Experience and Educationis the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education(Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in the light of the criticisms his theories had received. Analysing both "traditional" and "progressive" education, Dr. Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is adequate and that each is miseducative because neither of them applies the principles of a carefully developed philosophy of experience. Many pages of this volume illustrate Dr. Dewey's ideas for a philosophy of experience and its relation to education. He particularly urges that all teachers and educators looking for a new movement in education should think in terms of the deeped and larger issues of education rather than in terms of some divisive "ism" about education, even such an "ism" as "progressivism." His philosophy, here expressed in its most essential, most readable form, predicates an American educational system that respects all sources of experience, on that offers a true learning situation that is both historical and social, both orderly and dynamic.

经验与教育 = Experience and education

NUDGE: IMPROVING DECISIONS ABOUT HEALTH, WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin Books, 2009, 312 pp, ISBN 978-0-14-311526-7This book is best described formally as a general explanation of and advocacy for libertarian paternalism, a term coined by the authors in earlier publications. Informally, it is about how leaders, systems, organizations, and governments can nudge people to do the things the nudgers want and need done for the betterment of the nudgees, or of society. It is paternalism in the sense that "it is legitimate for choice architects to try to influence people's behavior in order to make their lives longer, healthier, and better", (p. 5) It is libertarian in that "people should be free to do what they like - and to opt out of undesirable arrangements if they want to do so", (p. 5) The built-in possibility of opting out or making a different choice preserves freedom of choice even though people's behavior has been influenced by the nature of the presentation of the information or by the structure of the decisionmaking system. I had never heard of libertarian paternalism before reading this book, and I now find it fascinating.Written for a general audience, this book contains mostly social and behavioral science theory and models, but there is considerable discussion of structure and process that has roots in mathematical and quantitative modeling. One of the main applications of this social system is economic choice in investing, selecting and purchasing products and services, systems of taxes, banking (mortgages, borrowing, savings), and retirement systems. Other quantitative social choice systems discussed include environmental effects, health care plans, gambling, and organ donations. Softer issues that are also subject to a nudge-based approach are marriage, education, eating, drinking, smoking, influence, spread of information, and politics. There is something in this book for everyone.The basis for this libertarian paternalism concept is in the social theory called "science of choice", the study of the design and implementation of influence systems on various kinds of people. The terms Econs and Humans, are used to refer to people with either considerable or little rational decision-making talent, respectively. The various libertarian paternalism concepts and systems presented are tested and compared in light of these two types of people. Two foundational issues that this book has in common with another book, Network of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders, that was also reviewed for this issue of the Journal are that 1 ) there are two modes of thinking (or components of the brain) - an automatic (intuitive) process and a reflective (rational) process and 2) the need for conformity and the desire for imitation are powerful forces in human behavior. …

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

How to ... be a reflective practitioner.

Self-Directed Learning, A Guide for Learners and Teachers

Flip your classroom: Reach every student in every class every day

This paper builds on the results of European research projects to support STEM education with online labs. We present Integrated Interaction Apps as a means to support learning activities centered on online labs. We then show how these apps, labs and other resources can be contextualized using Structured Learning Spaces, which follow templated layouts based on well-defined pedagogical scenarios. In order to extend the reach of initiatives exploiting these learning spaces, we propose a schema that allows them to be downloaded for offline access via a mobile device. Our schema empowers app designers to define how their apps should behave offline and handle the activity traces they generate.

Encapsulating Online Labs in Structured Learning Spaces

. Nous avons concu et realise un prototype de journal electronique delaboratoire, ou eJournal, dans un environnement d’apprentissage sur le Web. Celui-cirepond au besoin d’echange de donnees entre les composants de l’environnement et aubesoin de partages des resultats entre les etudiants et les assistants qui l’utilisent. Lamise en œuvre de ce prototype s’integre dans un scenario pedagogique d’apprentissageflexible, en presentiel et a distance, pour effectuer des travaux pratiques d’ingenierieen automatique, en biomecanique et en mecanique des fluides. Cet article decrit leeJournal tel qu’il a emerge suite a plusieurs cycles de conception-experimentation, eninsistant sur les services qu’il apporte dans un environnement Web forme decomposants heterogenes et multi-serveurs.

Mise au point d'un journal de laboratoire électronique pour l'apprentissage collaboratif sur le Web Le eJournal

Robotic fiber positioners play a vital role in the generation of massive spectroscopic surveys. The more complete a positioners set is coordinated, the more information its corresponding spectrograph receives during an observation. The complete coordination problem of positioners sets is studied in this paper. We first define the local and the global completeness problems and determine their relationship. We then propose a new artificial potential field according to which the convergences of a positioner and its neighboring positioners are cooperatively taken into account. We also discover the required condition for a complete coordination. We finally explain how the modifications of some of the parameters of a positioners set may resolve its incompleteness coordination scenarios. We verify our accomplishments using simulations.

Complete coordination of robotic fiber positioners for massive spectroscopic surveys

Over the past decade, social computing has emerged immensely as a phenomenon among distributed communities. The benefits of social systems depend on a large part on the existence of an active user community who use it continuously to deploy and share information. However, while certain systems have enjoyed tremendous success (Facebook, twitter), others have experienced modest adoption at best. It is not clear what factors contribute to the rise and fall of these systems. This paper is a report on our experience with the deployment of a social software tool and our attempts to identify the major barriers to its adoption. We first introduce the system, Gleanr [6], and describe our research methodology. Based on our findings, we propose a set of contextual factors for successful adoption of such tools. While small-scale, our study might provide some insight on how to design social software systems with better chances of wide adoption.

Contextual Factors in the Adoption of Social Software: a Case Study

The use of peer code review exercises is well established in software engineering education. Nevertheless, challenges involving students’ ability to perform code reviews have been identified as barriers to successfully integrating code reviews in educational settings. We have previously proposed code review notebooks as a way to address this issue. Code review notebooks resemble computational notebooks but focus on reviewing rather than executing code and can serve to introduce students to the code review process. In this study, we evaluated the effects of using a code review notebook via a case study whereby 25 university students were taught how to identify code style issues in JavaScript. Our mixed-method analysis suggests that the code review notebook format encourages students to reflect on their learning process and can result in short-term learning gains. These findings could serve instructors looking to incorporate code review exercises into their practice. 

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Denis Gillet

Papers

Encapsulating Online Labs in Structured Learning Spaces

Mise au point d'un journal de laboratoire électronique pour l'apprentissage collaboratif sur le Web Le eJournal

Complete coordination of robotic fiber positioners for massive spectroscopic surveys

Contextual Factors in the Adoption of Social Software: a Case Study

Integrating Code Reviews into Online Lessons to Support Software Engineering Education