Personalized web learning by joining OER

We argue that quality issues and didactical concerns of MOOCs may be overcome by relying on small Open Educational Resources, joining them into concise courses by gluing them together along predefined learning pathways with proper semantic annotations. This new approach to adaptive learning does not attempt to model the learner, but rather concentrates on the learning process and established models thereof. Such a new approach does not only require conceptual work and corresponding support tools, but also a new meta data format and an engine which may interpret the semantic annotations as well as measure a learner’s response to these. The EU FP7 project INTUITEL is introduced, which employs these technologies in a novel learning environment

Simplified Planner Selection

There exists no planning algorithm that outperforms all oth- ers. Therefore, it is important to know which algorithm works well on a task. A recently published approach uses either im- age or graph convolutional neural networks to solve this prob- lem and achieves top performance. Especially the transforma- tion from the task to an image ignores a lot of information. Thus, we would like to know what the network is learning and if this is reasonable. As this is currently not possible, we take one step back. We identify a small set of simple graph features and show that elementary and interpretable machine learning techniques can use those features to outperform the neural network based approach. Furthermore, we evaluate the importance of those features and verify that the performance of our approach is robust to changes in the training and test data

80 Years of Aerospace Engineering Education in the Netherlands

This year, 2020, the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands celebrates its 80th birthday. This paper describes the history of the department since its founding in early 1940, just before the start of World War II in the Netherlands, until present day. The paper will highlight how its research and education developed within the socio-economic context of the Netherlands and the developments in aerospace over the past 80 years

The Alps: A physical geography, political, and program framework

In order to improve the understanding of the concepts featured in this special issue of Acta geographica Slovenica, this review article presents the Alps as a geographical concept, the Alpine Convention, and the Alpine Space transnational cooperation program. All three categories have a different spatial scope and thus must be clearly defined and distinguished from one another

Morphological and Molecular Evidence for Synonymy of Cinclidotus confertus Lüth with C. riparius (Host ex Brid.) Arn

Kiebacher, Thomas, Lüth, Michael, Lüth, Volker, Kučera, Jan (2019): Morphological and molecular evidence for synonymy of Cinclidotus confertus Lüth with C. riparius (Host ex Brid.) Arn. Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (20): 259-269, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2019v40a20, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4878.3.