Several years ago a group of our computer science faculty began seriously examining initial programming instruction. We discovered a shared perception that too many students don't write reasonable programs even after completing a semester course in programming. Others have noted the same may even be true after the second course (e.g., [1]). There is cause for concern as computer applications pe...

Video stabilization is one of the important techniques in video restoration researches. Restoration of visual quality in old animation video is necessary due to some artefacts occur since the making of the animation is involving hand-drawn pictures followed by capturing step by camera. These artefacts lead to the unsteadiness and image vibration of the animation scene even in steady condition o...

Digital Interactive Storytelling (DIS) is a relatively novel area of computer entertainment which aims at investigating interactive applications capable of generating consistent, emergent and rich stories. To provide new solutions for DIS, we have proposed a novel multi-agent DIS framework, DIEGESIS, which includes agents' coordination and new planning and replanning solutions for DIS. A natura...

A positive attitude correlates to successful learning; while a negative leads poor learning. The present study aimed compare the pre-service biology teachers’ attitudes towards learning and assessing their attitudinal change before after being taught by resource-based instructions (RBI) in Rwanda. survey-research design was used, combination with quasi-experimental control group, equivalent tim...

In the Netherlands, teaching programs for French as a foreign language in secondary school usually involve an explicit focus on grammar. This is partially motivated by early findings SLA research, which showed that instruction more effective acquisition (Norris, & Ortega, 2000; Spada, Tomita, 2010) and even considered essential to achieve accuracy advanced writing (Gunnarsson, 2012). The ai...