Multimedia Tools to Learn About Nanoparticles Characterization

Learning to learn together with CSCL tools

Using Mimicry to learn about Phonology

We often think of intonational phonology in terms of discrete entities: accents which fall into just a few categories (Gussenhoven 1999; Ladd 1996; Beckman and Ayers Elam 1997). In this view, accents in intonation correspond to phonemes in segmental phonology (except that they cover a larger interval). They have a rough correspondence to the acoustic properties of the relevant region and they a...

Overcoming bias to learn about controversial topics

Deciding whether a claim is true or false often requires a deeper understanding of the evidence supporting and contradicting the claim. However, when presented with many evidence documents, users do not necessarily read and trust them uniformly. Psychologists and other researchers have shown that users tend to follow and agree with articles and sources that hold viewpoints similar to their own,...

Planning to Learn About Protein Structure

Using Simulation to Learn about Inference

Many statistics educators use simulation to help students better understand inference. Simulations make the link between statistics and probability explicit through simulating the conditions of the null hypothesis, and then looking at sampling distributions of an appropriate measure. In this paper we review how we use simulation to help understand hypothesis testing, and lay out the relevant st...