BibSonomy publications for /tag/higherSat Sep 03 13:18:16 CEST 2011Proceedings of the ECML/PKDD 2011Higher Order Contractive auto-encoder20112011 autoencoder contractive dimensionality ecml_pkdd_2011 higher learning order reduction unsupervised Thu Sep 01 13:26:03 CEST 2011Renewable Energy647--666Prediction of global daily solar radiation using higher order statistics272002Daily Higher Modelling, Prediction global order radiation, solar statistics, The main concern of the present paper is to present and to analyse two procedures for modelling daily global solar radiation. The first one uses the clearness index techniques and the second one uses a totally different type of approach for taking in consideration important properties of such data, including non-Gaussian shape and non-stationarity. This procedure uses the difference between the extraterrestrial and the observed daily global radiation denoted “lost solar component”. Both procedures are based on higher order statistics for generating the global solar radiation using mainly a random process. The prediction results show that the sequences of values generated have the same statistical characteristics as those of sequences observed. The comparison between the two methods used indicates that the developed model based on the “lost solar component” is better than the model obtained using the conventional procedure based on the clearness index.Thu Jul 07 17:08:53 CEST 2011GrazProceedings of I-KNOW 2010, 10 International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge TechnologiesSeptember 1 – 3415-426Facilitating Collaborative Knowledge Management and Self-directed Learning in Higher Education with the Help of Social Software. Concept and Implementation of CollabUni – a Social Information and Communication Infrastructure2010Collaborative Education Facilitating Higher Knowledge Learning Management Self-directed Social Softwar usability wiki Sat Jun 18 20:19:46 CEST 2011IJACSA - International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications380--84{An Empirical Study of the Applications of Data Mining Techniques in Higher Education}22011- analysis,prediction as,naive,neural data discovery,many education,association higher mining mining,decision neighbor,knowledge networks,outlier rules,classification,data such techniques trees,educational uses,k-nearest Sun Jan 09 16:20:55 CET 2011New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education2009education free haifa-mlearning higher learning mobile opencontent technologies While mobile technologies such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and digital music players (mp3 players) have permeated popular culture, they have not found widespread acceptance as pedagogical tools in higher education. The purpose of this e-book is to explore the use of mobile devices in learning in higher education, and to provide examples of good pedagogy. We are sure that the rich variety of examples of mobile learning found in this book will provide the reader with the inspiration to teach their own subjects and courses in ways that employ mobile devices in authentic and creative ways. This book is made up of a collection of double blind peer-reviewed chapters written by participants in the project New technologies, new pedagogies: Using mobile technologies to develop new ways of teaching and learning. The book begins with an introductory chapter that describes the overall project, its aims and methods. The second chapter describes the professional development process that was used for the teacher participants involved in the project. This is followed by 10 chapters, each describing a mobile learning pedagogy that was employed in the context of a subject area within a Faculty of Education. The final chapter presents guidelines or design principles for the use of mobile learning in higher education learning environments. We wish to acknowledge the support provided for the project on which this book is based by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. This research was also funded by generous support from the Office of Teaching and Learning at the University of Wollongong. Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney & Brian Ferry, April 2009Sat Oct 16 13:53:51 CEST 2010Learning with digital games: a practical guide to engaging students in higher education2009case digital education games guide haifa-games-course he higher learning studies Written for Higher Education teaching and learning professionals, Learning with Digital Games provides an accessible, straightforward introduction to the field of computer game-based learning. Up to date with current trends and the changing learning needs of today's students, this text offers friendly guidance, and is unique in its focus on post-school education and its pragmatic view of the use of computer games with adults.Tue Aug 10 17:34:51 CEST 2010British Journal of Educational Technology3414--426Second Life in higher education: Assessing the potential for and the barriers to deploying virtual worlds in learning and teaching402009education haifa-games-course higher learning secondlife virtualworlds Second Life (SL) is currently the most mature and popular multi-user virtual world platform being used in education. Through an in-depth examination of SL, this article explores its potential and the barriers that multi-user virtual environments present to educators wanting to use immersive 3-D spaces in their teaching. The context is set by tracing the history of virtual worlds back to early multi-user online computer gaming environments and describing the current trends in the development of 3-D immersive spaces. A typology for virtual worlds is developed and the key features that have made unstructured 3-D spaces so attractive to educators are described. The popularity in use of SL is examined through three critical components of the virtual environment experience: technical, immersive and social. From here, the paper discusses the affordances that SL offers for educational activities and the types of teaching approaches that are being explored by institutions. The work concludes with a critical analysis of the barriers to successful implementation of SL as an educational tool and maps a number of developments that are underway to address these issues across virtual worlds more broadly.Wed Aug 04 08:42:06 CEST 2010Computers in Human BehaviorIncluding the Special Issue: Design Patterns for Augmenting E-Learning Experiences5999 - 1009In search of common ground: A task conceptualization to facilitate the design of (e)learning environments with design patterns252009Higher education Many studies report changes taking place in the field of higher education, changes which present considerable challenges to educational practice. Educational science should contribute to developing design guidance, enabling practitioners to respond to these challenges. Design patterns, as a form of design guidance, show potential since they promise to facilitate the design process and provide common ground for communication. However, the potential of patterns has not been fully exploited yet. We have proposed the introduction of a task conceptualization as an abstract view of the concept chosen as central: the task. The choice of the constituting elements of the task conceptualization has established an analytical perspective for analysis and (re)design of (e)learning environments. One of the constituting elements is that of [`]boundary objects', which has added a focus on objects facilitating the coordination, alignment and integration of collaborative activities. The presented task conceptualization is deliberately generic in nature, to ease the portability between schools of thought and make it suitable for a wide target audience. The conceptualization and the accompanying graphical and textual representations have shown much promise in supporting the process of analysis and (re)design and add innovative insights to the domain of facilitating the creation of design patterns.Mon Jul 26 19:19:21 CEST 2010Norwich, UKproceedings of the Annual Meeting of the 26th Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME)July273-280Function Machines & Flexible Algebraic Thought22002algebra csa-search education functions higher instruction mathematics remedial representation representations skills thinking This paper explores how college students understand ideas of functions, and which representations are productive for them in promoting their ability to work flexibly across representations. The study used pre- and post-test scores, and triangulations via student self evaluations, to generate a hypothesis related to flexible thinking and success in algebra. It used confidence intervals to provide evidence for a highly significant change in student flexibility in algebraic thinking, and to assist in generating a plausible model of how the use of function machines in a developmental algebra course is instrumental in stimulating that flexibility. (Contains 19 references.) (Author/MM)Mon Jun 28 10:26:03 CEST 2010cite arxiv:1006.4636 Comment: 16 pages, 5 figuresUsing Higher Moments of Fluctuations and their Ratios in the Search for the QCD Critical Point2010fluctuations higher moments The QCD critical point can be found in heavy ion collision experiments via the non-monotonic behavior of many fluctuation observables as a function of the collision energy. The event-by-event fluctuations of various particle multiplicities are enhanced in those collisions that freeze out near the critical point. Higher, non-Gaussian, moments of the event-by-event distributions of such observables are particularly sensitive to critical fluctuations, since their magnitude depends on the critical correlation length to a high power. We present quantitative estimates of the contribution of critical fluctuations to the third and fourth moments of the pion, proton and net proton multiplicities, as well as estimates of various measures of pion-proton correlations, all as a function of the same five non-universal parameters, one of which is the correlation length that parametrizes proximity to the critical point. We show how to use nontrivial but parameter independent ratios among these more than a dozen fluctuation observables to discover the critical point. We also construct ratios that, if the critical point is found, can be used to overconstrain the values of the non-universal parameters. Thu Nov 19 14:40:48 CET 2009Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of713-723--Soliton Self-Frequency Shift: Experimental Demonstrations and Applications142008(SSFS) Cerenkov Cherenkov Nonlinear Raman analog-to-digital conversion fiber fiber-based fibres higher lasers light microstructured mode optical optics order processing pulse pumping radiation red red-shifts self-frequency self-pumping shift signal single-mode slow soliton solitons sources tunable wavelength-agile Soliton self-frequency shift (SSFS), a consequence of Raman self-pumping that continuously red-shifts a soliton pulse, has been widely studied recently for applications to fiber-based sources and signal processing. In this paper, the fundamentals of SSFS are reviewed. Various fiber platforms for SSFS (single-mode fiber, microstructured fiber, and higher order mode fiber) are presented and experimental SSFS demonstrations in these fibers are discussed. Observation of Cerenkov radiation in fibers exhibiting SSFS is also presented. A number of interesting applications of SSFS, such as wavelength-agile lasers, analog-to-digital conversion, and slow light, are briefly discussed.Mon Oct 05 11:38:24 CEST 2009Computers & Education127-34Creative use of podcasting in higher education and its effect on competitive agency522009E-learning education higher podcasting This paper describes an academic experience of podcasting, which involved a group of students of a course on multimedia communication and human-computer interaction. These students acted both as users of the university's podcasting service, and as creators of podcasted lessons. A comprehensive analysis based on the evaluation of the effects on student performance, on data from student satisfaction surveys, from interviews and from instructors' observations provided encouraging results: Full-time students co-involved in lessons' podcasting outperformed colleagues of the previous years and achieved higher levels of what we define as competitive agency, that led them to better understand the theoretical issues of the course and to more effective practical skills.Thu Oct 01 23:19:44 CEST 2009Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education2009Education Educational Finance; Higher I220; I230 Institutions; Research and During the last two decades, median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American 4-year colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate than median spending per FTE student in a number of other expenditure categories including academic support, student services and research. Our paper uses institutional level panel data and a variety of econometric approaches, including unconditional quantile regression methods, to analyze whether these non instructional expenditure categories influence graduation and first-year persistence rates of undergraduate students. Our most important finding is that student service expenditures influence graduation and persistence rates and their marginal effects are higher for students at institutions with lower entrance test scores and higher Pell Grant expenditures per student. Put another way, their effects are largest at institutions that have lower current graduation and first year persistence rates. Simulations suggest that reallocating some funding from instruction to student services may enhance persistence and graduation rates at those institutions whose rates are currently below the medians in the sample.Tue Sep 29 18:04:31 CEST 2009How to Use Social Software in Higher Education20092.0 E-Learning education higher social software Fri Aug 21 12:30:14 CEST 2009New York, NY [u.a.]Studies in populationSchooling and achievement in American society19761960-1980 Education Higher Schulbildung Social_conditions Soziales_Milieu Sozialstatus USA United_States Fri Aug 21 11:25:58 CEST 2009London [u.a.]52Higher education policy seriesExperiential learning around the world2000Arbeitsmarkt Aufsatzsammlung Cross-cultural_studies Economic_aspects Education Educational_change Erwachsenenbildung Experiential_learning Handlungsorientiertes_Lernen Higher Higher_education_and_state Höheres_Bildungswesen Internationaler_Vergleich Tertiärbereich Weiterbildung Fri Aug 21 10:51:32 CEST 2009Princeton, NJThe student aid game1998College_students Education Finance Higher Scholarships Student_aid United_States etc fellowships Fri Aug 21 10:31:17 CEST 2009Princeton, NJA National Bureau of Economic Research monographBuying the best1996College_costs Education Educational_surveys Fachhochschulen Finance Finanzierung Higher Hochschulen Höheres_Bildungswesen Kostensteigerung USA United_States Fri Aug 21 10:26:09 CEST 2009Aldershot, Hants [u.a.]The economics of higher education1995Economic_aspects Economics Education Finance Higher Higher_education Fri Aug 21 09:59:23 CEST 2009Luxembourg2. edDirectory of higher education institutions in the European Community1993Ausbildung Ausbildungswesen:_Allgemeines Beruf Directories EU-Staaten Education European_Economic_Community_countries Europäische_Gemeinschaften_/_Mitgliedsstaaten Europäische_Union Fachhochschulen Higher Hochschule Hochschulen Hochschulwesen Organisationen_<Pädagogik> Schulwesen higherCommunity for tag(s) higher