Case studies in the psychophysics, modeling and localization of human vision are presented as an example of "hands-on" philosophy of the cog nitive sciences. These studies also yield important results for familiar problems in philosophy of mind: the explanatory gap surrounding phenomenological feels is not closed by the kinds of investigations surveyed. However, the science is able to explain s...

It is crucial for a teacher to take students’ learning styles into account to enhance teaching effectiveness. This study examines correlations between students’ learning styles and their performance in writing and debugging Java programs. Eighty-four college freshmen who enrolled in two introductory Java programming courses participated in this study. Students were given the Soloman-Felder Inde...

Probability plays a critical role in making sense of quantum physics, but most science and engineering undergraduates have very little experience with the topic. A probabilistic interpretation of a physical system, even at a classical level, is often completely new to them, and the relevant fundamental concepts such as probability distribution and probability density are rarely understood. To a...

Many discussions have emerged recently from the Augmented Reality industry about creating an Augmented Reality Standard. In the rather new and thus still fairly unstructured AR industry, various institutions and groups got together and analyzed the AR landscape from the ground (the analytical approach to a standard), while others started from the other end and already created proposals for an A...

Most online courses include training assignments and offer various forms of tests to evaluate the students’ performance. Some courses, in particular computer sciences courses, require elaborate hands-on training experiences. The NeOS Framework presented in this paper proposes an e-learning tool developed supporting in particular hands-on training through programming exercises. The user locally ...

Process control is a difficult subject for engineering students. It is difficult for them to understand how to apply the theoretical concepts seeing in the classroom with the control process in real time. Over the last several years, the Process Control Team of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana has developed its own prototypes in order to create a process control laboratory for undergraduate c...

This paper describes the teaching of OpenGL shaders with hands-on a program called glman. Hands-on education is at its best when the students’ experimental feedback loop is very fast. glman allows students to create a shader scene description file which not only creates the 3D scene, but creates an interactive user interface to adjust parameters. Our experience in an experimental class taught i...

Assessing student learning across a variety of environments and tasks continues to be a crucial educational concern. This task is of particular difficulty in non-traditional learning environments where students endeavor to design their own projects and engage in a hands-on educational experience. In order to improve our ability to recognize learning in these constructionist environments, this p...

A theory based renewable energy sources course was complemented with seven hands-on laboratory experiments. The course was designed for engineering and non-engineering undergraduate students and did not require any advanced mathematics or physics background. Each laboratory experiment introduced a miniature version of an energy conversion device that mimicked the insights and workings of a real...

The North Dakota State College of Science (NDSCS) Nanoscience Technology Training Program was designed and implemented to meet the growing demand for technicians skilled in nanofabrication, surface analysis and production of various micro and nano-scale products. The program emphasizes hands-on training and utilizes a state-of–the–art Applied Science and Advanced Manufacturing Training Laborato...