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The presented software tools have been accomplished in the frame of the Leonardo da Vinci pilot project “Virtual-Electro-Lab”. The aim of the project is developing a complex training system in electrical domain that includes the correlation of the courses, seminars / workshops and testing systems with the virtual & remote experiment elements. It proposes an innovative approach of the teaching m...

In order to improve the teaching quality of supply chain management course, the teaching reforms were researched from four aspects including teaching method, course system, assessment method, and practice and experiment. Eight reform schemes on the teaching method and a set of corresponding course system were put forward. Building some teaching bases to achieve a combination of industry, educat...

In this paper we investigate how much data is required to train an algorithm for attribute selection, a subtask of Referring Expressions Generation (REG). To enable comparison between different-sized training sets, a systematic training method was developed. The results show that depending on the complexity of the domain, training on 10 to 20 items may already lead to a good performance.

This article reviews the core process of critical thinking – hunting assumptions – and explains how this process differs according to the context of what is being taught and the different intellectual traditions that inform teachers’ own backgrounds. It outlines a basic protocol of critical thinking as a learning process that focuses on uncovering and checking assumptions, exploring alternative...

The pervasiveness of online information services has led to substantial changes in higher education including changes in faculty members’ teaching methods and students’ study habits. This article presents the results of a survey about media use for teaching and learning conducted at a large Canadian university and highlights trends in the use of new and traditional media across university Facul...

We use different criteria to judge teaching methods and learning environments as researchers and teachers. As researchers, we tend to rely on learning gains measured in controlled conditions. As teacher, the skilled management of classroom constraints results in the impression that a specific design “works well”. We describe fourteen design factors related to the metaphors of classroom orchestr...

The present paper surveys recent developments in algorithmic teaching. First, the traditional teaching dimension model is recalled. Starting from the observation that the teaching dimension model sometimes leads to counterintuitive results, recently developed approaches are presented. Here, main emphasis is put on the following aspects derived from human teaching/learning behavior: the order in...

Facing the problem of more content, less course time, fear emotions of students, A complete reform from the teaching contents, teaching means, teaching methods and other aspects which is closely around the target of the talented cultivation "Emphasize on theoretical basis are taken, strengthen engineering application" of motor learning courses. Practice has proved that these measures had mobili...

We estimate the impact of peer gender composition on student achievement, exploiting the random assignment of Korean middle school students to single-sex schools, coeducational schools with single-sex classes, and coeducational schools with mixed-gender classes. Male students attending coeducational schools with single-sex classes perform worse than boys in mixed-gender classes, while those ass...