Work-based learning using action learning sets

the relationship between using language learning strategies, learners’ optimism, educational status, duration of learning and demotivation

with the growth of more humanistic approaches towards teaching foreign languages, more emphasis has been put on learners’ feelings, emotions and individual differences. one of the issues in teaching and learning english as a foreign language is demotivation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the components of language learning strategies, optimism, duration o...

Using Cross-disciplinary Action Learning Sets When Designing Online Assessment

The drive to find appropriate ways to integrate online technologies into assessment has come about within Australian higher education as a consequence of widely held aspirations to remain competitive in the global marketplace. An action research initiative at Southern Cross University reported in this paper suggests both extrinsic and intrinsic reasons why academics considering online assessmen...

Lyapunov-Constrained Action Sets for Reinforcement Learning

Lyapunov analysis is a standard approach to studying the stability of dynamical systems and to designing controllers. We propose to design the actions of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent to be descending on a Lyapunov function. For minimum cost-to-target problems, this has the theoretical benefit of guaranteeing that the agent will reach a goal state on every trial, regardless of the RL algo...

Curriculum Development Using Problem Based Learning Techniques

The ultimate purpose in designing a Curriculum should be to have an organized system of what is to be learned when an area of study is identified. The Curriculum Development should be designed in such a way that even the beginners are able to get a complete idea of the subject over a period of time on learning it. The curriculum should be as of that it should make him/her to get involved in kno...

Work-Based Learning in Europe