Md. Sadekur Rahman

Work place: Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

E-mail: sadekur.cse@daffodilvarsity.edu.bd

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Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining

Biography

Md. Sadekur Rahman has obtained his Bachelor and Master degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. Currently he is continuing his PhD in Computer Science at the University Sains Islam Malaysia. At present he is working as a Senior Lecturer in the department of Compute Science and Engineering in Daffodil International University, Bangladesh. Mr. Rahman has a number of publications in international and national journals and conference proceedings. His research interest includes Data mining, Pattern Recognition, Neural Network, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. He is involved with workshop on Participatory Engaging Techniques (PET) which guides newly joined faculties of DIU for preparing for their teaching career. He is also engaged in research on Guided Classroom Techniques for ensuring quality education for last three years.

Author Articles
ICT in Higher Education: Wiki-based Reflection to Promote Deeper Thinking Levels

By Akinul Islam Jony Md. Sadekur Rahman Yousuf Mahbubul Islam

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2017.04.05, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2017

The main purpose of higher education is to produce skilled graduates so that they can think critically and solve real world problems. Presenting a group based solution in a face-to-face class is a common activity in the higher education classroom where other students/peers can actively participate in the follow-up question/answer sessions. Working out a solution together as a group engages students’ independent thinking ability and promotes active learning. This means, that they have the opportunity to reflect on their own thinking and take it to deeper levels of thinking. However, recent trends show that online support to the higher education class - a form of blended learning is growing day by day. This paper proposes a wiki-based (one of the ICT tools) reflection method to follow up regular existing face-to-face classroom presentation activities to promote deeper thinking levels of students in higher education. In this article, Lee’s Model of thinking levels is-used for analyzing the thinking levels of students during their wiki work. The findings of this research work (through experiments) show that the wiki-based reflection method could be an effective way to promote thinking levels of students and hence can be used as a blended learning model to promote reflective and in-depth thinking.

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