The present study aimed at investigating whether vocabulary-learning strategies had any impact on the vocabulary learning of Iranian EFL learners. The participants of the study were 67 male and female undergraduate university students, majoring in English Translation and English Literature at Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, who were taking “Reading Comprehension II” course. In ord...

The wide use of e-technologies represents a great opportunity for underserved segments of the population, especially with the aim of reintegrating excluded individuals back into society through education. This is particularly true for people with different types of disabilities who may have difficulties while attending traditional on-site learning programs that are typically based on printed le...

This presentation starts with the five major messages from Visible Learning, outlines a notion of ‘learning’, then develops seven fundamental principles of learning: learning involves time, energy, deliberate teaching, and effort; the structure and relations of learning; there are major limitations of the mind; the student as social animal; confidence as a multiplier; the need for maintenance a...

Life long learning is one of the three basic axes on which Greece bases all of its efforts to upgrade Greek reality in all levels, such as the financial, the social and the cultural in both terms of quantity and quality. To win the bet of adult education in the country, all possible ways of delivering educational and training services should be explored and used. Distance learning has to be use...

Web 2.0 technologies provide an opportunity to transform learning into a social experience: social learning can directly benefit from user-generated content analysis. The e-book device is an object central to the learning process; it becomes an ideal medium to promote innovative learning tools. In this paper, we describe how we leverage user generated content in e-books, generally in the form o...

The increasing availability of large data offers an exciting opportunity to use such data to build predictive models using machine learning algorithms. However, most approaches to learning assume direct access to data, and can not efficiently cope with frequent updates to the data. In this paper we show that learning using statistical queries provides a powerful paradigm to address these challe...

University learning can be either teacher centered or student centered. Problem-based self-directed learning in the context of small groups provides students with an opportunity to take greater responsibility for their own learning. In problem-based learning, process and content are inextricably linked, with the three cardinal elements being the students, the tutors, and the problems. The desig...

When students analyze and present original data they have collected, and hence have a cultivated sense of curiosity about the data, student learning is enhanced. It is often difficult to provide students an opportunity to practice their skills, use their knowledge, and gain research experiences during a typical course laboratory. This article describes a model of an out-of-classroom experience ...

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