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Systems thinking is a concept of thinking about an issue as a whole, emphasizing the interrelationships among its components rather than the components themselves. The main goal of this study is to examine whether the ability for systems thinking can be developed through experience, education, courses, and training. We present graduate and undergraduate courses in management of engineering and technology,...
Nowadays, Scientists are supposed to have the obligation to inform public about what they are doing and what affect their research has to the society, and comparing with other professionals, scientists have incomparable advantages in pubic science communication activities. In China, scientists' engagement in public outreach activities has attracted more and more attention of both government and science...
Disaster response requires cooperation among many aid agencies, some of which may never have worked together in the past. What enables such agencies to rapidly establish the trust and cooperative behavior necessary for effectively aiding victims of a disaster? Literature presents two main candidates for the enabling mechanism: Probability assessment, and indirect reciprocity. This paper describes...
As the status quo that rural population is half the population in China, science and technology communication to rural youth, which can lead them to know more about new technic and skills. The paper introduces some science communication and popularization projects for the youth in countryside, such as Rural informal science education project, Intel Learn program and extracurricular scientific activities...
Because of great volume of web information, information retrieval process of a search engine is of great importance. For each query of user, the number of queries can reach hundred thousands, whereas a few number of the first results have the chance of being checked by user; therefore, a search engine pays attention to putting relevance results in the first ranks as a necessity. This paper introduces...
In this paper, we proposed a fundamental frequency prediction method which is used primarily in the voice conversion system. This paper establishes a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to predict the fundamental frequency based on the Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficient (LPCC). The model may be the speaker-dependent Gaussian mixture model or the speaker-independent universal background model that is...
Grammar Induction (GI) is the problem of extracting hidden regularities and syntactic patterns in languages. Not only the manner of extraction is intricate but also the definition of meaningful patterns is a challenge. Alignment Based Learning (ABL) is one of the research endeavors targeting such challenges in GI. Our present research on applying ABL to POS sequences in English, Persian and Arabic...
In animal and human learning, outcome expectancy is understood to control action under a number of learning paradigms. One such paradigm, the differential outcomes effect (DOE), entails faster learning when responses have differential, rather than non-differential, outcomes. The associative two-process theory has provided an increasingly accepted explanation as to how outcome expectancies influence...
In order to cope with today's increasingly severe information security situations, trying to start develop the national information security literacy with students, information security education has been carried out in many countries around the world. Based on the clarification of the connotation of information security literacy, this paper conducted a survey of current situation of ISL education...
North America took an early start in education informatization, and with its rapid development holds the world's leading position in this area. This review, taking USA and Canada as examples, summarizes the policies, development plans and major projects concerning education informatization that are recently established and carried out by the governments. The work can help us understand the developing...
The purpose of special education for students with intellectual disability is not only to introduce and improve academic skills but mainly to enhance the quality of the children's life and promote their autonomy and self-determination. Games have been used in special education classrooms as tools of gratification and extrinsic motivation. Contemporary game theorists have gone further to suggest that...
Informatization is an effective way to promote the reform of higher education and improve the quality of it. This study was carried out in Guangdong Province by conducting survey on the current status towards construction and sharing of digital educational resources in colleges and universities. As the result, it showed that the construction of digital educational resources is comparatively large...
Learning from rewards generated by a human trainer observing an agent in action has proven to be a powerful method for non-experts in autonomous agents to teach such agents to perform challenging tasks. Since the efficacy of this approach depends critically on the reward the trainer provides, we consider how the interaction between the trainer and the agent should be designed so as to increase the...
Our recent work, using both computer-animated and natural images, demonstrates that infants' eye movements are sequentially structured. In particular, we employ a simple recurrent network (SRN) to estimate the learnability of infants' gaze sequences. The current study directly compares this learnability metric with infants' global looking time on a trial-by-trial basis, during both an habituation...
Young infants have been shown to help others even in novel situations where no rewards are given or expected. One interpretation is that this altruistic behavior is motivated by an early form of empathy. On the other hand, infants have also been demonstrated to help nonhuman entities, which implies that another source of motivation may trigger an infant's altruism. In both cases, understanding others'...
In a previous paper, we reported on the initial development of KneeRobo, which replicates knee joint troubles experienced by patients in order to enable students studying to become physical or occupational therapists to gain practical training/testing virtually. We also developed a control algorithm that enabled KneeRobo to realize involuntary internal/external rotation during knee flexion and extension...
MPOC-Massive Private Online Course, is an online teacher training course developed by Peking University in 2006. This course was designed on the model of SPOC, 20-25 trainees each online class. But influenced by the prejudice of Online Course in China and lower tuition, the real size of the online class is between 80 to 120. An online facilitator is assigned to the online class to lead online trainees...
Appropriately using information technology in kindergarten teaching is able to benefit for the development of young children, which requires kindergarten teacher has a certain educational technology literacy. This study used questionnaire to survey the level of kindergarten teachers' educational technology literacy situation. We choose 1,000 Henan rural backbone teachers who participate in the "National...
Nowadays, studying knowledge management behaviours has been a hot topic in the field of research on teachers' professional development. KM has always been viewed as an important mission of communities of practice. This paper focuses on elementary and secondary school teachers in "Beijing Dong cheng District's Teachers' Communities of Practice Program (Phase II)", and conducted social network...
This paper uses log data of teaching and learning activities in a web-based learning platform, selects two universities implementing different online learning promotion strategies as the cases, and conducts the group differences analysis based on the hypothesized structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze group interactive activities in two universities' online learning environment. The results...
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