The paper presents the impact of using computer-supported cooperative work tools in building educational environments and the facilities such tools bring to educational methodologies. It also shows the relation between this new technique and the learnercentered approach in education, a participative style of education in which the learner is actively involved in the learning process, while stre...

this study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in tefl in comparison to those who have educated in literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. on a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...

Cooperative/collaborative/team learning is an active learning technique in which students work and learn together in pairs or small groups to accomplish shared goals. The sites in this section offer information for faculty about getting started with instructional groups, designing group assignments, and using groups successfully. There is also a section designed for students, offering specific ...

In this paper, we illustrate our methodology for academic teaching, based on cooperative learning paradigm, which also relies on cutting edge elearning techniques. We use Web 2.0 resources to fulfill requirements for an interactive-constructivistic “learning space”, where blended-teaching paradigm may be proficiently applied. We extend an existing Free/Open Source Software Learning Management S...

Soccer, association football, is a typical team-game, and is considered as a standard problem of multi-agent system and cooperative computation. We are developing Soccer Server, a simulator of soccer, which provides a common test-bench to evaluate various multi-agent systems and cooperative algorithms. We are working on learning cooperative behavior in multi-agent environment using the server. ...

In this paper, we illustrate our methodology for academic teaching, based on cooperative learning paradigm, which also relies on cutting edge elearning techniques. We use Web 2.0 resources to fulfill requirements for an interactive-constructivistic “learning space”, where blended-teaching paradigm may be proficiently applied. We extend an existing Free/Open Source Software Learning Management S...

Nowadays, society needs professionals with more capabilities, who are able to face the new challenges of the world. Colleges must refocus their teaching process in order to develop student competences and talents. This is a new paradigm of teaching, which may be able to be implemented through the use of cooperative learning procedures. Considering that using open e-learning platforms as tools t...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of web-based cooperative teaching through strategy-based instruction on EFL learners’ speaking and listening skills. Moreover, the use of cooperative teaching was hypothesized to have impact on the EFL learners’ self-efficacy. To this purpose, the study followed a mixed-methods design by implementing both qualitative and quantitative data gathering pro...

Cooperative games are those in which both agents share the same payoff structure. Valuebased reinforcement-learning algorithms, such as variants of Q-learning, have been applied to learning cooperative games, but they only apply when the game state is completely observable to both agents. Policy search methods are a reasonable alternative to value-based methods for partially observable environm...