Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have drastically changed the way we learn as well as how we teach. The main aim of MOOCs is to provide new opportunities to a massive number of learners to attend free online courses from anywhere all over the world. MOOCs have unique features that make it an effective technology-enhanced learning (TEL) model in higher education and beyond. The number of acad...

The CD1d-dependent presentation of lipid antigens to natural killer T (NKT) cells is an integral part of the innate immune system. However, the development of anticancer therapies based on NKT-cell agonists has had limited success so far. Humanizing mice with respect to the CD1d/NKT antigen presentation system will provide a tool to identify novel lipids that exert antineoplastic functions by t...

A methodological approach and technological framework are proposed to improve learning outcomes in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), taking into account the distinguishing features of this kind of massive courses over traditional online courses. The proposed methodology integrates the learning strategies of xMOOCs and cMOOCs with adaptivity and knowledge management capabilities. In order to ...

This paper offers an analysis of metalinguistic comparatives such as more dumb than crazy in which they differ from ordinary comparatives in the scale on which they compare: ordinary comparatives use scales lexically determined by particular adjectives, but metalinguistic ones use a generallyavailable scale of imprecision or ‘pragmatic slack’. To implement this idea, I propose a novel compositi...

In her paper "The Global Phenomenon of 'Humanizing' Terrorism in Literature and Cinema" Elaine Martin presents -following a discussion of two early examples, Schiller's The Robbers and Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas (1810) -an analysis of several contemporary works that model different ways of representing terrorism: Heinrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) and its 1976 f...

The social psychological study of education contains growing potential to contribute the understanding learning and design effective environments that support youth development. As research on educators in particular expands, there are key insights perspectives from areas outside psychology can help guide direction new studies approaches. Humanizing frameworks especially well suited inform educ...