Free Download Learning Inclusion in a Digital Age: Belonging and Finding a Voice with the Disadvantaged
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819971985 | 226 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 22 MB
This open access book considers how inclusive learning, wellbeing and active citizenship can be encouraged, taught, learnt, and supported in a digital world. The book poses and seeks to address three questions: How can governments and intergovernmental organisations support learning inclusion and active citizenship? How can the education sector and public/private enterprises support learning inclusion and active citizenship? How can professionals and communities work with vulnerable adults who are disadvantaged in a participatory, empowering manner? The Examples discussed in the book draw on the experiences of adult refugees and migrants, as well as people who may experience disadvantage and/or discrimination as a result of their social, economic, political, cultural, religious, physical, mental, age or gender-related status. One methodological pillar in this work is the development of skills in digital storytelling and digital stories creation for personal, community and professional purposes. Conceptually and of interest for researcher and policy makers at local, national and transnational levels, this book brings together a number of related concepts to generate innovative understanding and practices of applied relevance in the age of the pandemic and its aftermath.

Free Download Sandra K. Harris, "Learning From the Best: Lessons From Award-Winning Superintendents"
English | ISBN: 1412959845 | 2009 | 192 pages | EPUB | 890 KB
Award-winning superintendents detail proven best practices covering transformational leadership, community building and outreach, responding to change, and developing strategies for effective school reform.

Free Download Learning Factories: Featuring New Concepts, Guidelines, Worldwide Best-Practice Examples
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031464273 | 668 Pages | PDF (True) | 54 MB
This book presents the state of the art of learning factories. It outlines the motivations, historic background, and the didactic foundations of learning factories. Definitions of the term learning factory and an updated morphological model are provided as well as a detailed overview of existing learning factory approaches in industry and academia, showing the broad range of different applications and varying contents in all continents. International learning factory best-practice examples are presented in detailed and structured manner. The state of the art of learning factories curricula design and their use to enhance learning and research as well as potentials and limitations are presented. Further research priorities and innovative learning factory concepts to overcome current barriers are offered. While today numerous learning factories have been built in industry (big automotive companies, pharma companies, etc.) and academia in the last decades, a comprehensive handbook for the scientific community and practitioners alike is still missing. The book addresses therefore both researchers in production-related areas that want to conduct industry-relevant research and education, as well as managers and engineers in industry, who are searching for an effective way to train their employees. In addition to this, the learning factory concept is also regarded as an innovative learning concept in the field of didactics.

Free Download Susan E. Sather, "Leading Professional Learning Teams: A Start-Up Guide for Improving Instruction"
English | ISBN: 1412965527 | 2009 | 168 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Developed by Education Northwest (formerly NWREL), this guide offers a data-driven model for implementing professional learning teams to strengthen teacher collaboration, improve instruction, and increase student achievement.

Free Download Georgina Barton, "Kinaesthetic Learning in Early Childhood"
English | ISBN: 1032215186 | 2023 | 180 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 16 MB
Strongly grounded in research and rich with practical examples for educators, this book demonstrates the importance and benefits of kinaesthetic learning in young children's learning and development.

Free Download Integral and Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control Systems and Games
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031452518 | 287 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 28 MB
Integral and Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control Systems and Games develops its specific learning techniques, motivated by application to autonomous driving and microgrid systems, with breadth and depth: integral reinforcement learning (RL) achieves model-free control without system estimation compared with system identification methods and their inevitable estimation errors; novel inverse RL methods fill a gap that will help them to attract readers interested in finding data-driven model-free solutions for inverse optimization and optimal control, imitation learning and autonomous driving among other areas.

Free Download Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow By Aurélien Géron
2017 | 568 Pages | ISBN: 9352135210 | PDF | 8 MB
Through a series of recent breakthroughs, deep learning has boosted the entire field of machine learning. Now, even programmers who know close to nothing about this technology can use simple, efficient tools to implement programs capable of learning from data. This practical book shows you how.By using concrete examples, minimal theory, and two production-ready Python frameworks-scikit-learn and TensorFlow-author Aurélien Géron helps you gain an intuitive understanding of the concepts and tools for building intelligent systems. You'll learn a range of techniques, starting with simple linear regression and progressing to deep neural networks. With exercises in each chapter to help you apply what you've learned, all you need is programming experience to get started.Explore the machine learning landscape, particularly neural nets Use scikit-learn to track an example machine-learning project end-to-end Explore several training models, including support vector machines, decision trees, random forests, and ensemble methods Use the TensorFlow library to build and train neural nets Dive into neural net architectures, including convolutional nets, recurrent nets, and deep reinforcement learning Learn techniques for training and scaling deep neural nets Apply practical code examples without acquiring excessive machine learning theory or algorithm details

Free Download For the sake of learning: essays in honor of Anthony Grafton By Ann Blair, Anja-Silvia Goeing (editors)
2016 | 1172 Pages | ISBN: 9004263306 | PDF | 20 MB
In this tribute to Anthony Grafton, fifty-eight contributors present new research across the many areas in which Grafton has been active in the history of scholarship and learned culture.

Free Download Federated Learning for Future Intelligent Wireless Networks
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1119913896 | 306 Pages | PDF | 8 MB
In Federated Learning for Future Intelligent Wireless Networks, a team of distinguished researchers deliver a robust and insightful collection of resources covering the foundational concepts and algorithms powering federated learning, as well as explanations of how they can be used in wireless communication systems. The editors have included works that examine how communication resource provision affects federated learning performance, accuracy, convergence, scalability, and security and privacy.

Free Download Martin L Maehr, "Encouraging a Continuing Personal Investment in Learning: Motivation as an Instructional Outcome "
English | ISBN: 1617357146 | 2012 | 80 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The writing of this book was in part supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSFEHR 0335369). It represents a significant extension and enriched interpretation of earlier work on "motivation as an instructional outcome" (e.g., Maehr, 1976). Such enrichment and enhancement was prompted by the work on the project as it was conceptualized and envisioned by Paul Pintrich--and later, following his untimely death, carried out by a cadre of students and colleagues, including especially his Wife, Life Partner and also oft-time collaborator in multiple research and scholarly endeavors: Dr. Elizabeth DeGroot as well as several colleagues, including, the author of this volume and Dr. Stuart Karabenick. Of course, it is the primary author of this volume who must bear the responsibility for omissions, errors and interpretations that may have slipped into the text. But whatever portions of this volume may be deemed worthy of consideration and possibly of some value for fellow scholars presently or in the future -- and also contribute in at least some small way not only to continuing scholarly study of "The Most important attitude that can be formed: "That of Desire to go on Learning." But therewith here and there also prove useful not only for scholars and the development of an increased understanding of the nature and nurture of motivation and its impact on the pursuit of knowledge but also prove useful to students in preparing to become educators-- and perhaps also of value to experienced educational practitioners -- and here there maybe also to parents and others with a concern for the nature and nurture of excellence in teaching and learning.