The ability to create pedagogically driven, activity oriented personalized eLearning is a key factor in the success of future eLearning. The ability to empower course developers with intuitive environments which provide pedagogic, subject matter, activity and personalization support during the process of creating a personalized course is fundamental to the adoption of adaptive educational hyper...

This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major educational reform in Sweden in which vocational tracks in upper secondary school were prolonged from two to three years and the curricula were made more academic. Our identification strategy takes advantage of cross-regional and cross-time variation in the implementation of a pilot scheme preceding the reform i...

Finland has a well-known reputation in technology, but technology is still not taught as a separate subject in the national curriculum. The position of technology education in Finland is quite different from that in most other European countries, even Finland’s Nordic neighbours. Technology education is incorporated within the scopes of other subjects such as physics, chemistry, biology, home e...

Completion rates for massive open online classes (MOOCs) are notoriously low, but learner intent is an important factor. By studying students who drop out despite their intent to complete the MOOC, it may be possible to develop interventions to improve retention and learning outcomes. Previous research into predicting MOOC completion has focused on click-streams, demographics, and sentiment ana...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of average family income in a geographic area on the effectiveness of helmet legislation on observed helmet use by children (5-14 years). METHODS The study was conducted in East York, a health district of Metropolitan Toronto, in collaboration with the East York Health Unit. In 1996, the total population was 107 822, 11 340 of which were children 5 to 14 ye...

Valerie Lee and Douglas Ready explore the influences of the high school curriculum on student learning and the equitable distribution of that learning by race and socioeconomic status. They begin by tracing the historical development of the U.S. comprehensive high school and then examine the curricular reforms of the past three decades. During the first half of the twentieth century, the author...

The landscape of online learning has evolved in a synchronous fashion with the development of the every-growing repertoire of technologies, especially with the recent addition of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). Since MOOC platforms allow thousands of students to participate at the same time, MOOC participants can have fairly varied motivation. Meanwhile, a low course completion rate has be...

The Text REtrieval Conferences (TRECs) are a series of workshops that encourage research in information retrieval from realistic applications by providing large test collections, uniform scoring procedures, and a forum for organizations interested in comparing results. The first workshop was held in November, 1992, and workshops (following evaluations) have been held yearly since then. In addit...

The popularity of online education environment is growing due to the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) movement. Many types of research in educational data mining (EDM) and Learning Analytics have focused on solving assessment challenges; however, the large number of students enrolled in MOOCs makes it difficult to assess learning outcomes. Thus, it is necessary to develop an automatic learning...