Author: SRI International
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Costs Of ICT Use In Higher Education
This article focuses on the costs of use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for teaching and learning in higher education, bearing in mind that these technologies also support a wide range of other core activities in higher education institutions.
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Designing Soap: Chemsense Design Study 2
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Prosody-Based Automatic Segmentation of Speech into Sentences and Topics
Using decision tree and hidden Markov modeling techniques, we combine prosodic cues with word-based approaches, and evaluate performance on two speech corpora, Broadcast News and Switchboard. Results show that the prosodic model alone performs on par with, or better than, word-based statistical language models–for both true and automatically recognized words in news speech.
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Learning Probability Through The Use Of A Collaborative, Inquiry-Based Simulation Environment
In this paper we report on the Probability Inquiry Environment (PIE), which facilitates the development of probabilistic reasoning by making available collaborative inquiry activities and student-controlled simulations.
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Using Multiple Representations During Chemical Conversations: A Baseline Study
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A Framework for Describing Variations in State Early Intervention Systems
As part of the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study, information about the early intervention service systems in the 20 participating states was gathered. This article organizes this information into dimensions of a framework for describing early intervention systems at the state and local levels.
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Simcalc: Accelerating Students’ Engagement With The Mathematics Of Change
The mission of our SimCalc project is to give ordinary children the opportunities, experiences, and resources they need to develop extraordinary understanding and skill with MCV.
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Teaching The Game Of Golf
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Contract Training And The Community College: Origins And Impacts
This article describes the main contours of the community college’s involvement in contract training, explains how this involvement arose, and analyzes its impact on the community college.
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Language Modelling for Multilingual Speech Translation
As with acoustic modelling, sparse training data is one of the main problems in language modelling tasks. We ideally want to have enough properly matched data to train models for all the necessary conditions.
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The Future of Technology and Education: Where are we heading?
The four C’s for the future of education are: Community, Collaboration, Curriculum, and Creativity. Each of these is used to organize a discussion of where we are heading in education during the Age of Communities.
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Rapid-Assembly Componentware For Education
By identifying, crystallizing and organizing design patterns, we aim to address problems of reusability and interoperability that currently present critical bottlenecks for the rapid assembly of educational technology.