Professional development (PD) workshops designed to help faculty move from teacherto learner-centered science courses for undergraduates are typically evaluated with self-reported surveys that address faculty’s satisfaction with a workshop, what they learned, and what they applied in the classroom. Professional development outcomes are seldom evaluated through analysis of observed teaching prac...

Open and distance learning is getting more dependent on information and communication technology (ICT) and has been playing an important role in the delivery strategies of distance learning. With the advancement in technology in the field education has introduces variety of new techniques for educators and learners to enhance knowledge. Educational technologies (information and communication te...

This study describes the teaching style behaviors that differentiate between learner-centered and teacher-centered approaches to teaching. The Teaching Style Assessment Scale, which measures style, was completed by 1,261 nursing faculty in Japan. Discriminant analysis cluster revealed distinctive characteristic distinguishing approach from is Personalizing Instruction. Instruction recognizes ut...

We present algorithms for exactly learning unknown environments that can be described by deterministic nite automata. The learner performs a walk on the target automaton, where at each step it observes the output of the state it is at, and chooses a labeled edge to traverse to the next state. We assume that the learner has no means of a reset, and we also assume that the learner does not have a...