The ease and abundance of knowledge acquisition that is unparalleled in history, renders knowledge transition and practicing of skills in education insufficient. The importance of personal reflection and identity, i.e. the individual’s mindset, is increasingly important. Re-thinking educational approaches, to entrepreneurship and leadership in particular, is important since they are activities ...

This article presents a conceptual analysis of collaboration scripts used in face-to-face and computer-mediated collaborative learning. Collaboration scripts are scaffolds that aim to improve collaboration through structuring the interactive processes between two or more learning partners. Collaboration scripts consist of at least five components: (a) learning objectives, (b) type of activities...

This paper argues that automated knowledge acquisition for diagnosis has had limited success in both failure-driven diagnosis and model-based diagnosis. The paper describes fault-based and model-based reasoning for diagnosis and surveys some of the approaches to knowledge acquisition in both areas. The Hakeem1 algorithm I am currently implementing for the automated generation of behavioural mod...

The use of screencasts as an instructional technology is increasing rapidly in higher education. While there appears to be a consensus around students’ satisfaction with the provision of technology enhanced tools, there is limited evidence revolving around their impact in terms of knowledge acquisition. Moreover, the reasons why students choose to engage (or not) with these resources remain lar...

The use of screencasts as an instructional technology is increasing rapidly in higher education. While there appears to be a consensus around students’ satisfaction with the provision of technology enhanced tools, there is limited evidence revolving around their impact in terms of knowledge acquisition. Moreover, the reasons why students choose to engage (or not) with these resources remain lar...

This paper demonstrates that problem decomposition leads to more effective knowledge acquisition and improved control performance in fuzzy control. The methodology allows to solve complex control problems (truck backer-upper) without loss of functionality that is very difficult with all-in-one approaches and saves design expenses.

This paper proposes a novel method of modelling trajectories followed by users, while they navigate within a virtual environment. Bézier curves provide a good approximation of trajectories, and the results indicate that the method provides a basis for the diagnosis of navigational patterns. The method offers three indicators: goodness of fit, average curvature and number of inflexion points whi...

Agüera EI, Sánchez-Hermosín P, Díz-Pérez J, Tovar P, Camacho R, Escribano BM. Students integrate knowledge acquisition and practical work in the laboratory. Adv Physiol Educ 39: 209–213, 2015; doi:10.1152/advan.00019.2015.—The aim of the present work was to transfer a wider concept of teamwork and self-learning to the laboratory, encouraging students’ capabilities when seeking, acquiring, and p...

This research used vicarious-learning procedures in an attempt to increase students’ knowledge of the domain and enhance the quality of their questions in an intelligent tutoringsystem involving computer-controlled animated agents. Students who overheard a dialogue in which a virtual tutee asked a virtual tutor questions during acquisition wrote significantly more in free recall and asked signi...