The purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion of the transformative potential of blended learning in the context of the challenges facing higher education. Based upon a description of blended learning, its potential to support deep and meaningful learning is discussed. From here, a shift to the need to rethink and restructure the learning experience occurs and its transformative potentia...

Young children typically demonstrate a transfer deficit, learning less from video than live presentations. Semantically meaningful context has been demonstrated to enhance learning in young children. We examined the effect of a semantically meaningful context on toddlers' imitation performance. Two- and 2.5-year-olds participated in a puzzle imitation task to examine learning from either a live...

Meaningful learning based on PBL is new learning strategy. Compared to traditional learning strategy, the meaningful learning strategy put the student in center of the learning process. The roles of the student in the meaningful learning strategy will be increased. The Problem-based Learning (PBL) model is considered the most productive way to encourage development of higher order thinking. In ...

Online education is well established in academia; however, the effectiveness of course design and student engagement remains uncertain. To deliver the highest quality online education, students should be engaged in learning exercises. Appropriately integrated technology can be used to foster student engagement, build a learner-centered environment, and make course content come alive. This artic...

The last decade has seen huge progress in the development of advanced machine learning models; however, those models are powerless unless human users can interpret them. Here we show how the mind‘s construction of concepts and meaning can be used to create more interpretable machine learning models. By proposing a novel method of classifying concepts, in terms of ‘form’ and ‘function’, we eluci...

This paper reports on a design-based research for designing, implementing, and refi ning a problem-based learning (PBL) course on educational digital video at the University of Lapland’s Faculty of Education. The course builds on a combination of problem solving in small group tutorial sessions and realizing a practical hands-on project during which the students design and produce educational v...

EDITOR'S NOTE This article is adapted from the address Ms. Delahanty delivered as the recipient of the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) Outstanding Educator in Diabetes Award for 2015. She delivered the address in June 2015 at the Association's 75th Scientific Sessions in Boston, Mass. A webcast of this speech is available for viewing at the ADA website (http://professional.diabetes.org/we...

Recent work on the problem of latent tree learning has made it possible to train neural networks that learn to both parse a sentence and use the resulting parse to interpret the sentence, all without exposure to groundtruth parse trees at training time. Surprisingly, these models often perform better at sentence understanding tasks thanmodels that use parse trees from conventional parsers. This...

I would like to re e t upon the ways Pure Data software an improve and reate ontexts for meaningful learning. Following the work of Paulo Freire, latin ameri an edu ator from the sixties, I will highlight the relevan e of reating edu ative environments that be ome embedded with the pra ti es that people develop and refuse o ial one ognitive style instru tional models. Paulo Freire (1974) indi a...