Music Tutor Using Tower Defense Strategy

2012 ◽  
pp. 391-406
Author(s):  
Golam Ashraf ◽  
Ho Kok Wei Daniel ◽  
Kong Choong Yee ◽  
Nur Aiysha Plemping ◽  
Ou Guo Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Music Theory ◽  
Tree Of Life ◽  
Game Engine ◽  
Defense Strategy ◽  
Procedural Generation ◽  
Musical Concepts ◽  
Different Levels

Vivace is an online musical tower defense game using the tree-of-life metaphor, created using the Unity3D game engine. The game integrates basic music theory with the tower defense mechanic to motivate inspired learning. Vivace is different from most existing musical games, as it integrates notes and chords pedagogy in a puzzle-centric metaphor, as opposed to action/rhythm. This ensures that players undergo active learning by constantly applying and reiterating these musical concepts when tackling enemies and bosses through different levels. This article describes the procedural generation algorithms and game balancing strategies used to implement the game.

A Framework for Engineering Dissection Exercise Creation and Implementation

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen M. Hart ◽  
Steven B. Shooter ◽  
Charles J. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Reverse Engineering ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Rigorous Approach ◽  
Engineering Activity ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Different Levels

Hands-on product dissection and reverse engineering exercises have been shown to have a positive impact on engineering education, and many universities have incorporated such exercises in their curriculum. The CIBER-U project seeks to examine the potential to utilize cyberinfrastructure to enhance these active-learning exercises. We have formulated a framework for product dissection and reverse engineering activity creation to support a more rigorous approach to assessing other exercises for satisfaction of the CIBER-U project goals and adapting the best practices. This framework is driven by the fulfillment of learning outcomes and considers the maturity of students at different levels. Prototype exercises developed with the framework are presented. The approach is sufficiently general that it can be applied to the consideration and adaption of other types of exercises while ensuring satisfaction of the established goals.

Using Escape Rooms to Improve Pre-Service Teachers' Communicative Skills in English as a Foreign Language

2022 ◽  
pp. 323-339
Author(s):  
Ángela Gómez López
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Education ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
English Class ◽  
Different Levels

The chapter implements an escape room with pre-service teachers to improve their communicative skills in English. Fifty-seven university students from the degrees of Childhood and Primary School Education, with different levels of English proficiency, participated in the experiment: 10 of them helped with the implementation and the rest participated in the escape room. Self-administered questionnaires were used for data collection to know students' opinions about using escape rooms as a learning tool. Results showed that using an escape room in the English class is a successful method since it fosters active learning, teamwork, socialization, motivation, and helps to improve communicative skills.

scholarly journals Sound Objects and Spatial Morphologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Ulf A. S. Holbrook
Keyword(s):  
Music Theory ◽  
New Music ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Musical Experience ◽  
Subjective Analysis ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
Musical Concepts ◽  
Sound Objects ◽  
Spatial Listening

One of Pierre Schaeffer’s achievements in his musical research was his proposal of the sound object as a basic unit of musical experience and his insistence on listening as a main focus of research. Out of this research grew a radical new music theory of sound-based composition. This article will draw on this extensive research to explore the spaces where this music is heard and present the claim that the space in which music is experienced is as much a part of the music as the timbral material itself. The key question here is the changes made to timbral material through acousmatic spatial listening and the subjective analysis affordance of the listeners’ placement and perspective. These consequences are studied from a phenomenological and psychoacoustic perspective and it is suggested that Schaeffer’s research on timbral and musical concepts can be extended to include spatial features.

The Evolution of Mutualistic Dependence

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 409-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Chomicki ◽  
E. Toby Kiers ◽  
Susanne S. Renner
Keyword(s):  
Tree Of Life ◽  
Context Dependence ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Context Dependent ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Over Time

While the importance of mutualisms across the tree of life is recognized, it is not understood why some organisms evolve high levels of dependence on mutualistic partnerships, while other species remain autonomous or retain or regain minimal dependence on partners. We identify four main pathways leading to the evolution of mutualistic dependence. Then, we evaluate current evidence for three predictions: ( a) Mutualisms with different levels of dependence have distinct stabilizing mechanisms against exploitation and cheating, ( b) less dependent mutualists will return to autonomy more often than those that are highly dependent, and ( c) obligate mutualisms should be less context dependent than facultative ones. Although we find evidence supporting all three predictions, we stress that mutualistic partners follow diverse paths toward—and away from—dependence. We also highlight the need to better examine asymmetry in partner dependence. Recognizing how variation in dependence influences the stability, breakdown, and context dependence of mutualisms generates new hypotheses regarding how and why the benefits of mutualistic partnerships differ over time and space.

scholarly journals Cost-Effective Active Learning for Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Fan Yan ◽  
Sheng-Jun Huang
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Subset Selection ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Annotation Costs ◽  
Model Training ◽  
Coarse To Fine ◽  
Different Levels

Active learning reduces the labeling cost by actively querying labels for the most valuable data. It is particularly important for multi-label learning, where the annotation cost is rather high because each instance may have multiple labels simultaneously. In many multi-label tasks, the labels are organized into hierarchies from coarse to fine. The labels at different levels of the hierarchy contribute differently to the model training, and also have diverse annotation costs. In this paper, we propose a multi-label active learning approach to exploit the label hierarchies for cost-effective queries. By incorporating the potential contribution of ancestor and descendant labels, a novel criterion is proposed to estimate the informativeness of each candidate query. Further, a subset selection method is introduced to perform active batch selection by balancing the informativeness and cost of each instance-label pair. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of both the proposed criterion and the selection method.

scholarly journals Peer actions for a service learning project to prevent drug-facilitated sexual assaults

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Montalvo ◽  
Gloria Quintanilla ◽  
Fernando E. Ortega-Ojeda ◽  
Carmen García-Ruiz ◽  
Pablo Prego-Meleiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Sexual Assaults ◽  
Vertical Coordination ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Different Levels

The service-learning methodology combines active learning processes and community service. This service-learning experience was performed using an interdisciplinary and cross plan. The teachers made a horizontal coordination in the courses, and a vertical coordination in subjects of the Degrees involved. This allowed working together in the students’ curricular training process. It also permitted covering various specific skills, as corresponds to the different subjects, whilst optimizing the students’ workload. The service addressed the problem of drug-facilitated sexual assaults (DFSA) in the youth leisure nightlife. DFSA is the temporary disability of a person caused by a decrease in her/his volitional and cognitive abilities due to the voluntary or involuntary consumption of a psychoactive substance. An active learning about the problem was encouraged in the classroom, focused on recognizing myths, attitudes, and risk situations. The service-learning actions to the community was based on an anonymous survey conducted among the students, which dealt with the problem. The Service Learning was stimulated through the design, planning and development of activities aimed at gaining social awareness of the existing problem while favouring peer learning processes. The students undertook awareness actions at different levels, spreading their message by means of social networks, high school workshops, and information stands on the street.

The Research Article as an Instrument of Active Learning for Teaching About Violence, Sexual Abuse, and Union Formation Among Low-Income Families

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane M. Purvin ◽  
Edward L. Kain
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
First Century ◽  
Union Formation ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
A Current

As noted by Goldsmid and Wilson a quarter of a century ago, a “curious gulf” exists between teaching and research in sociology. This article addresses this problem by suggesting ways in which a current research article from the American Sociological Review can be used in courses at three different levels of the undergraduate curriculum. The active learning exercises are linked to explicit student learning outcomes that build upon recommendations from Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major Updated: Meeting the Challenge of Teaching Sociology in the Twenty-First Century.

Dependence of Intergranular Fracture on Boundary Topography and Cohesion

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
J. E. Doherty ◽  
A. F. Giamei ◽  
B. H. Kear ◽  
C. W. Steinke
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Nickel Base Superalloy ◽  
Boundary Shear ◽  
Room Temperature Ductility ◽  
Solid Solution Matrix ◽  
Nickel Base ◽  
Solution Matrix ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Base Superalloy

Recently we have been investigating a class of nickel-base superalloys which possess substantial room temperature ductility. This improvement in ductility is directly related to improvements in grain boundary strength due to increased boundary cohesion through control of detrimental impurities and improved boundary shear strength by controlled grain boundary micros true tures.For these investigations an experimental nickel-base superalloy was doped with different levels of sulphur impurity. The micros tructure after a heat treatment of 1360°C for 2 hr, 1200°C for 16 hr consists of coherent precipitates of γ’ Ni3(Al,X) in a nickel solid solution matrix.

Immunoenzymatic demonstration of the simultaneous presence of transferrin, hemopexin and albumin in a same hepatocyte and their ultrastructural localization

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-89
Author(s):  
M. Kraemer ◽  
J. Foucrier ◽  
J. Vassy ◽  
M.T. Chalumeau
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Proteins ◽  
Rat Hepatocytes ◽  
Ultrastructural Localization ◽  
Carrier Proteins ◽  
Normal Cells ◽  
Adult Rat ◽  
Adult Rat Hepatocytes ◽  
Monospecific Antisera ◽  
Different Levels

Some authors using immunofluorescent techniques had already suggested that some hepatocytes are able to synthetize several plasma proteins. In vitro studies on normal cells or on cells issued of murine hepatomas raise the same conclusion. These works could be indications of an hepatocyte functionnal non-specialization, meanwhile the authors never give direct topographic proofs suitable with this hypothesis.The use of immunoenzymatic techniques after obtention of monospecific antisera had seemed to us useful to bring forward a better knowledge of this problem. We have studied three carrier proteins (transferrin = Tf, hemopexin = Hx, albumin = Alb) operating at different levels in iron metabolism by demonstrating and localizing the adult rat hepatocytes involved in their synthesis.Immunological, histological and ultrastructural methods have been described in a previous work.

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