An Educational Web-Based Expert System for Novice Highway Technology in Flexible Pavement Maintenance
| Autor: | Mohmed Solla, Zainab Hasan Ali, Nur Izzi Md Yusoff, Abdalrhman Milad, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Riza Atiq Abdullah O.K. Rahmat, Sayf A. Majeed, Zaher Mundher Yaseen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Article Subject
General Computer Science Higher education Computer science 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre Likert scale Software Web page 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Curriculum development Expert System Flexible Pavement Maintenance Multidisciplinary business.industry 05 social sciences 050301 education QA75.5-76.95 Human Computer Interaction Människa-datorinteraktion (interaktionsdesign) Expert system Traditional education Engineering management Knowledge base Electronic computers. Computer science Novice Highway Technology 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing User interface business 0503 education Highway engineering computer Educational Web-Based |
| Zdroj: | Complexity, Vol 2021 (2021) |
| Popis: | Nowadays, higher education worldwide is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has affected students’ attendance in the universities and causes universities to close down in more than 190 countries. On the other hand, novice engineers studied only a few lectures related to highway engineering. Their lectures have included very little knowledge about asphalt pavement construction as highway engineering consists of many areas that are not studied in detail during their studying years subject to their traditional education. Due to all mentioned, a new drive to promote online learning paves the way to evaluate our future approach to curriculum development and delivery of educational materials for engineering courses. However, experts can offer solutions to these problems using their past experience. Hence, a system that allows experts to share their experience with other engineers after completing a project is needed. Nevertheless, the web-based expert system for maintaining flexible pavement problems in tropical regions (ESTAMPSYS) designed in this study is a novel concept. Prior to developing this system, the need for such a system was determined through literature review and validated through a questionnaire survey. Experts were interviewed, and a questionnaire survey was conducted to construct the knowledge base of the system. Knowledge was presented as rules and coded in software through PHP programming. Web pages that support the user interface were designed using a framework that consists of CSS, HTML, and J-Query. Furthermore, the system was tested by an array of users engaged in highway engineering, namely, experts, teaching experts, novice engineers, and students. The mean values of the overall system evaluation performed by 20 users using a five-point Likert scale were 4, 4.5, 3.75, 4.25, 5, 4, and 3.5. Expert and user satisfaction prove the effectiveness of the proposed system. Validerad;2021;Nivå 2;2021-04-09 (alebob) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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