Top Research Papers on Learning

Limited human capital investment is a common characteristic of low-income countries despite the fact that estimated returns to educational investment in low-income countries are generally higher than in high-income countries. Empirical evidence suggests that income and credit constraints can only account for a small part of this underinvestment. Recent experimental evidence shows that families' misperceptions about the returns to education play a large role in their low investment levels. This paper builds a model of human capital and growth that incorporates an adaptive learning mechanism to ...

This chapter is the first part of the book entitled The learning theory, and discusses the nature of learning and learning style.

A crop rotation experiment was established in 1996/97 at three locations representing different soil types and climates. Three factors were tested: i) crop rotation with different proportions of N2-fixing crops, ii) with and without a catch crop, and iii) with and without animal manure. A green manure crop increased yields in the following cereal crops, but at the rotational level, total yields were larger in crop rotations without a green manure crop. There were positive effects of animal manure and catch crops on yield. However, except for the coarse sandy soil, the yield effects of catch cr...

. Learners have difficulty in decomposing conventionally designed animations to obtain raw material suitable for building high quality mental models. A composition approach to designing animations based on the Animation Processing Model was developed as a principled alternative to prevailing approaches. It provides learners with pre-decomposed material that is structured and sequenced to facilitate the relation building required for effective mental model construction. Study of a compositional animation that presented material in a contiguous fashion resulted in higher quality mental models of...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss conditions for workplace learning (WPL) in relation to temporary agency staffing (TAS), focusing on temporary and regular nurses’ experiences of social relations. Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered using qualitative semi-structured interviews with five agency nurses and five regular nurses. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Findings Similarities and differences regarding conditions for WPL among “temps” and “regulars” emerged, pointing towards both challenges and opportunities for WPL on various levels. Moreover, al...

■ A brief commentary on processes of anthropological learning (and not-learning) drawn from personal experience in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere. — Understandings developed in one context may or may not be usefully applied in another. — Written within the context of a conversation on moral reasoning, it offers, among others, some comparative observations on ‘parental responsibility’.

It seems, then, that the true categories of consciousness are: first, feeling, the consciousness which can be included with an instant of time, passive consciousness of quality, without recognition or analysis; second, consciousness of an interruption into the field of consciousness, sense of resistance, of an external fact, of another something; third, synthetic consciousness, binding time together, sense of learning, thought.

This learning brief was developed as part of an applied research project initiated by the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)-funded Practices, Research and Operations in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (PRO-WASH) Activity, based on iDE’s research. This project aimed to support SHOUHARDO III to identify low-cost, locally available sanitation solutions to meet the needs of populations in the Haor and Char areas of Bangladesh, using principles of human-centered design. SHOUHARDO III is a BHA-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) that is now in its seventh year of implementatio...

It is clarified that with students who for some reason can not communicate simultaneously, the teacher must agree on a different format of communication, and the use of remote technologies solves the problem of individual approach to students, and also helps to avoid information overload.

Efforts to integrate digital media and information literacy into education are expanding, and some schools have already adopted a whole-school integration approach. There are many pedagogical practices for using audiovisual media in ways that support learning. Media-based activities support literacy development when they strengthen the oral language, inference-making, and reasoning skills that are required for reading comprehension. To learn for a lifetime, the most practical competence is the ability to ask good questions and get answers in order to make wise decisions. The active process of ...

It seems, then, that the true categories of consciousness are: first, feeling, the consciousness which can be included with an instant of time, passive consciousness of quality, without recognition or analysis; second, consciousness of an interruption into the field of consciousness, sense of resistance, of an external fact, of another something; third, synthetic consciousness, binding time together, sense of learning, thought.

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Poetry by Karin Johnson.

It seems, then, that the true categories of consciousness are: first, feeling, the consciousness which can be included with an instant of time, passive consciousness of quality, without recognition or analysis; second, consciousness of an interruption into the field of consciousness, sense of resistance, of an external fact, of another something; third, synthetic consciousness, binding time together, sense of learning, thought.

Significant learning is marked by transformation in ways of thinking and in the making of meaning. As Winn (1997) put it: “Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.” He goes on to point out that “the acquisition of knowledge from information requires effort and involves perceptual and cognitive processes that decode symbols, deploy literacy skills to interpret them, and apply inferencing [sic] abilities to connect them to existing knowledge.” I have argued elsewhere that the instructor must make cognitive development an overall course goal (Payne, 2004). The possibility that th...

This paper reviews the current research status of expression recognition and affective computing in education, and analyzes the technical basis required to realizeective computing in the online learning environment from facial expressionrecognition, image pre-processing and featureextraction.

. The article is devoted to improving the system of personalized learning of students in modern schools on the example of educational institutions in Ukraine. The relevance of the study is due to the need to introduce innovative forms of learning in secondary educational institutions in Ukraine. The aim of the article and rates of mastering knowledge for a particular student. As part of the reform of education in Ukraine, personalized learning programs, teaching methods and evaluation system, positively affecting the quality of school education in Ukraine. At the same time, personalization of ...

Teamwork is a fundamental employability skill and, as such, is fostered in professional programmes. This study presents a comparative analysis of higher education students' perceptions, development, and experiences of teamwork at two universities: one in South Africa and the other in Spain. These study sites provided a fruitful opportunity for comparison, given their contextual similarities. Through a survey of 395 3rd and 4th-year students of professional degrees, the authors explored how these students developed the teamwork skills required within their curricula. The findings showed that re...

Office Hours TBD Seminar Description How do humans learn and remember information? This seminar examines the scientific principles of learning and how you can apply this knowledge to your college studies. We begin by introducing the foundations of learning and memory first proposed by psychologists such as Ebbinghaus, James, Pavlov, and Skinner. Next, we discuss the biological basis for learning at the level of the brain and the formation of connections between neurons. We investigate a variety of factors that affect learning and memory, including sleep, hormones, drugs, technology, and neurol...

This paper is an effort to define the target of the language learner: asking, what are the data that the child pays attention to in the process of becoming a native speaker? In so doing, we will necessarily be engaged in the more general effort to define language itself. The general argument to be advanced here is that the human language learning capacity is outward bound , that is, aimed at the acquisition of the general pattern used in the speech community. The end result is a high degree of uniformity in both the categorical and variable aspects of language production, where individual vari...