—Objectives of technical courses are knowledge and know-how transfer to students. In the case of Discrete Events Systems courses, it is important for learner to control locally or remotely real systems (or plants) composed of many sensors and actuators. The use of these devices poses several problems. Firstly, it is difficult to adapt them to the student's level (from beginner to expert). Secon...

In this study we determined whether untrained raters’ assessments of fluency in low-proficiency second language speech were related to temporal measures and whether they varied across tasks. We collected speech samples from 20 beginner Mandarin learners of English on picture description, monologue, and dialogue tasks. Temporal measures were made on each sample. Twenty-eight untrained judges rat...

This paper presents a possible approach for developing a violin teaching aid based on violin pedagogy, sound analysis and comparison of beginner and good player recordings. This teaching aid is targeted at students who have difficulty listening attentively to the sounds they produce. It aims to draw their attention to the sound of a fault, offer correction and to train the user’s ear to activel...

Proteins Structures Beginner 1 hour PDBePISA allows you to explore macromolecular (protein, DNA/RNA and ligand) interfaces and predict the quaternary structure of your protein. This course will show you how to use PDBePISA and what you can do with it. An undergraduate degree in a life science subject and some background knowledge in protein structure would be an advantage. You may wish to look ...