Using mobile personal devices to interact with pervasive smart learning objects and services that create contextualized learning ecosystems can enhance both the learning outcomes and the motivational states of students. This paper defines and analyzes several pervasive learning ecosystems in which students at the Carlos III University of Madrid interact with contextualized learning objects and ...

This article reports on a study of policymaking at transnational and local universities in China concerning English Medium Instruction (EMI) provision, the impact this has stakeholder experiences. It explores two universities, which are compared contrasted with data collected six other Chinese that offer EMI programmes. Data were via individual group interviews 26 key policy stakeholders during...

Within the school environment, interactions between people and interactions between people and things are affected by situated, contextual factors. Context includes not only physical characteristics, but psychological, and social characteristics as well. Moreover, context is understood in terms of both past and present circumstances. Computer applications designed to support group activity, lik...

Extractive summarization suffers from irrelevance, redundancy and incoherence. Existing work shows that abstractive rewriting for extractive summaries can improve the conciseness readability. These systems consider extracted as only input, which is relatively focused but lose important background knowledge. In this paper, we investigate contextualized rewriting, ingests entire original document...

This manuscript deals with how cooperative learning in pre-school and primary education can be dimensionalized terms of reducing gender differences inequalities. In this study, formulated through instructional approaches delivered four medium- to very high-complexity schools (the number students an immigrant background ranging from 30% 100%), 376 pre-service teachers 43 qualified were asked ana...

Ontologies strive to offer a interconnected, hierarchical systems of categories to guide our actions in a complex world. But the boundaries of these categories are highly context-dependent, and what constitutes a prototypical category member in one context may be atypical or unrepresentative in another. In this paper we outline a dynamic, trainable, bottom-up view of category structure based on...

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This study focused on the contextualization of indigenous knowledge in selected elementary schools La Trinidad District. The teachers contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge is limited to translation words and mentioning practices; are teaching only what available at hand without mapping needs be learned Knowledge; essential lessons practices not identified different levels curriculum; challenges ...

Central to the semantic web are ontologies: shared conceptualizations of domains of interest expressed in an ontology language such as OWL. Rule languages complement ontology languages. For large heterogeneous bodies of knowledge on the semantic web, contextualized knowledge repositories facilitate the organization of ontological concepts. In this paper we propose a similar mechanism – contextu...