What Research Says About MOOCs – An Explorative Content Analysis

Reforming Science Teaching: What Research says about Inquiry*

Inquiry has a decades-long and persistent history as the central word used to characterize good science teaching and learning. Even at a time when a new word, constructivism, had entered the general educational lexicon as the descriptor of good education, the authors of the National Science Education Standards (NSES) chose to stay with inquiry and totally ignore the new word. But in spite of it...

Reasoning dynamically about what one says

In this paper we make SDRT’s glue logic for computing logical form dynamic. This allows a dialogue agent to anticipate what the update of the semantic representation of the dialogue would be after his next contribution, including the effects of the rhetorical moves that he is contemplating performing next. This is a pre-requisite for planning what to say next. We make the glue logic dynamic by ...

What the Council says about THE CHURCH

What Your Username Says About You

Usernames are ubiquitous on the Internet, and they are often suggestive of user demographics. This work looks at the degree to which gender and language can be inferred from a username alone by making use of unsupervised morphology induction to decompose usernames into sub-units. Experimental results on the two tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed morphological features compared ...

Content analysis: What are they talking about?

Quantitative content analysis is increasingly used to surpass surface level analyses in computer-supported collaborative learning (e.g., counting messages), but critical reXection on accepted practice has generally not been reported. A review of CSCL conference proceedings revealed a general vagueness in deWnitions of units of analysis. In general, arguments for choosing a unit were lacking and...