Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

A wide variety of media can be used in learning, including distance learning, such as print, lectures, conference sections, tutors, pictures, video, sound, and computers. Any one instance of distance learning will make choices among these media, perhaps using several.

Multimedia in Learning

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Mental Representations A Dual Coding Approach

by J. Biggs and C. Tang, Maidenhead, England,
Open University Press, 2007, 360 pp., £29.99, ISBN-13: 978-0-335-22126-4

Teaching for quality learning at university

Cognitive load is a theoretical notion with an increasingly central role in the educational research literature. The basic idea of cognitive load theory is that cognitive capacity in working memory is limited, so that if a learning task requires too much capacity, learning will be hampered. The recommended remedy is to design instructional systems that optimize the use of working memory capacity and avoid cognitive overload. Cognitive load theory has advanced educational research considerably and has been used to explain a large set of experimental findings. This article sets out to explore the open questions and the boundaries of cognitive load theory by identifying a number of problematic conceptual, methodological and application-related issues. It concludes by presenting a research agenda for future studies of cognitive load.

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Cognitive load theory, educational research, and instructional design: some food for thought

The growth of online resources and the advancement of Web 2.0 technology are changing the instructional landscape and have significantly impacted the practices in education. With its ill-structured learning and rapid incrementation of information in a non-linear fashion, Web 2.0 learning poses enormous challenges to online instructional designers and teachers. The traditional ID models are deemed less fit for Web 2.0 learning due to their linear, wellstructured design approach. This chapter proposes a new ID model that specifically addresses the cognitive demands involved in Web 2.0 learning, promotes learning that focuses on metacognitive thinking and self-regulation, facilitates knowledge integration and construction of schemas-of-themoment for ill-structured learning, and delivers an environment by connecting activities with behavior to form a dynamic learning environment in Web 2.0 application. IntroductIon The presence of new technology like Web 2.0 application has dramatically changed the instructional landscape in education (Brewer & Milam, 2006; Ellison & Wu, 2008; Glass & Spiegelman, 2007). Many universities, including K-12 schools, are already exploring the instructional use of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, iPods, podcasting, text messaging, and other social software like distributed classification systems (Glogoff, 2005; Ferris & Wilder, 2006). One of the challenges to use Web 2.0 application in education is to effectively design and develop instruction that prepares learners for discovery, change, and creativity in a highly complex and challenging learning environment. Research shows that as technology has increasingly become a key component in teaching and learning, the amount of effort and enthusiasm that goes into the development and implementation of new technology often fails to yield desired results (Oliver & Herrington, 2003). This is due partly to poor implementation of technology in learning and partly to a lack of effective instructional models DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-729-4.ch004

Designing Dynamic Learning Environment for Web 2.0 Application

Memory in Education

In this paper we offer suggestions about ways in which technology resources might be more readily supportive of learning and teaching as well as less frustrating to use. We note that information technology professionals and others, not only educators, often find that hardware/software doesn't work as depicted by advocates. It is suggested that technology resources need to be more compatible with ways that people work rather than always making people adjust to technology resources. Despite today's more complex technology resources, the original purpose of facilitating student learning is too often forgotten, even though that focus on learning was recognized decades ago. Ubiquitous computing and blended learning can reveal other problems. It is proposed that there is too much emphasis on technology resource features without sufficiently determining that they actually will be useful, and that important improvements could occur if/when end-users were consulted actively throughout design and development processes. Potentially helpful applications will actually be helpful depending on the degree to which they are relevant for how teachers and students function.

Thriving, Not Merely Surviving, with Technology in Education: Implications for Teachers, Administrators, Policy Makers, and Other Educators

The theory of multiple intelligences has been embraced by the education and research communities worldwide. Substantial research has been conducted to understand multiple intelligences and learning. However, studies that examine how various types of technology affect across the board the different types of intelligences in learning is lacking. This chapter reviews the multiple intelligence (MI) theory and how emergent technologies can be used to support MI learning in education using a meta-analysis method. The results reveal that bodily-kinesthetic is most responsive to technology-based intervention compared to other types of intelligences and that immersive and visual images are effective in improving verbal linguistic and bodily-kinesthetic intelligences. Discussion of the findings are made along with their implications in educational practices. Suggestions for future research and practice are made in regard to multiple intelligence and emergent digital technology.

Understanding the Role of Digital Technology in Multiple Intelligence Education: A Meta-Analysis

This chapter examines the cognitive constraints related to older people in learning, particularly in e-learning, and proposes a new design approach that: (1) assists the instructional designer and Web development in identifying issues related to older people’s involvement in e-learning; (2) helps reduce the mental load in designing and developing e-learning for older people; and (3) uses heuristics to systematically support the designers in making decisions about meeting the needs of older people in their learning and searching for information online. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1966-1.ch008

Robert Zheng

Papers

Designing Dynamic Learning Environment for Web 2.0 Application

Memory in Education

Thriving, Not Merely Surviving, with Technology in Education: Implications for Teachers, Administrators, Policy Makers, and Other Educators

Understanding the Role of Digital Technology in Multiple Intelligence Education: A Meta-Analysis

Effective Online Learning for Older People: A Heuristic Design Approach