Towards research based designing for understanding fundamental concepts: The case of the web delivered generative virtual classroom for teacher education

<span>The Generative Virtual Classroom attempts sophisticated, large scale teacher education in technology and science. We show how it emerged from and contributes to a new, powerful theory of learning. Occupying an educational niche, such environments require research based design, suggesting information age responses, for diverse learning populations, to educational problems in other disciplines.</span>

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Mapping global water projects: improving access to donor investment information on the web

Water Policy ◽

10.2166/wp.2003.0012 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 203-212

Author(s):

J. Lisa Jorgensona

Keyword(s):

Water Resources ◽

Web Sites ◽

Large Scale ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

Water Withdrawal ◽

Small Scale ◽

Water Projects ◽

Essential Information ◽

Water Project ◽

The Web

This paper discusses a series of discusses how web sites now report international water project information, and maps the combined donor investment in more than 6000 water projects, active since 1995. The maps show donor investment: • has addressed water scarcity, • has improved access to improvised water resources, • correlates with growth in GDP, • appears to show a correlation with growth in net private capital flow, • does NOT appear to correlate with growth in GNI. Evaluation indicates problems in the combined water project portfolios for major donor organizations: •difficulties in grouping projects over differing Sector classifications, food security, or agriculture/irrigation is the most difficult. • inability to map donor projects at the country or river basin level because 60% of the donor projects include no location data (town, province, watershed) in the title or abstracts available on the web sites. • no means to identify donor projects with utilization of water resources from training or technical assistance. • no information of the source of water (river, aquifer, rainwater catchment). • an identifiable quantity of water (withdrawal amounts, or increased water efficiency) is not provided. • differentiation between large scale verses small scale projects. Recommendation: Major donors need to look at how the web harvests and combines their information, and look at ways to agree on a standard template for project titles to include more essential information. The Japanese (JICA) and the Asian Development Bank provide good models.

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Stochastic Process for Analyzing Speech on the Web with Consideration of Media Mediation in Large-scale Broadcast Events in Japan

2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) ◽

10.1109/bigdata50022.2020.9378344 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yasuko Kawahata

Keyword(s):

Stochastic Process ◽

Large Scale ◽

The Web

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Evaluation of dietary intake assessed by the Dutch self-administered web-based dietary 24-h recall tool (Compl-eat™) against interviewer-administered telephone-based 24-h recalls

Journal of Nutritional Science ◽

10.1017/jns.2017.45 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Saskia Meijboom ◽

Martinette T. van Houts-Streppel ◽

Corine Perenboom ◽

Els Siebelink ◽

Anne M. van de Wiel ◽

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Keyword(s):

Dietary Intake ◽

Large Scale ◽

Alcohol Intake ◽

Lower Number ◽

Vitamin B ◽

Food Groups ◽

Web Based ◽

The Web

AbstractSelf-administered web-based 24-h dietary recalls (24 hR) may save a lot of time and money as compared with interviewer-administered telephone-based 24 hR interviews and may therefore be useful in large-scale studies. Within the Nutrition Questionnaires plus (NQplus) study, the web-based 24 hR tool Compl-eat™ was developed to assess Dutch participants’ dietary intake. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the performance of this tool against the interviewer-administered telephone-based 24 hR method. A subgroup of participants of the NQplus study (20–70 years, n 514) completed three self-administered web-based 24 hR and three telephone 24 hR interviews administered by a dietitian over a 1-year period. Compl-eat™ as well as the dietitians guided the participants to report all foods consumed the previous day. Compl-eat™ on average underestimated the intake of energy by 8 %, of macronutrients by 10 % and of micronutrients by 13 % as compared with telephone recalls. The agreement between both methods, estimated using Lin's concordance coefficients (LCC), ranged from 0·15 for vitamin B1 to 0·70 for alcohol intake (mean LCC 0·38). The lower estimations by Compl-eat™ can be explained by a lower number of total reported foods and lower estimated intakes of the food groups, fats, oils and savoury sauces, sugar and confectionery, dairy and cheese. The performance of the tool may be improved by, for example, adding an option to automatically select frequently used foods and including more recall cues. We conclude that Compl-eat™ may be a useful tool in large-scale Dutch studies after suggested improvements have been implemented and evaluated.

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Quality at scale: Strategies for large-scale initial teacher education programmes

Teaching and Teacher Education ◽

10.1016/j.tate.2021.103490 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 107 ◽

pp. 103490

Author(s):

Clare Brooks

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Large Scale ◽

Initial Teacher Education

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CREATION OF THE WEB-MAP OF THE BOGUSLAVSKY DISTRICT

GEOGRAPHY AND TOURISM ◽

10.17721/2308-135x.2019.47.129-139 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 129-139

Author(s):

Tamara Mykolayivna Kurach ◽

Iryna Aleksandrovna Pidlisetskaya

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Theoretical Basis ◽

Large Scale ◽

Web Mapping ◽

Heritage Sites ◽

Web Map ◽

Thematic Mapping ◽

Interactive Map ◽

The Web

The goal is to develop a tourist interactive map "Landmarks of Bohuslav". The methodology. The methodological and theoretical basis of the study is modern geographical and cartographic science in the field of thematic mapping with the involvement of web-mapping technologies. Results. A large-scale tourist web map of the cultural heritage of the Boguslavsky region - “Sights of Boguslavshchina” was created. Scientific novelty. Approbation of the methodology and technology for the development of interactive large-scale web maps of tourism topics involving the Leaflet JavaScript library. Practical value. An interactive tourist web map of the historical and cultural heritage sites “Sights of Bohuslavshchina” will be published on the website of the health-improving institution of sanatorium-type “Chaika”. Convenient using, visualization, prompt receipt of information will help to increase the attractiveness of tourist Boguslavschina routes.

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Initial teacher education students’ conceptions of creativity in technology and science education: A large-scale New Zealand study

Australasian Journal of Technology Education ◽

10.15663/ajte.v4i1.44 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Matthew Courtney ◽

Kerry Lee ◽

Anne McGlashan ◽

Meripa Toso ◽

Paul Neveldsen

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Science Education ◽

New Zealand ◽

Large Scale ◽

Initial Teacher Education ◽

Education Students ◽

Teacher Education Students

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Literacy in the Information Age: Examining the Convergence of Information Literacy Instruction and Assessment with Theory and Policy

IASL Annual Conference Proceedings ◽

10.29173/iasl8015 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Marlene Asselin ◽

Margaret Early ◽

Margot Filipenko ◽

Virginia Lam

Keyword(s):

Public Education ◽

Information Literacy ◽

Literacy Instruction ◽

Large Scale ◽

Information Age ◽

The State ◽

Instructional Time ◽

Information Literacy Instruction ◽

Information Processes ◽

Literacy Policy

Competencies associated with information literacy are becoming increasingly embedded in literacy policy and curriculum; however, little is known about the extent to which instruction and assessment are aligned with current directives. This paper presents two studies designed to examine the state of instruction and assessment of information literacy in Canadian public education. Findings from these studies showed that although instruction of basic levels of information processes is taking place, there is significantly less emphasis on higher-level aspects of information literacy. In regards to assessment, items related to information literacy are not included on large-scale literacy tests thus potentially affecting how teachers allot their instructional time.

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Constructing a Large-Scale English-Persian Parallel Corpus

Meta Journal des traducteurs ◽

10.7202/029804ar ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 181-188 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Tayebeh Mosavi Miangah

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Target Language ◽

Translation Memory ◽

Web Documents ◽

Parallel Corpus ◽

Translation Quality ◽

Text Corpora ◽

Develop Software ◽

General Translation ◽

The Web

Abstract In recent years the exploitation of large text corpora in solving various kinds of linguistic problems, including those of translation, is commonplace. Yet a large-scale English-Persian corpus is still unavailable, because of certain difficulties and the amount of work required to overcome them. The project reported here is an attempt to constitute an English-Persian parallel corpus composed of digital texts and Web documents containing little or no noise. The Internet is useful because translations of existing texts are often published on the Web. The task is to find parallel pages in English and Persian, to judge their translation quality, and to download and align them. The corpus so created is of course open; that is, more material can be added as the need arises. One of the main activities associated with building such a corpus is to develop software for parallel concordancing, in which a user can enter a search string in one language and see all the citations for that string in it and corresponding sentences in the target language. Our intention is to construct general translation memory software using the present English-Persian parallel corpus.

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