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Electrochemical Oxidation of Hf-Nb Alloys as a Valuable Route to Prepare Mixed Oxides of Tailored Dielectric Properties

2018

Metal oxides with high dielectric constant are extensively studied in the frame of substituting SiO2 as gate dielectric in nanoelectronic devices. Here, high-k mixed HfO2/Nb2O5 oxides are prepared by a facile electrochemical route starting from sputtering-deposited Hf–Nb alloys with several compositions. Transmission electron microscopy, grazing incidence X-ray diffraction, and glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy are employed to study the oxide structures, disclosing a crystalline–amorphous transition of the electrochemically prepared oxides by increasing the Nb content. Photo-electrochemical measurements allow the observation of optical transitions ascribed to localized states ins…

Spaced learning and innovative teaching: school time, pedagogy of attention and learning awareness.

2016

AbstractCurrently, the ‘time’ variable has taken on the function of instructional and pedagogical innovation catalyst, after representing-over the years-a symbol of democratisation, learning opportunity and instruction quality, able to incorporate themes such as school dropout, personalisation and vocation into learning. Spaced Learning is a teaching methodology useful to quickly seize information in long-term memory based on a particular arrangement of the lesson time that comprises three input sessions and two intervals. Herein we refer to a teachers’ training initiative on Spaced Learning within the programme ‘DocentiInFormAzione’ in the EDOC@WORK3.0 Project in Apulia region in 2015. The…

Novel and experimental music technology use in the music classroom : learning performance, experience, and concentrated behavior

2021

In recent years, music technology in the classroom has relied on general devices such as the iPad. In the current study, we used a mixed-methods approach to examine the learning performance, learning experience, and behavior of two class groups of primary school music students (N = 42), using established music technology (i.e., the iPad with the Keyboard Touch Instrument app) and novel music technology (KAiKU Music Glove). Results show a significant difference of change in test scores during learning (p = <.01) and a medium effect-size is found (d = .75), indicating use of the iPad and Keyboard Touch Instrument app contributed to increased learning when compared to the KAiKU Music Glove.…

Energizing Collaborative Industry-Academia Learning: A Present Case and Future Visions

2022

AbstractIn Industry-Academia Collaborations (IAC) both academic, scientific research results and industrial practitioner findings and experiences are produced. Both types of knowledge should be gathered, codified, and disseminated efficiently and effectively. This paper investigates a recent (2014–2017) large-scale IAC R&D&I program case (Need for Speed, N4S) from a learning perspective. It was one of the programs in the Finnish SHOK (Strategic Centres of Science, Technology, and Innovation) system. The theoretical bases are in innovation management, knowledge management, and higher education (university) pedagogy. In the future, IAC projects should be more and more commonplace sinc…

Rethinking Learning Design in IT Education During a Pandemic

2021

Maintaining high-quality teaching and learning in the times of a pandemic poses a huge challenge to education systems. To scaffold adequate practices in our courses during the pandemic, more advanced, and fine-grained “learning design” is needed than providing the learning objectives and learning materials of the course and defining the deliverables and assignments. In this paper, we leverage on our experience with putting into practice different learning designs and technologies, in various information technology (IT) contexts and discuss how IT educators can further reflect on the learning design of their courses and scaffold fully remote or blended learning approaches to accommodate thei…

Eficacia de la retroalimentación formativa para mejorar estrategias de competencia lectora en enseñanza secundaria

2013

El objetivo general de la presente tesis doctoral es analizar la efectividad de la retroalimentación formativa para mejorar estrategias de competencia lectora en estudiantes de Enseñanza Secundaria. La investigación actual (Vidal-Abarca, Mañá y Gil, 2010) y los resultados de la evaluación del programa PISA (OECD, 2010), han mostrado que es necesario diseñar intervenciones para fomentar que los estudiantes españoles se conviertan en lectores competentes. La retroalimentación formativa constituiría un procedimiento instruccional apropiado para promover la adquisición de estrategias de auto-regulación dirigidas a mejorar la competencia lectora (Butler y Winne, 1995). Específicamente, el presen…

Hybrid Social Play Final Report

2018

El uso de materiales didácticos online destinados a la preparación del nuevo examen informatizado «CBFCE»

2010

[ES] A comienzos del año 2010 se hizo oficial la aparición del Computer-based First Certificate in English Examination (CBFCE), la versión informatizada del examen oficial de nivel B2 de Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE). Este examen, que evalúa las destrezas de aquellos candidatos que desean certificar el estar en posesión de un nivel de inglés intermedio-alto, venía realizándose desde hacía varias décadas en el formato tradicional impreso. No obstante, las exigencias actuales de la sociedad global de la comunicación, en que proporcionar la máxima eficiencia y efectividad es condición sine qua non, han motivado el que esta prestigiosa prueba adopte el formato informatizado, haci…

The GraphoGame Method: The Theoretical and Methodological Background of the Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment for Learning to Read

2014

This paper provides an overview of the GraphoGame method. Both theoretical and methodological aspects related to the method are presented. The method’s guiding principles are based on the prevailing theories and experimental research findings on learning and teaching basic reading skills in alphabetic languages, especially from the point of view of a struggling reader. Because the nature of the target language and its relation to its writing system play central roles in the GraphoGame method, this approach requires the method to be flexible in order to be valid for learners of different languages and orthographies. Thus, the aim of the developed technology is to provide an appropriate readi…

Embedding Preschool Assessment Methods into Digital Learning Games to Predict Early Reading Skills

2017

The aim of this pilot study was to explore the predictive accuracy of computer-based assessment tasks (embedded within the GraphoLearn digital learning game platform) in identifying slow and normal readers. The results were compared to those obtained from the traditional paper-and-pencil tasks currently used to assess school readiness in Finland. The data were derived from a cohort of preschool-age children (mean age 6.7 years, N = 57) from a town in central Finland. A year later, at the end of first grade, participants were categorized as either slow (n = 11) or normal readers (n = 46) based on their reading scores. Logistic regression analyses indicated that computer tasks were as efficie…