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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"self-paced learning"”.
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On the effectiveness of self-paced learning
… must be accurate and efficient in order to allow self-guided learners to improve their performance. Yet few examples exist in which allowing learners to control learning produces higher levels of performance than restricting learners’ control. Here we investigate the consequences of allowing …
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Computer-Based Instruction for Engineering Education in the Developing World
… instruction. These simulations can serve as self-paced learning modules, which can be accessed for free over the Internet. A pilot learning module was developed for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the topic of reservoir sedimentation. This pilot …
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The Effects of Computer-Assisted Instruction on Teaching and Learning of Automated Drafting Systems for College Students
… student achievement as a result of eight-week's self-paced learning with a computer-based tutorial. The results showed that prior computer experience, exposure to AutoCAD in high school, and attitudes toward the tutorial are three significant predictors. However, prior AutoCAD experience and …
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Design of a mobile support and content authoring tool to support deaf adults training in computer literacy skills
… that Deaf adults encounter at the task of learning computer literacy skills. Deaf adults who communicate using South African Sign Language (SASL) come from poor socio-economic backgrounds are not familiar with the written form of English. They rely on interpreters and Deaf teachers to …
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Improvement of Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) Documentation in Home Care to Boost Medicare Star Rating
… a train-the trainer approach beginning with self-paced learning of the OASIS format. The trainee will conduct an admission, also known as start of care (SOC), assessment followed by trainer critique and advisement. Establishing a rapport early will aid the assessment process. Face-to-face …
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Scalable Robust Models Under Adversarial Data Corruption
… robust regression with adversarial noises, self-paced robust learning for leveraging clean labels in noisy data, and robust regression via online feature selection with adversarial noises. Moreover, I extended the self-paced robust learning method to its distributed version for the …
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Hotel Executives’ Perceptions of Effective Promotion Processes and the Successful Transition from Single-Unit to Multi-Unit Management
… industry, especially the hotel industry, has outpaced its ability to develop future leaders. Like many organizations, the hotel industry employs a management hierarchy of single-unit managers responsible for each unit (hotel) and a multi-unit manager who oversees single-unit managers and their …
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A comparison of two training models for the enhancement of quality of care for family child care providers
… assigned to two treatment groups; catalyst and self-study. The purpose was to investigate how training affects quality of child care and to determine what provider characteristics interact with self-paced learning methods to change quality of care. The Family Day Care Rating Scale (Harms & …
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Using multimedia microworlds to motivate and engage adult learners
… and to solve problems in a resource-based, self-paced environment. Such an environment needs to be sufficiently interesting and novel to motivate students who begin to use it, and to continue to engage them as they progress through it. This study has sought to identify what such a learning …
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An Interactive Digital Manual For Safety Around Conveyor Belts In Surface Mining
… problems by devising a new approach of learning to augment existing methods of training and evaluate the potential of this concept as a safety-training tool. Research has shown that individuals have their own learning style in which they can increase their retention and stimulate their …
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Advancing Innovation in University Teaching: An Academic Development Model to Support Technology-Enhanced Assessment and Feedback Competencies and Practices
… who, welcomed in a stimulating and structured learning environment, can benefit and enhance their growth through a quality teaching and learning process. PNRR Mission 4 is linked to Goal 4 "Quality Education" (sub-goals 4.2, 4.4, 4.7,4.a, 4.b and 4.c) of the 2030 Agenda, which in its complexity …
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Data quality in the deep learning era: Active semi-supervised learning and text normalization for natural language understanding
Deep Learning, a growing sub-field of machine learning, has been applied with tremendous success in a variety of domains, opening opportunities for achieving human level performance in many applications. However, Deep Learning methods depend on large quantities of data with millions of annotated …