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Great Introspections: How and Why SoTL Looks Inward
Over its 10-year history, many pages of Teaching & Learning Inquiry have been devoted to explorations that feature introspection. At this moment as the journal’s founding co-editors, we look at how introspection manifests itself in many ways in the ...
Gary Poole, Nancy Chick
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Three case studies in current Leibniz scholarship [PDF]
We examine some recent scholarship on Leibniz's philosophy of the infinitesimal calculus. We indicate difficulties that arise in articles by Bassler, Knobloch, and Arthur, due to a denial to Leibniz's infinitesimals of the status of mathematical entities violating Euclid V Definition 4.
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This volume, which pays tribute to the work of G.H.A. Juynboll, is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization.; Readership: Specialists and advanced students ...
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Data‐driven performance metrics for neural network learning
Summary Effectiveness of data‐driven neural learning in terms of both local mimima trapping and convergence rate is addressed. Such issues are investigated in a case study involving the training of one‐hidden‐layer feedforward neural networks with the extended Kalman filter, which reduces the search for the optimal network parameters to a state ...
Angelo Alessandri+2 more
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Is pluralism in the history of mathematics possible? [PDF]
Leibniz scholarship is currently an area of lively debate. We respond to some recent criticisms by Archibald et al.
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Education Financing through Volunteering Resource Networking in Tanzania: Supporting the Disadvantaged Students [PDF]
Education has never been free in human history. There are various costs associated with its access and management. In some countries, governments have waived or abolished school fees, yet families take care of indirect or other supportive school ...
W. Msuya, Ombeni
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Medical Education From a Theory–Practice–Philosophy Perspective
Medical schooling, at least as structured in the United States and Canada, is commonly assembled intuitively or empirically to meet concrete goals. Despite a long history of scholarship in educational theory to address how people learn, this is rarely ...
Susan A. Kirch PhD+1 more
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Since the mid-1990s, universities and colleges have sought to institutionalize service-learning and community engagement. Along with aligning institutional roles and rewards, professional development for faculty and academic staff has been a key strategy
Diane M. Doberneck
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Two-track depictions of Leibniz's fictions [PDF]
Leibniz described imaginary roots, negatives, and infinitesimals as useful fictions. But did he view such 'impossible' numbers as mathematical entities? Alice and Bob take on the labyrinth of the current Leibniz scholarship.
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The Personalized System of Instruction: Review and Applications to Distance Education
The present paper (a) outlines the basic features of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI); (b) provides a brief history of PSI; and (c) describes the application of PSI to distance education.
Lyle K. Grant, Robert E. Spencer
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