37,136 research outputs found
Education Reform for the Digital Era
Will the digital-learning movement repeat the mistakes of the charter-school movement? How much more successful might today's charter universe look if yesterday's proponents had focused on the policies and practices needed to ensure its quality, freedom, and resources over the long term? What mistakes might have been avoided? Damaging scandals forestalled? Missed opportunities seized
Secret objectives: promoting inquiry and tackling preconceptions in teaching laboratories
In its most general form, a `secret objective' is any inconsistency between
the experimental reality and the information provided to students prior to
starting work on an experiment. Students are challenged to identify the secret
objectives and then given freedom to explore and understand the experiment,
thus encouraging and facilitating genuine inquiry elements in introductory
laboratory courses. Damping of a simple pendulum is used as a concrete example
to demonstrate how secret objectives can be included. We also discuss the
implications of the secret objectives method and how this can provide a link
between the concepts of problem based learning and inquiry style labs
Media literacy at all levels: making the humanities more inclusive
The decline of the humanities, combined with the arrival of students focused
on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), represent
an opportunity for the development of innovative approaches to teaching
languages and literatures. Expanding the instructional focus from traditional
humanities students, who are naturally more text-focused, to address the needs
of more application-oriented STEM learners ensures that language instructors
prepare all students to become analytical and critical consumers and producers
of digital media. Training students to question motives both in their own and
authentic media messages and to justify their own interpretations results in more
sophisticated second language (L2) communication. Even where institutional
structures impede comprehensive curriculum reform, individual instructors can
integrate media literacy training into their own classes. Tis article demonstrates
ways of reaching and retaining larger numbers of students at all levels—if necessary,
one course at a time.Published versio
Using R, LaTeX and Wiki for an Arabic e-learning platform
E-learning plays an important role in education as it supports online education via computer networks and provides educational services by utilising information technologies. We present a case study describing the development of an Arabic language elearning course in statistics. Discussed are issues concerning e-learning in Arab countries with special focus on problems of the application of e-learning in the Arab world and the difficulties concerning the design Arabic platforms such as language problems, cultural and technical problems, especially ArabTeX works difficulty with LaTeX format. Thus Wiki is offered as a solution to such problems. Wiki supports LaTeX and other statistical programs, for instance R, andWiki offers the solution to language problems. Details of this technology are discussed and a solution as to how this system can serve in building an Arab platform is presented.E-learning, MM*Stat, Wiki, ArabTeX, Statistical software
Machine learning and its applications in reliability analysis systems
In this thesis, we are interested in exploring some aspects of Machine Learning (ML) and its application in the Reliability Analysis systems (RAs). We begin by investigating some ML paradigms and their- techniques, go on to discuss the possible applications of ML in improving RAs performance, and lastly give guidelines of the architecture of learning RAs. Our survey of ML covers both levels of Neural Network learning and Symbolic learning. In symbolic process learning, five types of learning and their applications are discussed: rote learning, learning from instruction, learning from analogy, learning from examples, and learning from observation and discovery. The Reliability Analysis systems (RAs) presented in this thesis are mainly designed for maintaining plant safety supported by two functions: risk analysis function, i.e., failure mode effect analysis (FMEA) ; and diagnosis function, i.e., real-time fault location (RTFL). Three approaches have been discussed in creating the RAs. According to the result of our survey, we suggest currently the best design of RAs is to embed model-based RAs, i.e., MORA (as software) in a neural network based computer system (as hardware). However, there are still some improvement which can be made through the applications of Machine Learning. By implanting the 'learning element', the MORA will become learning MORA (La MORA) system, a learning Reliability Analysis system with the power of automatic knowledge acquisition and inconsistency checking, and more. To conclude our thesis, we propose an architecture of La MORA
Современные технологии дистанционного обучения в высшей аграрной школе
В статье рассмотрены проблемы формирования
информационно-образовательной среды аграрного университета, решение
которых предлагается на основе внедрения новейших технологий
дистанционного обучения.The article tackles the problems of forming the informationeducational
environment of the agrarian university, solution of which is suggested on
the basis of implementing new technologies of the distance learning
- …