the first spoken dialogue system developed for the persian language is introduced. this is a ticket reservation system with persian asr and nlu modules. the focus of the paper is on learning the dialogue management module. in this work, real on-line training data are used during the learning process. for on-line learning, the effect of the variations of discount factor (g) on the learning speed...

introduction: research shows that there is a relationship between students’ perceptions of classroom and learning environment and their cognitive, affective, emotional and behavioral outcomes, so, in this study the relationship between medical students’ perception of learning environment and academic emotions was examined. methods: the research method used was descriptive-correlative. the stati...

undoubtedly, the capability and core competencies of employees help to achieve organization goals. consequently, organizations increase organizational learning capability with the help of intellectual capital, thereby providing improvement of productivity. the current study aims to explain the impact of intellectual capital on labor productivity, considering the mediation of organizational lear...

ABSTRACT We have analyzed data from a field study in collaborative telelearning. The participants were students from three educational institutions in Norway. The goal of the study was to investigate how the students used a set of groupware tools to coordinate learning activities. We have used concepts from collaborative telelearning (Bourdeau & Wasson, 1997) and coordination mechanisms (Schmid...

Successful knowledge transfer or diffusion of e-learning practice goes beyond precursor incentives and anticipated rewards for the individual lecturer. It also involves wider enabling of learning attributes and cultural capabilities in an organization. This paper examines how some of these attributes and capabilities play out in an educational institution in the context of web-enabled technolog...

Virtual teams enabled by information and communications technologies (ICT) are increasingly being adopted not only by for-profit organizations but also by education institutions as well. This study investigates what contribute to the success of virtual learning teams in a higher-education institution. Specifically, we examine the issue of leadership in virtual learning teams. The study first re...

Especially in higher and further education, today’s learning more and more allows and also requires individual learning strategies. On the one hand, this development is a step towards lifelong learning and a higher personal engagement. On the other hand, many learners struggle with organizing learning processes on their own. Learning diaries were proven to be supportive for self-regulated learn...