This paper documents an instrument-building course codeveloped by the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Department of Music at Yale University. The course focuses on the fundamentals of musical acoustics, electronic sound production, and instrument design through traditional lecture-based learning as well as a hands-on experimentation and building. The structure of the course, t...

We report on our experiences implementing and testing Rememberer, a tool for recording visits to museums. We describe field trials at the Exploratorium, an interactive science museum in San Francisco. This challenging environment enabled us to verify that Rememberer interferes little with the social, hands-on nature of Exploratorium visits and has promise as a vehicle for post-visit reflection ...

Introduction: Studies have shown that middle school is a decisive time for either promoting or dissuading student interest in the areas of mathematics and science (1). Students who are not engaged in learning these subjects in the critical middle school years often lose interest and motivation by the time they reach high school. Use of technology and hands-on activities has been shown to engage...

Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0018-9162/11/$26.00 © 2011 IEEE preparation is not typically part of most undergraduate programs, especially at engineering institutions. Cultivating entrepreneurial thinking requires going beyond teaching business fundamentals and reviewing case studies; it requires learning through practice.2 To support active student engagement in entrepreneurial activi...

Feedback:  Post-evaluation survey: 42.86% and 57.14% of the camp participants ranked RIT’s summer camp as 4 and 5 out of 5, respectively  Instructor impressions: “... incredibly successful in ramping up students to use GENI for pursuing interesting research...” and “... are unique opportunities for both the developers of GENI tools and the experimenters. The experimenters are able to gain han...

Many projects addressing the creation of online laboratories have been developed recently. They have a common goal: to enable students and professional learners to get hands-on experience without moving from the places where they are. Nevertheless, the found solutions are often very different among them, and interoperability between different online laboratories systems does not exist. In this ...

We propose several ways of reusing subword embeddings and other weights in subwordaware neural language models. The proposed techniques do not benefit a competitive character-aware model, but some of them improve the performance of syllableand morpheme-aware models while showing significant reductions in model sizes. We discover a simple hands-on principle: in a multilayer input embedding model...

Design becomes more and more the art of bringing together expertise and experts from different domains in creating future products. Synthetical knowledge and hands-on skills in design, especially in industrial design, is often implicit, hardly captured and modeled for remote education. The need of transferring implicit design knowledge using computer mediated learning tools, provides not only t...

This paper provides an assessment of workforce need in the Jordanian ICT industry. The results have shown that there is a growing workforce gap in the ICT sector. The technical skills of graduates are not satisfactory, and there is an increasing demand for skilled graduates. In addition to the technical skills required, communication skills, creative thinking, and English language skills were s...