18 research outputs found
Current Trends in Game-Based Learning
A myriad of technological options can be used to support digital game-based learning. One popular technology in this context is the mobile device, considering its high penetration rate in our societies, even among young people. These can be combined with other technologies, such as Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR), to increase studentsâ motivation and engagement in learning processes.Due to this, there is an emergent need to know and promote good practices in the development and implementation of game-based learning approaches in educational settings. This was the motto for the proposal of the Education Sciences (ISSN: 2227-7102) Special Issue âCurrent Trends in Game-Based Learningâ. This book is a reprint of this Special Issue, collecting a set of five papers that illustrate the contribution of innovative approaches to education, specifically the ones exploring the motivational factors associated with playing games and the technology that may support them
Tennessee Blue Book 2021-2022
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Advancing Environmental Equity: Environmental Justice Organizational Directory and Toolkit, 2022
Too often grassroots groups and environmental justice (EJ) organizations are not linked to each other (Bullard, 2000), exist in silos, and are isolated from the resources and/or organizations in which they can collaborate and benefit from. This thesis, in the form of a directory, is designed as a planning, organizing, networking, and community empowerment tool to bring organizations and underrepresented stakeholders to the table in planning summits, conferences, and workshops. The goal of this thesis is three-fold: 1) to offer a conventional analysis on reoccurring and longstanding, environmental justice themes and inequalities burdening low-income and/or people of color in the United States; 2) to compile and document a directory of grassroots environmental justice and civil rights organizations that currently operate and serve in Alaska, EPA Region 4 (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and 6 Tribes), and EPA Region 6 (Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, and 65 Tribal Nations); and 3) to track and examine enabling policies, resources, and tools that serve to create a more equitable environmental justice landscape in the United States
What a feeling! A multistage, multimethod Investigation of emotions and their antecedents in an Irish language MOOC
It has become widely accepted that emotions play a key role in the learning process. Therefore, understanding learnersâ emotions in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has become an important area of inquiry as the demand for these resources continues to increase. To date, however, research has focused almost exclusively on one emotion, anxiety. Consideration of a much broader range of both positive and negative emotion would provide a more holistic insight in to the online language learning experience, and thus warrants further investigation. This research, presents an investigation in to the emotional experiences of learners participating in an Irish language, massive open online course (MOOC). Language learning MOOCs (LMOOCs) such as this one constitute an emerging and relatively unexplored CALL environment that has much to gain from emotion research.
Using Pekrunâs (2006) Control-Value Theory of Achievement Emotions as the guiding theoretical framework, this study seeks to answer the over-arching research question: What are the sources of learnersâ emotions experienced during an LMOOC? The research design adopted to address this question was iterative in nature with findings from prior stages contributing to the methodological instruments and procedure used in the main study. An experience sampling method was adopted to collect self-report data pertaining to learnersâ emotions and their cognitive appraisals during the main study. This approach facilitated in-the-moment emotion reports from participants following various task-types and tested the Control-Value Theory at an intra-individual level. This data was further enhanced by weekly emotion diaries, which delved deeper into the learnersâ perspective.
This multiple methods study finds that learners experience a range of both positive and negative emotions while learning the Irish language online. A multilevel analysis of the quantitative data confirms that the cognitive appraisals of perceived control and subjective value both directly and interactively predict learnersâ emotions at an intra-individual level during the MOOC. Furthermore, there are significant relationships that exist between task types and learner emotions, a finding that is of particular relevance to learning design and pedagogical strategies. A thematic analysis of the qualitative data supports these quantitative findings but also highlights other appraisals that appear to be relevant to the elicitation of emotions during the LMOOC. Taken together, the findings of this study suggest that learning a language online is not just a cognitive process but also an emotional one and educators, learning designers and even the learners themselves need to consider this when engaging in such courses
Business Cycles in Economics
The business cycles are generated by the oscillating macro-/micro-/nano- economic output variables in the economy of the scale and the scope in the amplitude/frequency/phase/time domains in the economics. The accurate forward looking assumptions on the business cycles oscillation dynamics can optimize the financial capital investing and/or borrowing by the economic agents in the capital markets. The book's main objective is to study the business cycles in the economy of the scale and the scope, formulating the Ledenyov unified business cycles theory in the Ledenyov classic and quantum econodynamics
Investment in capital markets
Investment in Capital Markets creates a strategic vision on the financial capital investment in the capital markets with the aim to get an increased return premium in the short and long time periods. The book is written with a main goal to explain the pros and cons of the financial capital investment in the capital markets, discussing the sophisticated investment concepts and techniques in the simple understandable readable general format language. We would like to highlight the three interesting facts about the book: 1. It is centered on the consideration of the modern investment products, the investment vehicles and the investment mediums for the financial capital investment in the capital markets; 2. It is focused on the financial risk calculation and mitigation techniques for the financial capital investment in the financial capital markets. 3. It is aimed to describe the quantum winning virtuous investment strategies creation and execution techniques during the financial capital investment in the capital markets. The investors, financiers, economists, financial analysts, financial traders, financial advisers, lawmakers, policy analysts, subject experts, professors, and students will certainly enjoy a breathtaking splendid learning journey with the explained new ideas, established concepts and outlined future prospects toward the financial capital investment in the capital markets with the aim to get an increased return premium in the short and long time periods