BACKGROUND Medical schools have been making efforts to develop their own problem-based learning (PBL) approaches based on their educational conditions, human resources and existing curriculum structures. This study aimed to explore a new framework by integrating the essential features of PBL and coaching psychology applicable to the undergraduate medical education context. METHODS A participa...

Can we build a semantically adaptive personal learning environment that helps people learn mathematics and that meets reasonable criteria for sustainable growth and development? This is question that applies at the interface between participatory social media and interactive, adaptive, “knowledge media”. Ten years ago, no one had heard of Wikipedia. Perhaps in another ten, P2PU will be as popul...

We study an automatic compliance monitoring approach for United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). CRP compliance monitoring checks each CRP tract regarding its contract stipulations, and is formulated as an unsupervised classification of Landsat imageries given the CRP reference data. Assuming the majority of a CRP tract is compliant, we want to locat...

Crowdsensing of air quality is a useful way to improve public awareness and supplement local air quality monitoring data. However, current air quality monitoring approaches are either too sophisticated, costly or bulky to be used effectively by the mass. In this paper, we describe AirTick, a mobile app that can turn any camera enabled smart mobile device into an air quality sensor, thereby enab...

The main focus of this work is on didactic planning (in high schools) with a special emphasis on the following topics: the use of problem-solving and social media in a course centered on scientific knowledge, participatory and collaborative activities, on and off line, the paradigms of collective intelligence (Levy, 1994), and connective intelligence (Siemens, 2005, 2006) and technical skills. ...

As manufacturing processes become increasingly automated, so should tool condition monitoring (TCM) as it is impractical to have human workers monitor the state of the tools continuously. Tool condition is crucial to ensure the good quality of products: Worn tools affect not only the surface quality but also the dimensional accuracy, which means higher reject rate of the products. Therefore, th...

There is a substantial gap between awareness and action on sustainability issues. This paper addresses the potential of landscape visualisation, integrated with other participatory modelling tools and disseminated through the mechanism of community visioning hubs, in advancing peoples’ awareness of sustainability issues such as climate change, and possibly affecting behaviour and policy. The ab...

The connections between learning and technology were explored and analyzed in this study. Data were collected through a participatory action research case study design in which students enrolled in five different universities in either the United States, England, and Australia participated in creating and

This special session features scientists and developers building innovative interactive virtual environments that can be used for science education from kindergarten through college. The four projects presented in this session focus on different areas of science, from space physics to entomology, but they share a common educational orientation towards participatory learning using Internet acces...