The increasing employment of collaborated and blended learning techniques in educational institutes indicate that this kind of solution maximizes investments whether the growth of students demands more resources and teachers. Collaboration is working together towards a common goal at different times (time flexibility), in different locations (spatial flexibility), at different companies and edu...

This paper reports a hardware-accelerated multi-prototype learning and classification system which is suitable for real-time recognition systems. The real-world applicability of robotics or surveillance systems is dependent upon their real-time performance. Hardware based solutions can meet the needs for real-time limited problems; however, hardware-friendly solutions have lacked the flexibilit...

Research under the paradigm of the label feedback hypothesis has proposed a causal role for verbal labels in the online learning and processing of categories. Labeled categories are learned faster, and are subsequently more robust. The present study extends this research paradigm by considering the relationship between verbal labels and flexible categorization. Flexibility is a key trait of hum...

In problem solving situation, cognitive flexibility appears to be a major skill. Fostering cognitive flexibility is therefore a specific stake in mathematics education. This research introduces a learning method to develop mathematical concepts when solving word arithmetic problems. The study was conducted with 8 classes (4-5 Grades) from highpriority education schools in the Paris area followi...

Today’s organizations must foster conditions that motivate employees to develop creative solutions that are both novel and useful. Yet product novelty and usefulness have been characterized by distinct, mutually exclusive motivational processes. We test theory on how learning and performance achievement goals can motivate individuals to develop products that are both novel and useful. In an exp...

Potential trade-offs between learning speed and memory-related performance could be important factors in the evolution of learning. Here, we test whether rapid learning interferes with the acquisition of new information using a reversal learning paradigm. Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) were trained to associate yellow with a floral reward. Subsequently the association between colour and reward ...

e-Learning has opened a multitude of possibilities for teaching and learning. As the market matures there is a demand for more effective and cost-efficient learning interventions that meet the learning needs of the diverse learner population. Currently, however, very few teaching attempts have been made to match the pedagogical styles underlying e-Learning interventions to students’ diverse lea...

The paper deals with incremental concept learning from classiied examples. In many real-world applications, the target concepts of interest may change over time, and incremental learners should be able to track such changes and adapt to them. The problem is known in the literature as concept drift. The paper presents a new method for learning in such changing environments. In particular, it add...

Dynamical systems perspectives on emotion emphasize the importance of the regulatory interplay between brain, body and environment to adaptive behaviour. We suggest that a key facet of emotions, above all fear, consistent with this perspective lies in the allostatic regulation of constitutive/behavioural dynamics in terms of prediction and behavioural biases linking internal needs to external a...

At present, software development in the automotive industry is characterized by frequent changes caused by new innovations, fast-growing system complexity, growing software portion in cars, changing business relationships. This dynamical environment demands for flexible software processes. In order to improve a software development process with respect to flexibility, it is necessary to charact...