This article takes a critical look at three pervasive urban legends in education about the nature of learners, learning, and teaching and looks at what educational and psychological research has to say about them. The three legends can be seen as variations on one central theme, namely, that it is the learner who knows best and that she or he should be the controlling force in her or his learni...

Endocarditis due to Legionella spp. is uncommon but presumably underestimated given the prevalence of Legionellae in the environment. We report a first and unusual case of chronic native valve endocarditis due to L. anisa and advocate that the diagnosis of endocarditis be made collaboratively between the cardiologist, surgeon, microbiologist and pathologist.

This paper illustrates the use of WELSA adaptive educational system for the implementation of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) course which is individualized to the learning style of each student. Several issues are addressed throughout this paper: i) What similar approaches exist in the literature?; ii) How is the AI course created?; iii) What kind of personalization is provided in the course a...

Educational computer games are sometimes considered to be motivating per se – because of the playing activity and do not require further motivational strategies. Therefore the concept of ‘flow experience’ is commonly used to describe how smooth gaming naturally results in deep engagement and, consequently, enhanced learning. Learning with an instructional game without discovering the instructio...

this study investigated metadiscourse and its subcategories in english research articles (ras) written by nonnative (iranian) and native english writers from the two disciplines of applied linguistics and civil engineering. the study aimed at seeing whether language and discipline influenced the frequency of occurrence of metadiscourse elements in research articles. to this end, a sample of 120...

The eastern gray squirrel ( Sciurus carolinensis ) has been labeled as one of the 100 worst invasive alien species by IUCN. In Europe, introduced to Britain, Ireland and Italy, its subsequent spread resulted in wide-scale extinction native Eurasian red squirrels vulgaris from areas colonized squirrel. This replacement a an competitor is best documented cases devastating effects biological invas...

The world Englishes (WEs) paradigm describes the spread of English in three concentric circles (Kachru, 1985) – Inner Circle (e.g., USA, UK, and Australia), Outer (e.g. India, Philippines, Singapore), Expanding China, Indonesia, Thailand). With Englishization nativization outside changing demographics users non-native speakers [NNSs] considerably outnumber native [NSs] [Crystal, 1995; Graddol, ...

The aim of this study was to identify the perception consumers about aspects related consumption beef from cattle raised in “native grassland-based” conservation systems Pampa biome. opinion 1238 analyzed through objective questions and sensory analysis by free word association. In association words, characteristics, sustainability, production chain, health/nutrition hedonic attitudes/feelings ...