With the advance and scaling up of e-learning and distance learning provision, the scope of student support systems has extended and deepened, demanding consideration of the methods for its planning and implementation. Management of student support is used as an example of a key business process that is one part of a higher education enterprise’s end-to-end process of e-learning provision, with...

In the US in particular, there is an increasing emphasis on the importance of science in education. To better understand a scientific topic, students need to compile information from multiple sources and determine the principal causal factors involved. We describe an approach for automatically inferring the quality and completeness of causal reasoning in essays on two separate scientific topics...

Machine learning is usually defined in behaviourist terms, where external validation is the primary mechanism of learning. In this paper, I argue for a more holistic interpretation in which finding more probable, efficient and abstract representations is as central to learning as performance. In other words, machine learning should be extended with strategies to reason over its own learning pro...

A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article's ideas and applications 10 Further Reading Using this assessment tool, companies can pinpoint areas where they need to foster knowledge sharing, idea development, learning from mistakes, and holistic thinking.

Bilingual ethnic Chinese parents are concerned about their preschoolers’ learning of their mother tongue. Many allow their children to learn Mandarin by accessing language applications on mobile devices. However the effectiveness of solely using mobile devices as a learning tool for preschoolers is debatable. This paper presents a field investigation on how adult-facilitated craft-making, gener...

Corporate training increasingly takes place within the framework of a company’s strategic orientation. A holistic view of learning and training processes as well as a focus on a comprehensive management of corporate training (“training management”) emerges. The paper presents and analyses results from an international survey conducted by the EU-funded research project ELENA.

In this paper we present a method of sound classification which exploits a parts-based representation of spectrotemporal sounds, employing the nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) [1]. We illustrate a new way of learning nonnegative features using a variant of NMF and show its useful behavior in the task of general sound classification with comparison to independent component analysis (ICA) w...