f you walked into our Autonomous Robotics class at Case Western Reserve University on a typical day, you might be surprised to find 30 college students from a variety of engineering and science disciplines sitting on the floor surrounded by LEGO blocks. Appearances can be deceiving; this course tackles serious issues in engineering and science education. In this course, students design, build, ...

it is disputed whether the law is an autonomous discipline or not? the adherents of the autonomy of law mainly are they, legal scholarship should be about distinctively legal topics and is not or should not be about other topics. the supporters of dependence of law mainly are legal realism, economic analysis of law, law and society, critical legal studies movement. they say the governing presup...

The aim of the current study was to investigate whether Podcasts would have an effect on Iranian autonomous and non-autonomous EFL learners’ listening comprehension ability at pre-intermediate level. For this purpose, 60 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners at some Iranian institutes participated in the experiment of the study. Then they were divided into two groups based on an OPT and a...

Autonomous learning plays an important role in raising students’ learning effect and innovation ability in university education. An effective e-learning environment is indispensable in autonomous learning. This paper studies a web based e-learning system and examines students’ autonomous learning ability and perceptions of e-learning taking students at University of Jinan in China as an example...

A three-wave prospective design was used to assess a model of motivation guided by self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2008) spanning the contexts of school physical education (PE) and exercise. The outcome variables examined were health-related quality of life (HRQoL), physical self-concept (PSC), and 4 days of objectively assessed estimates of activity. Secondary school students (n = 494)...

Prototype models of new, fully programmable, autonomous four-legged and humanoid robots are presented as powerful standard platforms for research and education. They are based on an open and modular concept for hardware and software and exhibit a multitude of interfaces, sensors and powerful motion capabilities.

1Lecturer in the Department of Biological and Health Psychology. Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) 2Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, University of Granada & School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University. Melbourne, Australia 3ICEERS Foundation (International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research & Services) Psychometric Properties of Plutchik’...

Currently, autonomous mobile robots become more and more interesting in entertainment and education. The authors gained a lot of experience in performing robot building labs at schools, high-schools, and universities during several years. However, an adequate robot kit which is modular, easy-to-use, powerful, and inexpensive could not be found. This was the reason for developing Tetrixx.

The authors underline their opinion that it is preferable to organise the extracurricular education on city level instead of forming autonomous school groups. Putting together students from different schools forces them to share their knowledge and programming techniques. All this helps them get familiar with new practices and experience and inspires ambitions for growth and progress.