Computer-Supported Scripting of Interaction in Collaborative Learning Environments: Framework on mul
Collaboration scripts aim to facilitate effective interaction patterns for collaborative learning that do not occur spontaneously. So far, diverse non-generic scripts have been conceptualized and investigated in CSCL environments. The specification of collaboration scripts aims to provide a common terminolgy for describing scripts and to abstract the core design principles of scripts to better understand effects and mechanisms of collaboration scripts and to apply and re-apply collaboration scri
Author(s): Kobbe Lars

You’ve Got to See It to Believe It!
Students develop an understanding of visible air pollutants with an incomplete combustion demonstration, a “smog in a jar” demonstration, building simple particulate matter collectors, and exploration of engineering roles related to air pollution. In an associated literacy activity, students learn basic marketing concepts and techniques, and the principles of comparative analysis, while creating an advertisement for a hybrid vehicle. Note: You may want to set up the activities for Air Pollut
Author(s): Integrated Teaching and Learning Program,

Never enough time - Electronic literary exercises in an Italian lower secondary school.
Not available,Unpublished ethnographic material, Université de Liège - Laboratoire d'Anthropologie de la Communication
Author(s): Magli Rossella

Levels of Web-Based Discussion: Theory of Perspective-Taking as a Tool for Analyzing Interaction.
The aim of this paper is to present a model how the level of web-based discussion can be analyzed. The model has been developed in an empirical study where we examined the quality of asynchronous interaction in web-based conferencing. Because all successful communication presumes perspective-taking skills and reciprocal understanding among the participants, we studied whether the students are able to reach in reciprocal interaction and thus create educationally relevant high-level web-based disc
Author(s): Järvelä Sanna,Häkkinen Päivi

Data Recording and Usage Interaction Analysis in Asynchronous Discussions: The D.I.A.S. System.
This paper describes the development and the implementation of a new Asynchronous Discussion Forum Software, called DIAS. While evaluating several corresponding software, we came to the conclusion that they seem to be inadequate to support the use of this activity (asynchronous discussion) as a substantial part of the learning process. Most actual forums, that incorporate interaction analysis functions, support mainly administrators, or teachers, while offer only basic awareness functions to the
Author(s): Bratitsis Tharrenos,Dimitrakopoulou Angelique

Integration of virtual players into a pedagogical simulator
The development of learner activity is a key element in the improvement of ITS (Intelligent Tutoring Systems). In business simulation, the learner is stimulated by competition with other learners. In practice, it is not always possible to find enough participants, hence the idea of virtual player participation. The SIMPLUS system proposes a generic approach to this end and creates virtual players within a business simulation without modifying the simulation itself.
Author(s): Labat Jean-Marc,Rogé Ossian

3.21 Kinetic Processes in Materials (MIT)
This course presents a unified treatment of phenomenological and atomistic kinetic processes in materials. It provides the foundation for the advanced understanding of processing, microstructural evolution, and behavior for a broad spectrum of materials. The course emphasizes analysis and development of rigorous comprehension of fundamentals. Topics include: irreversible thermodynamics; diffusion; nucleation; phase transformations; fluid and heat transport; morphological instabilities; gas-solid
Author(s): Russell, Kenneth,Allen, Samuel

Off-Task Behavior in the Cognitive Tutor Classroom: When Students "Game The System".
We investigate the prevalence and learning impact of different types of off-task behavior in classrooms where students are using intelligent tutoring software. We find that within the classrooms studied, no other type of off-task behavior is associated nearly so strongly with reduced learning as "gaming the system": behavior aimed at obtaining correct answers and advancing within the tutoring curriculum by systematically taking advantage of regularities in the software's feedback and help. A stu
Author(s): Baker Ryan,Koedinger Kenneth R.,Corbett Albert T.,

A Semantic Approach to Discovering Learning Services in Grid-Based Collaborative Systems
CSCL systems can benefit from using grids since they offer a common infrastructure enabling the access to an extended pool of resources that can provide super- computing capabilities as well as specific hardware resources. Adopting a service oriented architecture such as OGSA can further benefit CSCL systems, enabling increased flexibility to adapt and reuse learning software offered by third party providers. However, service discovery is a challenge for educators, since they cannot use their ow
Author(s): Vega Guillermo,Dimitriadis Yannis,Asensio-Perez Ju

The RCBN Consultation Exercise: Stakeholder Report
One of the early objectives of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) Research Capacity Building Network has been to undertake an extensive consultation exercise in order to identify the priorities for research capacity-building and to generate a database of expertise from across the UK educational research community. This report provides an account of the first element of the consultation exercise, interviews with twenty-five key stakeholders each representing the major consti
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6.827 Multithreaded Parallelism: Languages and Compilers (MIT)
The topics covered in this course include: Languages and compilers to exploit multithreaded parallelism Implicit parallel programming using functional languages and their extensions Higher-order functions, non-strictness, and polymorphism Explicit parallel programming and nondeterminism The lambda calculus and its variants Term rewriting and operational semantics Compiling multithreaded code for symmetric multiprocessors and clusters Static analysis and compiler optimizations This cour
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Laser-induced Remote Sensing for Chemistry and Micro-imaging
Discusses remote sensing instrumentation utilized for rapid characterization of rocks and soils on planetary surfaces in support of explorations on Mars.
Author(s): Los Alamos National Laboratory

11.437 Financing Economic Development (MIT)
This course focuses on financing tools and program models to support local economic development. It includes an overview of private capital markets and financing sources to understand capital market imperfections that constrain economic development; business accounting; financial statement analysis; federal economic development programs; and public finance tools. Program models covered include revolving loan funds, guarantee programs, venture capital funds, bank holding companies, community deve
Author(s): Seidman, Karl

The Virtual Rocky Shore
The Virtual Rocky Shore (VRS) is an interactive computer simulation allowing the design of manipulative experiments as would be conducted on a real rocky shore. The companion website explains experimental design from the basics, through to conducting an experiment using the simulation. Further guidance on the statistical analysis (using SPSS and R) is given, along with how to write up the experiment as if it was a real scientific paper. The full website is provided here, with an external link t
Author(s): University of Gloucestershire,Christina Catlin-Gro

TALAT Lecture 2109: LCA - From Environmental Consciousness to Design for the Future
This lecture introduces the currently most widely accepted methodology for life cycle analysis and shows possible effects on designing products.
Author(s): TALAT

'It's my body and I'll do what I Like with it' Bodies as possessions and objects
We commonly use the language of body ownership as a way of claiming personal rights, though we do not normally mean it literally. Most people feel uneasy about markets in sexual or reproductive services, and though there is a substantial global trade in body tissues, the illicit trade in live human organs is widely condemned. But what, if any, is the problem with treating bodies as resources and/or possessions? Is there something about the body that makes it particularly inappropriate to apply t
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Safe Work Practices
Use of e-learning tools for 3 units of Certificate III in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery) for apprentice cooks. These units are the first 3 units to be studied in the program and to be available on line can reduce the face to face learning time and enable the apprentice to commence study while waiting to commence trade school.
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Reporting Suspicious Behaviour
Use of e-learning tools for 3 units of Certificate III in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery) for apprentice cooks. These units are the first 3 units to be studied in the program and to be available on line can reduce the face to face learning time and enable the apprentice to commence study while waiting to commence trade school.
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Identifying and Reporting Hygiene Hazards
Use of e-learning tools for 3 units of Certificate III in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery) for apprentice cooks. These units are the first 3 units to be studied in the program and to be available on line can reduce the face to face learning time and enable the apprentice to commence study while waiting to commence trade school.
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Cleaning and Sanitizing Part A
Use of e-learning tools for 3 units of Certificate III in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery) for apprentice cooks. These units are the first 3 units to be studied in the program and to be available on line can reduce the face to face learning time and enable the apprentice to commence study while waiting to commence trade school.
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