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Adaptive Learning White Paper | Knewton

Adaptive learning

When most people use this phrase, what they’re really discussing is either a) single-point adaptivity, which evaluates a student’s performance at one point in time in order to determine the level of instruction or material she receives from that point on, or b) adaptive…

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Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)

The borderline between things and signs and thus the sign itself is defined functionally rather than ontologically

attributing a fundamental epistemic function to the sign, claiming that “all instruction is either about things or about signs; but things are learnt by means of signs” (Omnis doctrina vel rerum est vel signorum, sed res per signa discuntur) (Augustine De doctr. chr. I 1, 1963…

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Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective

The identity of code is syntactic

Let us start with computer code. We take computer code as a well-formed3 se- quence of instructions in a Turing-complete language. Since such instructions are mere sequences of symbols, the identity of code is defined accordingly: two codes are identi- cal if and only if they…

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