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MOOCs Integration in the Formal Education

At the beginning, we believed that MOOCs were going to change the education methods and approaches all over the world especially in the primary education and it would be a stand-alone learning experience, however what’s really happening right now is slightly different. According to researches, new trends have appeared among MOOCs users like: MOOCs users belong to the young generation ages between 18 and 40 years old, not to mention that most of them are graduate and post graduate students. They have a good education background and their parents are likely have so. On the other side, MOOCs disadvantages have become more obvious: the high drop-out rates in courses, the questionable true evaluation of student understanding, and the lack of formal certificate or credit hours transfer option for students. At first, formal education institutes look to the MOOCs as a type of self-learning or a stand-alone learning experience that can’t add much to the formal type of learning that they provide to their students. Lately, that wasn’t the case. New trials and models have been emerging slowly over the time as a combination of MOOCs with formal education. MOOCs have been integrating repetitively and in a different ways in the formal education. These trials and models are trying to get both MOOCS advantages and at the same time to increase education quality. This study discusses how MOOCs have become over time part of the formal education and how likely this is going to developed in the future.
Pedagogical Perspectives and Practices Reflected in Metaphors of Learning and Digital Learning of ICT Leaders

ABSTRACT This study examines the meaning attributed to the contribution of technology to pedagogical practices from the perspective of school ICT leaders. While previous studies use metaphors for bottom-up exploration, this study employs an innovative combination of bottom-up and top-down metaphor analysis based on two frameworks: (a) metaphors of general learning (Paavola, Lipponen, & Hakkarainen, 2004)—acquisition, participation, and knowledge creation, and (b) metaphors of digital learning (Shamir-Inbal & Blau, 2016)—toolbox, active player, creative mind, shared desktop, and inter-connected world. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 ICT leaders, including eight elementary school ICT coordinators and five regional ICT coordinators. All three metaphors of general learning and five digital learning metaphors were found in perspectives and pedagogical practices reported by the interviewees. However, the prevalence of each metaphor and the intersections of general and digital learning metaphors were quite different. The analysis based on metaphors shed light on the perspectives of ICT leaders regarding the meaning and nature of learning processes and on pedagogical practices in their schools.
A preliminary study on dual process thinking in marketing education

Dual process thinking is an application of two systems of thinking for problem solving and decision-making. System 1 is a heuristic thinking system that involves intuitive and non-reflective thinking, prior knowledge and beliefs of decision maker. System 2 is an analytic thinking system that requires conscious effort and thought, numerical and logical reasoning. This study aims to investigate how marketing students solve problems with dual process thinking. Traditional Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) contains three-item for measuring the tendency to override System 1 thinking and to engage in reflective System 2 thinking. While the traditional CRT is confounded with numeracy, which is not applicable to the field of marketing, this study employed traditional CRT with three additional marketing related measurement items to collect data from students who major in marketing for analysis. The analytical results showed that it is necessary to motivate and encourage marketing students to use System 2 thinking to learn different marketing concepts that are highly interrelated with one another and to complete tasks that require higher-order thinking skill. This paper also provides a useful reference for educators to design course assignments that aim to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills of students.
Combined Effects of Equatorial Chorus Waves and High‐Latitude Z‐Mode Waves on Saturn's Radiation Belt Electrons

In this paper, we examined the combined effects of equatorial chorus waves and high‐latitude Z‐mode waves on the energy and pitch angle distribution of Saturn's radiation belt electrons. Our simulation results show that these two types of waves at different latitudes jointly control the fluxes of Saturn's radiation belt electrons, which is very different from the individual effects of each kind of waves. The presence of Z‐mode waves can efficiently inhibit the reversed energy spectrum of electrons driven by chorus waves, whereas the presence of chorus waves can further accelerate and scatter the relativistic electrons accelerated by Z‐mode waves toward the larger and smaller pitch angles. Our findings provide a new insight on how different types of waves at different latitudes jointly affect the radiation belt electron dynamics, including, but not limited to, Saturn.
Authentic Assessment Model in Problem Solving Learning for Kindergarten

This study aims to produce an authentic assessment model in problem-solving learning for children aged 5-6 years. Specifically, the purpose of this study is to find out: 1) the feasibility of the authentic assessment model, and 2) the results of the students' ability assessment in problem solving learning for children aged 5-6 years. The research and development used adopted the ADDIE model (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate). The research subjects consisted of eight teachers and 44 students. The number of research subjects using purposive sampling technique. The study was conducted in 4 schools of Kindergarten in Yogyakarta City. Validation of research instruments conducted by expert judgment. The data were collected using questionnaires and observation sheets. Questionnaires are used for data retrieval on aspects of practicality and effectiveness of authentic assessment models. Observation sheets are used for data retrieval on aspects of the implementation of the assessment process. The data analysis of the research was done by using descriptive statistic technique, inter-rater reliability, inter-item correlation, and intra-class correlation. The results of the research are: 1) the authentic assessment model developed is feasible to use because it meets the requirements of practicality, effectiveness and its implementation, and 2) the result of ability assessment from 44 students in problem solving learning are: 19 students (43,2%) get value with criterion growing very good, 16 students (36,5%) with growing up expectations, 8 students (18,3%) with start growing, and 1 student (2%) with not yet growing. Keywords—development model, authentic assessment, problem solving, 5-6 years.
Enabling 5G Technologies

The increasing demand for connectivity and broadband wireless access is leading to the fifth generation (5G) of cellular networks. The overall scope of 5G is greater in client width and diversity than in previous generations, requiring substantial changes to network topologies and air interfaces. This divergence from existing network designs is prompting a massive growth in research, with the U.S. government alone investing $400 million in advanced wireless technologies. 5G is projected to enable the connectivity of 20 billion devices by 2020, and dominate such areas as vehicular networking and the Internet of Things. However, many challenges exist to enable large scale deployment and general adoption of the cellular industries. In this dissertation, we propose three new additions to the literature to further the progression 5G development. These additions approach 5G from top down and bottom up perspectives considering interference modeling and physical layer prototyping. Heterogeneous deployments are considered from a purely analytical perspective, modeling co-channel interference between and among both macrocell and femtocell tiers. We further enhance these models with parameterized directional antennas and integrate them into a novel mixed point process study of the network. At the air interface, we examine Software-Defined Radio (SDR) development of physical link level simulations. First, we introduce a new algorithm acceleration framework for MATLAB, enabling real-time and concurrent applications. Extensible beyond SDR alone, this dataflow framework can provide application speedup for stream-based or data dependent processing. Furthermore, using SDRs we develop a localization testbed for dense deployments of 5G smallcells. Providing real-time tracking of targets using foundational direction of arrival estimation techniques, including a new OFDM based correlation implementation.
Higher-Order Game Dynamics in Population Games and Reinforcement Learning

Higher-Order Game Dynamics in Population Games and Reinforcement Learning Bolin Gao Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2017 Evolutionary game theory is a game-theoretic framework which attempts to describe the outcomes of competitive scenarios involving large populations of anonymous agents, also known as population games. A significant portion of evolutionary game theory is devoted to the study of evolutionary game dynamics. These game dynamics are often posed as first-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) in continuoustime, and the equilibria of these ODEs can coincide with certain solution concept associated with a game. Research into the class of higher-order game dynamics presents an opportunity to potentially significantly enlarge the set of well-behaved game dynamics and may reveal many features of game dynamics that are not present in their first-order counterparts. We begin our design and analysis of higher-order game dynamics using a novel control-theoretic approach. The utility of such a control approach manifests itself in three major ways. First, by representing the learning rule as a state-space system, we provide a generalization to the class of higher-order game dynamics previously considered in the literature, most of which were studied with respect to very specific forms of learning rules. Secondly, we can design control laws through well-established control techniques that allow us to overcome non-convergence issues associated with certain types of higher-order game dynamics. Last but not least, we show that by posing reinforcement learning schemes as feedback control systems, we are able to leverage a host of powerful tools from convex analysis, monotone operator theory, and Lyapunov theory to systematically design higher-order game dynamics with guaranteed convergence in large classes of games.
The ITPA disruption database

A multi-device database of disruption characteristics has been developed under the auspices of the International Tokamak Physics Activity magneto-hydrodynamics topical group. The purpose of this ITPA disruption database (IDDB) is to find the commonalities between the disruption and disruption mitigation characteristics in a wide variety of tokamaks in order to elucidate the physics underlying tokamak disruptions and to extrapolate toward much larger devices, such as ITER and future burning plasma devices. In contrast to previous smaller disruption data collation efforts, the IDDB aims to provide significant context for each shot provided, allowing exploration of a wide array of relationships between pre-disruption and disruption parameters. The IDDB presently includes contributions from nine tokamaks, including both conventional aspect ratio and spherical tokamaks. An initial parametric analysis of the available data is presented. This analysis includes current quench rates, halo current fraction and peaking, and the effectiveness of massive impurity injection. The IDDB is publicly available, with instruction for access provided herein.
Making It Stick: Teaching Students with Autism to Generalize Physical Education Skills

Research indicates that although students with disabilities, including those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), can be successful in acquiring motor and sport-related skills during physical education, they tend to struggle with generalizing those skills to other settings. Difficulties with generalization of physical education skills may contribute to low levels of physical activity and sport participation by individuals with ASD outside of physical education. Since generalization is unlikely to occur automatically, physical education teachers must plan and teach for generalized outcomes. Several strategies exist that can be used by educators to promote the generalization of skills to other settings or with other people. Physical education teachers can promote the use of motor skills and participation in physical activities in environments outside of school by embedding these strategies into their curriculum for the benefit of all students. The purpose of this article is to provide physical educators with practical generalization programming interventions for students with ASD.
Fields of gold: reflections on the research relations of the cultural policy researcher

ABSTRACT This article discusses the methodological implications of the relations we have to our object of study as cultural policy researchers. We ask: What research relations we typically are part of and what social dimensions structure these relations? These questions are discussed by comparing field experiences from two cultural forms that can be characterized as polar opposites when it comes to the degree to which they are legitimized: contemporary opera and dance bands. We suggest that four dimensions are especially relevant to help ‘unpack’ the relations we typically find ourselves in as cultural policy researchers; cultural hierarchy, research conditions, geography and, gender and age. The coexistence of these dimensions means that the cultural policy researcher regularly finds him/herself in complex situations that we suggest should be analysed in terms of the ways in which, and the extent to which, we develop roles as insiders – or outsiders – in the field
How Mobile Augmented Reality Is Applied in Education? A Systematic Literature Review

Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) approaches have been applied as an instructional strategy in educational contexts. In this respect, it is important to identify how these approaches have been developed and evaluated with the purpose to identify their quality and benefits. The goal of this article is to identify the state-of-the-art on how the MAR has been used for educational purposes. Therefore, we performed a systematic literature review with a sample of 57 articles. Based on the selected studies, we analysed which knowledge areas the MAR approaches are used in the educational contexts. We also analysed how the approaches have been developed, and evaluated. As a result, we identify that the technical requirements used in the development of the MAR approaches are defined based on the expertise of the development team. Most evaluations are carried out without an appropriate scientific rigor in terms of research design. This shows that there is a need to more consistent and uniform patterns in terms of methods for systematically develop and evaluation of MAR approaches. And, thus, obtain valid results that can be used as a basis for a decision on the application of such approaches and/or their continuous improvement for educational purposes.
TMT Cognitive Capability and Organizational Outcomes: A Theoretical Review

Extant strategic management literature has followed two divergent paradigms. One is based on the tenets of industrial organization theory and argues that strategic decision making and action is purely a chance affair because the industry environment determines whether an organizational will survive or not and that the decisions and actions of the organizational players have no role at all. The second paradigm is based on the Resources Based View (RBV) and argues that organizational strategic choice and action is purely a resources, capability and competence deployment affair. Even though recent scholarship in strategic management has attempted to integrate the two paradigms to explain organizational strategic decision making and outcome, it is however yet to put forward a theoretical model explaining how the two paradigms integrate. In this paper, the authors bring on board a managerial cognitive capability perspective to play the role of a catalyst that blends the two paradigms together in explaining organizational outcomes. The paper reviews extant conceptual, theoretical and empirical literature and builds a case for a theoretical model linking TMT cognitive capability and organizational outcomes in the context of both industry environment dynamics and internal organization dynamics. The study identifies key organization outcomes resulting from the deployment of TMT cognitive capability as strategic choice, strategic flexibility and organizational performance while the key contextual factor that condition the outcomes include industry velocity and organizational characteristics. Based on the postulates of several underpinning theories, the paper identifies a phenomenon arising from deployment of TMT Cognitive Capability in the context of dynamic business environments and proposes a theoretical model that raises several implications for future empirical work.
For Rhyme and Reason: Multiculturalism and the Study of Library Poetry Collections in Ethnically Diverse Elementary Schools

The steady rise of multicultural children’s poets in the twenty-first century has provided children more opportunities to see themselves and others reflected in authentic words and images. Unfortunately, poetry collections in school libraries are often neglected in regards to collection development, circulation, and promotion. This study examined the poetry collections in the school libraries of 26 ethnically diverse elementary schools in the southeastern United States to determine how well they reflected a diverse community of learners and supported the notion of multiculturalism. Although each school library contained an average of 19.71% of multicultural poetry books, these resources were collected in fewer numbers compared to other poetry books, and many cultures were underrepresented within collections. Based on these results, it is recommended that elementary school librarians serve as change agents by enriching poetry collections to include additional multicultural resources and, ultimately, by promoting collections for use in the classroom and beyond.
Internet Search Data: A Better Proxy for Regional Suicidality

Author(s): Guerra, Christian | Advisor(s): Link, Bruce | Abstract: Analyses of Google internet searches, reveal deep and otherwise elusive sentiments that are all too frequently unobserved by traditional research methods. Internet users often search topics they would be unwilling to ask their closest and most intimate confidants about. Thoughts about suicide, depression and the means one might use to take one’s own life are prominent examples – people may keep these thoughts very private but reveal them to google. Spring boarding from this central insight this paper seeks to determine whether suicide rates are higher in places where google searches about depression and suicide are common. Building on prior research, this project will assess the extent to which Google searches predict the 50-state suicide rate above and beyond traditional approaches. Using factor analysis three clusters of search terms were identified: suicide, depression, and gun-related. Suicidal and depressive search terms are found to be significantly associated with the suicide rate over the 11-year period (2006- 2016) even after controlling for divorce, unemployment, mental state, binge drinking, gun ownership, and yearly effects. These findings suggest that internet search data represent a, practical, and cost-effective method for studying suicide and other large-scale sociological phenomena. As fields such as public health, epidemiology, and psychiatry effectively incorporate internet and big data-driven methodologies, it is imperative that sociologists carefully consider its capabilities given its increasing utilization and potential.
Sylvia Plath: a psychobiographical study

Increased interest in psychobiographical research has resulted in national and international researchers advocating its value. Although South Africa has seen an increase in the number of psychobiographies based on individuals who have made important contributions, both nationally and internationally, the majority of these psychobiographies have focused on male research subjects. In light of South Africa’s efforts to promote female empowerment in a postapartheid era, South African psychologists may be motivated to embark on the study of significant and exceptional women who shaped history, whether in South Africa or abroad. Sylvia Plath has been hailed as one of the most influential and renowned figures of the 20 century. Although she only published one poetry collection (The Colossus) and one novel (The Bell Jar) in her lifetime, the many poems, short stories, letters and journal entries which were published after her death, have secured her status as a powerful voice in Anglo-American culture and literature. None of the works which currently exist on Sylvia Plath provide an in-depth psychological perspective on her life. The researcher thus decided to select her as the subject for this psychobiography through purposive sampling, with the aim of providing a psychological exploration and description of aspects of her life, against the backdrop of her socio-historical context. This aim was accomplished by applying two psychological frameworks to the biographical and historical data collected on Sylvia Plath. The psychological frameworks included: (a) Erikson’s stage-based, psychosocial theory of development, and (b) Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems (IFS) model. The study’s primary aim was thus to explore and describe Sylvia Plath’s psychosocial development and the structure of her internal family system throughout her life. Due to the exploratory-descriptive nature of this study, the objective can be said to fall within the inductive research approach. The use of specific methodological strategies proved to be particularly valuable in the extraction and analysis of data in this study. The researcher made use of Alexander’s nine indicators of psychological saliency and Schultz’s model of prototypical scenes, to facilitate the organisation and prioritisation of biographical data. In order to manage the proliferation of data available on Sylvia Plath, the researcher posed specific questions to the data, which allowed for the extraction of units of analysis relevant to the research objectives of the study. The researcher made use of two conceptual matrices to facilitate the analysis of data in this psychobiographical study, as proposed by Fouché. This ensured the systematic categorisation and consistent analysis of biographical data collected on Sylvia Plath, according to the stages