The following paper presents a computer based learning strategy to assist in introducing and teaching water quality modelling to undergraduate civil engineering students. As part of the learning strategy, an interactive computer-based instructional (CBI) aid was specifically developed to assist students to set up, run and analyse the output from a commercially available water quality model (WQM...

This study deals with the use of connectives in oral French narration. Sevento eleven-year-old native speakers of French told ‘silent’ comic strip stories involving two characters to a same-age peer. The comic strips differed from each other in the display mode (consecutive vs. simultaneous), the type of event sequence (arbitrary vs. ordered) and the thematic continuity (continuous vs. disconti...

1 Reading tutors can provide an unprecedented opportunity to collect and analyze large amounts of data for understanding how students learn. We trained models of oral reading prosody (pitch, intensity, and duration) on a corpus of narrations of 4558 sentences by 11 fluent adults. We used these models to evaluate the oral reading prosody of 85,209 sentences read by 55 children (mostly) 7-10 year...

Individuals are often faced with various types of barriers and failures when they look for information. They sometimes fail to locate their desired information after trying or even exhausting all of their known sources. Research has mostly focused on the barriers people face on the Web, but experiences with information seeking failures—particularly those that involve offline channels in real li...

The only structure is provided by the selection of a specific point in time as the focus of the research. The narration has to emerge from it. A very general indication for the oral histories you will have to collect can be starting from 1984, the year of famine, which also saw the first massive involvement of the international community in Darfur. You can than move to the change in regime of 1...