technology,Germany),Prof.AlexanderIvannikov(RussianAcademyofSciences,
Russia),Dr.ValeryM.Kaziev(Kabardino-BalkarianStateUniversity,Russia),Prof.
Aleksandra Klasnja-Milicevic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia), Prof. Natalya O.
Mikhalenok (Samara State University of Railways, Russia), Assoc. Prof. Yana S.
Mitrofanova(TogliattiStateUniversity,Russia),Prof.AndrewNafalski(University
of South Australia, Australia), Prof. Alexander D. Nemtsev (Volzhsky University,
Russia), Prof. Toshio Okamoto (Kyoto College, Japan), Dr. Mrutyunjaya Panda
(UtkalUniversity,India),Prof.EkaterinaPrasolova-Forland(NorwegianUniversity
of Science and Technology, Norway), Dr. Isidoros Perikos (University of Patras,
Greece), Dr. Danguole Rutkauskiene (Kaunas University of Technology), Prof.
Demetrios Sampson (University of Piraeus, Greece), Prof. Dmitry L. Savenkov
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(Togliatti State University, Russia), Prof. Natalia A. Serdyukova (Plekhanov
Russian University of Economics, Russia), Prof. Vladimir I. Serdyukov (Bauman
Moscow State Technical University, Russia), Prof. Anna Sherstobitova (Togliatti
State University, Russia), Prof. Cristi Spulbar (University of Craiova, Romania),
Assoc. Prof. Ruxandra Stoean (University of Craiova, Romania), Prof Masanori
Takagi (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan), Dr. Gara Miranda Valladares
(University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain), Prof. Wenhuar Tarng (National Tsing
HuaUniversity,Taiwan),Prof.Dr.ToyohideWatanabe(NagoyaUniversity,Japan),
Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi (Shimonoseki City University, Japan), Prof. Larissa
Zaitseva(RigaTechnicalUniversity,Latvia),andAssoc.Prof.VladimirN.Zhukov
(Plekhanov RussianUniversity ofEconomics, Russia).
We are indebted to international collaborating organizations that made SEEL
international conference possible, specifically: KES International (UK); InterLabs
Research Institute, Bradley University (USA); Institut Superieur de l’Electronique
et du Numerique ISEN, Brest (France); Science and Education Research Council
(COPEC);andWorldCouncilonSystemEngineeringandInformationTechnology
(WCSEIT).
Finally, we greatly appreciate the professional service for our research and
academic communities completed by two senior students from the Department of
Computer Science and Information Systems and research associates of the
InterLabs Research Institute at Bradley University (USA), namely Marissa Ashley
Anderson and Andrew D. Driscoll. They volunteered to proofread all chapters in
this book and accomplished this gigantic work with a very high quality. We are
very thankful to these young and motivated researchers for their excellent profes-
sional service.
It is our sincere hope that this book will serve as a useful source of valuable
collection of knowledge from various research, design, and development projects
andusefulinformation aboutcurrent bestpractices and case studies, andprovidea
baseline of further progress and inspiration for research projects and advanced
developments in smart education and smart e-learning areas.
Peoria, IL, USA Prof. Vladimir L. Uskov, Ph.D.
Shoreham-by-sea, UK Prof. Robert J. Howlett, Ph.D.
Sydney, Australia Prof. Lakhmi C. Jain, Ph.D.
June 2020