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MOOC Learning in Spontaneous Study Groups: Does Synchronously Watching Videos Make a Difference?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Guillaume Zufferey, Nan Li, Himanshu Verma, Afroditi Skevi

Study groups are common approaches for students to study together at schools. However, little is known about how this approach is suited to MOOC based learning, where learners watch and discuss MOOC lecture videos in a collaborative manner. Watching MOOCs ...

P.A.U. Education2014

Experiences and methodology in a multidisciplinary energy and architecture competition: Solar Decathlon Europe 2012

Inaki Navarro Oiza

Solar Decathlon Europe is an international competition among universities which promotes interdisciplinary learning in engineering and architecture. Students from different disciplines participate in teams guided by several professors during a 29 month pre ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Peer Assessment Based on Ratings in a Social Media Course

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

Peer assessment is seen as a powerful supporting tool to achieve scalability in the evaluation of complex assignments in large courses, possibly virtual ones, as in the context of massive open online courses (MOOCs). However, the adoption of peer assessmen ...

2014

Teaching a Core CS Concept through Robotics

Roland Siegwart, Stéphane Magnenat, Fanny Riedo

We implemented single-session workshops using the Thymio- II—a small, self-contained robot designed for young stu- dents, and VPL—a graphical software development envi- ronment based upon event handling. Our goal was to in- vestigate if the students could ...

ACM2014

Is there a common factor for vision?

Michael Herzog, Christine Mohr, Aaron Michael Clarke

In cognition, common factors play a crucial role. For example, different types of intelligence are highly correlated, pointing to a common factor, which is often called g. One might expect that a similar common factor would also exist for vision. Surprisin ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2014

Cortical Columns, Models of

Sean Lewis Hill

The annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS) began in 1990 as a small workshop called Analysis and Modeling of Neural Systems. The goal of the workshop was to explore the boundary between neuroscience and computation. Riding on the success of severa ...

Springer2014

Student motion and it's potential as a classroom performance metric

Pierre Dillenbourg, Roland John Tormey, Mirko Raca

Can we predict students attention from a classroom video? We present our system for analysing movement of students in classroom during a lecture. We go into details about the technical side for analysing motion of people with limited visibility, and we pre ...

2013

System for Assessing Classroom Attention

Pierre Dillenbourg, Mirko Raca

In this paper we give a preview of our system for automatically evaluating attention in the classroom. We demonstrate our current behaviour metrics and preliminary observations on how they reflect the reactions of people to the given lecture. We also intro ...

2013

BestOf Architectural Design 2013 Students' projects competition

Jeannette Mei-Ying Kuo

Chaque année, plus de 300 projets sont réalisés par des étudiants de la section d’architecture de l’École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Si la quantité d’idées et de ressources générées dans ce lieu d’enseignement et de recherche est considérable, ces ...

Editions Archizoom2013

Bio/CMOS Interfaces and Co-Design

Sandro Carrara

Understanding and mastering the key area of CMOS biointerfaces requires a plurality of skills going beyond traditional disciplines. Indeed, biosensor design requires knowledge of biology and chemistry, surface and semiconductor technology, and electronics. ...

Springer2013