Technology advance and volumes of information that people come across make them learn during their whole life. They should be able to meet the requirements rapidly changing world. That puts lifelong learning on agenda as it is a prerequisite for sustainable future professional success. Thus, understandable prepared autonomous which one essential tasks set university education. Students acquire ...

Autonomy is a very important property for a robot to have, yet implementing it in a robot is far f~om trivial, particularly when one requires the meaning of autonomy to include self-motivation, instead of mere automaticity. The fact that emotions are considered to be essential to human reasoning and human motivation in particular, suggests that they might play an important role in robot autonom...

Language learning research in Japan has categorized students’ motivational orientations as multifaceted and leaning towards extrinsic orientations. Meanwhile, as self-determination theory correlates intrinsic motivation to academic success, we argue that enhancing intrinsic motivation is necessary to foster autonomous learners. Many studies categorize motivational orientations, but rarely, have...

This article examines the concept of distributed leadership, drawing from a systematic review of relevant literature commissioned by the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) and jointly funded by NCSL and the Open University’s Centre for Educational Policy, Leadership and Lifelong Learning (CEPoLL). The concept attracts a range of meanings and is associated with a variety of practices,...

Humans and other animals are often touted as examples of systems that possess general intelligence. However, rarely if ever do they achieve high levels of intelligence and autonomy on their own: they are raised by parents and caregivers in a society with peers and seniors, who serve as teachers and examples. Current methods for developing artificial learning systems typically do not account for...