In this paper, the author reports findings from research concerning the planning of learning scenarios in education. The purpose of the research is to explore the value of this scenario planning and reflection-on-action. In particular, the research objective is to explore how this innovative method can guide the adoption of ICT in education and cultivate competencies for lifelong and lifewide l...

This position paper examines a critical paradox in e-health: there is a striking gap between critical information services for health care that can be implemented today using existing in information and communication technologies and those services that are actually available. Facets of this paradox are examined in the context of Canadian analyses and policy, advanced research on health care re...

Small teams of young people brainstorm solutions and implementation strategies for issues as varied as tourism, global interdependence, and water use. Students are taught to think not only critically but also creatively. Team Problem Solving, Action-Based Problem Solving, Individual Problem Solving, and Scenario Writing are all components of the program that award dynamic thinkers. Students who...

This study investigates the degree to which textual complexity indices applied on students’ online contributions, corroborated with a longitudinal anal‐ ysis performed on their weekly posts, predict academic performance. The source of student writing consists of blog and microblog posts, created in the context of a project-based learning scenario run on our eMUSE platform. Data is collected fro...

This work presents a research on the methods and mechanisms necessary to bring the Information and Communication Technologies in the traditional classroom. This will be achieved by putting collaborative and Ubiquitous Computing paradigms together to integrate both fields into the educational environment. As a study case we have developed a system for language learning, in particular English as ...

Stochastic programming presents many challenges to modelling environments. One major challenge is to support the efficient processing of model artifacts as stochastic parameters change and scenarios are generated. In this paper we present an example that combines COIN-OR packages FLOPC++ and SMI to produce a C++ program, which generates and solves the extensive form of a stochastic program know...

Small teams of young people brainstorm solutions and implementation strategies for issues as varied as tourism, global interdependence, and water use. Students are taught to think not only critically but also creatively. Team Problem Solving, Action-Based Problem Solving, Individual Problem Solving, and Scenario Writing are all components of the program that award dynamic thinkers. Students who...

We describe a system for computer-assisted writing of legal documents via a question-based mechanism. This system relies upon an underlying ontological structure meant to represent the data flow from the user’s input, and a corresponding resolution algorithm, implemented within a local engine based on a LastState Next-State model, for navigating the structure and providing the user with meaning...