... that students in distributed and Webbased Distancelearning courses would report feeling less threatened to seek help than students in more traditional learning environments5. On the teachers’ ... (BTH), Sweden Reduced Drop-out rate as a Financial Risk in DistanceLearning Programs Interaction lies at the heart of all education. E -learning is no different. Previous research has shown that ... interactivity. It is thought that if distancelearning platform become too static, then students are not learning as much as they could have in a non -distance program. Another way to define this...
... increase retention rates of online learning programs. Distancelearning students often still need and require the support of a learning facilitator within the online learning environment. Preliminary ... the student-tutor (learning facilitator) interaction. Chapter IV: Enhancing LearningThrough Mobile Computing: Once again from Australia, this chapter explores teaching and learning alternatives ... IIIProject Student Rescue: Online Learning Facilitation in Higher Education to Improve Retention Rates for Distance Learners / M. Axmann 43Chapter IVEnhancing LearningThrough Mobile Computing /...
... Note 1211TelecommunicationsSeveral schools utilize distancelearning to meet demands for greater variety in theircurriculum. Distancelearning entails transmitting a presentation or lecture ... In addition, distancelearning permits the sharing ofresources between institutions and increases the availability of a broader curriculum tothe student body. In short, distancelearning solves ... presentation or lecture from onelocation to several remote locations for students to observe. Distance learning offers several benefits to the traditional classroom setting. It providesfor a more...
... benefits for their language learning evenwhen conversing with native speakers.Individualized Learning An important facet of the MOO is its potentialfor individualized learning. By having studentswork ... interactions be-tween students, but through personal rooms andother tools, it allows each student to tailor his orher learning environment to make individualized learning possible.Importanceof ... von der Emde, S. (2000). Brave new(virtual) world: Transforming language learning into cultural studies through online learning envi-ronments (MOOs). ADFL Bulletin, 32, 18-26.Schwienhorst, K....
... of distancelearning applications in academic health educationundergraduate distancelearning 1. in- curriculum distance learning 2. extracurricular distance learning postgraduate distancelearning ... student-tutor live interaction possibility at a distance, starting in the late 1950s, added a whole newdimension to distance learning. Interactive distance learning allows us to speak of ‘‘second generation’’applications. ... to focus on the learning method rather than the media used for dis-tance learning (Table 2).Analysis of the factors of importance in distance learning Theoretical framework and learning methodologyAfter...
... for them to obtain healthcare due to isolation. Distancelearning provides an option of decreased isolation, but this Evaluation of DistanceLearning for Health EducationKelley Withy MD, MS ... Institutes of Health. These grant funds helped develop a network of rural community learning centers that employ distancelearning technologies to provide community-driven peer education to isolated ... program-topic employment by the conclusion of grant funding.DiscussionHealth education using distancelearning has been successfully employed in more than 28 communities in the Pacic region....
... distinguish between three levels of learning: individual learning, team and group learning, andorganizational learning (see Figure 1). At the basis ofall learning is the individual (e.g. Barker ... teamand organizational learning, and – as we will discussbelow – on the link between individual and organiza-tional learning. The process of organizational learning through team learning is best ... exercise. Most learning isconfined to individual learning, and substantial poten-tial for group learning is missed. Although individual learning is an important ingredient of organizational learning, ...
... graph edit distance. IEEE Trans. on PatternAnalysis and Machine Intelligence, 22:628–635.M. Neuhaus and H. Bunke. 2004. A probabilistic ap-proach to learning costs for graph edit distance. ... P. N. Yianilos. 1998. Learning stringedit distance. Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Ma-chine Intelligence, 20(5):522–532.D. Shapira and J. A. Storer. 2003. Large edit distance with multiple ... reduces the complexity of theclassic edit distance to O(d·max(m, n)), where d isthe edit distance. The intuition there is that, assum-ing a small edit distance, the most likely alignmentsare...
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... machine learning techniques andshows the strong relevance between typical multimedia content analysis andmachine learning tasks. The overview of machine learning techniques is pre-sented through ... otherwise notified, the term machine learning will be used todenote inductive learning. During the early days of machine learning research, computer scientistsdeveloped learning algorithms based on ... machine learning techniques that are particularly powerful andeffective for modeling multimedia data; and (2) showcase their applicationsto common tasks of multimedia content analysis. Multimedia...
... Association for Computational LinguisticsA Semi-Supervised Key Phrase Extraction Approach: Learning from Title Phrases through a Document Semantic Network Decong Li1, Sujian Li1, Wenjie Li2, ... either supervised or unsupervised methods. Supervised learning re-quires a large amount of expensive training data, whereas unsupervised learning totally ignores human knowledge. To overcome ... importance in the semantic network, through which the influence of title phrases is propagated to the other phrases itera-tively. The goal of the semi-supervised learning is to design a function...
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... 339Teacher Development through Project-based Learning Such unique opportunities for students to explorereal-world events became part ... meaningful learning. Vital Role of the ArtsThe Arts have also played a prominent role inHollywoods evolving story. Again and again, wehave found that implementation of project-based learning ... experi-mentation (Maryland Commission on the Early Learning Years, 1992, p. 74). Lieberman and Hoody(1998), describing Hollywoods integrated learning projects, point to the importance of the...