A Standard Model for Measuring Professional Competencies of Teachers in the Islamic Republic of Iran   S. Askari Matin* G.R. Kiyaani, Ph.D. **   Professional development and learning for teachers is an effective approach to guaranteeing the quality of output in educational systems. Such an undertaking could lead to higher levels of competency among teachers as an important interm...

with the advent of the distinctive characterization of academic languagein the past thirty years, there has been atremendous move in the esl/efl world towardsformulatinginstructional techniques compatible with the very nature of these skills. as a part of this effort, this studyinvestigated the role of content and language integrated learning (clil) approach in achieving these ends. the study e...

This paper proposes an editor for Learning Object Metadata compatible with the Semantic Web. This tool uses two base ontologies, OBAA and VideoAula to provide the semantics to describe learning objects. These ontologies are the core for a tool to verify the consistency of the user-input data and realize inferences about the described information. Furthermore, this tool is mainly based on applic...

In automated causal discovery, the constraint-based approach seeks to learn an (equivalence) class of causal structures (with possibly latent variables and/or selection variables) that are compatible (according to some assumptions, usually the causal Markov and faithfulness assumptions) with the conditional dependence and independence relations found in data. In the paper under discussion, Till...

The future of robots, as our companions is dependent on their ability to understand, interpret and represent the environment in a human compatible manner. Towards this aim, the presented work is part of an attempt to create a hierarchical probabilistic concept-oriented representation of space, based on objects. Specifically, this work details efforts taken towards learning and generating concep...