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For effective remote learning realization we need the complex intelligent remote system, which would keep special and structured material for learning and tests of knowledge. Feedback is the most important thing for learning. In the usual way feedback takes a lot of teacher time, therefore it is very useful to practice electronic system functions for control of feedback and reduction of teachers work time. Creation of complex intelligent eLearning system needs profound knowledge of programming, pedagogical and strategic knowledge, therefore this work would be impossible for one person. The knowledge of study is very important too. Therefore we could use made-up open source remote learning system and readjust for our interests. We use remote learning open source system Moodle and use this system in practice. From practice in lessons of informatics and ECDL learning planning we could propose that this system is really very flexible and useful in learning processes. The suggestion of new well-tried remote learning method – learning with tests show that it is very effective method in learning processes.

In this thesis, research efforts are dedicated towards the development of practical adaptable techniques to be used in Smart Homes and Buildings, with the aim to improve energy management and conservation, while enhancing the learning capabilities of Programmable Communicating Thermostats (PCT) – “transforming” them into smart adaptable devices, i.e., “Smart Thermostats”. An Adaptable Hybrid Intelligent System utilizing Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques is presented, based on which, a novel Adaptive Learning System (ALS) model utilizing WSN, a rule-based system and Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) concepts is proposed. The main goal of the ALS is to adapt to the occupant’s pattern and/or schedule changes by providing comfort, while not ignoring the energy conservation aspect. The proposed ALS analytical model is a technique which enables PCTs to learn and adapt to user input pattern changes and/or other parameters of interest. A new algorithm for finding the global maximum in a predefined interval within a two dimensional space is proposed. The proposed algorithm is a synergy of reward/punish concepts from the reinforcement learning (RL) and agent-based technique, for use in small-scale embedded systems with limited memory and/or processing power, such as the wireless sensor/actuator nodes. An application is implemented to observe the algorithm at work and to demonstrate its main features. It was observed that the “RL and Agent-based Search”, versus the “RL only” technique, yielded better performance results with respect to the number of iterations and function evaluations needed to find the global maximum. Furthermore, a “House Simulator” is developed as a tool to simulate house heating/cooling systems and to assist in the practical implementation of the ALS model under different scenarios. The main building blocks of the simulator are the “House Simulator”, the “Smart Thermostat”, and a placeholder for the “Adaptive Learning Models”. As a result, a novel adaptive learning algorithm, “Observe, Learn and Adapt” (OLA) is proposed and demonstrated, reflecting the main features of the ALS model. Its evaluation is achieved with the aid of the “House Simulator”. OLA, with the use of sensors and the application of the ALS model learning technique, captures the essence of an actual PCT reflecting a smart and adaptable device. The experimental performance results indicate adaptability and potential energy savings of the single in comparison to the zone controlled scenarios with the OLA capabilities being enabled.

This thesis reports on the development of a generic online system to support learning and teaching at the University of Melbourne. New online technologies, the fostering of innovation at national and university levels and my position within a central educational unit provided the opportunity in 1996 to adapt a previous software package for online use. My observations of the problematic nature of computer-facilitated learning (CFL) production led me to take an open approach to the development, seeking both a practical product and enhanced understanding. A series of formative questions defined the scope and goals of the study, which were to: *produce a generic online learning system; *increase understanding of the workplace experience of that development; and *develop an organisational model for the further development of generic CFL systems. Given this multi-disciplinary focus, many paradigms in the literature could potentially have guided the study. A number of these aligning with the research purposes, context and constructivist philosophy of the study, were reviewed from the perspectives of learning, CFL development and the organisation.

Submitted by Valquíria Barbieri (kikibarbi@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-24T21:15:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Kátia Cristina Carse Alcover.pdf: 1770353 bytes, checksum: 48d69624f92fd5e01f056041e4ebf5c4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2017-05-25T14:51:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Kátia Cristina Carse Alcover.pdf: 1770353 bytes, checksum: 48d69624f92fd5e01f056041e4ebf5c4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-25T14:51:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2014_Kátia Cristina Carse Alcover.pdf: 1770353 bytes, checksum: 48d69624f92fd5e01f056041e4ebf5c4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-21 / CAPES / A presente dissertação de mestrado tem por objetivo compreender como foi o processo de adoção da política de currículo apostilado de uma rede privada de ensino pela rede pública municipal de educação de Primavera do Leste – MT. Tivemos como questões centrais do estudo: Que interesses entram em disputa e influenciam o sistema público de ensino do município de Primavera do Leste na adoção do currículo apostilado de um sistema privado de ensino? O que a equipe técnica e os professores das escolas dizem sobre suas experiências pedagógicas com os currículos apostilados do Sistema Maxi de Ensino? A metodologia adotada para esta pesquisa é qualitativa com a abordagem do ciclo de políticas de Ball e Bowe (1992; 1994). Foram analisadas, no contexto de influência, as negociações realizadas para que este sistema privado de ensino fosse adotado e posteriormente, retirado das escolas do município; no contexto da produção dos textos foram analisados documentos dos sites da prefeitura, do Sistema Maxi de Ensino e alguns documentos fornecidos pelo Conselho Municipal de Educação e no contexto da prática foi investigado como os professores trabalhavam com os currículos apostilados em sala de aula. O lócus da pesquisa foram duas escolas da rede municipal de ensino de Primavera do Leste – MT. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram: a secretária municipal de educação do ano de 2005-2006 e 02 (duas) técnicas que trabalharam na secretaria de educação na época da adoção das apostilas, 01 (uma) conselheira do Conselho Municipal de Educação, a atual secretária municipal de educação que participou das negociações para a retirada das apostilas, 02 (duas) diretoras, 01 (uma) coordenadora pedagógica e 09 (nove) professoras. A fundamentação teórica pautou-se principalmente nos estudos de Apple (1989; 1997; 2005), Ball (2001; 2010), Bianchetti (1996), Freitas (2002; 2012), Gentili (1995), Goodson (1995), Freitas (2002), Gentili (1995), Paraskeva (2008), Santos (2002), Sacristán (1998), Silva, T. (2011), Lopes e Macedo (2011), Bernstein (1996; 2003), Giroux (1992), Moreira (2008), Mainardes (2007), Tyler (1977) entre outros que contribuíram de forma significativa para a compreensão do estudo. Os estudos destes teóricos foram utilizados para discutirmos principalmente os conceitos de: globalização, mercado educacional, mercantilização da educação, qualidade da educação, currículo, currículo apostilado e recontextualização. Dos dados coletados uma das indicações é de que o currículo apostilado foi adotado no município de Primavera do Leste com a intenção de melhorar a qualidade do ensino e a escolha pelo Sistema Maxi de Ensino foi baseada em experiências pessoais e profissionais de alguns gestores do macro sistema. Esses dados nos revelaram também que interesses políticos e econômicos se fizeram presentes durante as negociações dos momentos de adoção e retirada desse currículo apostilado das escolas municipais, evidenciando que as decisões políticas dependeram de quem estava no poder nesses momentos para a tomada dessas decisões. Os dados também revelaram que, apesar deste currículo prescrito ter sido imposto e tido como padrão de currículo na política pedagógica do município, os professores recriavam e reinterpretavam sua prática, rompendo deste modo com as prescrições, porém uns com maior ênfase e outros mais timidamente. / This dissertation aims to understand about the adoption process of a booklet learning method policy from a private school used by the municipal education system of Primavera do Leste - MT. We had some central questions of this study: What interests are in dispute and influence the public education system of the city of Primavera do Leste in adopting a booklet learning method from a private school system? What the crew and the school teachers say about their teaching experiences with Maxi Learning System? The methodology adopted for this research is qualitative with the policy cicle approach formulated by Ball and Bowe (1992, 1994). They were analyzed, on the influence context, the negotiations to adopt this private school system and subsequently withdrawn from the schools in the city; in the context of text production, Town Hall website documents were analyzed, the Maxi Learning System, Mato Grosso court and some documents provided by the City Board of Education and in the context of the practice was investigated how the teachers worked with booklet learning method in the classroom. The research locus were two municipal schools of Primavera do Leste - MT. The research subjects were: the municipal secretary of education during 2005-2006 and two (02) techniques that have worked in the Department of Education at the time of the adoption of handouts, one (01) Councilor City Board of Education, the current secretary municipal education who participated in the negotiations for the withdrawal of handouts, two (02) directors, one (01) educational coordinator and nine (09) teachers. The theoretical framework was based primarily on studies of Apple (1989, 1997 , 2005 ), Ball (2001, 2010 ), Bianchetti (1996) , Freitas (2002, 2012), Gentili (1995), Goodson (1995), Freitas (2002), Gentili (1995) Paraskeva (2008) , Santos (2002) , Sacristan (1998) , Smith, T. (2011) , Lopes and Macedo (2011) Bernstein (1996, 2003), Giroux (1992), Moreira (2008), Mainardes (2007), Tyler (1977) among others that have contributed significantly to the understanding of the study. The studies of these theoretical were used primarily to discuss the concepts of globalization, educational market, commercialization of education, quality of education, curriculum, booklet learning method and re-contextualization. Of the collected data is one of the indications that the booklet learning method was adopted in the city of Primavera do Leste with the intention of improving the quality of education and the choice of Maxi Learning System was based on personal and professional managers of some of the macro system experiences. These data also revealed in which political and economic interests were present during the negotiations of the times of adoption and withdrawal of such booklet curriculum of municipal schools, showing that political decisions depended on who was in power at these times foresee decisions. The data also revealed that, despite this prescribed curriculum had been imposed and regarded as a standard curriculum in educational policy of the municipality, that teachers recreated and reinterpreted their practice, thereby breaking with the norm, but some with a greater emphasis and others more timidly.

O e-Learning é um conceito que consiste na utilização de recursos computacionais e audiovisuais para promover o aprendizado a uma comunidade ou a um grupo de pessoas. O aprendizado é realizado por meio de lições executadas em um computador, também chamado de treinamento on-line, em que o participante pode contar com diversos recursos, tais como: simulações interativas, vídeos, apresentações dinâmicas, ambientes colaborativos, entre outros recursos que a tecnologia permita. No e-Learning o participante pode ser submetido à avaliação para testar seus conhecimentos e ter seu desempenho acompanhado por profissionais responsáveis pelo seu desenvolvimento. O objetivo do presente trabalho é identificar e analisar diferenças sensíveis entre o sistema de aprendizagem presencial e o sistema de aprendizagem e-Learning, comparando-os por meio de indicadores de desempenho e retornos alcançados. Foram analisados dados obtidos a partir do estudo de um caso em que uma multinacional do setor de bens de consumo treinou seus colaboradores utilizando dois sistemas de aprendizagem distintos: um inteiramente presencial e outro com e-Learning. Este trabalho ainda oferece como subproduto um método para implementação de um sistema de aprendizagem e-Learning, construído a partir do estudo teórico e prático do tema. / E-Learning is a concept that involves using computer and multimedia resources to help a community or a group of people learn something. People learn by executing lessons in computer, called as on-line training too. The participant can count with many kinds of content, as: interactive simulations, videos, presentations, collaborative tools and others. According to e-Learning concept, the participants could have their performance evaluated by tests or professionals. The objective of the present study is to identify and analysis the differences between traditional live learning and e-Learning, by comparing both using performance indicators and evaluating the benefits of each other. To achieve the proposed objective, it was made a case study in a multinational enterprise where many people were trained by two learning strategies: pure traditional live and blend e-Learning training. Then the results were analyzed. This study still offers a method to implement an e-Learning training system, developed according to conceptual and practice analysis.

Orientador: João Maurício Rosário / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T08:08:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Caceres_MauroSergioJuarez_D.pdf: 14153245 bytes, checksum: eb274a6cfc34c223cb0ab36ddddce9a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Este trabalho reflete uma inquietação que surge da observação de um cenário onde a filosofia de concepção, manufatura, colocação no mercado e atualização e ou modificações de produtos nos diversos ramos da indústria, cada vez mais, ocorrem dentro de um ciclo realizado no universo digital, antecedendo quaisquer investimentos em máquinas, equipamentos ou infraestrutura. Esta inquietação traz o questionamento de como a educação profissional no país está se mobilizando para atender a demanda de profissionais que atuem neste entrelaçamento de softwares e sistemas que executam montagens, simulações e gerenciamento de dados de engenharia dentro deste universo digital. Assim coloca-se neste trabalho uma Proposta Metodológica para o Ensino Tecnológico na Manufatura Digital-PLM, fundamentada na Metodologia de Ensino por Competências, abrangendo o aspecto tecnológico e o pedagógico, assim como os conceitos de Manufatura Digital, Gerenciamento do Ciclo de Vida do Produto - Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Projetos Colaborativos e os benefícios destas tecnologias e metodologias, como uma opção para dar conta do desafio a ser transposto pelas instituições dedicadas à educação profissional, no sentido de suprir o mercado de trabalho com esta mão de obra especializada, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento do país / Abstract: The creation, production, updating or modification, and marketing of different industrial products take place in a digital universe which precedes any investment in machinery, equipment or infrastructure. This project focuses on the professional education challenge to produce consistent scientific and up-to-date technically competent professionals, who can fulfill the demand created by the aforementioned stages of industrial product development. It also examines the ways in which the country's professional education system can mobilize itself in order to meet the demand for professionals who can work in the network of software and systems, that assemble, simulate, and manage engineering data within this digital universe. The project presents concepts on digital manufacturing, product lifecycle management-PLM, the benefits of such technologies and show a Methodological Proposal Based on Skills, it focuses in Digital Manufacturing-PLM, using on considerations about the professional formation teaching methods, as well as the challenge to be overcome by those institutions dedicated to the country's professional education, in order to satisfy the skill trade market demand, thus contributing to its development / Doutorado / Mecanica dos Sólidos e Projeto Mecanico / Doutor em Engenharia Mecânica

In this thesis, research efforts are dedicated towards the development of practical adaptable techniques to be used in Smart Homes and Buildings, with the aim to improve energy management and conservation, while enhancing the learning capabilities of Programmable Communicating Thermostats (PCT) – “transforming” them into smart adaptable devices, i.e., “Smart Thermostats”. An Adaptable Hybrid Intelligent System utilizing Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques is presented, based on which, a novel Adaptive Learning System (ALS) model utilizing WSN, a rule-based system and Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) concepts is proposed. The main goal of the ALS is to adapt to the occupant’s pattern and/or schedule changes by providing comfort, while not ignoring the energy conservation aspect. The proposed ALS analytical model is a technique which enables PCTs to learn and adapt to user input pattern changes and/or other parameters of interest. A new algorithm for finding the global maximum in a predefined interval within a two dimensional space is proposed. The proposed algorithm is a synergy of reward/punish concepts from the reinforcement learning (RL) and agent-based technique, for use in small-scale embedded systems with limited memory and/or processing power, such as the wireless sensor/actuator nodes. An application is implemented to observe the algorithm at work and to demonstrate its main features. It was observed that the “RL and Agent-based Search”, versus the “RL only” technique, yielded better performance results with respect to the number of iterations and function evaluations needed to find the global maximum. Furthermore, a “House Simulator” is developed as a tool to simulate house heating/cooling systems and to assist in the practical implementation of the ALS model under different scenarios. The main building blocks of the simulator are the “House Simulator”, the “Smart Thermostat”, and a placeholder for the “Adaptive Learning Models”. As a result, a novel adaptive learning algorithm, “Observe, Learn and Adapt” (OLA) is proposed and demonstrated, reflecting the main features of the ALS model. Its evaluation is achieved with the aid of the “House Simulator”. OLA, with the use of sensors and the application of the ALS model learning technique, captures the essence of an actual PCT reflecting a smart and adaptable device. The experimental performance results indicate adaptability and potential energy savings of the single in comparison to the zone controlled scenarios with the OLA capabilities being enabled.

Professionals in education continue to explore technology as a way to instruct young students, and there is an accompanying belief that this technology can make an educational and academic difference. Despite the high percentage of young students in classrooms using technology, the impact of this technology on the early literacy skills of young children remains largely unknown. Guided by Vygotsky’s social learning theory, this study reports a 24-week investigation on whether regular use of Istation®, an integrated learning system used by approximately 3,000,000 students in the United States, had an effect on the early literacy achievement of children in twelve kindergarten classrooms. A mixed-method, quasi-experimental design was constructed using propensity scores. Also investigated were the effects of the level of teacher literacy support on early literacy achievement and the interaction between Istation® use and the level of teacher literacy support. A descriptive discriminant analysis was performed to determine the main effect of Istation®. The level of teacher support and the interaction effect was then tested using a multivariate between-subject analysis. Results indicated that Istation® did have a statistically significant effect on the early literacy skills of the 72 kindergarten students studied and was able to explain 17.7% of the variance in group differences. Hearing and recording sounds and letter sound knowledge were the main contributors to group differences. Teacher literacy support and the interaction between teacher support and Istation were not significant. This study considers the relationship between technology and early literacy and concludes that Istation® can serve as a more knowledgeable other as students develop some early literacy skills; however, teachers are still needed to provide complete literacy instruction for young students.

The aim of this work is to design and implement E-learning system. This system will be targeted on the Algorithms course education in English. Thanks to this fact, foreign students will be able to attend the course, too. The introduction part offers an overview of basic conceptions related to E-learning systems: conceptual and detailed design of E-learning system, system development, designing system testing and maintenance and system improving. Theoretical part of this project is focused on selected topics from data structures, searching and sorting algorithms. The work is dealing with the development of E-learning system from the entire beginning to activities related with its release. Through the interface of administrator the application enables administration of courses and users. The other part of the system serves for checking of students´ results. Student part of the application makes the Algorithms course materials available and provides convenient means of knowledge testing. The results of tests are processed in a form of statistics within the system.