Thoughtful practice: Taking professional development a step further

Contextual Mobile Learning: A Step Further to Mastering Professional Appliances

Context awareness is essential in mobile learning being a highly personalized environment with diverse capabilities. Major challenges of context awareness are to define the learning context, how to sense it, and how to react to changes. Our proposed system provides a general architecture that facilitates contextualization using current widely-used web standards. It provides a systematic approac...

Boom: Taking Boolean Program Model Checking One Step Further

Abstract. We present Boom, a comprehensive analysis tool for Boolean programs. We focus in this paper on model-checking non-recursive concurrent programs. Boom implements a recent variant of counter abstraction, where thread counters are used in a program-context aware way. While designed for bounded counters, this method also integrates well with the Karp-Miller tree construction for vector ad...

Standardized Geoprocessing - Taking Spatial Data Infrastructures one Step Further

Spatial data infrastructures (SDI) have been widely accepted to share geospatial data among organizations. Today SDI’s main focus lies on distributed data storage in the form of spatial web services, the retrieval through catalogues, and the visualization in form of web map services. The hypothesis presented in this paper takes SDI’s one step further by providing a method to process geodata, in...

Continuing professional development: taking the broad view.

Professional Development That Changes Practice

The researchers conducted a national cross-sectional study and a follow-up longitudinal study to (a) identify the key features of effective professional development activities, (b) determine the prevalence of such activities, and (c) examine the extent to which such activities influence teachers’ classroom practice in mathematics and science. Both studies were conducted as part of an evaluation...