This article describes the implementation of two inexpensive social learning library laboratories for advanced students in Latin American and Chicana/o studies. Drawing on philosophical literature from these interdisciplinary areas and ethnic studies, these cases present a “third space” option for library learning called uncommons. This term denotes alternative book-laden spaces for student sch...

This paper outlines the research and guiding research principles of the (I)CALL group at Dublin City University, Ireland. Our research activities include the development of (I)CALL systems targeted at a variety of user groups including advanced Romance language learners, intermediate to advanced German learners, primary and secondary school students as well as students with L1 learning disabili...

We estimate the effect that six types of high school math courses have on students’ earnings nearly a decade after graduation. We use High School and Beyond transcript data to differentiate courses at a more detailed level than in previous research. This enables us to show that more-advanced courses have larger effects than less-advanced ones. We also provide evidence that math courses can help...

Dynamic Assessment (DA) is theoretically framed within Vygotsky’s Socio-Cultural Theory (SCT) and relies on reunification of assessment and instruction. This process-oriented study of reading comprehension aims at investigating the impacts of applying computerized dynamic assessment (C-DA) which is an ongoing strand of DA on promoting at-risk advanced Iranian EFL students’ reading skills. The s...

This study provided attractive course materials for technological literacy education for a wider audience, including first-year students, high school students, and foreign students in pre-college courses. This prototype eLearning system is designed to engage a wider range of engineering faculty students paired up with Japanese language teachers to develop an e-Learning system, creating four mod...

The education of embedded system for students is popular in many institutes or universities recently. In this paper, the Advanced RISC Machine 9 (ARM9) based software called android developer suite (ADS) is combined with DMA 2440 educational kit to let students practice theoretical and experimental knowledge of embedded systems. The ADS will be illustrated at first then an example of camera app...