For reasons that I hope will soon become clear, I would like to begin this paper with somewhat irresponsibly entertaining the idea that my esteemed friend and colleague, John Greco, is a philosophical descendant of John Buridan, via the Scottish common sense philosopher Thomas Reid and his Cambridge-descendant, G. E. Moore. In these musings, I will confine myself to establishing a sufficiently ...

SPOC is characterized by improving teaching effectiveness. Currently open teaching mode is the popular trend, which is mainly related to several aspects: how to carry out teaching practice by using MOOC proprietary, high-quality online teaching resources in open education, that is, deep integration of curriculum resources and teaching design. On the basis of SPOC development, combined with open...

This paper describes our experience in trying to transfer our revised software engineering curriculum from UC Berkeley to other universities. We were in the first wave of Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs), and this paper lists the lessons learned about educational technology transfer from developing MOOCs. To make it easier for instructors to use MOOC material, EdX offers Small Private Online ...

b a ckground: malaria is still a public health problem in the world. one of the main objectives of world health or-ganization is capacity building of authorities who are involved with malaria control activities. m e t hods: the first course was conducted in 1996 in bandar abbas training center. the course was conducted jointly by the ministry of health and medical education of iran, who-emro an...

This paper tracks the rise in the percentage of employees who have never become union members (‘nevermembers’) since the early 1980s and shows that it is the reduced likelihood of ever becoming a member rather than the haemorrhaging of existing members which is behind the decline in overall union membership in Britain. We estimate the determinants of ‘never-membership’ and consider how much of ...

The need for automating behavioral observations and the evolution of systems developed for that purpose is outlined. Video tracking systems enable researchers to study behavior in a reliable and consistent way and over longer time periods than if they were using manual recording. To overcome limitations of currently available systems, we have designed EthoVision, an integrated system for automa...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a disruptive trend in education. Several initiatives have emerged during the last months to give support to MOOCs, and many educators have started offering courses as MOOCs in different areas and disciplines. However, designing a MOOC is not an easy task. Educators need to face not only pedagogical issues, but also other issues of logistical, technologica...

To provide MOOC participants with efficient learning resources and feedback according to the unique needs of each learner is obvious a greater challenge. In this paper, we describe the top five challenges that have the power to hinder the overall personalize MOOC experience. In addition to that, we suggest new opportunities considering individual differences in order to support personalized MOO...