Digitally based courses and their online delivery are rapidly expanding access to learning opportunities (Duffy and Kirkley 2004; NRC 2000; Visser and Visser-Valfrey 2008). It is important to ask however: access to what kind of learning opportunities? Weigel (2000) argues that most current attempts to create online learning environments suffer from a "port the classroom to the Web" model. Resea...

Social learning can have profound evolutionary consequences because it drives the diffusion of novel behaviours among individuals and promotes the maintenance of traditions within populations. We inquired whether spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), generalist carnivores living in complex, primate-like societies, acquire information from conspecifics about a novel problem-solving task. Previously,...


 In the graphic narrative Queen of Sea, protagonist Margaret tells story her youth on a secret island. Multimodal texts can be used as platform for academic inquiry, enticing reader to closely engage with visual images, text, and interplay between two. Studying sociocognitive complexity text invites utilize theory-of-mind thinking identify mental states communicated in narrative, well nar...

nowadays, use of e-learning is one of the opportunities that information technology has provided for the teaching. since the method of training has become an industry so the concepts of value and value creation in the value chain need to be reviewed and updated based on e-learning system components. in this paper, with the aim of offering optimized value chain in the comparative study of tradit...

Education for sustainability (EfS) poses new challenges to higher education as it necessitates various shifts: from teacherto learner-centered pedagogies, from inputto output-orientation and from a focus on content to problem-solving and process orientation. E-learning, which follows the principles of situated, constructivist learning, addresses some of these challenges and offers opportunities...

Professional development has historically been a "one-shot" workshop wherein information barrages the learner in a streaming fashion and little to no information is retained. Even more exasperating is the lack of follow-up support once the workshops have concluded. Due to the desire for technologically appropriate professional development and classroom integration opportunities for educators fr...

Bioinformatics, the computational challenger of the genome, offers unparalleled opportunities to machine learning research in general and to Bayesian learning methods in particular. In this talk, we outline some of the opportunities and the challenges and we describe where the effort of “cracking the code of life” can most benefit of a Bayesian approach.