Research and Development 研究與發展

 

Staff members of the Computing Team at the School of Science and Technology have been dedicated to research and development of the advancement of education through innovative use of IT. We aim to offer students a more effective and pleasant learning experience.

Bear in mind that we are not a UCG funded university and we do not have much resource at our disposal, we still hope to make progress to achieve the above aim. This is exemplified by the recent RGC ERG granted to Dr. Vanessa Ng and Dr. Steven Choy.

The following describes some of the research and development work carried out by staff of the Computing Team.

Vitaweb: Intelligent External Web Resources Manager

The use of external web resources is common in many e-learning and online learning systems. Hyperlinks to these external web resources are however prone to errors because of the ethereal nature of web resources - the content can be deleted, changed, or the host server is down.

Vitaweb is an an external web resources manager for e-learning systems. It is designed to provide autonomous functions for solving the broken link problem. The functions of Vitaweb include the following:

  • Monitor and report broken links.

  • Monitor content change in external web resources.

  • Suggest alternative or mirror web resources when an existing one has disappeared

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Catch me if you can - Detecting Plagiarism in Programming Exercises

Ensuring a fair assessment makes an important contribution to the quality of education. Plagiarism is particularly damaging to fair assessment as plagiarists taking advantage of hard working students who make geniune attempts to demonstrate their ability. Detecting plagiarism in programming is difficult, and sorting out hundreds of assignment submissions makes the problem even more challenging. Vanessa Ng, T.S. Li, and Gary Ngai (technical assistant) are developing an intelligent online marking system ...

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Learning Programming On-line

It is not a secret that learning programming alone is particularly difficult. Many learning problems can pop up that dampen the spirit of even the most enthusiastic students. Vanessa Ng and Steven Choy proposed the development of an online and web-based system that provides an integrated environment for students to conduct programming activities and coursework, and will explore ways of providing ...

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Novel Approach to help Low-Confident Programming Students

Learning to program is often the largest hinderance to many computing students. At OUHK as well as in other universities, many computing students would give in computing because they find programming difficult to pick up.

The Project Perform team, comprised of Dr. Andrew Lui, Ms. Maria Poon, and Dr. Reggie Kwan, however believes that there is a way for everyone to learn programming, at least to an elementary level ...

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