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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Environment learning"”.
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A model for distributed mobile robot environment learning and navigation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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Learning environment simulators from sparse signals
To allow planning in novel environments that have not been mapped out by hand, we need ways of learning environment models. While conventional work has focused on video prediction as a means for environment learning, this work instead seeks to learn from much sparser signals, like the agent's …
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Bayesian Analysis, Endogenous Data,and Convergence of Beliefs
… thereby potentially increasing future rewards. Learning occurs if the agent's subjective beliefs about the parameter converge over time to the parameter's true value. However, depending upon the environment, learning may or may not be optimal, as in the end, the agent cares about maximizing …
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Technological Tools for Teaching and Learning English in a virtual Environment
… of different platforms to continue the teaching-learning process of foreign languages. The purpose of this paper is to describe the impact of virtual classrooms, and the use of didactic materials with innovative tools in a new modality. The origin of this virtual modality was adopted a few years …
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Tapping the Voices of Learners for Authentic Student Engagement
… relationships with teachers, other learners, the learning environment, learning interests and ideas, the curriculum, and learning goals, are more likely to enjoy and be in control of their own learning [student agency]. This study is significant because of its potential to provide new …
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Active Information Gathering Using Distributed Mobile Sensing Networks
… autonomous robots are useful include mapping, environmental monitoring, and surveillance. In some cases, information gathering turns into a multiple target tracking (MTT) problem. Usually, an MTT tracker is utilized to recursively estimate both the number of targets and the state of each …
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Mental models, cognitive style, and organisational learning : the development of shared understanding in organisations
Organisational learning is seen by many to be a key determinant of organisational performance. This is demonstrated by the growth of the 'learning company' concept (Pedler et al. 1991), and by the suggestion that the ability to learn faster than one's competitors is the only sustainable competitive …
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Job Satisfaction Determinants of Certificated Staff in the XYZ School District
… see leadership as an important predictor of environment, learning, and satisfaction. Thus, hinting that strong levels of job satisfaction as related to the leader (principal) can relate to increase student achievement. For the XYZ school district, satisfaction as related to leadership is low. …
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Exploiting multimodality and structure in world representations
… within the real world. To this end, embodied learning is emerging as one of the most important efforts contributed by the machine learning community towards this goal. Recently developing sub-fields concern various aspects of such systems---visual reasoning, language representations, causal …
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Paramedic Professional and Leadership Development Using High-Fidelity Healthcare Simulation and Audiovisual Feedback : One Michigan Community College Case Study
… appropriate leadership and teamwork skills. New learning approaches including simulation, audiovisual feedback, and structured debriefing have been suggested as a way to meet this challenge within paramedic education. While some individual components have been studied, no study has examined these …
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Formação de supervisores pedagógicos em contexto online: perspectivas de estudantes do MSVP, em Angola
Neste estudo que realizámos abordamos o perfil dos supervisores pedagógicos no ensino a distância online e, por se tratar de um assunto que despoleta inquietações e algum cepticismo, porquanto nos remete para uma abordagem, cujo modelo pedagógico é predominante virtual e por não ter sido muito …
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An Experimental Study of Digitalizing Forestry Education : Credibility and Expertise in a Virtual Reality Application
Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää, parantaako virtuaalitodellisuus (VR) oppimisympäristönä oppimistuloksia verrattuna perinteisesti opetuksessa ja koulutuksessa käytettyihin videoihin. Lisäksi tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää, pystytäänkö VR:n avulla välittää uskottavuutta, ja …
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Developing Learning Analytics for Epistemic Commitments in a Collaborative Information Seeking Environment
Learning analytics sits at the confluence of learning, information, and computer sciences. Using a distinctive account of learning analytics as a form of assessment, I first argue for its potential in pedagogically motivated learning design, suggesting a particular construct – epistemic cognition …
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Secondary educators who create a growth mindset environment : a qualitative descriptive case study.
… on secondary students in an extracurricular learning environment. While some secondary students face challenges such as poverty, lack of motivation, and societal inequities, they can cultivate a growth mindset created by secondary educators in a learning environment. Throughout this study, I …
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Educating Genetic Counseling Graduate Students: Impact of Year of Training, Learning Styles, and Use of Practice-Based Learning on Satisfaction with the Learning Environment
… there has been no research conducted into their learning styles. Practice-based learning is widely utilized in the medical school setting; however, it is unknown how extensive this teaching modality is used in the genetic counseling training programs. Use of this experiential learning technique …
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Competency maturing: a substantive theory of how senior information systems undergraduates develop their existing competencies and acquire additional competencies within an organic learning environment
… concern of senior IS undergraduates during their learning process, and how they resolve the concern. Data were obtained from two diverse groups of senior IS undergraduate classes using multiple data collection methods, embedded in constant comparative analyses. Understanding what was going on in …