This article presents experiences and student perceptions on the introduction of the flipped classroom model in two consecutive semesters at Media Technology department of Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. We introduced the flipped instruction model to a statistics course and a mathematics workshop. We collected data by two online survey studies, which show support for student perception...

In this paper, we consider discrete event systems divided in a main system and a secondary system such that the inner dynamics of each system is ruled by standard synchronizations and the interactions between both systems are expressed by partial synchronizations (i.e., event e2 can only occur when, not after, event e1 occurs) of events in the secondary system by events in the main system. The ...

Complex learning aims at the integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes; the coordination of qualitatively different constituent skills; and the transfer of what is learned to daily life or work settings. Recent instructional theories stress authentic learning tasks as the driving force for learning; but due to the complexity of those tasks, learning may be hampered by the limited processi...

The term “lean manufacturing”, (Womack et al., 1990), refers to the generalization of the Toyota Production system (TPS), also called Just-in-Time (JIT). One feature of such system is the reduction of costs through elimination of waste (Sugimori et al., 1977). Waste or muda (in Japanese) is anything that does not add value to a product. Elimination of muda is done by means of continuous improve...

Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) is an innovative method that enables faculty to increase interactivity in the classroom and engage students in learning. By creating a feedback loop between students’ work at home and the classroom setting, time on task is improved in both quality and quantity. This paper includes an introduction to JiTT and evidence of its effectiveness. It concludes with a discuss...

In this paper we introduce a distinction between two forms of planning: Just-in-Case planning versus Just-in-Time planning. The first refers to the traditional mode of planning as currently practiced in most urban and regional planning agencies, whereas the second, is what planning in a self-organizing system might be. The key notion behind this distinction is Just-in-Time— a method of producti...

We prove Fraenkel’s conjecture for the special case of symmetric words, and show that this proof implies the conjecture of Brauner and Crama [Facts and questions about the maximum deviation just-in-time scheduling problem, Discrete Appl. Math. 134 (2004) 25–50] concerning instances of the just-in-time sequencing problem with maximum deviation B∗< 1 2 . © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

There is a well-known tradeoff between speed and accuracy in judgments made under uncertainty. Diffusion models have been proposed to capture the increase in response time for more uncertain decisions and the change in performance due to a prioritization of speed or accuracy in the responses. Experimental paradigms have been confined to the visual modality and model analysis have mostly used qu...

We consider a failure-prone manufacturing system with bursty demand arrivals. We prove that the hedging-point policy is optimal for this problem and provide analytical expressions to compute the hedging point. This allows us to compare our exact results to approximations provided by diiusion limits and large deviations. We also show that our result leads to the solution for the constant demand ...

This paper focuses on the problem of information overload for newcomers in an organisation. We propose to address it by constructing a smart personal training assistant based upon workflow tools to drive temporal management of a just-intime workplace training system which will deliver a personalised and structured presentation of organisational documents.