In the context of a single case study, this paper explores the musical interaction between a pupil and teacher, and the pupil’s evolving musicality, using the music-theoretical approach to the cognition of musical structure set out by Ockelford (2002, 2004, 2005a, 2005b, 2006a) – ‘zygonic theory’. The object of the study is a vocal improvisation by ‘K’, a 4 1⁄2 -year-old girl with septo-optic d...

Kurt Becker, Utah State University Kurt Becker is a Professor and the Department Head of Engineering and Technology Education. He is the Co-Principal Investigator for the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded National Center for Engineering and Technology Education and Principal Investigator for the NSF funded project: Communities of Effective Practice: A professional STEM Development Partne...

Current research has explored the impact of instructional immediacy, defined as those behaviors that help build close relationships or feelings of closeness, both on cognition and motivation in the traditional classroom and online classroom; however, online courses continue to suffer from higher dropout rates. Based on Albert Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory, four primary relationships or inte...

Six principles of future learning environments have emerged from the CSCL research community. These include: greater “sightlines” into learner, teacher and peer cognition; an increasingly salient role for modeling; increased connectivity between people, concurrent with a greater sense of individualization or “one-to-oneness”; fluid contextual mobility in learning, such as between virtual and re...

Most systems which make use of neural networks typically do so to perform a simple function, such as to define a state [2], to avoid an obstacle [10], or for locomotion [4] [6]. Even systems using neural memory and cognition [14] do not make full use of the huge potential of the adaptive colony available in a distributed robotics system. In this project, a customizable design is proposed for a ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have-with astonishing rapidity–become a formidable presence in global education. Such courses have obvious strengths in their ability to convey (usually lecture-based) content at extremely low cost to widespread, and often underserved, student populations. At the same time, MOOCs, for the time being at least, reflect traditional (and often contested) values i...

This research focus on the temporal path analysis of learning stress, test anxiety, peer stress (classmate relatedness), teacher relatedness, autonomy, and self-regulative performance in junior high school. Owing to the processes of self-determination always combines several negotiations with the interactive perceptions of personal experiences and social cognition network. However, the inexperi...