e-Learning is able to realize effective education by low cost, it also has problem it is difficult to know for teacher situation of learners. As a related idea, concept map has been presented in pedagogical literature, and it can more easily and rapidly represent a part of learner’s understanding without written and oral examination. In our research, we have studied supporting individual learni...

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) is a multidisciplinary area focusing upon methodologies for extracting useful knowledge from data and there are several useful KDD tools to extract the knowledge. The ongoing rapid growth of online data due to the Internet and the widespread use of databases have created an immense need for KDD methodologies. The challenge of extracting knowledge from d...

BACKGROUND Training people to deliver mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) is becoming an important activity as mindfulness has been shown to have clinical benefits across a variety of conditions. Training courses must not only address the principles, skills and theory of mindfulness, but the trainers themselves must be able to embody the practice. There is limited research on the ability of t...

In this article, I will use underlined keywords to refer to particular pages from the CD-ROM. If you visit the CD-ROM index (by clicking on the ? box) and type the underlined keywords into the search box, then it will take you directly to the relevant page. I hope that this article will give you some ideas about how to use the CD-ROM in the classroom, but specific suggestions and worksheets are...

This paper reports on findings from two action research projects in Australian schools focussing on the provision of professional learning to support the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning. For the purposes of comparative analysis, as well as school circumstances, different models of professional learning were used in the two schools. Both models supp...

Students enter classes with mobile devices and use them for learning; however, these are also distracting devices. Some teacher educators display positive attitudes; others display negative attitudes, depending on their perception of the advantages and disadvantages of mobile technology for learning. This paper represents findings of a study that examined teacher educators’ attitudes towards th...

The current review examined teacher leadership research completed since York-Barr and Duke published the seminal review on teacher leadership in 2004. The review was undertaken to examine how teacher leadership is defined, how teacher leaders are prepared, their impact, and those factors that facilitate or inhibit teacher leaders’ work. Beyond this, the review considered theories informing teac...

The study analyzes action research in educational practice and its contribution to the quality of education. author describes difference between random application methods, tools, or non-standard procedures a teacher's work teachers 'views on research, as well teachers' attitudes research.

A hierarchical framework is proposed to address the issues of modeling different type of words in keyword spotting (KWS). Keyword models are built at various levels according to the availability of training set resources for each individual word. The proposed approach improves the performance of KWS even when no training speech is available for the keywords. It also suggests an easier way to co...