United We Stand - Divided We Fall! Development of a Learning Community of Teachers on the Net

2011 ◽  
pp. 228-247
Author(s):  
Solveig Jakobsdottir
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Educational Community ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Different Types ◽  
On Line

In this paper I will describe how we have successfully created in our program, with the aid of different types of technologies, a strong educational community of teachers involved with ICT use. I will especially focus on how the first course of the program is organized where I can draw upon personal experience. Many of you are now in the process of creating or changing courses or programs to an on-line format. This article provides a good model to design such courses.

scholarly journals The Ways of Knowing the Pandemic With the Help of Prompted Autoethnography

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042096013
Author(s):  
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Different Types ◽  
And Performance

This article discusses how different forms of autoethnographic production prompted by diverse forms of academic self-expression can lead to different types of knowing. Utilizing five examples from the Massive_Microscopic project, where participants responded to 21 different prompts inviting autoethnographic reflections about COVID-19 global pandemic, the article explores the responses from the perspective of alternative ways of knowing, reflecting on questions of motherhood, self-care, and performance in academia. Whether visual, rhythmic, or text produced from the perspective of things, the different modalities of the prompts allowed unexpected knowledge to emerge and supported deeper and more colorful reflections. Exploring the personal experience with the pandemic is expanded by the qualitative inquiry supported by different (self-)expression formats.

Stability of On-Line Bin Packing with Random Arrivals and Long-Run-Average Constraints

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coastas Courcobetis ◽  
Richard Weber
Keyword(s):  
Bin Packing ◽  
Random Processes ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
Expected Number ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Different Types ◽  
On Line ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Uniformly Bounded

Items of various types arrive at a bin-packing facility according to random processes and are to be combined with other readily available items of different types and packed into bins using one of a number of possible packings. One might think of a manufacturing context in which randomly arriving subassemblies are to be combined with subassemblies from an existing inventory to assemble a variety of finished products. Packing must be done on-line; that is, as each item arrives, it must be allocated to a bin whose configuration of packing is fixed. Moreover, it is required that the packing be managed in such a way that the readily available items are consumed at predescribed rates, corresponding perhaps to optimal rates for manufacturing these items. At any moment, some number of bins will be partially full. In practice, it is important that the packing be managed so that the expected number of partially full bins remains uniformly bounded in time. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for this goal to be realized and describe an algorithm to achieve it.

scholarly journals DESIGNING CANCER GROUPS FOR MAXIMUM EFFECTIVENESS

Groupwork ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Barry M Daste
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
On Line ◽  
Service Groups ◽  
Shed Light

This article attempts to shed light on some of the problems involved in developing optimum service groups for cancer patients and offers ideas concerning the design, content, leadership and membership of these groups. The article begins with a literature review of current research on issues faced by cancer patients and how these have been handled in support groups and therapy groups across the country. Following this, suggestions are offered to assist those involved in planning for these groups to deal with some of the potential difficulties encountered by many of these groups. Interest in this project grew out of the author’s personal experience with cancer and from the experience of being first a participant, and later a leader, in groups for cancer patients.Publisher’s note: We are now putting all back issues of Groupwork on line. Articles in this issue have been scanned to pdf files as viable original typesetting files no longer exist. Though they may not look it, these files are to some extent searchable. This issue was published nearly 30 years ago. We have stated author professional details as received at time of publication.

CSCL – a tool to motivate foreign language learners: The Finnish application

ReCALL ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
TUIJA LEHTONEN ◽  
SIRPA TUOMAINEN
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽  
On Line ◽  
Language Students

This article discusses the applications of the theory of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) to teaching and learning a foreign language, in this case, one of the ‘Less Commonly Taught Languages’, Finnish. The ‘Virtually Finnish’ project was based on the idea of creating a larger, virtual Finnish learning community among the second-year Finnish language students in five US universities during the fall semester, 2001. CSCL was chosen as a base, as its principal goal is to aid the learners in sharing and distributing their knowledge to the whole learning community. In addition to discussing the set up and the content of the project, the students’ feedback about their language learning experience in the CSCL-environment will be examined. Furthermore, the conclusions, and the realization of our goals from the perspective of CSCL, as well as the students’ feedback on the collaborative process will be discussed. Based on the knowledge gained from limited feedback, a discussion of tools to aid language students in becoming a part of motivating and authentic collaboration projects on-line will be discussed. Looking at the students’ work on-line, as well as the feedback received, it was realized that certain skills crucial for communication have been neglected in teaching. Furthermore, it was realized that teaching on-line learning strategies in addition to teaching the target language is crucial. Future plans, and ideas for research in the area of CSCL will be shared in anticipation of inspiring others to undertake further research.

scholarly journals Energy and Uncertainty: Models and Algorithms for Complex Energy Systems

AI Magazine ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren Powell
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Value Function ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Case Application ◽  
Storage Problem ◽  
Function Approximations ◽  
Uncertainty Models

The problem of controlling energy systems (generation, transmission, storage, investment) introduces a number of optimization problems which need to be solved in the presence of different types of uncertainty. We highlight several of these applications, using a simple energy storage problem as a case application. Using this setting, we describe a modeling framework based around five fundamental dimensions which is more natural than the standard canonical form widely used in the reinforcement learning community. The framework focuses on finding the best policy, where we identify four fundamental classes of policies consisting of policy function approximations (PFAs), cost function approximations (CFAs), policies based on value function approximations (VFAs), and lookahead policies. This organization unifies a number of competing strategies under a common umbrella.

Non-Invasive On-Line Monitoring for Nuclear Power Plants Using Guided Waves Propagating in Steel Pipes With Different Types of Structural Complexity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Bertoncini ◽  
Mauro Cappelli ◽  
Francesco Cordella ◽  
Marco Raugi
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Guided Waves ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Ultrasonic Waves ◽  
Steel Pipes ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Different Types ◽  
On Line

On-line monitoring for installed piping in Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs), as well as for Oil & Gas and other kind of plants, is crucial to early detect local ageing effects and locate single defects before they may result in critical failures. All the actions able to prevent failures are of great value especially if non-invasive and allowing an In-Service Inspection (ISI). In particular the Long Term Operation (LTO) and Plant Life Extension (PLEX) may be invalidated from radiation, thermal, mechanical stresses besides their own ageing. Hence on-line monitoring techniques are of much interest especially if they assure the required safety levels and at the same time are simple and cost-effective. Guided Waves (GW) satisfy these requirements since they are structure-borne ultrasonic waves that propagate themselves without interfering along the same pipe structure, which in turns through its geometric boundaries serves as a confining structure for the GW used to test its integrity. The frequencies used for GW testing extend up to 250 kHz, thus allowing a long-range inspection of pipes (tens of meters in favorable circumstances). The experimental conditions (e.g. temperature, complex piping structure, wall thickness, materials) have to be considered since they strongly affect the results but GW generated through magnetostrictive sensors are expected to overcome such issues due to their robustness and positioning ease. In this paper, new experimental tests conducted using the proposed methodology for steel pipes having different types of structural complexity are described.

scholarly journals Diversity statements for leveraging organizational legitimacy

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Val Singh ◽  
Sébastien Point1
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Organizational Legitimacy ◽  
Legitimacy Theory ◽  
Social Accounting ◽  
International Differences ◽  
The Public ◽  
Corporate Websites ◽  
Different Types ◽  
On Line ◽  
Design Diversity

Abstract European companies are increasingly putting “diversity statements” on corporate websites. Websites are important because they are used by members of the public, especially the younger generation, to seek information about companies. Legitimacy theory is often cited as one explanation for having good diversity policies, but we found no research in the diversity, HRM or social accounting literature with empirical evidence of different types of legitimacy associated with diversity. We examined on-line diversity statements from 174 top European companies for evidence of legitimacy-enhancing messages, and coded them by type of legitimacy. We show that diversity statements are presented in ways associated with two different types of legitimacy (pragmatic exchange and moral). International differences are also highlighted. These findings will help practitioners to design diversity statements based on a better understanding that legitimacy is a multi-faceted construct, and help them avoid the dangers of empty discourse, i.e. inconsistency between words and reality.

Role of Shared Experience: A Preference Study

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly Celotta ◽  
Patricia Bode
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Counseling Students ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Counselor Characteristics ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Preference Study

In this study the role of shared experience was investigated by analyzing the preferences of 30 counseling students for 6 counselor characteristics, including shared experience. Subjects assigned to three different types of problems marked their preferences for these variables. Significant effects for counselors' characteristics were noted. There were no significant differences among the types of problems, however. The students preferred a counselor with professional experience with a particular problem significantly more than one with personal experience. However, they preferred to have a counselor with personal experience more than ones of a certain socio-economic status or of a certain race. The characteristics of age and sex were preferred as much as personal experience.

Building a learning community on‐line: towards socio‐academic interaction

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vic Lally ◽  
Elizabeth Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
On Line

scholarly journals Video-based multimedia designs: A research study testing learning effectiveness

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Reiss
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
College Freshman ◽  
Study Guide ◽  
Study Guides ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Different Types ◽  
On Line ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Video Player ◽  
Audio Video

This paper summarizes research conducted on three computer-based video models’ effectiveness for learning based on memory and comprehension. In this quantitative study, a two-minute video presentation was created and played back in three different types of media players, for a sample of eighty-seven college freshman. The three players evaluated include a standard QuickTime video/audio player, a QuickTime player with embedded triggers that launched HTML-based study guide pages, and a Macromedia Flash-based video/audio player with a text field, with user activated links to the study guides as well as other interactive on-line resources. An assumption guiding this study was that the enhanced designs presenting different types of related information would reinforce the material and produce better comprehension and retention. However, findings indicate that the standard video player was the most effective overall, which suggests that media designs able to control the focus of a learner’s attention to one specific stream of information, a single-stream focused approach, may be the most effective way to present media-based content. Résumé: Cet article résume une étude vérifiant l’efficacité de l’apprentissage basé sur la mémorisation et la compréhension, conduite à partir de trois modèles basés sur la vidéo informatisée. Dans cette étude quantitative, une vidéo de deux minutes a été créée et lue sur trois types de lecteurs différents, pour un échantillon de 87 étudiants universitaires de première année. Les trois lecteurs évalués comprenaient un lecteur standard audio/vidéo Quicktime, un lecteur Quicktime avec déclencheurs intégrés qui lançait un guide d’étude en HTML, et un lecteur audio/vidéo Flash Macromedia avec un champ texte, comprenant des liens activés par l’usager vers des guides d’étude et d’autres ressources interactives en ligne. Une supposition guidant cette étude était que les designs enrichis présentant différents types d’informations interreliées renforceraient le matériel et produiraient une meilleure compréhension et une meilleure rétention. Cependant, les résultats indiquent que le lecteur vidéo standard était le plus efficace, ce qui suggère que les designs de médias concentrant l’attention de l’apprenant sur une source d’information spécifique seraient la meilleure façon de présenter du contenu médiatisé.

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