Machine learning interfacing with natural language processing
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Human computer interaction (HCI) is an important aspect that should concern every computer system. Ubiquitous computing applications and many other complex applications calls for an interface that have more than simple selection of couple of options. Consequently we need computer interfaces which...
Evaluate fuzzy-due time by using genetic learning algorithm
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a complex combinatorial optimization problem which can be seen as a merge of two well-known problems: the traveling sales problem (TSP) and the Bin Packing Problem (BPP). The paper will introduce the problem starting with the type time window and presented...
An effective software test suite optimization framework using intelligent agents with black board architecture based learning
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
Artificial Intelligence methods played a vital role in the research of software engineering areas. In particular, Software Testing, a part of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) plays a crucial role in quality software development uses the application of artificial intelligence techniques. We...
A special education, learning to teach a disabled student
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
A Special Education: One Family's Journey Through the Maze of Learning Disabilities is the author, Dana Buchman's explanation about how her family coped with having a child who suffered from severe learning and developmental disorders. It is a tremendously interesting look at the...
How the busy bee bustles: Learning flights in honeybees
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
While it may take you days to learn your way around a new town, it only takes a few seconds for a honeybee to learn the details of a new landscape. In “Investing in learning: why do honeybees, Apis mellifera, vary the durations of learning flights?” by Cynthia A. Wei and...
Evaluate semi-supervised classification with collaborative learning algorithm
Thesis - 5 pages - Mathematics
Conventional classification models are built based on supervised learning which invariably requires class labels of entities to be classified along with their description. Even the instance based classifiers require class labels of their training examples to predict the class labels of...
Medium of Instruction and its impact in designing e-learning systems
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
Traditional e-Learning system displays the same content to all the learners irrespective of their knowledge level and relevance. This paper concentrates on the investigation of the impact of learner's primary medium of instruction at school in understanding the content given to them in...
Intelligent agent-assisted decision support for personalized virtual learning environment
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
In the delivery of online learning, Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) have been growing quickly and research on intelligent agent supported eLearning systems has developed rapidly in the last decade. However, some online learning programs have not been successful, and one...
Learning and innovation: What is a learning organization?
Essay - 5 pages - Management
In this report I will try to explain what I know and understand about this topic: learning organization. After research about this subject, I am going to show you my personal idea with some examples from my work experience. I planned to start this essay by a definition of the...
Factors affecting voluntary termination from MSW distance learning programs by students/candidates prior to completion of degree requirements
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Study Goals: To determine factors that influence MSW students, in a distance learning program conducted by a state-supported university, to discontinue the program prior to completing degree requirements. To investigate whether discontinuation reasons are idiosyncratic or if there are...
Idiosyncratic applications of data mining in E learning environments
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
Data Mining is a very popular and effective way of discovering new knowledge from large and complex data sets. Its benefits are its ability to gain deeper understanding of the patterns previously unseen using current available reporting capabilities. Internet education arose from traditional...
How behaviorist concepts of learning processes can be used to explain how children learn to talk and think
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
This essay will explore the behaviorist approaches to both language and cognitive development, at the same time critically evaluating it in terms of the main alternative approaches of nativism and constructivism (which also includes the social interaction approach to language). To do this it will...
School's responsibilities towards child abuse, learning disabilities, and behavioral problems
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Creating a safe and learning environment in today's modern society has become extremely difficult not only for educators but also for parents. The need and demand for better education is no longer clear-cut because the demographic is dynamic in every sense of the word. Children with...
E-learning: A tool to learn, upgrade and regenerate
Thesis - 4 pages - Educational studies
A highly competitive global environment, free trade, and constantly changing market needs and wants has created the growing need for highly skilled people in the workplace. This has challenged businesses to look at better ways to improve the efficiency of their human capital. Both private and...
To passively match or to actively change: Evaluation of studies and some thinking on matching instruction to student learning style
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
The term instruction refers to education (teaching of knowledge) or teaching (a form of instruction). Applying the knowledge concerning learning style in educational area, it's assumed that matching instruction to students' learning style would make the instruction more...
Learning while black
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
There were no African-American literature or history courses at Northern Michigan University, so when I learned that the concentration for American Literature III would include the Harlem Renaissance, I jumped into the course. Two months later and the only black person we'd talked about in the...
Learning to learn may be the key to success
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
Most organization has a cussed attitude to work and learning - treating these as two different things. Work is something the organization pays for; learning is something you do on your own, or conferred as reward or recognition for past performance. As business cycles shorten, as...
RUN (Respect, Understand, Nourish): A program to address obesity as a psychosocial barrier to learning
Case study - 9 pages - Psychology
It will come as no surprise to most people reading this that sixteen percent of adolescents living in the United States meet the criteria for obesity. If it's not a surprise then why does the problem persist? Why isn't someone doing something? It all boils down to accountability. Society...
The role of play in children's learning and development
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
"Learning for young children is a rewarding and enjoyable experience in which they explore, investigate, discover, create, practise, rehearse, repeat, revise and consolidate their developing knowledge, skills, understandings and attitudes. During the foundation stage, many of these aspects...
In-depth Country-by-Country analysis of distance learning in the Middle East
Essay - 17 pages - Sociology & social sciences
In this context, underdeveloped countries such as those in the Middle East (i.e. The Arab States, Israel, Palestine, Iran, Turkey, Sudan and Egypt) must increasingly turn to distance learning as a means of broadening access to education for their populations. In 1981, fourteen of UNESCO...
The effectiveness of e-learning programs
Essay - 7 pages - Educational studies
The aim of this section is to establish from various literature, the main points of best practice in implementing e-learning into a large organisation, in particular recent research on the attitudes of the implementation of effective e-learning. It will look at the advantages and...
Affects Of teaching techniques & styles on student learning
Tutorials/exercises - 16 pages - Educational studies
This project endeavors to reveal, present and discuss the idea that a wide and various array of teaching techniques proves effective in improving the functionality of instructors as tertiary educators. It emphasizes the central role of varied communication in the teaching process and covers the...
Creative tension in learning organizations and the role of leadership
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Learning organizations develop and sustain an environment, which stimulates the power of learning in all organizational members, allowing organizational flexibility and adaptability. Successful organizations use the power of learning in order to produce the maximum benefit...
Learning theories for students with learning disabilities
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Learning is the process of acquiring, gaining, and retaining knowledge which may be applied to situations in real life. Learning is not a passive process wherein students can take in information and then remember this information throughout the student's life rather learning...
The Application of Metacognitive Reading Strategies by Learning From and Teaching Disabled Students in the Regular Classroom
Essay - 9 pages - Educational studies
As a child, I was an average reader but never enjoyed reading. I especially dreaded reading chapter books because once I had completed the book I had forgotten what had happened at the beginning. Even though I struggled with the comprehension of reading for pleasure, I was able to pass...
The Use of Learning Theories for Adult Learners
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Introduction Over the course of the twentieth century, education and psychology have become substantially intertwined. Researchers examining the applications of psychology have found that this discipline provides a notable method for helping educators understand cognition and the learning...
Adult learning theory and self-directed learning
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
Over the course of the last several decades, researchers have made notable progress in understanding the process of human development and learning. While the principle focus of investigation has, in many cases, been with respect to child development and learning, what has been...
Social Learning Theory and the Youth Gang Epidemic
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The existence of youth gangs is evident in large and small cities throughout America, and more often than not, delinquency and crime are associated with those gangs. Robert L. Akers and Robert L. Burgess developed the widely-accepted social learning theory in the 1960s, and that theory can...
Managing teams - What have you learned about yourself and team management?
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Management
During these different lessons and the activities we carried out, I discovered a side of myself that surprised me a lot: my ability to encourage collaboration and create a work environment conducive to constructive exchanges. This is a skill that was not so obvious to me before finding myself in...
Transcendentalist Theory in Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
Thesis - 3 pages - Literature
Walt Whitman, a well-known Transcendentalist, believed that humans and nature share an intimate relationship. His poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" illustrates this communion with the natural world. It contrasts this view with the scientific view of nature that distances humans...
