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SLFTD: A Subjective Logic Based Framework for Truth Discovery
2019
Finding truth from various conflicting candidate values provided by different data sources is called truth discovery, which is of vital importance in data integration. Several algorithms have been proposed in this area, which usually have similar procedure: iteratively inferring the truth and provider’s reliability on providing truth until converge. Therefore, an accurate provider’s reliability evaluation is essential. However, no work pays attention to “how reliable this provider continuously providing truth”. Therefore, we introduce subjective logic, which can record both (1) the provider’s reliability of generating truth, and (2) reliability of provider continuously doing so. Our propose…
Looking towards the Future of Language Assessment: Usability of Tablet PCs in Language Testing
2016
[EN] This research addresses the change in how the Spanish University Entrance Examination can be delivered in the future. There is a wide acknowledgement that computer tests are very demanding for the delivering institutions which makes computer language testing difficult to implement. However, the use of tablet PCs can facilitate the delivery at even lower cost than the regular computer based language testing. 183 students in their last year of high school took a computer based language test which included reading, writing, listening and speaking. The research aspects were 1) whether they feel at ease with the tablet PC exam; 2) if they felt that visual aspects were accessible and 3) whet…
Online Intercultural Exchanges Through Digital Storytelling
2017
This article focuses on the affordances of a digital storytelling project in developing students' language, digital and other skills: learning and innovation, creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, team working, and life and career skills. The project was undertaken by university English for Specific Purposes students and was conducted within an Online Intercultural Exchange between the Cyprus University of Technology and the University of Valencia. Its design was based on a Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology. It incorporated active learning and multimodal resources and capabilities. The need for transforming language teaching pedagogies was borne in mind, as it is necessary …
Affordances and constraints: Second language learning in cleaning work
2016
This paper examines opportunities for language learning in a cleaning job, which is a typical entry-level job for immigrants. An ethnographic case study approach is taken to investigate examples of the conditions that allow or prevent language learning for the focal participant, a sub-Saharan man who works as a cleaner in Finland. This case illustrates on a micro-scale the impact of the new economy on a worker in a company that has outsourced its cleaning services. Theoretically and methodologically, the study applies van Lier’s (2004) ecological approach to language learning and Scollon and Scollon’s (2004) nexus analysis. The analysis of interaction order shows that within outsourced clea…
Interfaith Dialogue in Christian Norway: Enactment of Inclusive Religiosity as Civilized Behavior
2017
Despite sparse scholarly attention from non-activists, Scandinavian interfaith fora are gaining momentum as a response to societal transformations of increased migration, world conflicts, and politically motivated violence. Combining theories of interaction, ritual performance, and civilizing processes, the article conducts a case study of public interfaith meetings held by a local interfaith forum in Kristiansand in Norway. Analyzing the meetings as organized cultural encounters, the study explores the transformative aspects of the events and it points to how the enactment of civilized forms of cross-cultural religiosity created within and by these public interfaith meetings is interlinked…
Sociología, Derecho y desigualdades sociales. Una propuesta de docencia universitaria crítica
2019
Fil: Di Nella, Dino. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: Almeda, Elisabet. Universidad de Barcelona. Catalunya, España. Fil: Camps Calvet, Clara. Universidad de Barcelona. Catalunya, España. Fil: Giordana, Patricia. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: Loggiacco, Camila. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: D'Alfonso, Luis. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Río Negro, Argentina. Critic education in human rights and social inequalities must be able to capture holistic and mutidmiensional sphere that Human Rights requires. This study introduces the basis in which critic university teaching proposal is carectarized by…
Transformative change in social service delivery and social work practice in Latvia during the COVID-19 pandemic
2021
COVID-19 epidemiological security measures – social service delivery disruption and restrictions on direct social contacts – stressed the need for transformations in social work practice. These res...
Online Learning Environments, Scientific Argumentation, and 21st Century Skills
2019
A workshop held at the National Academies in the United States in 2007 highlighted five broad categories of skills that appear valuable across a range of jobs for people working in modern global economies. Engaging students in scientific argumentation can support the development of these 21st century skills. Unfortunately, opportunities are rare in typical classrooms for students to learn how to engage in scientific argumentation. Over the past ten years several online environments have been developed to support students engaging with one another in scientific argumentation. This paper considers how engaging students in scientific argumentation through the activity structures and scripts in…
Spiking Neural Networks models targeted for implementation on Reconfigurable Hardware
2017
La tesis presentada se centra en la denominada tercera generación de redes neuronales artificiales, las Redes Neuronales Spiking (SNN) también llamadas ‘de espigas’ o ‘de eventos’. Este campo de investigación se convirtió en un tema popular e importante en la última década debido al progreso de la neurociencia computacional. Las Redes Neuronales Spiking, que tienen no sólo la plasticidad espacial sino también temporal, ofrecen una alternativa prometedora a las redes neuronales artificiales clásicas (ANN) y están más cerca de la operación real de las neuronas biológicas ya que la información se codifica y transmite usando múltiples espigas o eventos en forma de trenes de pulsos. Este campo h…
“You really brought all your feelings out” – Scaffolding students to identify the socio-emotional and socio-cognitive challenges in collaborative lea…
2021
Abstract The aim of this study is to explore how students experience and describe socio-cognitive and socio-emotional challenges in collaborative learning. The participants (N = 20) were teacher education students whose collaborative learning was supported with a designed regulation macro script during a six-week mathematics course. The purpose of the script was to provide structured phases during the collaborative learning tasks for the group members to plan, monitor, and evaluate their workings. The video data of groups' face-to-face work was collected and analysed by focusing on the different types of challenges the groups experienced and the types of challenges they described during the…