Hee-Jung Jung, Chosun University Although the concept of ubiquitous technologies has been introduced to many parts of society, there have been limited applications, and little is known about learners’ behavior toward ubiquitous technologies, particularly in the context of English learning. This study considers a sample of Korean students to identify the key factors that influence Englishlanguag...

Abnormalities in value-based decision making during adolescence have often been attributed to non-linear, inverted-U shaped development of reward-related processes. This hypothesis is strengthened by functional imaging work revealing an inverted-U shaped relationship between age and reward-related activity in the striatum. However, behavioural studies have mostly reported linear rather than non...

The UK Government’s recent funding cuts in higher education, coupled with the importance of maintaining competitiveness at a global and national level — a competitiveness that has worsened lately due to a gloomy recession — have placed even more pressure on UK academic institutions to adopt innovative curricula and, most importantly, to increasingly use technology in their courses. Blended Lear...

The term "learning styles" refers to the concept that individuals differ in regard to what mode of instruction or study is most effective for them. Proponents of learning­style assessment contend that optimal instruction requires diagnosing individuals' learning style and tailoring instruction accordingly (pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer, and Bjork, 2009). There are several methods or theories that d...

Blikstein, P. and Wilensky, U. (2006, April). An atom is known by the company it keeps: a constructionist learning environment for Materials Science using multi-agent simulation. In D. Abrahamson (Org.), U. Wilensky (Chair), and M. Eisenberg (Discussant), Small steps for agents... giant steps for students?: Learning with agentbased models. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Americ...

Review of Independent Component Analyses (ICA) and Blind Sources Separation (BSS) employing in terms of unsupervised neural networks technology are given. For example, imagery features occurring in human visual systems are the continuing reduction of redundancy towards the “sparse edge maps”. Different edge features are mathematically equivalent to be “ones among zeros”. When edges are multiply...

EDRS Price MF-$0.25 HC-$0.85 *Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, *Aural Stimuli, *Child Language, Phonemes, *Phonology, *Psycholinguistics, Psychological Tests, Statistical Analysis This paper takes issue with the position that children's phoneme acquisition schedule is dictated primarily by auditory perceptual factors and suggests the alternative position that ease of production accou...

The present work investigates the relationship of iterative learning with other learning criteria such as decisiveness, caution, reliability, non-U-shapedness, monotonicity, strong monotonicity and conservativeness. Building on the result of Case and Moelius that iterative learners can be made non-U-shaped, we show that they also can be made cautious and decisive. Furthermore, we obtain various...

I. Iterative Learning Control Iterative Learning Control (ILC) is a control method that iteratively improves the performance of a system. It can be used for systems that execute the same task several times (under the same operating conditions and with the same initial conditions), such as a robot arm that performs the same part of a fabrication process over and over again. By using information ...