AI assisted school mapping and discussion - Project Connect (Project Connect, 2019)

AI-based literature reviews: A topic modeling approach - Verma, Manoj Kumar; Yuvaraj, Mayank (Journal of Information and Knowledge, 2023)

AI in Learning: Designing the Future - Niemi, Hannele; Pea, Roy D.; Lu, Yu (Springer International Publishing, 2023)
Keywords: Open Access; artificial intelligence; deep learning; games; human-machine interaction; intelligent digital tools; learning analytics; life-long learning; robotics; simulations; tutoring; virtual learning; well-being

AI Insights: A Case Study on Utilizing ChatGPT Intelligence for Research Paper Analysis - De Silva, Anjalee; Wijekoon, Janaka L.; Liyanarachchi, Rashini; Panchendrarajan, Rrubaa; Rajapaksha, Weranga (arXiv, 2024)
This paper discusses the effectiveness of leveraging Chatbot: Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) versions 3.5 and 4 for analyzing research papers for effective writing of scientific literature surveys. The study selected the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Breast Cancer Treatment as the research topic. Research papers related to this topic were collected from three major publication databases Google Scholar, Pubmed, and Scopus. ChatGPT models were used to identify the category, scope, and relevant information from the research papers for automatic identification of relevant papers related to Breast Cancer Treatment (BCT), organization of papers according to scope, and identification of key information for survey paper writing. Evaluations performed using ground truth data annotated using subject experts reveal, that GPT-4 achieves 77.3% accuracy in identifying the research paper categories and 50% of the papers were correctly identified by GPT-4 for their scopes. Further, the results demonstrate that GPT-4 can generate reasons for its decisions with an average of 27% new words, and 67% of the reasons given by the model were completely agreeable to the subject experts.
Keywords: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence

AI language tools risk scientific diversity and innovation - Nakadai, Ryosuke; Nakawake, Yo; Shibasaki, Shota (Nature Human Behaviour, 2023)
Keywords: Cultural evolution; Scientific community

AI-Supported Simulation-Based Learning: Learners’ Emotional Experiences and Self-Regulation in Challenging Situations - Ruokamo, Heli; Kangas, Marjaana; Vuojärvi, Hanna; Sun, Liping; Qvist, Pekka (AI in Learning: Designing the Future, 2023)
This study explores learners’ emotional experiences and self-regulation and how they overcome stressful situations in a simulation-based learning environment (SBLE). We also examine what kinds of situations an AI tutor could be used to facilitate simulation-based learning. We will first present the theoretical background of the research dealing with self-regulated learning, followed by positive and negative emotions and situations in simulation-based learning. The research questions of the study are as follows: (1) What kinds of emotions do learners experience in simulation-based learning situations? (2) Through what kinds of SRL operations do learners aim to overcome challenging situations during simulation-based learning? and (3) In what kinds of situations could an AI tutor be used to facilitate simulation-based learning? To collect data, a 1-week experiment was conducted in August 2021. The data was collected using online observations, video recordings, and delayed stimulated recall interviews. The interview data was analyzed through a deductive thematic analysis process. The results of the study show that learners experienced various positive and negative emotions and emotions are deeply connected with learning. We need to do more research to describe these connections in more detail. According to the results, an AI tutor can provide help for decision-making and visualizing critical points and help learners ask questions to check vital points in the system.
Keywords: AI tutor; Challenging situations; Emotion; Self-regulation; Simulation-based learning

Aid Agency Approaches to the Design and Delivery of Basic Education Programmes - Joynes, Chris; Plunkett, Roisin (2018)
This report provides a global selection of case studies providing evidence of approaches to the design of basic education interventions by aid agencies. In keeping with the request, the scope of the report focusses as far as possible on outcome-driven approaches, and includes an analysis of any evidence of programmatic responsiveness to need and context.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Akogun, O.2023 Co-Construction of a Coherent and Rigorous Body of Research Evidence for Education in Conflict and Crises Settings - Adesina, Adedoyin (2023)

“Alexa, Can I Program You?”: Student Perceptions of Conversational Artificial Intelligence Before and After Programming Alexa - Van Brummelen, Jessica; Tabunshchyk, Viktoriya; Heng, Tommy (IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children, 2021)

Algorithmic Green Infrastructure Optimisation: Review of Artificial Intelligence Driven Approaches for Tackling Climate Change - Shaamala, Abdulrazzaq; Yigitcanlar, Tan; Nili, Alireza; Nyandega, Dan (Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024)

Aligning artificial intelligence with climate change mitigation - Kaack, Lynn H.; Donti, Priya L.; Strubell, Emma; Kamiya, George; Creutzig, Felix; Rolnick, David (Nature Climate Change, 2022)

Aligning the principles of assessment for learning to learning in physical education: A review of literature - Moura, André; Graça, Amândio; MacPhail, Ann; Batista, Paula (Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021)
Background: A comprehensive international literature review on alternative assessment in physical education has been provided by López-Pastor et al. ([2013]. “Alternative Assessment in Physical Education: A Review of International Literature.” Sport, Education & Society 18 (1): 57–76). The authors remarked that while more authentic forms of assessment in physical education have been evidenced over the last three decades, the extent to which alternative assessment practices have become common practice in the teaching of physical education is yet to be established.Purpose: This review provides an updated perspective on the prevalence of assessment for learning (AfL) principles in physical education discourse since the 2013 publication. The intent is to inform and consider future AfL practices in school physical education and physical education teacher education (PETE) programmes.Methods: Eligibility criteria for the review required full-text articles written in English or Spanish; published (open access and/or in print) in peer-reviewed, academic and professional journals; and limited to the period 2013–2019. Inclusion criteria required articles to report assessment being used to promote learning in physical education, regardless of making reference to ‘assessment for learning’.Findings: Fifty-two articles met the inclusion criteria. A thematic analysis of these articles resulted in four themes: i) traditional positioning of assessment in physical education; ii) AfL and physical education; iii) the constraints in enacting AfL in physical education; and iv) how to most effectively embed AfL in daily physical education practices.Conclusions: The main conclusions of this review are that i) AfL is a learning-oriented assessment based on socio constructivist theories and integrated into the teaching-learning process, ii) physical education teachers continue to use assessment solely to grade students; iii) physical education teachers do not have the necessary skillset to use AfL in physical education successfully; iv) physical education teachers need to be supported to implement AfL; and v) it is necessary to consider how best PETE programmes can infuse AfL across the programme.
Keywords: assessment; learning; teacher education; teaching-learning theories

Alignment of higher professional education with the needs of the local labour market: the case of Ghana - Gondwe, Mtinkheni; Walenkamp, Jos (2011)
Keywords: GS_en; _C:Ghana GHA; ⛔ No DOI found

All Programmes Recorded, All Outputs Reported - Haßler, Björn; Adam, Taskeen; Blower, Thomas; El-Serafy, Yomna; Kaye, Tom; Khalayleh, Abdullah; McBurnie, Chris; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; Regis, Callista (Open Development & Education, 2021)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _yl:q

Allô École! Using mobile technologies to connect government, teachers, and parents - World Bank (World Bank, 2017)
A World Bank pilot is promoting a mobile social accountability platform « Allô École! » to increase accountability in the primary education sector of the DRC.
Keywords: C: Democratic Republic of Congo

Allostatic Load Model Associated with Indoor Environmental Quality and Sick Building Syndrome among Office Workers - Jung, Chien-Cheng; Liang, Hsiu-Hao; Lee, Hui-Ling; Hsu, Nai-Yun; Su, Huey-Jen (PLoS ONE, 2014)

Alternate Academy: Investigating the Use of Open Educational Resources by Students at the University of Lagos in Nigeria - Onaifo, Daniel (2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Alternative education: filling the gap in emergency and post-conflict situations - Baxter, Pamela; Bethke, Lynne (UNESCO, 2009)

Alternative forms of early grade instructional coaching: Emerging evidence from field experiments in South Africa - Cilliers, Jacobus; Fleisch, Brahm; Kotze, Janeli; Mohohlwane, Nompumelelo; Taylor, Stephen; Thulare, Tshegofatso (2020)

Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity - Akogun, Oladele B; Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; Prasann, Ashesh; Serneels, Pieter (2017)

Alternatives towards achieving Education For All (EFA): a case of the informal sector business institute (ISBI), Nairobi, Kenya - Momanyi, C (2015)
In 1948 the United Nations declared that everyone has a right to education in the universal declaration of human rights. Education for All (EFA) is an international initiative first launched in Jomtien, Thailand, in 1990 to bring the benefits of education to “every citizen in every society’. To realize this aim, governments, civil society groups, and development agencies such as UNESCO and the World Bank have joined hands to achieve the EFA goals. Kenya is signatory to education for all initiative. Achieving the Education for All goals is critical for simultaneously attaining all 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The EFA strategies include the establishment of a policy on the re-entry of school-age mothers into the education system and the establishment of a non-formal education unit in the Ministry of Education Science and Technology. The recent implementation of free primary and secondary education is an effort by the government of Kenya to attain Universal primary Education (UPE) and the final attainment of EFA and MDGs. There are many suggestions both at the local and international levels on how to achieve this goal. Non-formal education and Technical and vocational education are some of the alternatives towards EFA, they lead participants to acquire practical skills in a particular occupation. Non formal education is flexible as more people who are out of the formal education system acquire skills. Strathmore Educational Trust (SET), a Public Charitable Trust incorporated in Kenya, established to promote educational initiatives started the Informal Sector Business Institute (ISBI) in 2004; a Non-formal education initiative to train jua kali artisans in ICT and business skills. Since its inception, more than 10,000 people have been trained in various skills. Data collected from artisans who have undergone the ISBI training showed that the artisans trained at ISBI are better than those form the same area that have not undergone the same training.
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Ambientes online na profissionalização de professores em Cabo Verde: um projeto de investigação ação - Mendonça, Adriana (Universidade do Minho, 2014)
A introdução de ambientes online nas práticas docentes no ensino superior, tem-se afigurado numa necessidade um pouco por todo o mundo. Nesta investigação apresenta-se uma dessas iniciativas desenvolvidas na universidade de Cabo Verde (Uni-CV), no Departamento de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (DCSH). A Uni-CV conta com oito anos de existência, encontrando-se ainda na caminhada para a inclusão digital, a par do que ocorre no arquipélago cabo-verdiano. Mesmo com limitações, luta-se para alcançar os desafios da infoinclusão, nomeadamente através de programas como o Mundu Novu. É com esta preocupação que se trabalhou com estudantes finalistas em Ciências da Educação – Percurso de Desenvolvimento Pessoal e Social - futuros docentes da disciplina, do ensino secundário, de Formação Pessoal e Social/Educação para os Direitos Humanos e Cidadania. Isto para vivenciarem na sua formação inicial uma experiência inovadora, no período de estágio pedagógico, que enriquecesse a sua vivência e contribuísse para ampliar a sua visão sobre o potencial pedagógico dos ambientes online. Assim, a preocupação central da investigação foi perceber que desafios coloca a integração dos ambientes online nos processos de profissionalização dos docentes do Ensino Secundário em Cabo Verde, bem como compreender o espaço dos ambientes online nesse processo. Para tal, propôs-se compreender como é que as orientações legais e representações dos sujeitos estão a ser compreendidas pela Uni-CV, procurando-se simultaneamente contribuir com a organização de conteúdos formativos destinados aos estagiários e seus orientadores, de forma a contribuir para o aprofundamento das suas competências e simultaneamente criar um referencial indicativo de áreas prioritárias de formação em contexto de profissionalização para os professores de ensino secundário em Cabo Verde. Neste sentido levou-se a cabo um projeto de investigação ação, de natureza descritiva, com caráter eminentemente qualitativo, no âmbito do qual se concebeu e se implementou o b-curso: SuperVisão de estágio. Para a realização, com sucesso, desta investigação, foi necessário recorrer a diversas técnicas de recolha de dados em distintos momentos do processo, designadamente questionários, entrevistas (semi estruturadas e informais na modalidade individual e em focus group), observações participante e não participante, conversas e observações informais. Procedeu-se à análise estatística e de conteúdo com recurso ao Nvivo10 e ao Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) garantindo uma triangulação destes que permitiu inferir da vontade dos parte dos participantes em ganharem destrezas no uso das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) e na exploração dos ambientes online, revelando-se altamente motivados para a formação nos domínios, por eles, identificados como prioritários, a saber: TIC e ambientes online, planificação em educação, designadamente formulação de objetivos e competências em educação, estratégias e recursos pedagógicas. Tais domínios são percecionados como meio de desenvolvimento das competências científicas, técnicas e transversais no seu processo de profissionalização. Foi possível aferir, a partir dos resultados de investigação, que houve um considerável aumento do acesso à Internet pelos participantes. A par disso, também se verificou que a Uni-CV não dispõe, ainda, de condições técnicas e tecnológicas ideais para o desenvolvimento deste tipo de ações, com recurso a ambientes online. Porém, o recurso à Moodle no estágio pedagógico garantiu mais autonomia e flexibilidade ao estagiário, bem como ajudou-o na partilha quer de informações, quer de ansiedades, pelo que destacaram como atividades preferenciais, fóruns, o acesso a informações em diversos formatos, livro interativo e glossários. Como principais ganhos identificou-se o maior acesso a conteúdos específicos para trabalho na disciplina dinamizada pelos estagiários, bem como o feedback imediato facultado pela docente/investigadora e alguns colegas de estágio. As principais limitações relacionam-se com a duração do estágio (apenas quatro meses), o que limitou, nas atividades online, o envolvimento dos estagiários e seus orientadores, impossibilitando inclusivamente a participação destes últimos, bem como a evolução reflexiva na prática pedagógica. A estas dificuldades acresce a dificuldade de resposta da Uni-CV em facultar as condições ideais para que este b-curso decorresse com menos pressão. Apesar das dificuldades vivenciadas, entende-se que esta experiência contribuiu para que estes estagiários saíssem muito mais enriquecidos da sua formação académica inicial, pois, ainda que por pouco tempo, tiveram a possibilidade de “mergulharem no mundo digital”, de uma forma em que não o poderiam fazer sem que esta experiência ocorresse. Estes futuros professores interiorizam a necessidade de integração das TIC e dos ambientes online nas suas rotinas diárias e a necessária aprendizagem destas nas suas aprendizagens profissionais na perspetiva de formação ao longo da vida. Foi possível comprovar que, não obstante as dificuldades, é possível realizar uma prática pedagógica mediada por ambientes online na Uni-CV, desde que profissionais e gestores estejam cientes do seu potencial e procurem desenvolver as condições ideais para a sua exploração e desenvolvimento na Instituição, procurando envolver todas as forças ativas de modo a reunir sinergias e contribuir para o seu sucesso. A infoinclusão assumiria, aqui, um papel relevante na prossecução dos objetivos dos participantes neste processo da prática pedagógica, tornando-o ainda mais desafiador, para uns e para outros no âmbito das políticas e práticas da profissionalização docente em Cabo Verde.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; C:Cape Verde; CLL:pt; publicImportV1

Ambition Gone Awry: The Long-Term Socioeconomic Consequences of Misaligned and Uncertain Ambitions in Adolescence - Sabates, Ricardo; Harris, Angel L.; Staff, Jeremy (Social Science Quarterly, 2011)
Objective The objective of this study was to investigate whether misaligned or uncertain ambitions in adolescence influence the process of socioeconomic attainment. Methods Using 34 years of longitudinal data from the British Cohort Study (BCS70), we considered whether youth with (1) misaligned ambitions (i.e., those who either over- or underestimate the level of education required for their desired occupation), (2) both low occupational aspirations and educational expectations (low-aligned ambitions), and (3) uncertainty with regard to their future occupations (uncertain ambitions) at age 16 experienced more unemployment spells, lower educational attainment, and lower hourly wages in adulthood compared to youth with high occupational aspirations and educational expectations (high-aligned ambitions). Results Youth who hold misaligned or uncertain aspirations show long-term deficits in employment stability and educational attainment, which in turn leads to lower wage attainments at age 34. Conclusion Misaligned and uncertain ambitions in adolescence compromise the construction of life paths and the realization of long-term educational and occupational goals.

AMREF's Stand Up For African Mothers Campaign: Training Midwives to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Africa - Cabridens, M; Tolve, S (The Journal of Field Actions: Field Actions Science Reports, 2012)
Abstract. AMREF is the African Medical and Research Foundation, a uniquely African organization, created in 1957 which runs 145 health programmes a year to help around 7 million people in Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi and with offices around the world, AMREF ensures access to health care for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in Africa, with a focus on women and children. AMREF works within the communities, and works with and for women as they are the heart of the communities. Indeed, by focusing on midwives training in the Stand Up For African Mothers campaign, AMREF is able to talk about the key role of women and mothers for a healthy Africa and the needs of health workers to reduce mortality rates for mothers but also for children. Keywords. Health care, Africa, women, children, poverty, social work, midwifes, pregnancy.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; A:West Africa; C:Ethiopia; C:South Sudan; CA:AandC; CL:de; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:Q; CT:T; Q:ICT; Q:e-learning; T:Ausbildung; T:TVET; T:Training; _C:Uganda UGA; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

An Academic Recovery Programme for the OECS Member States - Haßler, Björn; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; Regis, Callista; Blower, Tom (Open Development & Education, 2021)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _C:Dominica DMA; _C:Grenada GRD; _C:Saint Lucia LCA; _C:Saint Vincent and the Grenadines VCT; _DOILIVE; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:d; _zenodo:submitted; _zenodoETH:submitted

An Academic Recovery Programme for the OECS Member States: Pitch Deck - Haßler, Björn; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; Regis, Callista; Blower, Tom (Open Development & Education, 2021)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _DOILIVE; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:e; _zenodo:submitted; _zenodoETH:submitted

An AI-Powered Teacher Assistant for Student Problem Behavior Diagnosis - Chen, Penghe; Lu, Yu (AI in Learning: Designing the Future, 2023)
Student problem behavior refers to the students’ undesirable conducts and actions in schools. These behaviors severely affect students’ growth and development. In many cases, student problem behaviors are caused by the unsatisfied psychological needs, which are defined as the need deficiency. Hence, diagnosing students’ need deficiencies and regulating their problem behaviors are important educational tasks. The previous psychological studies have analyzed how distinct factors might affect student’s problem behaviors. However, the school teachers without such expertise may still encounter difficulties in applying these findings. Hence, this chapter describes the process of designing and implementing an intelligent teacher assistant, which could advise teachers and help them to handle the student problem behavior. Technically, it utilizes a task-oriented dialogue system to help identify the underlying reasons (i.e., the student need deficiency) behind their problem behaviors, and accordingly relies on a community question answering system to provide the advice. It also employs the semantic search technology to find the similar cases that have been well resolved by the experienced teachers.
Keywords: Assistant; Dialogue system; Need deficiency; Problem behavior; Question answering

An Alternative History of Educational Technology - Wegerif, Rupert; Major, Louis (The Theory of Educational Technology, 2023)
In most histories of educational technology, technology is referred to as a way of supporting education. In this chapter, we explore what happens when this framing of the relationship is reversed and we think about education as a way of supporting technology. We begin with the story of some of the first schools 4000 years ago in Ancient Sumeria. These, we claim, were created to support what was then a relatively new information and communications technology, cuneiform literacy. We argue that the shift from education based on talking and listening to education based on reading and writing involved a change in how knowledge is thought about and how education is understood. After the spread of education based on literacy, and later, on print literacy (which includes numeracy), a new kind of knowledge became possible: knowledge as an indirect representation of a reality rather than knowledge as a direct relationship with reality. This shift from oracy to literacy involved losses as well as gains. We end with a case study suggesting that digitally mediated education might be able to include more of the relationship and connectedness that is of value in oral education systems whilst continuing to support the greater reach and power of print literacy.

An Analysis of Existing Evidence Around Perceptions of the Tanzanian Education System - Mobey, Helen (2017)
This Helpdesk report has been commissioned to help understand the extent to which the education system currently meets young people’s needs and how far the school represents a safe space for young people. In line with the plan to gather insights and identify trends, themes and areas for discussion for policy meetings about the wider population’s views on the above issues, datasets were identified analysed.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

An analysis of peer reviewed publications on openness in education in half a century: Trends and patterns in the open hemisphere - Bozkurt, Aras; Koseoglu, Suzan; Singh, Lenandlar (Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018)
Openness in education is an evolving concept which is shaped by the changing needs of societies, cultures, geographies, and economies, thus, it does not have a precise definition. By focusing on four sets of generic keywords - open education, open learning, open educational resources (OERs), and open educational practices (OEPs) - this paper examines research in openness in education through a systematic review of peer reviewed literature. In doing so, the researchers sought to draw attention to existing trends and patterns and possible future trajectories of openness in education. Content analysis, social network analysis, and text-mining are the methods used for data collection and analysis. Findings show that there has been growing interest on openness in education, particularly on OERs, across different fields. Findings also point to OEPs as an emerging area of study, which offers a fertile ground for future research. However, on closer inspection, a divide can be observed between the global north and global south in terms of research output.
Keywords: Open Education; Open Educational Practices (OEPs); Open Educational Resources (OERs); Open Learning; Openness; __C:filed:1

An analysis of pre-service family planning teaching in clinical and nursing education in Tanzania - Muganyizi, Projestine S; Ishengoma, Joyce; Kanama, Joseph; Kikumbih, Nassoro; Mwanga, Feddy; Killian, Richard; McGinn, Erin (BMC medical education, 2014)
Doc number: 142 Abstract Background: Promoting family planning (FP) is a key strategy for health, economic and population growth. Sub-Saharan Africa, with one of the lowest contraceptive prevalence and highest fertility rates globally, contributes half of the global maternal deaths. Improving the quality of FP services, including enhancing pre-service FP teaching, has the potential to improve contraceptive prevalence. In efforts to improve the quality of FP services in Tanzania, including provider skills, this study sought to identify gaps in pre-service FP teaching and suggest opportunities for strengthening the training. Methods: Data were collected from all medical schools and a representative sample of pre-service nursing, Assistant Medical Officer (AMO), Clinical Officer (CO) and assistant CO schools in mainland Tanzania. Teachers responsible for FP teaching at the schools were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. Observations on availability of teaching resources and other evidence of FP teaching and evaluation were documented. Relevant approved teaching documents were assessed for their suitability as competency-based FP teaching tools against predefined criteria. Quantitative data were analyzed using EPI Info 6 and qualitative data were manually analyzed using content analysis. Results: A total of 35 pre-service schools were evaluated for FP teaching including 30 technical education and five degree offering schools. Of the assessed 11 pre-service curricula, only one met the criteria for suitability of FP teaching. FP teaching was typically theoretical with only 22.9% of all the schools having systems in place to produce graduates who could skillfully provide FP methods. Across schools, the target skills were the same level of competence and skewed toward short acting methods of contraception. Only 23.3% (n = 7) of schools had skills laboratories, 76% (n = 22) were either physically connected or linked to FP clinics. None of the degree providing schools practiced FP at its own teaching hospital. Teachers were concerned with poor practical exposure and lack of teaching material. Conclusions: Pre-service FP teaching in Tanzania is theoretical, poorly guided, and skewed toward short acting methods; a majority of the schools are unable to produce competent FP service providers. Pre-service FP training should be strengthened with more focus on practical skills. Promoting family planning (FP) is a key strategy for health, economic and population growth. Sub-Saharan Africa, with one of the lowest contraceptive prevalence and highest fertility rates globally, contributes half of the global maternal deaths. Improving the quality of FP services, including enhancing pre-service FP teaching, has the potential to improve contraceptive prevalence. In efforts to improve the quality of FP services in Tanzania, including provider skills, this study sought to identify gaps in pre-service FP teaching and suggest opportunities for strengthening the training. Data were collected from all medical schools and a representative sample of pre-service nursing, Assistant Medical Officer (AMO), Clinical Officer (CO) and assistant CO schools in mainland Tanzania. Teachers responsible for FP teaching at the schools were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. Observations on availability of teaching resources and other evidence of FP teaching and evaluation were documented. Relevant approved teaching documents were assessed for their suitability as competency-based FP teaching tools against predefined criteria. Quantitative data were analyzed using EPI Info 6 and qualitative data were manually analyzed using content analysis. A total of 35 pre-service schools were evaluated for FP teaching including 30 technical education and five degree offering schools. Of the assessed 11 pre-service curricula, only one met the criteria for suitability of FP teaching. FP teaching was typically theoretical with only 22.9% of all the schools having systems in place to produce graduates who could skillfully provide FP methods. Across schools, the target skills were the same level of competence and skewed toward short acting methods of contraception. Only 23.3% (n = 7) of schools had skills laboratories, 76% (n = 22) were either physically connected or linked to FP clinics. None of the degree providing schools practiced FP at its own teaching hospital. Teachers were concerned with poor practical exposure and lack of teaching material. Pre-service FP teaching in Tanzania is theoretical, poorly guided, and skewed toward short acting methods; a majority of the schools are unable to produce competent FP service providers. Pre-service FP training should be strengthened with more focus on practical skills.
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An Analysis of ResNet50 Model and RMSprop Optimizer for Education Platform Using an Intelligent Chatbot System - Saadna, Youness; Boudhir, Anouar Abdelhakim; Ben Ahmed, Mohamed (Springer, 2022)
A chatbot is a software (or machine) that has the ability to talks with a user: it is a virtual assistant that can answer a number of user questions, and providing the correct responses. In the last few years, the use of chatbots is very popular in various fields, such as health care, marketing, educational, supporting systems, cultural heritage, entertainment, and many others. This paper proposes an intelligent chatbot system that can give a response in the form of natural language or audio to a natural language question or image input in different domains of education and will support multiple languages (English, French, and Arabic). To realize this System, we used different deep learning architectures (CNN, LSTM, Transformers), computer vision, transfer learning to extract image features vector, and natural language processing techniques. In the end, after the implementation of the proposed model, a comparative study was conducted in order to prove the performance of this system using image-response model and question-response model using accuracy and BLEU score metrics.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Chatbot; Education

An analysis of the impact of the Accelerated Learning Project with year 11 students in Bristol schools, Bristol City Council - Davies, John Dwyfor; Last, Kathryn; Smart, Dean (2020)
1.1 Context In the summer of 2005, thirty-six per cent of Year 11 pupils in the City of Bristol Local Authority (LA) schools achieved 5 or more GCSE A*-C grades compared to the national average of 57%, with other further indicators of under performance. This resulted in considerable disquiet locally and much negative media interest. Bristol is England‟s eighth largest city and is the biggest population centre in the South West government region. Areas of the City are very multicultural, with about 10% of young Bristolians having English as an additional language. The regional importance, and service industry/financial base, of the city attracts a higher than average number of graduates to employment in greater Bristol, but conversely 28% of adults locally have limited or no qualifications. Some districts enjoy considerable wealth and 24% of the regions employment is centred here, with the local unemployment figure below the national average at 3.1% of the working age population. There are also pockets of extreme socio-economic deprivation, with some wards within the bottom percentage point of the most socio-economically deprived districts in England. 75% of Bristol 11-16 year olds are educated in the LA secondary schools, with the remainder educated in the schools of neighbouring LAs or in the large local independent sector.
Keywords: Marginalised; _AcademicRecoveryOECS; ⛔ No DOI found

An analysis of the integration of instructional technology in pre-service teacher education in Zimbabwe - Chitiyo, Rodwell; Harmon, Stephen W. (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2009)

An artificial intelligence based virtual assistant using conversational agents - Mekni, Mehdi (Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 2021)

An artificial intelligence education program development and application for elementary teachers - Kim, Kapsu (Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education, 2019)

An Assessment of Computer and ICT Skills at Botswana Open University: Implications of ICT in Business Subjects - Hamaluba, Tommie (Journal of Learning for Development, 2022)
This paper presents a study that focused on assessing computer and ICT skills of business subjects’ learners at Botswana Open University (BOU). The study explored the levels of computer skills; existence of ICT skills and perception of business subject learners on the adoption and use of ICT skills for teaching and learning. A sample size of 223 participants from BOU’s five regions was studied and data was collected quantitatively using survey questionnaires. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data. The results showed that most of the respondents had average ability to navigate on the e-learning school platforms (E-library, portals, websites, etc.) and average awareness of the business learning software and applications; they were familiar with most MS package elements, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher. They were familiar with the use of emails, social sites and blogs as well as internet searching and browsing. Results also showed that the respondents understood the basic functions of computer hardware. The study also revealed that respondents needed improvement in the use of ICT tools for learning their business subjects, and that the improvement of the use of ICT tools would enhance their understanding of the subject matter. Respondents cited poor internet connectivity and unreliable power supply, as well as slow internet connectivity, as some of the reasons for their poor ICT skills in teaching and learning ICTs.
Keywords: BOU; ICT skills; Information technology; business development; innovation; ⛔ No DOI found

An assessment of education and training needs of skilled operatives within the Nigerian construction industry. - Awe, EM; Stephenson, P; Griffith, A (2009)

An assessment of employability skills among technical and vocational education students in Nigeria - Idris, A; Rajuddin, MR (Archives Des Science, 2012)
The research was conducted to investigate the level of importance as well as the competence among the students of technical and vocational education in terms of employability skills in Nigeria. There are 233 final year students that constituted the sample for the study in Kano State. The respondents were picked from mechanical, electronic, electrical installation and automobile departments in technical colleges in the state. The data was collected using questionnaire which was adapted from Employability skills for Australian small and medium sized enterprises. The analysis was done using descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation. The findings of the study showed that all the respondents perceived the employability skills components as high and rated their competency as low. A significant difference was found among the students in terms of their ages while no significant difference was found between the respondents in the area of competency. The study concludes that there is still an opportunity for technical and vocational institution in Nigeria to focus and redouble efforts towards equipping the students’ employability skills. Quality education and training enhances productivity, therefore, students of technical and vocational education in Nigeria need a better education that will help in accomplish the national goals.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Central Africa; A:West Africa; C:Nigeria; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:T; F:assessment; F:women; T:TVET; publicImportV1; ⛔ No DOI found

An assessment of the impacts of Sri Lanka’s programme for school improvement and school report card programme on students’ academic progress - Aturupane, Harsha; Glewwe, Paul; Ravina, Renato; Sonnadara, Upul; Wisniewski, Suzanne (The Journal of Development Studies, 2014)

An assessment of the implementation and enforcement of the Rights of children with disabilities in Uganda, a case study of Kampala district - Faridah, Nanyondo (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

An Assessment of the Transition to Virtual Learning in the OECS - Emmanuel, Royston; Anthony, Germain (2020)
This assessment of the transition to Virtual Learning in the OECS is an initial step of a series of programmed activities that will help strengthen both the capacity and resilience of education systems in the region, particularly with respect to Online Learning. The context described here outlines some of the major challenges associated with regional efforts to successfully integrate ICTs in education. There appears to be consensus that Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) can well support ambitions for improving equity of access to education, the quality and the relevance of education. What this assessment reveals, is that there is wide disparity in the region with respect to approaches to adopting and adapting to VLEs.

An Atlas of Nigerian Languages - Blench, Roger (2019)
A listing and introduction to the languages of Nigeria. 2019 edition of a document first published in 1976 as 'An Index of Nigerian Languages'

An Atlas of The Forty Colleges of Education in Ghana - Haßler, Björn; Akunor, J. T.; Nyamador, E. S. (2017)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:Zambia ZMB; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _bjoern_cv; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

An educational Chatbot for answering queries - Sinha, Sharob; Basak, Shyanka; Dey, Yajushi; Mondal, Anupam (Emerging Technology in Modelling and Graphics, 2020)

An evaluation of classroom-illumination: a critical requirement for effective designing and construction of naturally-illuminated schools in Nigeria - Ibhadode, Osagie; Ajayi, Oluseyi Olarenwaju; Abioye, Abiodun Ayodeji; Ismaila, Joseph; Adekunle, Adebayo Abidemi (Progress in Industrial Ecology, an International Journal, 2019)
Keywords: BE:Annotated; BE:RELEVANT; BE:light; ❓ Multiple DOI

An Evaluation of the Literacy-Infused Science Using Technology Innovation Opportunity (LISTO) i3 Evaluation (Valid 45) Final Report. - Wolf, Rebecca; Cook, Michael; Reid, Alan; Neitzel, Amanda; Ross, Steven; Risman, Kelsey (Grantee Submission, 2021)
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

An examination of the digital divide and its dividing factors in formal educational settings - Ritzhaupt, Albert D.; Hohlfeld, Tina N. (Crossing the bridge of the digital divide: A walk with global leaders, 2018)
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

An Examination of the Evidence-Based Literacy Research in Deaf Education - Luckner, John L.; Sebald, Ann M.; Cooney, John; Young, John; Muir, Sheryl Goodwin (American Annals of the Deaf, 2005)
Keywords: _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

An examination of training and development of middle level managers in emerging economies: Evidence from financial institutions in Ghana - Abugre, James B.; Adebola, Kester (International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 2015)
© 2015, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the training and development (T&D) of middle-level managers in the financial institutions of a sub-Saharan African country make any difference in the performances of the managers and the institutions in general. Design/methodology/approach – An empirical analysis of managers’ opinions based on a quantitative survey of 140 middle-level managers from four banking institutions in Ghana is conducted. Findings – Findings showed that there is a significant relationship between T&D of middle-level managers and their performance and, consequently, performance of the banks. The findings also showed that managers become savvier in personal initiatives and responsive to customer care leading to enhanced service delivery. The paper proposes that T&D should focus on the significant relationship between the outcomes and programme objectives of organisations in emerging economies if these organisations want to be counted in this competitive global world. Practical implications – The paper provides valuable information on the important role of middle-level managers as custodians of “tacit knowledge” that can turn around organisations, particularly in developing economies, if the needed T&D are given to them. Originality/value – Empirical literature on T&D and on middle-level managers’ development in developing countries is limited. The contribution of this paper identifies the roles that middle management can play in the performances of organisations and especially in emerging economies.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Sub-Saharan Africa; CA:AandC; CCZ:Ghana; CL:en; CL:pt; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:D; CT:F; CT:P; CT:R; CT:T; D:developing country; D:emerging economies; F:outcomes; P:economy; P:measurement; P:services; R:quantitative; R:survey; T:Training; Z:Banks; Z:Mid-level managers; Z:Performance; Z:Training and development; _C:Australia AUS; _C:China CHN; _C:Ghana GHA; _C:Greece GRC; _C:Japan JPN; _C:Kuwait KWT; _C:Nigeria NGA; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Tanzania TZA; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; publicImportV1

An experimental study of the performance of prospective teachers of flipped classroom and non-flipped classroom - Minaz, Maksal; Tabassum, Rabia; Idris, Muhammad (Pakistan Journal of Education, 2017)
Video-recording of lectures and creating of podcasts for playback on the computer and other portable devices which accommodate the new formats of self-developed learning are identified as flipped classroom. The study was focused on the objective to Investigate performance of prospective teachers of flipped classroom and non-flipped classroom with respect to flipped classroom strategy. Therefore, null hypotheses were formulated; there is no significant difference between the mean scores of flipped classroom and non-flipped classroom of prospective teachers before and after treatment; Pretest posttest equivalent group experimental research design was taken for the study. A paired random sampling technique was employed to select the sample on the basis of pretest scores from the subjects.. Experimental group was named flipped classroom and control group was named non-flipped classroom. Treatment of flipped classroom strategy provided to the flipped classroom and the non-flipped classroom was thought through lecture demonstration method. Posttest was administered to collect data from both groups without delay after treatment of six academic weeks. Results of the study illustrated that there was significant difference between the performance of flipped and non-flipped classrooms prospective teachers. It was recommended that flipped classroom may be an integral part of curriculum of professional development courses in Pakistan.
Keywords: Education; Educational technology; Learning; Pedagogy; Podcasts; Professional development; Teacher attitudes; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096864; __finaldtb; ⛔ No DOI found

An exploration of agency in the localisation of open educational resources for teacher development - Wolfenden, Freda; Adinolfi, Lina (Learning, Media and Technology, 2019)
This study examines the practice of adaptation and translation (localisation) of Open Educational Resources (OER). It employs a sociocultural perspective to focus on the experiences of practitioners (localisers) who undertook the localisation of a suite of 125 OER created as part of a teacher professional development programme in India. This localisation process generated eight unique versions of the OER in five languages. Drawing on project reports, practitioner interviews and analysis of the adapted OER, the study explores how localisers created meaning for the task, the situational and linguistic factors that influenced and mediated their decisions to adapt the materials – or not – and the skills and experiences that emerged through the process. Although the findings revealed that changes to the materials were limited, suggesting that enacting localisation is more difficult than perhaps suggested by OER proponents, the analysis indicated forms of localisers’ emerging professional agency through this endeavour.
Keywords: India; Open educational resources (OER); __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2457357; __finaldtb; localisation; professional agency

An Exploration of Strategies for Facilitating Graduates’ Transition to the World of Work: A Case of Technical, Vocational Education and Training Graduates in Uganda - Kintu, Denis (International Journal of Vocational Education and Training Research, 2019)

An Exploratory Qualitative Study of the Potential for Enhanced e-Learning in Public Higher Education in Afghanistan - Khalid, Abdul Habib (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2020)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

An Exploratory Study of Digital Literacy Frameworks: A Comparative Analysis - Lee, Yoo-Taek; Fanea-Ivanovici, Mina (SSRN, 2022)
Keywords: _z:no_pdf

An extension for Google Chrome: Create bookmarklets to repeatedly create Google Docs in specfici folders (OpenDevEd/ChromeExtension-GoogleDocsCreator) - Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2020)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

An extension for Google Chrome: Search your history for Google Docs (OpenDevEd/ChromeExtension-WhatGD) - Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2020)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

An implementation research agenda - Eccles, Martin P.; Armstrong, David; Baker, Richard; Cleary, Kevin; Davies, Huw; Davies, Stephen; Glasziou, Paul; Ilott, Irene; Kinmonth, Ann-Louise; Leng, Gillian (BioMed Central, 2009)

An implementation research agenda - Eccles, Martin P.; Armstrong, David; Baker, Richard; Cleary, Kevin; Davies, Huw; Davies, Stephen; Glasziou, Paul; Ilott, Irene; Kinmonth, Ann-Louise; Leng, Gillian (BioMed Central, 2009)

An inclusive approach to searching for evidence on EdTech in low- and middle- income countries - Brugha, Meaghan (The EdTech Hub, 2020)
A blog post by Meaghan Brugha and Katy Jordan. A searchable database The EdTech Hub has undertaken a large-scale search for publications on technology use in education in low- and middle- income countries. During this process, we created an internal research database. This is searchable through the use of a variety of filters, such as …
Keywords: _C:Gambia GMB; _C:Jordan JOR; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Portugal PRT; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _zenodoODE

An insight into cultural competence and ethics in K-12 artificial intelligence education - Sanusi, Ismaila Temitayo; Olaleye, Sunday Adewale (IEEE, 2022)

An instrument to elicit teachers' beliefs and assumptions - Donaghue, Helen (ELT Journal, 2003)
Teachers' beliefs influence the acceptance and uptake of new approaches, techniques, and activities, and therefore play an important part in teacher development. Consequently, trainers running teacher education courses should consider encouraging participants to think about their personal beliefs and theories about teaching before providing input. This article proposes the use of an instrument designed to elicit teachers' beliefs based on Kelly's (1969) theory of personal constructs, using an adapted version of his repertory grid technique.

An integrated model for teacher continuing professional learning in Zimbabwean primary schools - Mtetwa, David KJ; Ndemo, Zakaria (African Journal of Teacher Education and Development, 2022)

An Integrative Literature Review on Pain Alleviation Interventions for Hospitalized Children - Cho, Haeryun; Lee, Jungmin; Kim, Shin-Jeong (Child Health Nursing Research, 2020)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

An Integrative Literature Review on Sex Education Programs for Korean College Students - Shin, Hyewon; Lee, Jung Min; Min, Hye Young (The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education, 2020)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

An Integrative Literature Review on Sexual Abuse Prevention Education Programs for Elementary School Students in South Korea - Shin, Hyewon; Lee, Jung Min; Kang, Kyung-Ah; Kim, Shin-Jeong; Shin, Hyewon; Lee, Jung Min; Kang, Kyung-Ah; Kim, Shin-Jeong (Child Health Nursing Research, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

An integrative review of teaching reading in Kenyan primary schools - Commeyras, M.; Inyega, H.N. (Reading Research Quarterly, 2007)

An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework - Hankivsky, Olena (2012)

An intersectionality-based policy analysis framework: critical reflections on a methodology for advancing equity - Hankivsky, Olena; Grace, Daniel; Hunting, Gemma; Giesbrecht, Melissa; Fridkin, Alycia; Rudrum, Sarah; Ferlatte, Olivier; Clark, Natalie (International Journal for Equity in Health, 2014)
In the field of health, numerous frameworks have emerged that advance understandings of the differential impacts of health policies to produce inclusive and socially just health outcomes. In this paper, we present the development of an important contribution to these efforts – an Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis (IBPA) Framework.
Keywords: Equity; Health; Intersectionality; Policy analysis; Reflexivity

An Introduction to Adaptive Interventions and SMART Designs in Education - Nahum-Shani, Inbal; Almirall, Daniel; Buckley, Jacquelyn (2020)
Education practice often requires teachers and other school personnel to adapt interventions over time in order to address between-student heterogeneity in response to intervention (e.g., what works for one student may not work for the other) or within-student heterogeneity (e.g., what works now may not work in the future for the same student). An adaptive intervention allows education practitioners to do this in a prespecified, systematic, and replicable way through a sequence of decision rules that guides whether, how, and when to modify interventions. In an adaptive intervention, the practitioner modifies the dosage or type of intervention, or the mode of delivery to meet the unique and changing needs of students as they progress over time. The sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial (SMART) is one type of multistage, experimental design that can help education researchers build high-quality adaptive interventions. Despite the critical role adaptive interventions can play in various domains of education, research about adaptive interventions and about the use of SMART designs to develop effective adaptive interventions in education is in its infancy. This paper defines an adaptive intervention and reviews the components of this design, discusses the key features of the SMART, and introduces common research questions for which SMARTs may be appropriate.
Keywords: Final_citation; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

An introduction to implementation science for the non-specialist - Bauer, Mark S.; Damschroder, Laura; Hagedorn, Hildi; Smith, Jeffrey; Kilbourne, Amy M. (BMC psychology, 2015)

An introduction to systematic reviews - Gough, David; Oliver, Sandy; Thomas, James (Sage, 2012)
Keywords: AWP2; Research methods

An introduction to the coverage of the Data Citation Index (Thomson-Reuters): Disciplines, document types and repositories - Torres-Salinas, Daniel; Martín-Martín, Alberto (arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.6584, 2013)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

An investigation of appropriate new technologies to support interactive teaching in Zambian schools (ANTSIT). A joint report from Aptivate and the Centre for Commonwealth Education (University of Cambridge). Final Report to DfID. - Haßler, Björn; Hennessy, S.; Lord, T.; Cross, A.; Jackson, A.; Simpson, M. (Aptivate and University of Cambridge, 2011)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; Björn-CV-OECS; __C:filed:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:a; ⛔ No DOI found

An investigation of mobile learning readiness in higher education based on the theory of planned behavior - Cheon, Jongpil; Lee, Sangno; Crooks, Steven M.; Song, Jaeki (Computers & Education, 2012)
This study investigated the current state of college students' perceptions toward mobile learning in higher education. Mobile learning is a new form of learning utilizing the unique capabilities of mobile devices. Although mobile devices are ubiquitous on college campuses, student readiness for mobile learning has yet to be fully explored in the United States. The paper describes a conceptual model, based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), which explains how college students' beliefs influence their intention to adopt mobile devices in their coursework. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze self-report data from 177 college students. The findings showed that the TPB explained college students' acceptance of m-learning reasonably well. More specifically, attitude, subjective norm, and behavioral control positively influenced their intention to adopt mobile learning. The results provide valuable implications for ways to increase college students' acceptance of mobile learning.
Keywords: Higher education; Mobile learning; m-learning; m-learning adoption

An Investigation of pre-service teachers' motives for using Instagram: Pre-service teachers' motives for using Instagram - Ramazanoğlu, Mehmet; Toytok, Esef Hakan (International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

An investigation of purpose built netbooks for primary school education - Cramer, M.; Beauregard, R.; Sharma, M. (Proceedings of the 8th international conference on interaction design and children, 2009)

An investigation of using a tablet computer for searching on the web and the influence of cognitive load - Debue, Nicolas; Ou, Nora; van de Leemput, Cécile (Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 2020)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

An investigative study of the abuse of girls in African schools - Leach, Fiona; Fiscian, Vivian; Kadzamira, Esme; Lemani, Eve; Machakanja, Pamela (2003)
Keywords: _C:Malawi MWI; ⛔ No DOI found

An IoT-based deep learning approach to analyse indoor thermal comfort of disabled people - Brik, Bouziane; Esseghir, Moez; Merghem-Boulahia, Leila; Snoussi, Hichem (Building and Environment, 2021)
Monitoring the thermal comfort of building occupants is crucial for ensuring sustainable and efficient energy consumption in residential buildings. Existing studies have addressed the monitoring of thermal comfort through questionnaires and activities involving occupants. However, few studies have considered disabled people in the monitoring of thermal comfort, despite the potential for impairments to present thermal requirements that are significantly different from those of an occupant without a disability. Additionally, people with disabilities can experience difficulties in expressing their thermal comfort, which further complicates assessment and monitoring. To overcome this, we propose the development of a new learning model using a deep neural network. Our model can predict the indoor thermal comfort of differently abled people in real time to facilitate remote monitoring. We generated our real dataset using a new Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. Our architecture also includes a data collection scheme to ensure an efficient collection process, enabling the collection of targeted data before transferring them to cloud servers for further data analysis. Experimental results illustrate the reliability of our data collection scheme in gathering useful and targeted data, as well as the efficiency of our deep learning-based model, which achieved an accuracy of 94% and a precision and recall of 98% and 97%, respectively.
Keywords: Building sustainability; Deep learning; Disabled people; Indoor thermal comfort prediction and monitoring; Internet of Things (IoT)

An Observational Study of Classroom Acoustical Design and Repetitive Behaviors in Children With Autism - Kanakri, Shireen M.; Shepley, Mardelle; Tassinary, Louis G.; Varni, James W.; Fawaz, Haitham M. (Environment and Behavior, 2017)
The objective of the present study is to explore the impact of acoustical design on children with autism in school classrooms. Empirical research on this topic will provide information on how interior space features and spatial environment characteristics can be used to support the learning and developmental needs of children with autism. Specifically, the connection between repetitive behaviors and ambient noise levels in school classroom environments was observed in four classrooms. The occurrence of repetitive motor movements, repetitive speech, ear covering, hitting, loud vocalizations, blinking, and verbally complaining in relation to decibel levels were analyzed using Noldus Observer XT software. As hypothesized, a correlation between noise levels and frequency of target behaviors was found; that is, as decibel levels increased, several of the observed behaviors occurred with greater frequency. Further empirical testing is necessary to test a causal relationship between increased ambient noise levels and autism-related behaviors, and sensory discomfort as a mediator of that relationship. Findings are applied to the development of classroom design guidelines.

An open source machine learning framework for efficient and transparent systematic reviews - van de Schoot, Rens; de Bruin, Jonathan; Schram, Raoul; Zahedi, Parisa; de Boer, Jan; Weijdema, Felix; Kramer, Bianca; Huijts, Martijn; Hoogerwerf, Maarten; Ferdinands, Gerbrich; Harkema, Albert; Willemsen, Joukje; et al. (Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021)
To help researchers conduct a systematic review or meta-analysis as efficiently and transparently as possible, we designed a tool to accelerate the step of screening titles and abstracts. For many tasks—including but not limited to systematic reviews and meta-analyses—the scientific literature needs to be checked systematically. Scholars and practitioners currently screen thousands of studies by hand to determine which studies to include in their review or meta-analysis. This is error prone and inefficient because of extremely imbalanced data: only a fraction of the screened studies is relevant. The future of systematic reviewing will be an interaction with machine learning algorithms to deal with the enormous increase of available text. We therefore developed an open source machine learning-aided pipeline applying active learning: ASReview. We demonstrate by means of simulation studies that active learning can yield far more efficient reviewing than manual reviewing while providing high quality. Furthermore, we describe the options of the free and open source research software and present the results from user experience tests. We invite the community to contribute to open source projects such as our own that provide measurable and reproducible improvements over current practice.
Keywords: Computational biology and bioinformatics; Computer science; Medical research; SARS-CoV-2; _Added-ailr-2024

An Outcomes Evaluation of the School Feeding Project Implemented By Caritas Zimbabwe at Chirongwe Primary School, Masvingo Province - Gozo, Shingiriro Persistance (Lupane State University, 2016)

An Overview of Chatbot Technology - Adamopoulou, Eleni; Moussiades, Lefteris (Springer International Publishing, 2020)
The use of chatbots evolved rapidly in numerous fields in recent years, including Marketing, Supporting Systems, Education, Health Care, Cultural Heritage, and Entertainment. In this paper, we first present a historical overview of the evolution of the international community’s interest in chatbots. Next, we discuss the motivations that drive the use of chatbots, and we clarify chatbots’ usefulness in a variety of areas. Moreover, we highlight the impact of social stereotypes on chatbots design. After clarifying necessary technological concepts, we move on to a chatbot classification based on various criteria, such as the area of knowledge they refer to, the need they serve and others. Furthermore, we present the general architecture of modern chatbots while also mentioning the main platforms for their creation. Our engagement with the subject so far, reassures us of the prospects of chatbots and encourages us to study them in greater extent and depth.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Chatbot; Chatbot architecture; Machine learning; NLU

An overview of e-learning in China: History, challenges and opportunities - Wang, Yan; Liu, Xuan; Zhang, Zhenhong (Research in Comparative and International Education, 2018)
The Chinese government has attached great importance to the development of e-learning since its emergence in the 1990s. As a consequence of the implementation of a series of policies, China has made significant achievements in the e-learning arena with respect to infrastructure construction, production of resources, academic education, non-academic training, and education for disadvantaged groups. However, due to the constraints of China’s traditional culture, information literacy, and educational mechanisms, challenges have emerged in the implementation of e-learning that need urgently to be addressed. As e-learning in China continues to grow, major research areas such as students’ and teachers’ perspectives on developments in e-learning, teachers’ pedagogical capacity and ongoing professional development in e-learning settings, and the production of more convenient and useful e-learning resources, are likely to be topics of continuing research interest.
Keywords: Challenges; China; ICT in education; e-learning; professional development; successes

An Overview of Evidence Regarding the Impact of Impact Bonds as Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Education in Development Contexts - Joynes, Chris (2019)
This report provides a summary overview of the evidence regarding the impact of impact bonds (including Social Impact Bonds and Development Impact Bonds) in their application as innovative financing mechanisms for supporting education in development contexts. Within the education sector, impact bonds have emerged over the last 4-5 years as one innovative financing mechanism that uses private investment to support social development. From a developmental perspective, this emerging model encompasses two recent and clearly-defined global trends: firstly, an increased focus on programmes that deliver results and, secondly, an increased drive to support collaboration between the public and private sector (Innovative Financing Initiative 2014: v). Evidence suggests that there has been a significant growth in the application of impact bonds in a range of global settings, including for education in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These mechanisms are seen to be particularly valuable when operating in complex, fluid contexts (REACH 2017), and, with appropriate design, can also contribute towards the development of wider systemic capacity.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

An Overview of ICT for Education of Refugees and IDPs - Joynes, Chris; James, Zoe (2018)
This rapid review examined examples of ICT approaches to address the education needs of those living in IDP and refugee camps and lessons learned from these experiences. Although ICT is considered a good system to fulfil the education needs within refugee settings, many studies conclude that access to ICTs in schools or at home is not sufficient to improve learning outcomes. It is due to the role of a mentor or tutor figure is seen as key to productive learner engagement with technology, and the effectiveness of ICT-based education is reliant on appropriate teacher training to ensure successful up-take at the classroom level (Tauson & Stannard 2018: 47, 62; UNESCO 2018: 74; Carlson 2013: 30). Secondly, in terms of content, ICTs for education should provide content that is responsive or adaptable to the learners’ level, is implemented in line with the local curriculum and also is relevant to the learners’ context (Tauson & Stannard 2018: 36-38, 61). Despite this potential for ICTs, there remains a broad lack of evidence related to education in refugee settings (Burde et al. 2015; Tauson & Stannard 2018; World Bank 2016). In particular, more information is needed on pedagogic design, on the effective use of ICTs for learning, on the role of ICTs in ensuring continuity of and linkages between learning in formal and non-formal settings, on the role of ICTs in educational data-gathering, and on the cost-effectiveness of ICT-led interventions (Burde et al 2015; Tausin & Stannard 2018; Carlson 2013). In light of the availability of evidence, some of the studies cited here instead supplement their findings by drawing on observational studies, and on studies on effective ICT usage from learners in non-refugee contexts (Burde et al. 2015; Tauson & Stannard 2018).
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

An Overview of ICT for Education of Refugees and IDPs​ - Joynes, D.; James, Z, (Department for International Development, 2018)

An Overview of Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Education in Development Contexts - Joynes, Chris (2019)
Traditionally, financing for social development in development settings has utilised bonds and guarantees. These mechanisms focused primarily on resource mobilization by leveraging the balance sheets of international finance institutions to make loans. However, since the mid-2000s, innovative financing has encouraged alternative models where private sector actors share the risks and rewards. This report reviews evidence on the use of Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) and Development Impact Bonds (DIBs) in India or other LMICs to deliver results in primary and secondary education. Evidence suggests that, in recent years, there has been a significant growth in the application of impact bonds in a range of global settings, including for education in LMICs. These mechanisms are seen to be particularly valuable when operating in complex, fluid contexts (REACH 2017), and, with appropriate design, can also contribute towards the development of wider systemic capacity.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

An overview of national AI strategies and policies - Angela, ATTREY (2021)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

An ROI Ed-Biz Approach for Deploying Mobile Pedagogy - McConatha, Douglas (Mobile Pedagogy and Perspectives on Teaching and Learning, 2014)
An ROI Ed-Biz Approach for Deploying Mobile Pedagogy: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4333-8.ch015: The long history and short past of online distance education is posited as a precursor to the monumental changes revolutionizing global educational activity.

Análise de programas estruturadores de saúde do Estado de Minas Gerais por meio de indicadores finalísticos - Santos, Geovana Maria Carmo; Silveira, Mauro César; Oliveira, Andre Correa de (Revista do Serviço Público, 2016)
O presente artigo visa analisar a relação entre o gasto nos programas estruturadores da área de saúde, do Governo de Minas Gerais, com os indicadores finalísticos da referida área, entre os anos de 2004 a 2013. Este estudo justifica-se pela possibilidade de se sinalizar a efetividade da alocação de recursos orçamentários, no âmbito da saúde, em face do modelo de Gestão para Resultados adotado pelo governo do estado. Os resultados encontrados sugerem uma forte correlação entre as variáveis, a despeito de três correlações consideradas não significativas, pelos cálculos estatísticos, e de uma das correlações que sinalizou uma relação contrária ao esperado. A análise de regressão confirmou a relação linear entre as variáveis, para os casos que se comportaram conforme a hipótese deste trabalho. A partir das entrevistas realizadas com dois gestores estaduais, apreende-se que, embora os indicadores não influam diretamente sobre a alocação de recursos, estes orientam o processo de implementação das políticas, sob uma perspectiva de priorização, e consistem, também, em importantes mecanismos para aperfeiçoamento do processo de gestão.
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Analysing Cost-Effectiveness Of Raising Learning For Marginalised Girls Through Camfed'S Programme: Methodological A Methodological Note - Delprato, Marcos; Alcott, Benjamin; Rose, Pauline; Sabates, Ricardo (Zenodo, 2017)
This note provides an overview of the methodological approach being taken to analyse cost-effectiveness of Camfed’s programme in Tanzania and Zimbabwei. It highlights the association between Value for Money and cost-effectiveness, and pays particular attention to the importance of measuring cost-effectiveness from an equity perspective. It further identifies the implications of calculating cost-effectiveness with consideration of sustainability, scalability and replicability of Camfed’s programme.

Analysing Digital Literacy Frameworks - Rosado, Eliana; Belisle, Claire (2006)
This paper presents the comparative analysis of ten frameworks for ICT and Education. These frameworks have been selected as representative of the different policies and strategies deployed by governments from the turn of the century to 2005 to address the digital literacy educational challenge. The analysis focuses on the characteristics of these frameworks, and on the ultimate results that have been attributed to them. A more detailed description of each one can be found in the accompanying information files that make up the annexes. Résumé : Ce document comporte une analyse comparative de dix programmes-cadres pour l'intégration des technologies de l'information et de la communication dans l'éducation. Ces programmes ont été sélectionnés en tant que représentatifs des différentes politiques et stratégies d'éducation mises en oeuvre par les gouvernements ces dix dernières années pour répondre au défi de la litéracie numérique. Cette analyse porte principalement sur les caractéristiques de ces programmes et sur les résultats qui leur ont été attribués. Une description plus complète de chaque programme est accessible dans le document annexe.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Analysing training needs of TVET teachers in South Africa. An empirical study - Zinn, Bernd; Raisch, Kevin; Reimann, Jennifer (International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2019)
Context: This paper reports on a study of the progress of vocational education and training (VET) and the need for further profession-oriented training of lecturers in public, technical vocational colleges in South Africa, under the consideration of societal and political conditions. Approach: The study is based on a mixed methods approach in which an analysis of educational policy documents and a qualitative and a quantitative study with VET teachers and representatives of education authorities in South Africa are conducted. Findings: The classification of the results is conducted in line with the conditions defined by Phillips and Ochs regarding policy transfers. The following can thus be observed through the bilateral relationship between Germany and South Africa: (1) The Guiding Philosophy of the educational system is characterised by societal and political power structures. This is evident in an analysis of approved reforms within the last two decades. (2) The desired effects of “Ambitions Goals” have thus far not taken hold. Nonetheless, there is a willingness to enact reforms to continue developing vocational education, including the training and further education of lecturers that must be noted. Minimum requirements regarding lecturers’ basic qualifications have been formulated, which one in five vocational lecturers in South Africa currently cannot fulfil. (3) The Strategies formulated to implement training methods face the main problem of difficulty in implementation in colleges. (4) The Enabling Structures, i.e. the education-management-system as well as the financial and personnel support of the educational system, are widely perceived by lecturers as unsupportive, ineffective and discriminatory. This is observed, for example, when looking at the equipment used, teachers’ salaries, classroom sizes as well as the mentorship programme and further training opportunities. (5) Processes: a discrepancy exists on the level of the lecturers and the central need for further training regarding modern technologies, especially those used by foreign firms in their production in South Africa. (6) The results of the conducted study document a high variation of qualifications among TVET lecturers when it examines their teaching Techniques. Conclusions: Overall, the empirical results of the study reveal a complex structure with respect to the requirements for further training of TVET lecturers, describe central needs for further training of lecturers and deliver connectable knowledge for both the practical educational advancement of lecturer training and further education training, as well as for research in the context of the internationalisation of vocational training in South Africa.

Analysis and Improvement of Classroom Teaching Based on Artificial Intelligence - Sun, Zhong; Yu, Zi Chun; Xu, Fei Yun (AI in Learning: Designing the Future, 2023)
Common classroom teaching analysis, which has focused on counting and coding the teacher-student behaviors and discourse interactions, faces many difficulties as content-free, low efficiency, and small scale in analysis. To overcome these shortcomings, and foster high-quality classroom teaching, the current study proposes a blended human and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology for classroom teaching analysis named as TESTII. It consists of five steps identifying teaching events, sequencing the pedagogies of classroom teaching structure, analyzing teacher-student interaction, interpreting teaching meaning, and providing improvement strategies for high-quality classroom teaching.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Classroom teaching analysis; Teaching events; Teaching structure

Analysis of factors affecting pupil performance in Malawi’s primary schools based on SACMEQ survey results - Mulera, David Mc W.J.; Ndala, Ken Kaziputa; Nyirongo, Richard (International Journal of Educational Development, 2017)
The paper employs techniques of multilevel modelling and geographical information systems (GIS) on Malawi’s SACMEQ1 I, II and III data to identify factors aﬀecting pupil performance in primary education of Malawi. The study reveals that in some districts pupils performed much better than others. Whilst in majority of cases the achievement levels of pupils were closely associated with the levels of inputs and services, there were some districts that did not demonstrate a positive correlation. The analysis further shows that pupils’ low socioeconomic status, high pupil-teacher ratios and the more time head teachers spent in teaching other than on school management were more signiﬁcant factors that negatively aﬀected pupil performance.
Keywords: _C:Botswana BWA; _C:Colombia COL; _C:Kenya KEN; _C:Laos LAO; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Mozambique MOZ; _C:Namibia NAM; _C:South Africa ZAF; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:Zimbabwe ZWE; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Analysis of Rural-Based Pre-Service Teachers Spatial-Visualisation Skills in Problem Solving in Vector Calculus Using MATLAB - Amevor, Godfred; Bayaga, Anass; Bosse, Michael (International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 2021)
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing

Analysis of the ICILS 2018 Results by Korean Students' Educational Experience in Computer and Information Literacy and Computational Thinking - Jeon, Seongkyun; Son, Yoonhee; Park, Sangwook (The Journal of Korean association of computer education, 2020)
Keywords: Final_citation; ⛔ No DOI found

Analysis of the reporting of search strategies in Cochrane systematic reviews - Yoshii, Adriana; Plaut, Daphne A.; McGraw, Kathleen A.; Anderson, Margaret J.; Wellik, Kay E. (Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2009)
Background: The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions provides instructions for documenting a systematic review's electronic database search strategy, listing elements that should be in the description. Complete documentation of the search strategy allows readers to evaluate the search when critically appraising a review's quality. Objective: The research analyzed recently published Cochrane reviews to determine whether instructions for describing electronic database search strategies were being followed. Methods: Eighty-three new reviews added to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in the first quarter of 2006 were selected for analysis. Eighteen were subsequently excluded because their searches were conducted only in the specialized registers of Cochrane review groups. The remaining sixty-five reviews were analyzed for the seven elements of an electronic database search strategy description listed in the Cochrane Handbook, using dual review with consensus. Results: Of the 65 reviews analyzed, none included all 7 recommended elements. Four reviews (6%) included 6 elements. Thirty-two percent (21/65) included 5 or more elements, with 68% (44/65) including 4 or fewer. Three included only 2 elements. The 65 reviews represented 41 different Cochrane review groups. Conclusion: The instructions from the Cochrane Handbook for reporting search strategies are not being consistently employed by groups producing Cochrane reviews.

Analysis report of data collected in Temeke schools - Toyinbo, Oluyemi; Villavicencio, Xuzel; Waziri, Nafisa; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: Internal; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Analyzing messages with typographic errors due to phonemic spellings using text-to-speech and speech-to-text algorithms - Pore, Meenal; Sengeh, David Moinina (International Business Machines Corp, 2019)
Keywords: api; audio file; speech; text; text message

Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching of Public School Teachers to Jobs: Disentangling the Preferences of Teachers and Employers - Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James (Journal of Labor Economics, 2013)

Analyzing the Impact of COVID-19 on Education Professionals. Toward a Paradigm Shift: ICT and Neuroeducation as a Binomial of Action - Espino-Díaz, Luis; Fernandez-Caminero, Gemma; Hernandez-Lloret, Carmen-Maria; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Hugo; Alvarez-Castillo, Jose-Luis (Sustainability, 2020)
This study analyzed the current situation of education in the context of the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The worldwide health emergency situation has caused the confinement of people and with it, the closure of centers and the transfer of face-to-face education to online education. Faced with these facts, teachers have had to adapt at a dizzying pace not only to new methodological approaches, but also to their own confinement, presenting high levels of stress. The purpose of this study is to offer a proposal that optimizes the work of education professionals in the current context of a pandemic through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) under the novel approach of the contributions of neuroeducation in the field of managing emotions and motivational processes, contributing to meaningful learning in students. The symbiosis of ICT and neuroeducation can make a great contribution to the paradigm shift that is taking place today.
Keywords: COVID-19; ICT; __C:filed:1; neuroeducation; stress; teachers

Analyzing the past to prepare for the future: writing a literature review - Webster, J; Watson, RT (MIS Quarterly, 2002)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Animal Sourced Foods (ASF): Evidence on Stunting and Programmes to Increase Consumption - Bolton, Laura (2019)
Animal source foods (ASF) are an important source of nutrients. They are a particularly good source of iron and zinc which prevents stunting. The main factors affecting ASF consumption that were discussed in the literature identified were nutritional knowledge, price, and livestock production. Broader links between poverty and ASF were not discussed within the scope of this report. Nutritional knowledge should first be assessed before education programmes are devised. Many communities have nutritional knowledge and the cost of ASFs was found to be the biggest barrier. Price ratios show how unaffordable ASFs are in poorer regions. Livestock production tends to be positively associated with increased ASF consumption. Increased risk of diseases passed on by animals should be considered. Information may also need to be given so that breast-feeding is not replaced by milk consumption in households that own cows. A small number of intervention evidence was identified in this rapid review though the list is unlikely to be exhaustive. ASF consumption was found to increase in Nepal following a poverty alleviation programme with a focus on livestock production. A health and nutrition education programme in India found a significant increase in egg consumption. A school-feeding programme which supplemented children with eggs found positive results on stunting. There are concerns over the environmental impact of animal production which warrant attention. There wasn’t scope within this report to explore ASF alternatives which may also improve stunting.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Annotated Bibliography: Approaches to psycho-social support in protracted crises - Boateng, Pearl (2017)
This annotated bibliography highlights 14 key resources drawn from the studies which underpinned the questions answered in this helpdesk report. Some selection criteria included the source’s relevance to the query, recent publication, contextual relevance and methodology. The sources below are grouped into three sets: those selected based on their relevance to the Syrian context; those selected based on their focus on evidence of best practice psycho-social support in conflict/post-conflict settings; toolkits and guidelines to support decision-making and practitioners
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Announcement of the EdTech Hub: UK aid funds world’s biggest educational technology research project – Open Development & Education (2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Annual Report - Roger Federer Foundation (Roger Federer Foundation -, 2018)

'Another Way of Looking' (on hearing the Death of Muammar al-Gaddafi - Ajadi, S.B. (2011)

Antecedents and Consequences of Teachers’ Emotional Labor: a Systematic Review and Meta-analytic Investigation - Wang, Hui; Hall, Nathan C.; Taxer, Jamie L. (Educational Psychology Review, 2019)
Emotional labor represents a long-standing area of research that since its initial development by Hochschild (1983) has been increasingly explored to understand why and how teachers manage and express their emotions in class. However, previous studies investigating teachers’ emotional labor have utilized varying conceptual frameworks and have often shown inconsistent effects, particularly concerning deep acting (i.e., the internalization of desired emotions such that expressed emotions are more consistent with experienced emotions). The current systematic review aimed to outline and summarize existing research findings on teachers’ emotional labor and is supplemented by a meta-analytic investigation on the connection between teachers’ emotional labor and psychological well-being. Practical implications, limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Belgium BEL; _C:Canada CAN; _C:China CHN; _C:France FRA; _C:Germany DEU; _C:Malaysia MYS; _C:Netherlands NLD; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Poland POL; _C:Romania ROU; _C:Turkey TUR; _C:United Kingdom GBR; _C:United States USA; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

Antigua and Barbuda: Safe Education Sector Plan - Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Villavicencio, Xuzel; Moustafa, Nariman; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2022)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/
Keywords: _internal; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Antigua and Barbuda: Safe Education Sector Plan - Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Villavicencio, Xuzel; Moustafa, Nariman; Haßler, Björn (Open Development & Education, 2022)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://opendeved.net/

Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage: Anwerbung von Pflege- und Gesundheitsfachkräften durch die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Zentrale Auslands- und Fachvermittlung und die Bundesagentur für Arbeit im Rahmen des Projekts „Triple Win“, Bundestags-Drucksache 19/16732. - Bundesregierung (2020)

Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring and Student Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic - Carlana, Michela; Ferrara, Eliana (2021)
Keywords: Final_citation

'Apoptosis in City Systems: A Biomimetic Approach to City Regeneration' - Ajadi, S.B. (Journal of Planning and Construction Management, 2014)
Keywords: ⚠️ Invalid DOI

App clusters: Exploring patterns of multiple app use in primary learning contexts - Howard, Sarah K.; Yang, Jie; Ma, Jun; Maton, Karl; Rennie, Ellie (Computers & Education, 2018)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Appendix 1. Annotated bibliography - Haßler, Björn; Haseloff, Gesine; Adam, Taskeen; Akoojee, S.; Allier-Gagneur, Zoé; Ayika, S.; Bahloul, K.; Kigwilu, P. Changilwa; Costa, D. Da; Damani, Kalifa; Gordon, Rebecca; Idris, A.; et al. (Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape, 2020)
This chapter/appendix forms part of the full report: Haßler et al. (2020). Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape (1st ed.). VET Repository, Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Bonn, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4264612. The document is available under Creative Commons Attribution, and both a PDF and a Word document are avaialable.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; Björn-CV-OECS; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:aa1

Appendix 1: Statistical Methods. In: Do cognitive interventions improve general cognition in dementia? A meta-analysis and meta-regression - Huntley, J. D.; Gould, R. L.; Liu, K.; Smith, M.; Howard, R. J. (British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2015)
Keywords: GERIATRIC MEDICINE

Appendix 2. Methodology for the Interviews and Structured Community Review - Haßler, Björn; Haseloff, Gesine; Adam, Taskeen; Akoojee, S.; Allier-Gagneur, Zoé; Ayika, S.; Bahloul, K.; Kigwilu, P. Changilwa; Costa, D. Da; Damani, Kalifa; Gordon, Rebecca; Idris, A.; et al. (Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape, 2020)
This chapter/appendix forms part of the full report: Haßler et al. (2020). Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape (1st ed.). VET Repository, Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Bonn, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4264612. The document is available under Creative Commons Attribution, and both a PDF and a Word document are avaialable.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; Björn-CV-OECS; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:aa2

Appendix 3. Results of the SCR - Haßler, Björn; Haseloff, Gesine; Adam, Taskeen; Akoojee, S.; Allier-Gagneur, Zoé; Ayika, S.; Bahloul, K.; Kigwilu, P. Changilwa; Costa, D. Da; Damani, Kalifa; Gordon, Rebecca; Idris, A.; et al. (Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape, 2020)
This chapter/appendix forms part of the full report: Haßler et al. (2020). Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape (1st ed.). VET Repository, Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Bonn, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4264612. The document is available under Creative Commons Attribution, and both a PDF and a Word document are avaialable.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; Björn-CV-OECS; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:aa3

Appendix 4. Bibliography - Haßler, Björn; Haseloff, Gesine; Adam, Taskeen; Akoojee, S.; Allier-Gagneur, Zoé; Ayika, S.; Bahloul, K.; Kigwilu, P. Changilwa; Costa, D. Da; Damani, Kalifa; Gordon, Rebecca; Idris, A.; et al. (Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape, 2020)
This chapter/appendix forms part of the full report: Haßler et al. (2020). Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape (1st ed.). VET Repository, Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Bonn, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4264612. The document is available under Creative Commons Attribution, and both a PDF and a Word document are avaialable.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; Björn-CV-OECS; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:aa4

Appendix 5. List of Additional Materials - Haßler, Björn; Haseloff, Gesine; Adam, Taskeen; Akoojee, S.; Allier-Gagneur, Zoé; Ayika, S.; Bahloul, K.; Kigwilu, P. Changilwa; Costa, D. Da; Damani, Kalifa; Gordon, Rebecca; Idris, A.; et al. (Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape, 2020)
This chapter/appendix forms part of the full report: Haßler et al. (2020). Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Research Landscape (1st ed.). VET Repository, Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, Bonn, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4264612. The document is available under Creative Commons Attribution, and both a PDF and a Word document are avaialable.
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; Björn-CV-OECS; _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence; _yl:aa5

Application and Research of Basketball Tactics Teaching Assisted by Computer Multimedia Technology - Yu, Lei; Li, Dong; Chen, Dong; Li, Wenbin (Springer, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Application of Crime Risk Mapping Within the School Focus Area in Kota Kinabalu Using GIS - Kalang, Lizalin; Eboy, Oliver (2019)
Crime is an inevitable social problem that is facing by most countries around the world. Criminal behaviour brings a significant negative consequence of urban development. A lot of changes will occur to the economic, demographic, political, cultural, technological and social because of urbanization. The rise in crime issues due to urban development lead urban schools to be threatened with criminal activity. Regarding this, school safety should not be compromised for schools in the city, especially in high schools. Lack of research on criminal issues from many disciplines, especially in Geography is one of the major cause of ineffectiveness in crime prevention. Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system based on the use of computers for the purpose of obtaining, storing, analyzing and presenting spatial data. This paper focuses on the application of GIS as a tool used in geography for crime mapping. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to provide recommendations for high-risk crime mapping for schools in Kota Kinabalu area. The objectives of this study are identifying the type of crime in the study area and identify the behavioural patterns of the crime using GIS analysis. This study using the property and violent crime statistics data of Kota Kinabalu city for the year 2018 obtained from Sabah's Contingent Headquarters (IPK) in Kepayan. GIS analysis used in this study includes classification, interpolation using Inverse Distance Weight (IDW), buffering, and overlay. Based on the findings in this study, all zones in the study area are affected by property and violent crime. There are high schools located in areas with a high risk of property and violent crime Meanwhile, the high school that affected by both types of crime is Sekolah Menengah Agama Toh Puan Hajah Rahmah.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Application of Language Models for the Segmentation of Website Visitors - Stöckl, Andreas; Krauss, Oliver (Intelligent Systems and Applications, 2024)

Application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Technology in Mobile Communication Network - Huang, Shutong (IEEE, 2023)

Application of Multitemporal Landsat Data in Mapping of Saline Soil in Kano River Irrigation Scheme (KRIS) - Mohammed, Dahiru; Maina, M. M.; Audu, I.; Tudunwada, I. Y.; Nasiru, N. K.; Nasidi, N. M.; Umar, S. E. (FUDMA JOURNAL OF SCIENCES, 2023)
Soil salinization is becoming a more serious issue threatening agricultural production and the sustainable use of land resources. Crop roots are unable to absorb water from the soil when exposed to saline conditions. This study explored the potential of Landsat imagery in detecting and mapping saline soil in the Kano River Irrigation Scheme (KRIS).  Samples of soil were collected from thirty-nine (39) sectors of the KRIS for ground truthing on 20th – 25th April, 2020. Electrical Conductivity (EC) of field samples were correlated with band values of satellite images and salinity indices in order to determine their relationship and assess their effectiveness in predicting soil salinity. Using a geospatial approach, the data was analyzed and maps of salt-affected areas were generated. ArcGIS 10.6 was used as the primary package for modeling and running functions. The result has shown that the EC values over the entire study area are greater than 1.3 dS/m. However, the mean value of EC is approximately 1.91 dS/m. The implication is that, most of the vegetables such as Onion, Carrot, and Beans grown in the KRIS will experience yield reduction without appropriate management practice as their threshold value has been exceeded.

Application of Multitemporal Landsat Data in Mapping of Saline Soils in Kano River Irrigation Scheme (KRIS (FUDMA Journal of Sciences (FJS) ISSN online: 2616-1370 ISSN print, 2023)

Application of the constructivist methods of teaching-learning through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Zambian Schools: A case of three Secondary Schools in Lusaka - Bahufite, Eric (The University of Zambia, 2015)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Applications of machine learning and deep learning methods for climate change mitigation and adaptation - Ladi, Tahmineh; Jabalameli, Shaghayegh; Sharifi, Ayyoob (Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2022)
Climate change is a global issue that must be considered and addressed immediately. Many articles have been published on climate change mitigation and adaptation. However, new methods are required to explore the complexities of climate change and provide more efficient and effective adaptation and mitigation policies. With the advancement of technology, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods have gained considerable popularity in many fields, including climate change. This paper aims to explore the most popular ML and DL methods that have been applied for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Another aim is to determine the most common mitigation and adaptation measures/actions in general, and in urban areas in particular, that have been studied using ML and DL methods. For this purpose, word frequency analysis and topic modeling, specifically the Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) as a ML algorithm, are used in this study. The results indicate that the most popular ML technique in both climate change mitigation and adaptation is the Artificial Neural Network. Moreover, among different research areas related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, geoengineering, and land surface temperature are the ones that have used ML and DL algorithms the most.

Applications of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) on Environmental Management – a synoptic view - Tudunwada, I.Y. (Paper presented to the Nigerian Environmental Society on, 2009)

Applications of Remote Sensing in Horticulture, being key note address to the 32nd Annual Conference of the Horticultural Society of Nigeria (HORTSON - Tudunwada, I.Y. (Federal university of Agriculture, 2014)

Applying Behavioural Insights in EdTech - An incomplete guide - Owen, Hannah; Chadeesingh, Lal; Arnold, Brian (2020)

Applying the flipped classroom instructional model to rural online tutoring program in upper elementary mathematics - Chen, Q.; Kao, T.-C. (Contemporary Educational Research Quarterly, 2019)
Purpose The purpose of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of applying the Flipped Classroom Instructional Model to the rural online tutoring program for Upper Elementary Mathematics. Design/methodology/approach The study took the unequal-group pretest-posttest quasiexperimental design to conduct the teaching experiment. The research setting was the Digital Partner Online Tutoring Program of National Dong-Hwa University, which was supported by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan government. The participants consist of 54 upper grade students from rural elementary schools, with 25 students in the experimental group and 29 students in the control group. The effectiveness of the experiment was detected by the factorial design of covariance with pretest as covariate and grade level as moderator. Findings The results of the study indicated that the experimental group's overall learning performance on posttests was significantly better than the control group's after the effect of pretests had been controlled. And the differences all achieved medium effect size. Among the four mathematical concepts, the differences on the two more advanced ones, "Common Factor" and "Common Multiple" even achieved large effect size. Originality/value The application of "Flipped classroom model" in various fields provides a prospective possibility for teaching innovation. Its critical factors, "using technology" and "participatory interaction", exactly match the characteristics of the on-line tutoring program, including the on-line learning environment and the one-on-one interaction. The study provides empirical evidence for the effectiveness of applying the Flipped Classroom Model to the online tutoring program. © Centre for Educational Research and Evaluation 2019.
Keywords: Flipped classroom instructional model; On-line tutoring; Remedial instruction; Upper elementary mathematics; _AcademicRecoveryOECS

Applying the science of learning to EdTech evidence evaluations using the EdTech Evidence Evaluation Routine (EVER) - Kucirkova, Natalia; Brod, Garvin; Gaab, Nadine (npj Science of Learning, 2023)
Keywords: Education; Final_citation; Human behaviour; Policy; existing

Apprenticeship in a Globalised World: Premises, Promises and Pitfalls - Akoojee, Salim (LIT Verlag Münster, 2013)
In April 2013, the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship (INAP) hosted its fifth international conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, in co-operation with the International Labor Organization (ILO), bringing together researchers, policy makers, and practitioners from 34 nations. The title of the conference - "Apprenticeship in a Globalized World: Premises, Promises and Pitfalls" - points out the need for apprenticeship to deliver on its promise of workplace skills and for it to develop and change as world economies develop. An international exchange of ideas among researchers from all over the world is necessary to identify cases of good practice and facilitate the transfer of knowledge and innovation, also within the frame of informal apprenticeships. This book, a summary of the papers presented and discussed at the Johannesburg conference, is split up equally into five key topics: Introducing Apprenticeship: Backgrounds, Changes, and Difficulties * Enabling Learning Opportunities in Workplaces and Informal Contexts * Competence Assessment and Development * Managing Transitions from VET into the World of Work * Curriculum Design, Apprenticeships, and National Qualification Frameworks. (Series: Bildung und Arbeitswelt - Vol. 27)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; Education / Professional Development; publicImportV1

Apprenticeship Strategies Among Dii Potters from Cameroon, West Africa - Wallaert, H (2008)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:West Africa; C:Cameroon; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:T; T:Lehrlingsausbildung; T:apprentice; publicImportV1

Apprentissages scolaires et technologies numériques: une revue critique des méta-analyses - Leroux, Gabrielle; Monteil, Jean-Marc; Huguet, Pascal (L’Année psychologique, 2017)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; literature / systematic review

Approaches and Models for Teaching Digital Ethics in Information Systems Courses–A Review of the Literature - Paltiel, Minna; Cheong, Marc; Coghlan, Simon; Lederman, Reeva (Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 2023)

Approaches to Designing Justice-oriented MOOCs. Presentation to Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), University of Cape Town - Adam, Taskeen (Open Development & Education, 2023)
An output of the Open Development & Education, https://.opendeved.net/
Keywords: _comingsoon; _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Approaches to Managing Public Sector Basic Education Systems for Delivery of School and Classroom-Focused Results - Joynes, Chris (2018)
This report provides a summary of global evidence on effective approaches to improving and reforming public sector basic education systems with a particular focus on delivery of school and classroom-focused results. In keeping with the request, the scope of the report focusses primarily on emerging practices associated with financial management, HR Management, and the use of data-gathering and evidence to inform decision-making at all levels of the system.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Approaches to Open Education and Social Justice Research - Lambert, Sarah; Czerniewicz, Laura (Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020)
Article: Approaches to Open Education and Social Justice Research

Approaches to providing psycho -social support for children, teachers and other school staff, and social and emotional learning for children in protracted conflict situations - Mattingly, Jacqui (2017)
Whilst the provision of psychosocial activities is regularly mentioned in documents referring to the humanitarian response to education, there is a dearth of literature that refers to exactly what these programmes consist of, and how effective they are. There is, however, widespread recognition of the importance of providing psycho-social interventions to counter the impact of traumatisation on children and youth’s well-being and mental health, which can manifest in depression, shame, withdrawal or aggression.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Approaches to providing psycho-social support for teachers and other school staff in protracted conflict situations - Ahmed, Hassan (2017)
This report summarises available literature and evidence relating to the above two specific questions. The geographical focus of this research is Syria and neighbouring countries. However, examples of evidence from different contexts are also drawn to inform this review. Education and psychosocial support are purported to have a dynamic and mutually reinforcing relationship. The Education For All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report for 2011 (UNESCO 2011) focused on education in conflict settings and recognised the importance of psychosocial interventions in addressing the negative effects of conflict, including depression, trauma, shame and withdrawal, which can have significant consequences for individual learning. According to UNICEF (2009) effective child-centred learning is important in promoting the psychosocial well-being of both learners and teachers. Evidence shows that students’ relationships with teachers are important predictors for academic performance and positive health and social behaviours. Several meta-studies identified perceptions of teacher fairness and teacher respect for students as important contributors to resilience and psychosocial wellbeing.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Approaches to teacher professional development in low-to-middle-income countries - Power, Tom (Sustainable English language teacher development at scale: lessons from Bangladesh, 2019)
This chapter begins by situating discussion of approaches to teacher development (TD) in the context of the grand societal challenge of Education for All (UNESCO 2014), as written into the earlier Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and now Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4:‘to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all.’ This goal cannot be met without addressing the stark and urgent need for greater numbers of teachers who are adequately equipped with the knowledge and skills to enable effective student learning. Drawing upon personal experiences of work with teachers in LMICs over nearly two decades, the chapter argues against ‘blaming teachers’ for poor student learning outcomes, and advocates instead the development of better understandings of the often challenging contexts in which teachers practise. The chapter then critically examines common approaches to TD that have often failed adequately to equip teachers for classroom practice, outlining a broadly supported agenda for reform. Recent literature has begun to identify certain characteristics of TD programmes that are increasingly associated with effective student outcomes, in what may be an emerging consensus. These characteristics are briefly outlined, before the chapter closes with lessons learned from English in Action. EIA has both contributed to and benefitted from this emerging evidence base and Chapter 5 illustrates how the implementation of EIA exemplifies such characteristics through a cohesive programme design.
Keywords: Important; Read

Appropriateness and adequacy of teaching and learning resources and students’ industrial attachment in public colleges of technical and vocational education in Zambia. - Mulenga, Innocent Mutale; Chileshe, Edward King (2020)

Approximating the Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice - Allende, Claudia; Gallego, Francisco; Nielson, Chistopher (2019)
This paper studies the potential small and large scale effects of a policy designed to produce more informed consumers in the market for primary education. We develop and test a personalized information provision intervention that targets families of public Pre-K students entering elementary schools in Chile. Using a randomized control trial, we ﬁnd that the intervention shifts parents’ choices toward schools with higher average test scores, higher value added, higher prices, and schools that tend to be further from their homes. Tracking students with administrative data, we ﬁnd that student academic achievement on test scores was approximately 0.2 standard deviations higher among treated families ﬁve years after the intervention. To quantitatively gauge how average treatment effects might vary in a scaled up version of this policy, we embed the randomized control trial within a structural model of school choice and competition where price and quality are chosen endogenously and schools face capacity constraints. We use the estimated model of demand and supply to simulate policy effects under different assumptions about equilibrium constraints. In counterfactual simulations, we ﬁnd that capacity constraints play an important role mitigating the policy effect but in several scenarios, the supply-side response increases quality, which contributes to an overall positive average treatment effect. Finally, we show how the estimated model can inform the design of a large scale experiment such that reduced form estimates can capture equilibrium effects and spillovers.
Keywords: Final_citation; cited; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Approximating the Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice. - Allende, Claudia; Gallego, Francisco; Nielson, Christopher (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Apps as learning tools: a systematic review - Griffith, Shayl F.; Hagan, Mary B.; Heymann, Perrine; Heflin, Brynna H.; Bagner, Daniel M. (Pediatrics, 2020)
Keywords: __C:filed:1

Apps Developed by Academics - Shing, Sophia; Yuan, Benjamin (Journal of Education and Practice, 2016)
In the days of the digital Wild West, developers from all backgrounds have joined in the gold rush trying to profit from the almost unbridled spending of well-to-do parents on educational products. In 2016, the Apple App Store had over 80,000 educational apps. The proliferation of educational apps has happened at a furious pace and more apps are being introduced constantly. Although apps are labeled as educational, they are not held to any science-based standards or subject to any certification (Hirsch-Pasek, et al. 2015). With the boom in new apps introduced every year, there is simply not enough time, money, or resources available to evaluate each app as it enters the market. As a result, “educational” apps are largely unregulated and untested. As a result, app users are misled and are spending money on products which are not actually educational. The real experts – researchers, teachers and educational specialists – need to take over the driver seat in this important and evolving realm of educational apps with the developers playing the supporting role instead of the leading role. With increasingly lowered cost and ease of development to produce an app, academics who do not have vast financial resources or substantial technical knowledge are able to create truly impactful, pedagogically-based apps either by themselves or outsourcing to development services. Although technology promises to be transformative, educational content must remain the main thrust of any educational mobile app development and not technology. Educational apps need to have the experts involved. It is time that education is put back in its rightful, central position.
Keywords: Final_citation; anystyle; existing; ⛔ No DOI found

Aprendizagem móvel baseada em jogos de realidade aumentada: ensino de professores com a aplicação EduPARK - Pombo, Lúcia; Marques, Margarida Morais; Carlos, Vânia (Da Investigação às Práticas, 2019)
Keywords: __C:filed:1; ⛔ No DOI found

Aprendizaje híbrido Experiencias internacionales con enfoque multimodal - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Coflan, Caitlin (2022)
Esta presentación se elaboró originalmente para una serie de seminarios web sobre aprendizaje blended e híbrido para UNICEF El Salvador y el Ministerio de Educación de El Salvador. Los talleres en línea se impartieron en dos sesiones, con los profesores de El Salvador como parte fundamental de la audiencia. Junto con las lecciones aprendidas de las diversas iniciativas internacionales mapeadas, también se tocaron temas como la infraestructura de las TIC del país y la relevancia de un enfoque de Aprendizaje Socioemocional (SEL). Keywords: híbrido; blended; multimodal; El Salvador; capacitación docente; aprendizaje socioemocional An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
Keywords: _r:AddedByZotZen

Arabic version of Design Thinking for Educators - Khalayleh, Abdullah (2020)
Keywords: _r:ImportedToMyEducationEvidence

Arbeitsmarktorientierte Berufsbildung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des sog. informellen Sektors in Burkina Faso - Sawadogo, Wendkouni J Eric (University of Dresden, 2012)

Architecture of Sysperanto: a model-based ontology of the is field - Alter, S. (Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2005)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Are Educational Vouchers Only Redistributive? - Bettinger, E.; Kremer, M.; Saavedra, J.E. (CESifo Conference Center, 2008)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Are Our Children Learning? The Status of Remote-learning among School-going Children in Kenya during the Covid-19 Crisis. - Uwezo Kenya (Uwezo, 2020)
Keywords: _COVID-Continuity-Blogpost-01; _COVID_DEAA-List

Are scripted lessons in for-profit schools ‘‘an audacious answer” for poor kids in Africa and Asia? [Web log post] - , D (Learning and teaching materials: Policy and practice for provision, 2015)

Are students still learning during COVID-19? Formative assessment can provide the answer - Liberman, Julia; Levin, Victoria; Luna-Bazaldua, Diego (World Bank Blogs, 2020)
As schools around the world have closed due to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (and many have extended closures for the remainder of the school year), students, teachers, and parents are settling into the "new reality" for the foreseeable future.

Are we remote learning? - Haßler, Björn (2021)
Keywords: Author:Haßler; Author:OpenDevEd; AuthorFirst:Haßler; _forthcoming

Arizona literature mapper: an integrated approach to monitor and analyze global bioterrorism research literature - Dang, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Chen, H. (Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009)

Arm-Wrestling in the Classroom: the Non-Monotonic Effects of Monitoring Teachers - Lichand, Guilherme; Wolf, Sharon (SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020)

'Arms' length' - Ajadi, S.B. (Literary Juice Magazine, 2012)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

ARP Phase I Implementation Progress Report - Gonsalves, Sarah-Lee; Regis, Callista; Megha-Bongnkar, Ghislaine; Haßler, Björn (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, 2022)
Keywords: Author:OpenDevEd

Article processing charges are stalling the progress of African researchers: a call for urgent reforms - Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet; Asamani, James Avoka; Nyirenda, Thomas; Abimbola, Seye (BMJ Global Health, 2020)

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Russell, SJ; Norvig, P (Pearson Education Limited, 2016)

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled remote learning and teaching using Pedagogical Conversational Agents and Learning Analytics - Atif, Amara; Jha, Meena; Richards, Deborah; Bilgin, Ayse A. (Intelligent systems and learning data analytics in online education, 2021)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in early childhood education: Curriculum design and future directions - Su, Jiahong; Zhong, Yuchun (Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 2022)
Keywords: ❓ Multiple DOI

Artificial intelligence (AI) student assistants in the classroom: Designing chatbots to support student success - Chen, Yu; Jensen, Scott; Albert, Leslie J.; Gupta, Sambhav; Lee, Terri (Information Systems Frontiers, 2023)
Keywords: _z:no_pdf

Artificial intelligence and climate change - Stein, Amy L. (Yale J. on Reg., 2020)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Artificial intelligence and digital transformation: competencies for civil servants - UNESCO (2022)

Artificial intelligence and education: a critical view through the lens of human rights, democracy and the rule of law - Holmes, Wayne; Persson, Jen; Chounta, Irene-Angelica; Wasson, Barbara; Dimitrova, Vania (Council of Europe, 2022)
The aim of this book is to provide a holistic view to ensure that AI empowers educators and learners, not over-empowers them, and that future developments and practices are truly for the common good. Artificial intelligence (Al) is increasingly having an impact on education, bringing opportunities as well as numerous challenges. These observations were noted by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers in 2019 and led to the commissioning of this report, which sets out to examine the connections between Al and education (AI&ED). In particular, the report presents an overview of AI&ED seen through the lens of the Council of Europe values of human rights, democracy and the rule of law; and it provides a critical analysis of the academic evidence and the myths and hype. The Covid-19 pandemic school shutdowns triggered a rushed adoption of educational technology, which increasingly includes AI-assisted classrooms tools (AIED). This AIED, which by definition is designed to influence child development, also impacts on critical issues such as privacy, agency and human dignity – all of which are yet to be fully explored and addressed. But AI&ED is not only about teaching and learning with AI, but also teaching and learning about AI (AI literacy), addressing both the technological dimension and the often-forgotten human dimension of AI. The report concludes with a provisional needs analysis – the aim being to stimulate further critical debate by the Council of Europe’s member states and other stakeholders and to ensure that education systems respond both proactively and effectively to the numerous opportunities and challenges introduced by AI&ED

Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Decision Support Systems - Cortés, U.; Sànchez-Marrè, M.; Ceccaroni, L.; R-Roda, I.; Poch, M. (Applied Intelligence, 2000)

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation - Natani, Garima (Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Computing, 2023)
Keywords: _z:no_pdf

Artificial intelligence and management: the automation-augmentation paradox - Raisch, S; Krakowski, S (Academy of Management Review, 2020)

Artificial intelligence and the conduct of literature reviews - Wagner, Gerit; Lukyanenko, Roman; Paré, Guy (Journal of Information Technology, 2022)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to transform traditional research practices in many areas. In this context, literature reviews stand out because they operate on large and rapidly growing volumes of documents, that is, partially structured (meta)data, and pervade almost every type of paper published in information systems research or related social science disciplines. To familiarize researchers with some of the recent trends in this area, we outline how AI can expedite individual steps of the literature review process. Considering that the use of AI in this context is in an early stage of development, we propose a comprehensive research agenda for AI-based literature reviews (AILRs) in our field. With this agenda, we would like to encourage design science research and a broader constructive discourse on shaping the future of AILRs in research.
Keywords: _Added-ailr-2024; _important-ailr-2024

Artificial intelligence-based conversational agents for chronic conditions: systematic literature review - Schachner, Theresa; Keller, Roman; v Wangenheim, Florian (Journal of medical Internet research, 2020)

Artificial Intelligence Basics - Taulli, T; Oni, M (Apress, 2019)

Artificial Intelligence Ethics from the Perspective of Educational Technology Companies and Schools - Kousa, Päivi; Niemi, Hannele (AI in Learning: Designing the Future, 2023)
This chapter discusses the ethical issues and solutions that educational technology (EdTech) companies and schools consider during their daily work. As an example, two Finnish cases are provided, in which companies and schools were interviewed about the problems they have experienced. The chapter first reviews the regulations and guidelines behind ethical AI. There are a vast number of guidelines, regulations, and principles for ethical AI, but implementation guidelines for how that knowledge should be put into practices are lacking. The problem is acute because, with the quick pace of technological development, schools are in danger of being left behind without sufficient education for effectively managing their uses of AI’s possibilities and coping with its challenges. Issues related to security and trustworthiness are also a growing concern. This chapter does not solve the ethical problems experienced by companies and schools but brings new perspectives into view in how they appear in the light of ethical principles such as beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, and explicability. The aim is not only to continue the discussion in the field but to find ways to reduce the gap between decision-makers, businesses, and schools.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; EdTech companies; Ethical challenges; Ethical principles; Schools

Artificial intelligence faces reproducibility crisis - Hutson, M. (Science, 2018)

Artificial intelligence for climate change adaptation - Cheong, So‐Min; Sankaran, Kris; Bastani, Hamsa (WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2022)
Abstract Although artificial intelligence (AI; inclusive of machine learning) is gaining traction supporting climate change projections and impacts, limited work has used AI to address climate change adaptation. We identify this gap and highlight the value of AI especially in supporting complex adaptation choices and implementation. We illustrate how AI can effectively leverage precise, real‐time information in data‐scarce settings. We focus on supervised learning, transfer learning, reinforcement learning, and multimodal learning to illustrate how innovative AI methods can enable better‐informed choices, tailor adaptation measures to heterogenous groups and generate effective synergies and trade‐offs. This article is categorized under: Application Areas > Government and Public Sector

Artificial Intelligence for Literature Reviews: Opportunities and Challenges - Bolanos, Francisco; Salatino, Angelo; Osborne, Francesco; Motta, Enrico (arXiv, 2024)
This manuscript presents a comprehensive review of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs). A SLR is a rigorous and organised methodology that assesses and integrates previous research on a given topic. Numerous tools have been developed to assist and partially automate the SLR process. The increasing role of AI in this field shows great potential in providing more effective support for researchers, moving towards the semi-automatic creation of literature reviews. Our study focuses on how AI techniques are applied in the semi-automation of SLRs, specifically in the screening and extraction phases. We examine 21 leading SLR tools using a framework that combines 23 traditional features with 11 AI features. We also analyse 11 recent tools that leverage large language models for searching the literature and assisting academic writing. Finally, the paper discusses current trends in the field, outlines key research challenges, and suggests directions for future research.
Keywords: Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Science - Information Retrieval

Artificial intelligence for strengthening healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review - Ciecierski-Holmes, Tadeusz; Singh, Ritvij; Axt, Miriam; Brenner, Stephan; Barteit, Sandra (npj Digital Medicine, 2022)
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), AI has been promoted as a potential means of strengthening healthcare systems by a growing number of publications. We aimed to evaluate the scope and nature of AI technologies in the specific context of LMICs. In this systematic scoping review, we used a broad variety of AI and healthcare search terms. Our literature search included records published between 1st January 2009 and 30th September 2021 from the Scopus, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Global Health and APA PsycInfo databases, and grey literature from a Google Scholar search. We included studies that reported a quantitative and/or qualitative evaluation of a real-world application of AI in an LMIC health context. A total of 10 references evaluating the application of AI in an LMIC were included. Applications varied widely, including: clinical decision support systems, treatment planning and triage assistants and health chatbots. Only half of the papers reported which algorithms and datasets were used in order to train the AI. A number of challenges of using AI tools were reported, including issues with reliability, mixed impacts on workflows, poor user friendliness and lack of adeptness with local contexts. Many barriers exists that prevent the successful development and adoption of well-performing, context-specific AI tools, such as limited data availability, trust and evidence of cost-effectiveness in LMICs. Additional evaluations of the use of AI in healthcare in LMICs are needed in order to identify their effectiveness and reliability in real-world settings and to generate understanding for best practices for future implementations.
Keywords: Health policy; Translational research

Artificial intelligence for sustainability: Challenges, opportunities, and a research agenda - Nishant, Rohit; Kennedy, Mike; Corbett, Jacqueline (International Journal of Information Management, 2020)

Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Review - Chen, Lijia; Chen, Pingping; Lin, Zhijian (IEEE Access, 2020)
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on education. Premised on a narrative and framework for assessing AI identified from a preliminary analysis, the scope of the study was limited to the application and effects of AI in administration, instruction, and learning. A qualitative research approach, leveraging the use of literature review as a research design and approach was used and effectively facilitated the realization of the study purpose. Artificial intelligence is a field of study and the resulting innovations and developments that have culminated in computers, machines, and other artifacts having human-like intelligence characterized by cognitive abilities, learning, adaptability, and decision-making capabilities. The study ascertained that AI has extensively been adopted and used in education, particularly by education institutions, in different forms. AI initially took the form of computer and computer related technologies, transitioning to web-based and online intelligent education systems, and ultimately with the use of embedded computer systems, together with other technologies, the use of humanoid robots and web-based chatbots to perform instructors' duties and functions independently or with instructors. Using these platforms, instructors have been able to perform different administrative functions, such as reviewing and grading students' assignments more effectively and efficiently, and achieve higher quality in their teaching activities. On the other hand, because the systems leverage machine learning and adaptability, curriculum and content has been customized and personalized in line with students' needs, which has fostered uptake and retention, thereby improving learners experience and overall quality of learning.
Keywords: Education; Learning (artificial intelligence); Microcomputers; Robots; Technological innovation; artificial intelligence; leaner

Artificial Intelligence in Education as a Rawlsian Massively Multiplayer Game: A Thought Experiment on AI Ethics - Cowley, Benjamin Ultan; Charles, Darryl; Pfuhl, Gerit; Rusanen, Anna-Mari (AI in Learning: Designing the Future, 2023)
In this chapter, we reflect on the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) as a pedagogical and educational instrument and the challenges that arise to ensure transparency and fairness to staff and students . We describe a thought experiment: ‘simulation of AI in education as a massively multiplayer social online game’ (AIEd-MMOG). Here, all actors (humans, institutions, AI agents and algorithms) are required to conform to the definition of a player. Models of player behaviour that ‘understand’ the game space provide an application programming interface for typical algorithms, e.g. deep learning neural nets or reinforcement learning agents, to interact with humans and the game space. The definition of ‘player’ is a role designed to maximise protection and benefit for human players during interaction with AI. The concept of benefit maximisation is formally defined as a Rawlsian justice game, played within the AIEd-MMOG to facilitate transparency and trust of the algorithms involved, without requiring algorithm-specific technical solutions to, e.g. ‘peek inside the black box’. Our thought experiment for an AIEd-MMOG simulation suggests solutions for the well-known challenges of explainable AI and distributive justice.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Ethics; Learning analytics; Learning assistant; Massively multiplayer game; Rawlsian game; Thought experiment

Artificial intelligence in education: Challenges and opportunities for sustainable development - Pedro, Francesc; Subosa, Miguel; Rivas, Axel; Valverde, Paula (2019)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Artificial Intelligence Innovations for Multimodal Learning, Interfaces, and Analytics - Worsley, Marcelo (AI in Learning: Designing the Future, 2023)
The twenty-first century has brought with it a growing variety of authentic and engaging learning environments. While significant portions of human learning still take place in traditional classrooms, researchers and educators have innovated several learning experiences that are embodied, project-based, inquiry-driven, collaborative, and open-ended. Furthermore, there has been greater acknowledgement of the varying timescales and contexts where meaningful learning takes place, as well as greater attention to previously underappreciated competencies like creativity, self-regulation, and collaboration. This expansion in the types, contexts, and timescales of human learning necessitate novel analytic approaches. This chapter will discuss how artificial intelligence-based tools and technologies can help researchers and practitioners navigate and enact these novel approaches to learning, while also providing a meaningful lens for student reflection and inquiry. Consequently, this chapter includes discussions of (1) technologies that provide learners with a broader set of modalities to showcase their knowledge, (2) tools that offer insights within groups of students using audio/video information, and (3) analytic techniques and interfaces for helping researchers collect and analyze different types of multimodal data across contexts. The chapter will also discuss some of the ethics surrounding these types of data and analytic approaches.
Keywords: Ethics; Informal learning; Multimodal data

Artificial intelligence to automate the systematic review of scientific literature - De La Torre-López, José; Ramírez, Aurora; Romero, José Raúl (Computing, 2023)
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) has acquired notorious relevance in modern computing as it effectively solves complex tasks traditionally done by humans. AI provides methods to represent and infer knowledge, efficiently manipulate texts and learn from vast amount of data. These characteristics are applicable in many activities that human find laborious or repetitive, as is the case of the analysis of scientific literature. Manually preparing and writing a systematic literature review (SLR) takes considerable time and effort, since it requires planning a strategy, conducting the literature search and analysis, and reporting the findings. Depending on the area under study, the number of papers retrieved can be of hundreds or thousands, meaning that filtering those relevant ones and extracting the key information becomes a costly and error-prone process. However, some of the involved tasks are repetitive and, therefore, subject to automation by means of AI. In this paper, we present a survey of AI techniques proposed in the last 15 years to help researchers conduct systematic analyses of scientific literature. We describe the tasks currently supported, the types of algorithms applied, and available tools proposed in 34 primary studies. This survey also provides a historical perspective of the evolution of the field and the role that humans can play in an increasingly automated SLR process.

ARTIREV: an integrated bibliometric tool to efficiently conduct quality literature reviews - Walsh, Isabelle; Renaud, Alexandre; Jeanneret Medina, Maximiliano; Baudet, Cedric; Mourmant, Gaetan (Systèmes d’information et management, 2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Artisan training and employment outcomes in Tanzania - Bennell, Paul; Mukyanuzi, Faustin; Kasogela, Maurice; Mutashubirwa, Francis; Klim, Mikkel (Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2006)
Studies have shown that artisan training courses in Africa are not cost-effective, and do not improve quality of life. The studies on artisanship education and their effects are discussed.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; A:Africa; C:Tanzania; CA:AandC; CL:en; CLL:en; CLS:en; CT:A; CT:C; CT:F; CT:P; CT:T; F:outcomes; P:artist; P:crafts; Survey; T:Training; Z:Craftsmen; Z:Feasibility studies; Z:Occupational training; Z:Quality of life; __C:filed:1; publicImportV1

As by Fire: The End of the South African University - Jansen, Jonathan (Tafelberg, 2017)
What are the real roots of the student protests of 2015 and 2016? Is it actually about fees? Why did the protests turn violent? Where is the government while the buildings burn? Former Free State University vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen delves into the unprecedented disruption of universities that caught South Africa by surprise. In frank interviews with eleven of the VCs most affected, he examines the forces at work, why the protests escalate into chaos, and what is driving – and exasperating – our youth. This urgent and necessary book gives us an insider view of the crisis, tells us why the conflict will not go away and what it means for the future of our universities.

As tecnologias de informação e comunicação na educação continuada: uma análise do projeto FODEPAL/UFV para os países africanos lusófonos - Rubio, Jose Aurélio Vazquez (Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 2012)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -RRQ:H:final; -RRQ:U:final; CLL:pt; publicImportV1

Ascertaining impacts of capacity building in open educational practices - Karunanayaka, Shironica P.; Naidu, Som (Distance Education, 2020)
Interest in the adoption of open educational practices (OEP) is growing, and the strongest arguments in its favor are that the adoption of such practices has the best chances of making education affordable and accessible to all. However, engagement with such practices requires the adoption of a fundamentally different set of beliefs and value systems about the role of education and educational resources in the development of societies. The development of these beliefs and values are achievable through a combination of strategies. These include appropriate policies, as well as capacity building through sustained engagement in carefully designed learning experiences, which involves people reflecting on authentic problems and situations around the adoption of OEP. The impacts of such capacity building are difficult to ascertain because they are an outcome of a combination of factors involving the practitioners themselves, their educational context, as well as their views about intellectual property, its ownership, and role in educational development. This article discusses our approach to shifting the mindsets of practitioners around OEP and ascertaining its impacts on them.
Keywords: MOOC design; capacity building; impacts; open educational practices; shifting perceptions and perspectives

asksource.info - Education (Source- International online resource centre on disability and inclusion, 2014)
Inclusive Education is a process for increasing participation and reducing exclusion, in a way that effectively responds to the diverse needs of all learners. This means adapting the educational system to meet the needs of individuals, rather than changing the individual to fit the system. This section of Source places a focus on disability-inclusive education and is organised to reflect the concept that education is something much broader than school for children.

Assembling iPads and mobility in two classroom settings - Hembre, Oda J.; Warth, Line Lundvoll (Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2020)
Keywords: _C:Australia AUS; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Poland POL; _C:Singapore SGP; _C:United Kingdom GBR; __C:filed:1; __C:scheme:1

ASSESS TOOLS (Schools2030, 2021)
Tools

Assessing a Remedial Intervention Programme in Developing the Planning Skills of Grade 4 and 5 Learners - Amod, Zaytoon; Heafield, Deidré; Seabi, Joseph (International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2018)
The search for assessment procedures that are more fair and useful have led to the investigation of alternatives to traditional forms of intellectual assessment. This study explored an alternative which combined a dynamic assessment approach with the Planning, Attention, Simultaneous and Successive Processing (PASS) model of cognitive processing. The aim was to investigate the effectiveness of a planning intervention programme based on Feuerstein's criteria for Mediated Learning Experience (MLE) with a group of Grade 4 and 5 remedial school learners who presented with a range of barriers to learning. Twenty six learners were assigned to the experimental group and 25 to the control group. The results showed that there was a significant improvement in the experimental group's Planning Scale score on the Cognitive Assessment System, following the intervention. These results imply that children often have far greater potential than is realised and that intentional mediation can help to enhance cognitive functioning and assist in further developing children's learning potential.
Keywords: _Added to LR; _G:reviewed

Assessing and Tracking Students’ Wellbeing Through an Automated Scoring System: School Day Wellbeing Model - Tang, Xin; Upadyaya, Katja; Toyama, Hiroyuki; Kasanen, Mika; Salmela-Aro, Katariina (AI in Learning: Designing the Future, 2023)
The assessment of student wellbeing has been often static and lagged behind for the intervention/diagnostic purpose. In this chapter, we aim to introduce an automated school wellbeing scoring dynamic real-time system, School Day Wellbeing Model. With Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based item sampling methods and answers scoring and reporting systems, the School Day Wellbeing Model can collect wellbeing data at low cognitive cost, track wellbeing real time at multiple levels (e.g., individual-, class-, school-level), and give immediate feedback. The model is constructed on the basis of the School Wellbeing Model, Study Demand-Resource Model, and OECD Social-Emotional Skill Model. In the book chapter, the wellbeing assessments, including AI-based assessments, are reviewed so that the strengths of the School Day Wellbeing Model are highlighted. User experiences are collected to show the utility of the model. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for such a model is imperatively high as students’ wellbeing has been largely dampened. As a result, the model has been appreciated by users and has served about 55,000 students so far in the globe. The future development of the model is also discussed.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Automated scoring system; Social-emotional skills; Students’ wellbeing