On the Usage of Databases of Educational Materials in Macedonian Education [PDF]
Technologies have become important part of our lives. The steps for introducing ICTs in education vary from country to country. The Republic of Macedonia has invested with a lot in installment of hardware and software in education and in teacher training.
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Interconnectedness in Education Systems [PDF]
Underlying complex systems, there is a rich web of interconnected components that determine the relational properties of the system. Yet, traditional methods used in education sciences often disregard the underlying complexity of the educational system and, consequently, its emergence phenomena.
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Inclusive Mentoring: The Mindset of an Effective Mentor [PDF]
This article discusses the mindset of an effective mentor. Guidelines are provided for how to be a good mentor.
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Blue Sky Ideas in Artificial Intelligence Education from the EAAI 2017 New and Future AI Educator Program [PDF]
The 7th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI'17, co-chaired by Sven Koenig and Eric Eaton) launched the EAAI New and Future AI Educator Program to support the training of early-career university faculty, secondary school faculty, and future educators (PhD candidates or postdocs who intend a career in academia).
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Towards a Blockchain-based Software Engineering Education [PDF]
Blockchain technologies for rewards in education are gaining attraction as a promising approach to motivate student learning and promote academic achievement. By providing tangible rewards for educational attainment and engagement, such as digital tokens, educators can motivate learners to take a more active role in their learning and increase their ...
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Object-Oriented Sokoban Solver: A Serious Game Project for OOAD and AI Education [PDF]
Serious games are beneficial for education in various computer science areas. Numerous works have reported the experiences of using games (not only playing but also development) in teaching and learning. Considering it could be difficult for teachers/students to prepare/develop a game from scratch during one semester, assistant educational materials ...
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Methods of Causal Inference in Physics Education Research [PDF]
Finding good educational policies requires sound estimates of their potential effects. Methods for making such estimates, i.e. finding causal estimands, have made great progress in the last few decades. Nevertheless, serious errors in causal reasoning have been found previously in papers n a leading physics education journal, Physical Review Physics ...
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A Transparency Index Framework for AI in Education [PDF]
Numerous AI ethics checklists and frameworks have been proposed focusing on different dimensions of ethical AI such as fairness, explainability, and safety. Yet, no such work has been done on developing transparent AI systems for real-world educational scenarios.
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Measuring educational attainment as a continuous variable: a new database (1970-2010) [PDF]
In this paper, we introduce a new comprehensive data set on educational attainment and inequality measures of education for 142 countries over the period 1970 to 2010. Most of the previous attempts to measure educational attainment have treated education as a categorical variable, whose mean is computed as a weighted average of the official duration of
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Photonics Explorer - An European program to foster science education with hands-on experiments [PDF]
The Photonics Explorer program aims to equip science teachers at Europe's secondary schools free-of-charge with up-to-date educational material to really engage, excite and educate students about the fascination of working with light.
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