Evaluating a Change to Seminar-style Teaching

Teaching Robots Style: Designing and Evaluating Style-by-Demonstration for Interactive Robotic Locomotion

In this paper we present a multi-part formal design and evaluation of the style-by-demonstration (SBD) approach to creating interactive robot behaviors: enabling people to design the style of interactive robot behaviors by providing an exemplar. We first introduce our Puppet Master SBD algorithm that enables the creation of interactive robot behaviors with a focus on style: users provide an exa...

a paradigm shift away from method-wise teaching to strategy-wise teaching: an investigation of reconstructive strategy versus communicative strategy

چکیده: هدف اصلی این مطالعه ی توصیفی تحقیقی در حقیقت تلاشی پساروش-گرا به منظور رسیدن به نتیجه ای منطقی در انتخاب مناسبترین راهکار آموزشی بر گرفته از چارچوب راهبردی مطرح شده توسط والدمر مارتن بوده که به بهترین شکل سازگار و مناسب با سامانه ی آموزشی ایران باشد. از این رو، دو راهکار آموزشی، راهکار ارتباطی و راهکار بازساختی، برای تحقیق و بررسی انتخاب شدند. صریحاً اینکه، در راستای هدف اصلی این پژوهش، ر...

Teaching C in a Functional Style

The rst introduction to imperative programming for the majority of our students is with C, but fortunately it is preceded by a course on problem solving and program design using the lazy functional language Miranda. C is a diicult language to learn, but by drawing on the skills taught in the Miranda course, notions such as modularity, information hiding, recursion, abstraction, top-down design,...

Confluence: A Seminar Series as a Teaching Tool †

Teaching the Art Oe Economic Research in a Senior Seminar

In many academic settings, undergraduate economics majors are asked to do an independent project or thesis in their final year. Because doing research is very different from leaming economics in a classroom, students are frequently unprepared for this endeavor. This article describes a seminar course intended to ease this transition by preparing students to embark on such a project. The first g...