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Long-term effectiveness of immersive VR simulations in undergraduate science learning: lessons from a media-comparison study

open access: yesResearch in Learning Technology, 2021
Our main goal was to investigate if and how using multiple immersive virtual reality (iVR) simulations and their video playback, in a science course, affects student learning over time.
Prajakt Pande   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender Equality, Human Development, and PISA Results over Time

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
Gender equality through the empowerment, representation, and provision of equal opportunities for all, regardless of gender, is increasingly recognised as a driver of social outcomes and a fundamental human right.
Janine Anne Campbell   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early Childhood Teachers’ Support of Children’s Play in Nature-Based Outdoor Spaces—A Systematic Review

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2023
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) places value and benefits on children’s play in nature-based outdoor spaces. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding teachers’ support of play in environments with rugged terrains and natural materials ...
Tor Mauritz Smedsrud   +3 more
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Climate shock response and resilience of smallholder farmers in the drylands of south-eastern Zimbabwe

open access: yesFrontiers in Climate, 2023
Climatic shocks are exerting pressure on livelihoods of Zimbabwe's smallholder farmer—who irrigate only 2% of their farms. The smallholder farmers in drought-prone areas are more exposed to drought because of their limited ability to cope with shocks and
Ephraim Nkonya   +3 more
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Learning in evolutionary environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The purpose of this work is to present a sort of short selective guide to an enormous and diverse literature on learning processes in economics. We argue that learning is an ubiquitous characteristic of most economic and social systems but it acquires even greater importance in explicitly evolutionary environments where: a) heterogeneous agents ...
G. DOSI, MARENGO, LUIGI, G. FAGIOLO
openaire   +10 more sources

The Moderating Effect of Gender Equality and Other Factors on PISA and Education Policy

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2021
Globalisation and policy transfer in education make it incumbent upon decision makers to prioritise among competing policy options, select policy initiatives that are appropriate for their national contexts, and understand how system-specific factors ...
Janine Anne Campbell
doaj   +1 more source

Open-environment machine learning

open access: yesNational Science Review, 2022
AbstractConventional machine learning studies generally assume close-environment scenarios where important factors of the learning process hold invariant. With the great success of machine learning, nowadays, more and more practical tasks, particularly those involving open-environment scenarios where important factors are subject to change, called open-
openaire   +3 more sources

Snowy Owls in central North America have regular migration and high philopatry to wintering sites though not always to home ranges

open access: yesAvian Conservation and Ecology, 2023
Understanding the threats faced by a bird species requires a knowledge of their movements throughout the annual cycle and, for migratory species, the degree of connectivity between breeding and wintering sites.
Karen L Wiebe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Body-size dependent foraging strategies in the Christmas Island flying-fox: implications for seed and pollen dispersal within a threatened island ecosystem

open access: yesMovement Ecology, 2022
Background Animals are important vectors for the dispersal of a wide variety of plant species, and thus play a key role in maintaining the health and biodiversity of natural ecosystems.
Christopher M. Todd   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

La questione della cittadinanza tra educazione e politica: riflessioni critiche e proposte costruttive per il dibattito pedagogico

open access: yesEncyclopaideia, 2020
Citizenship education is a core topic of all transformative pedagogies. In this article, we build on the phenomenological and critical schools of pedagogical thought in order to highlight some key theoretical issues that remain unaddressed in both the ...
Francesco Pigozzo, Daniela Martinelli
doaj   +1 more source

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