A massive open online course (MOOC) is a web-based class environment aimed at large-scale global participation and open access via the Internet. MOOCs are also a disruptive trend changing how education is delivered and funded throughout the world. In the spring of 2013, we developed and taught Vanderbilt’s first MOOC, entitled “Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture for Concurrent and Networked...

This paper present a research project that tries to extend the MOOC ecosystems by integrating external tools like social networks. This integration is developed by using a software architecture that mediate between the different systems and platforms establishing communication workflows and analyzing the information retrieved. This kind of system is applied in a real case, and it allows teacher...

The successof assertion based functional verification depends on the debugging environment associated with it. It helps user to get information about the environment in a refined manner. It also helps in realizing visualization support which tracks the behavioral aspects of the design under verification. This paper presents the design and verification of widely used AdvancedHigh-performanceBus(...

A massive open online course (MOOC) is a web-based class environment aimed at large-scale global participation and open access via the Internet. MOOCs are also a disruptive trend changing how education is delivered and funded throughout the world. In the spring of 2013, we developed and taught Vanderbilt’s first MOOC, entitled “Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture for Concurrent and Networked...

Modern information and communication technologies (ICT) provide numerous opportunities to support e-learning in higher education. Recent devlopments such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) utilize the scalabiltiy and interactivity of the ICT to broaden the accessibility of university education. However, the potential of ICT in enhancing students’ learning experience and success is far from ...

Federated learning is a distributed machine approach to privacy preservation and two major technical challenges prevent wider application of federated learning. One that raises high demands on communication resources, since large number model parameters must be transmitted between the server clients. The other challenge training models such as deep neural networks in requires amount computation...

To develop human friendly robots we required two key components; smart interfaces and safe mechanisms. Smart interfaces facilitate natural and easy interfaces for humanrobot interaction. Facial gestures can be a natural way to control a robot. In this paper, we report on a vision-based interface that in real-time tracks a user’s facial features and gaze point. Human friendly robots must also ha...