Search Results - subject:"Active Learning"

Blissenden, Michael; Clarke, Sandra; Strevens, Caroline - In: International Journal of Law and Management 54 (2012) 2, pp. 153-164

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and evaluate the use of a closed community for first year law students. The purpose of the closed community, which could be a wiki or a discussion board, is twofold. The first purpose is to assist new undergraduates in making the transition to...

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Simulation of assembly operations using interchangeable parts for OM education : A hands‐on activity with water pipe fittings

Costa Santos, Luciano; Fabiana Gohr, Cláudia; Vieira … - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 32 (2012) 12, pp. 1427-1440

interchangeable parts for easy manual assembly. Design/methodology/approach – The teaching method followed the philosophy of active … learning and was applied in an action research approach; the proposed activity was tested and improved during applications in …

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A strategy for advancing social marketing : Social marketing projects in introductory marketing courses

McKay‐Nesbitt, Jane; DeMoranville, Carol W.; McNally, Dan - In: Journal of Social Marketing 2 (2012) 1, pp. 52-69

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contend that one way to advance the social marketing discipline is by introducing students to social marketing concepts during the early stages of their marketing education. Thus, it describes an interdisciplinary group Social Marketing Plan (SMP)...

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Playing with Purpose: How Experiential Learning Can Be more than a Game

Hughes, Larry - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 33 (2012) 2, pp. 218-220

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CECM: Constrained evidential C-means algorithm

Antoine, V.; Quost, B.; Masson, M.-H.; Denœux, T. - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 56 (2012) 4, pp. 894-914

In clustering applications, prior knowledge about cluster membership is sometimes available. To integrate such auxiliary information, constraint-based (or semi-supervised) methods have been proposed in the hard or fuzzy clustering frameworks. This approach is extended to evidential clustering,...

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Environmental education for the masses: lessons from a large, general enrollment environmental studies course

Wixon, Devin; Balser, Teri - In: Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 2 (2012) 3, pp. 239-248

One critical tool for creating an environmentally literate citizenry is to reach students other than those in environmental-related majors in the form of the university-level large introductory environmental studies course. In this study, we relate student academic background to initial and...

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Lego NXT information on test dimensionality using Kolb’s innovative learning cycle

Shih, Bih-Yaw; Chang, Chin-Jui; Chen, Ying-Hsiu; Chen, … - In: Natural Hazards 64 (2012) 2, pp. 1527-1548

. The principle is based on Kolb’s innovative learning cycle that the user’s active learning and cooperative learning …

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Active learning in online courses : an examination of students' learning experience

Koohang, Alex; Smith, Terry; Yerby, Johnathan; Floyd, Kevin - In: International journal of management, knowledge and … 1 (2012) 2, pp. 205-216

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Work engagement, performance, and active learning : the role of conscientiousness

Bakker, Arnold B.; Demerouti, Evangelia; Brummelhuis, … - In: Journal of vocational behavior 80 (2012) 2, pp. 555-564

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Active Sampling for Class Probability Estimation and Ranking

Provost, Foster; Saar-Tsechansky, Maytal - 2004

often is very costly to obtaintraining data with class labels. Active learning acquires dataincrementally, at each phase … the critical features of an active learner andpresent a sampling-based active learning method for estimating … information to helpidentify informative examples.We also compare BOOTSTRAP-LV withUNCERTAINTY SAMPLING, an existing active …

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