Sleep unbinds memories from their emotional learning context, protecting them from emotional interference due to a change of mood between learning and recall. According to the 'sleep to forget and sleep to remember' model, emotional unbinding takes place during rapid eye movement sleep. To test this hypothesis, we investigated emotional contextual interference effects after early versus late po...

This update to Mezirow's Transformative Learning theory seeks advance Mälkki's enhancement the emotional dimension in phase one—the disorienting dilemma—by proposing need for a complete grief process (as theorized by Kübler-Ross), support movement from conceptualization of “edge-emotions” “comfort zone,” thus removing barrier successful transition two and three—self-reflection critical reflecti...

Mi-Hwa Park is an assistant professor in the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education of the College of Education at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky. tential for improvement in ELLs’ learning engagement. Indeed, learning engagement is a strong indicator of academic success (Hyson, 2008). In the context of teaching ELLs, however, little information is available on discuss...

Modeling learners’ emotional states is a promising tool for enhancing learning outcomes and tutoring abilities. In this paper, we present a new perspective of learner emotional modeling according to two fundamental dimensions, namely mental workload and engagement. We hypothesize that analyzing results from learners’ workload and engagement evolution can help Intelligent Tutoring Systems diagno...

Emotional contact is an important element in learning since it can relieve students from failure and offer them a sense of continuous support when facing negative emotions during the learning procedure. While in traditional classes educators have the ability to inspire students and create motives that can enhance the learning process, in e-learning applications the absence of face-to-face conta...