Powerful learning at SEA

A powerful virtual learning environment

This paper describes the challenge of teaching abstract scientific principles and the design and development process of the award winning Virtual Power Plant Website. This learning resource is actually an amalgamation of four online learning environments developed by a number of universities and industry groups and is designed to help students understand and apply thermodynamic principles in re...

Learning wine thanks to powerful MOOC emulation

Purpose MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have gained popularity for e-learning purposes. Effectiveness depends on platform interface design and management which should create student cohesiveness and optimize collaboration. Design/methodology/approach A MOOC prototype is developed and E-learning applications pilot-tested for one semester with French business school graduate students. Finding...

Computer-supported Collaborative Learning: an Approach to Powerful Learning Environments

Designing support to facilitate learning in powerful electronic learning environments

Pelagic sea snakes dehydrate at sea.

Secondarily marine vertebrates are thought to live independently of fresh water. Here, we demonstrate a paradigm shift for the widely distributed pelagic sea snake, Hydrophis (Pelamis) platurus, which dehydrates at sea and spends a significant part of its life in a dehydrated state corresponding to seasonal drought. Snakes that are captured following prolonged periods without rainfall have lowe...