Recent studies suggest that the number of students pursuing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees has been generally decreasing. An extensive body of research cites the lack of motivation and engagement in the learning process as a major underlying reason of this decline. It has been discussed that if properly implemented, instructional technology can enhance student ...

In the paper architecture and training method for evolving flexible diagnostic neuro-fuzzy-system are investigated. The proposed system is simple in numeric realization and characterized by a high learning rate and flexibility, that make possible to use it in conditions of small training sets and on big data sets, coming to processing in online-mode.

In chemistry education laboratory activities increase students’ interest in the subject matters covered in the class and help their learning. Due to lack of laboratories at schools or insufficient instruments in laboratories, hands on experiments are rarely performed in state schools in Turkey. However, such experiments can be virtually done as a result of recent developments in Information Tec...

According to the demand for applied innovative talents of the railway industry and enterprises, based on the railway specialized characteristics advantage of the East China Jiaotong University, and in accordance with the system engineering thoughts as “setting training objectives, setting up training standards, building course system, reforming teaching methods and perfecting security system”, ...

This paper will be looking into the teaching method developed by the Institute for European Studies in Brussels, combining an e-learning toolthe E-moduleswith face-to-face training sessions and webinars. The main aim is to analyse the three different components of this “blended learning” pedagogical approach, as well as the way they complement each other and to address a few of the challenges t...

This paper presents a four-step training method for increasing the efficiency of support vector machine (SVM) by simplifying the shape of separation hypersurface. First, a SVM is initially trained by all the training samples, thereby producing a number of support vectors. Second, the support vectors, which make the hypersurface highly convoluted, are excluded from the training set. Third, the S...

Mechanical representations of the solar system have been around for thousands of years. The human fascination with the night sky has been recorded in every culture as far back as documented time. This paper proposes a method for motivating STEM through the development of two orrery systems both of which have unique characteristics that provide their own teaching methods to students and adults a...

The purpose of this article is to explore and analyse teaching methods and processes that incorporate Quick Response (QR) codes and mobile devices into the classroom. Quick Response codes are two dimensional barcodes that are used to encode and decode information. QR codes can contain information such as text, URL links, automatic SMS messages, or just about any other information that can be em...

Argumentation is an essential skill in many aspects of life in private as well as in business. Nevertheless, many people struggle to engage in reasonable argumentation. Classic teaching methods fail to promote argumentation skills and, hence, independent knowledge acquisition by means of argumentation. An approach to deal with this issue is the use of computer tools to scaffold the education of...

Based on education concept of CDIO (Conceive – Design – Implement – Operate) engineering, and combined with the requirements of the educational reform in colleges and universities, aimed at some problems existing in the Sensor course teaching of civil engineering, this paper suggests the reform approach from the prospects of teaching methods, teaching content, teaching environment, curriculum a...