Existing
System
In order to conduct an e-learning environment,
Srinakharinwirot University has utilized SWU ATutor System
(http://course.swu.ac.th), an Open Source Web-based Learning Content Management
System (LCMS) which is used to develop web-based instructional content.
Moreover, SWU ATutor system provides Test & Survey Manager tool of which
lecturers can create tests and surveys for their courses. The questions in test
and surveys of each course can be exported, sent to bulk SMS system and
transferred to student’s mobile phones.
In addition,
the university has provided eservices system to serve the need of academic
information, such as academic record, enrollment information, grade result, and
etc., Students and lecturers
can access their education information on this web-based system. In terms of
public relation, the information such as admission announcement, university’s
news and events and internship opportunity are provided in e-service system
appeared on the university website.Both acdemic
information and public relation information can be sent to bulk SWU for further
distribution.
Implementation
Srinakharinwirot University has developed BSWU, Srinakharinwirot University
bulk SMS system, to enhance the school’s educational communication. During
system testing period, B-SWU’s users can use the system for free. The B-SWU is
used for two main purposes:
Learning Enhancement
In order to
enhance student’s learning, bulk SMS system can be applied in a mobile learning
scenario for dealing with learning activities such as asking questions,
providing answers and providing feedback. The aim of B-SWU system in this part
is to provide communication system for the large class. The system can provide
mobile quizzes which report scores including answer keys to students and get
their feedback instantly.
Before
sending SMS quizzes SMS from B-SMS system, the questions have to verify by the
question filtering process, lecturer has to prepare quizzes
which can be stored in Question Database tool of SWU ATutor system at Step (1).
Step (2), the quiz will be exported into XML format and sent to BSWU system.
Step (3), the system will select quizzes which are suitable for conducting a
SMS quizzes of which in the questions form patterns in the following
categories: matching, multiple choices, true/false, ordering and open-ended.
Especially for open-ended questions, it should be a short question which
requires a short answer or just a keyword answer. Step (4), all quizzes from
filtering process will be sent to students. B-SWU open two-way communications
for retrieving feedback from students. The system will evaluate student SMS
answer. Step (5), the evaluation process will match student SMS answers with
the answer keys.
Some researches have tried to develop the methods
(Balasundaram and Ramadoss, 2007) for matching the student SMS answers with the
actual answer by observing various sentence patterns, however the matching
result is still hard to evaluate. This is because the sentence patterns are not
unique and most SMSs are composed of many abbreviations. And finally in Step
(6), the quiz’s result will be sent to lecturer and students.
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