There are few specialized programs available to train occupational therapists and physical therapists to treat competently in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), yet hospitals are trying to fill such positions, and the need for advanced training is essential. A hospital-based program that provides clinical NICU training to therapists from other hospitals is presented. The program is short-te...

A crucial factor for successful digital educational games, particularly for older children and adolescents, is an appropriate balance; balance between learning and gaming and balance between challenge and ability. These factors are important to maintain fun, immersion, flow experience, and motivation – the motivation to play and therefore to learn. Moreover, it is important to realize a gaming ...

Individuals differ in their ability to learn how to regulate the brain activity by neurofeedback. This study aimed to investigate whether the resting alpha activity can predict the learning ability in alpha neurofeedback. A total of 25 subjects performed 20 sessions of individualized alpha neurofeedback and the learning ability was assessed by three indices respectively: the training parameter ...

In spite of the current advance of the use of computers in education in the Arab world, complete suites of solutions for students with special needs are very scarce. This paper presents an assistive system managing learning content for children with intellectual challenges. The system provides educational multimedia contents, inspired from the local environment, in different subjects such as ma...

In this paper we present (1) a method for semantic search supported by ontological concept learning; and (2) a prototype multiagent system that can handle semantic search and encapsulate the complexity of such process from the users. Agents which conduct semantic search on behalf of a user, deploy ontologies to organize structured and unstructured documents in their corresponding repositories. ...

This paper demonstrates how stereotypic student groups can be created to enhance cognitive models in computer tutors. Computer tutors use cognitive models to track what skills students are learning and what practice attempts are most needed; often, these models contain relatively few individualized student parameters due to computational concerns. A hybrid approach emphasizing tractability and ...

Students are usually only marginally involved in the preparation of exams. They are passive peers who write an exam predefined by the lecturer. Studies in educational theory indicate, however, that active involvement instead of (passive) consumption should be adopted in learning since active learning proved to be superior to passive learning. One concept of active learning is student peer evalu...