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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,581 Views
19 Pages

21 December 2022

In the context of social transformation, the needs of society and individuals for information technology are changing, and discussions on the value and function of information technology are getting more and more attention. The purpose of this resear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education Technology and Literacies: State of the Art)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,712 Views
22 Pages

CL-NOTEARS: Continuous Optimization Algorithm Based on Curriculum Learning Framework

  • Kaiyue Liu,
  • Lihua Liu,
  • Kaiming Xiao,
  • Xuan Li and ,
  • Hang Zhang,
  • Yun Zhou and
  • Hongbin Huang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 August 2024

Causal structure learning plays a crucial role in the current field of artificial intelligence, yet existing causal structure learning methods are susceptible to interference from data sample noise and often become trapped in local optima. To address...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,038 Views
19 Pages

Meeting in the Middle: TVET Programs’ Education–Employment Linkage at Different Stages of Development

  • Katherine M. Caves,
  • Andrea Ghisletta,
  • Johanna Mirka Kemper,
  • Patrick McDonald and
  • Ursula Renold

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programs are most successful at supporting youth labor markets when they combine education and employment. Education–employment linkage theory describes this combination in terms of power-sharing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social and Economic Implications of Skill and Educational Mismatch)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,208 Views
27 Pages

28 October 2025

The generalisation of Deep Learning (DL) models under extrapolated usage conditions, particularly in the context of fault diagnosis, remains a significant challenge. Traditional methods encounter difficulties in terms of adaptability, necessitating e...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,194 Views
37 Pages

Cultural heritage can strengthen urban resilience when mobilized as educational infrastructure that builds stewardship, place attachment, and civic agency. This study examines whether the Art Nouveau Path, an outdoor mobile augmented reality heritage...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural Heritage and Urban Resilience: Integrating Sustainable Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,106 Views
14 Pages

How about the Attitudes towards Nature? Analysis of the Nature and Biology Primary School Education Curricula in Poland

  • Zofia Chyleńska,
  • Eliza Rybska,
  • Sylwia Jaskulska,
  • Maciej Błaszak and
  • Barbara Jankowiak

6 September 2022

One of the most important goals in biology education is shaping positive attitudes towards nature, social and global problems, as well as health. Environmental education is an essential element because without pro-environmental attitudes, every envir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cognition and Education: How to Create a Sustainable Bridge)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,614 Views
13 Pages

6 January 2023

The Curriculum Sequencing (CS) problem is a challenging task to tackle in the field of online teaching and learning system development. The current methods of education management might still possess certain drawbacks that would cause ineffectiveness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,010 Views
14 Pages

Individual Determinants as the Causes of Failure in Learning to Swim with the Example of 10-Year-Old Children

  • Andrzej Ostrowski,
  • Arkadiusz Stanula,
  • Andrzej Swinarew,
  • Alexander Skaliy and ,
  • Dariusz Skalski,
  • Wojciech Wiesner,
  • Dorota Ambroży,
  • Krzysztof Kaganek,
  • Łukasz Rydzik and
  • Tadeusz Ambroży
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Background: The purpose of the present study was to identify which, and to what extent, selected individual determinants of 10-year-old children may limit the final achievement in learning to swim. In view of the above, the research hypothesis was fo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
475 Views
15 Pages

The Role of Charitable Organisations in the Hidden Curriculum of Dental Education

  • Casper H. Jonker,
  • Alexander J. Cresswell-Boyes,
  • Safiya Robinson,
  • Inês Avery and
  • Wendy Smith

3 October 2026

Background/Objectives: The hidden curriculum (HC) plays a central role in shaping professional identity in dental education, yet the contribution of charitable and third-sector organisations to this process remains underexamined relative to instituti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Dental Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
306 Views
20 Pages

Engineering literacy research has been dominated by static, competence-based frameworks that fail to explain how attributes evolve dynamically and systematically underrepresent two critical dimensions: engineering consciousness as a cognitive precurs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evidence-Based Research-Oriented STEM Teacher Education: Research-Based Development of Curricula, Courses, Learning Resources and Pedagogical Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,080 Views
29 Pages

28 August 2026

This paper presents a systematic reward engineering methodology for training a Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) quadrotor navigation policy in the Webots simulator, using a hierarchical architecture in which a PID controller handles low-level stabi...

(This article belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,945 Views
9 Pages

Attitudes Toward Patient Safety among Medical Students in Malaysia

  • Sathia Prakash Nadarajan,
  • Sumitra Ropini Karuthan,
  • Jeevitha Rajasingam and
  • Karuthan Chinna

The biggest challenge in moving toward a safer healthcare system is patient safety culture—that is, the prevention of harm to patients. Safe medical practices can prevent doing harm to the patients. For this, healthcare professionals must have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
7,873 Views
18 Pages

Web GIS for Sustainable Education: Towards Natural Disaster Education for High School Students

  • Jiaqi Li,
  • Haoming Xia,
  • Yaochen Qin,
  • Pinde Fu and ,
  • Xuan Guo,
  • Rumeng Li and
  • Xiaoyang Zhao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 February 2022

The rapid development of the web geographic information system (Web GIS) has promoted new vitality in high school geography education, relieved the stress of geography teachers caused by software and technical problems, and made it possible for teach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education for Sustainable Development: Different Routes, Similar Targets)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
339 Views
16 Pages

Background: Equitable engagement with technology-mediated learning, including artificial intelligence (AI)-supported pedagogies envisioned in current education policy, depends on material preconditions—school and home connectivity, device acces...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 1st International Online Conference on Urban Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,362 Views
27 Pages

Exploring the Aesthetic and Functional Aspects of Recycled Furniture in Promoting Sustainable Development: An Applied Approach for Interior Design Students

  • Khaled Al-Saud,
  • Rommel AlAli,
  • Adab M. Al saud,
  • Amira S. Abouelela and ,
  • Rami Taha Shehab,
  • Dalia Ali Abdel Moneim and
  • Alaa Eldin. M. Hamid
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 May 2024

This study aimed to explore the sustainable aesthetic and functional dimensions of environmental waste in the context of interior design applications by students. Employing both descriptive and applied methodologies, a series of artistic works derive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,428 Views
13 Pages

The recent curriculum reform in China puts forward higher requirements for the development of physical education. In order to further improve students’ physical quality and motor skills, the traditional model was improved to address the lack of accur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Positive and Negative Consequences of Pandemic Lockdown time on Physical Activity, Physical Education and Sport Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,584 Views
13 Pages

A Data-Efficient Training Method for Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Wenhui Feng,
  • Chongzhao Han,
  • Feng Lian and
  • Xia Liu

16 December 2022

Data inefficiency is one of the major challenges for deploying deep reinforcement learning algorithms widely in industry control fields, especially in regard to long-horizon sparse reward tasks. Even in a simulation-based environment, it is often pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,408 Views
21 Pages

Pragmatic Framing of Sustainability in UN and UNESCO Leadership Speeches

  • Faiza Mohamed Tabib,
  • Nibal Al Muallem,
  • Maher Ibrahim Tawdrous,
  • Khaled Younis Alderbashi and
  • Moustafa Kamal Moussa

8 January 2026

Leadership speeches delivered within the United Nations and UNESCO play an active role in shaping global policy discourse. As widely circulated texts, they influence how policymakers understand sustainability, responsibility, and education by definin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Education for Sustainable Development and Contributions from Education to Sustainable Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
23,741 Views
16 Pages

Physical Activity and Cognitive Functioning

  • Francesca Latino and
  • Francesco Tafuri

26 January 2024

Neuroscience applied to motor activity is a growing area that aims to understand the effects of motor activity on the structures and functions of the Central Nervous System. Attention has been paid to this multidisciplinary field of investigation by...

(This article belongs to the Section Sports Medicine and Sports Traumatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,477 Views
16 Pages

An Interdisciplinary Scientific and Mathematic Education, Addressing Relevant Social Problems Such as Sexist Hate Speech

  • M.ª Teresa Sánchez-Compaña,
  • Cristina Sánchez-Cruzado and
  • Carmen Rosa García-Ruiz

25 November 2020

The intention of this article is to share research taken from the initial training of secondary education pre-service teachers, in which college professors from mathematics and social sciences education participate. There are numerous studies regardi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Perspectives in Science Education—NPSE 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,195 Views
7 Pages

Virtual Electronic Health Record Technology with Simulation-Based Learning in an Acute Care Pharmacotherapy Course

  • James C. Coons,
  • Lawrence Kobulinsky,
  • Deborah Farkas,
  • John Lutz and
  • Amy L. Seybert

28 November 2018

Electronic health record (EHR) technology use in the educational setting to advance pharmacy practice skills with patient simulation has not been described previously in the literature. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simulation in Pharmacy Education and Beyond)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,273 Views
16 Pages

1 October 2021

Further improvement of spiritual care in palliative care is warranted. Particularly reducing barriers and enhancing spiritual care competencies among the healthcare professionals is needed. The aim was to develop a training course in spiritual care i...

(This article belongs to the Section Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,006 Views
18 Pages

Expanding Models for Physics Teaching: A Framework for the Integration of Computational Modeling

  • Rebecca Elizabeth Vieyra,
  • Colleen Megowan-Romanowicz,
  • Kathi Fisler,
  • Benjamin S. Lerner and ,
  • Joe Gibbs Politz and
  • Shriram Krishnamurthi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 August 2024

Teaching computation in science courses can enhance science education, but doing so requires that teachers expand the vision of their discipline beyond the traditional view of science presented in most curricula. This article describes a design-based...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
271 Views
17 Pages

16 October 2026

The pedagogical value of play-based learning is well established, yet its effectiveness depends on contextual factors such as play type, educators’ perspectives, and their language use. In the background of China’s curriculum transformati...

(This article belongs to the Section Early Childhood Education)
  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
1,653 Views
6 Pages

Transforming Medical Education Through International Accreditation: The Case of the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences (2010–2024)

  • Oyuntugs Byambasukh,
  • Usukhbayar Munkhbayar,
  • Munkhbaatar Dagvasumberel,
  • Khangai Enkhtugs and ,
  • Oyungoo Badamdorj,
  • Khandmaa Sukhbaatar,
  • Damdindorj Boldbaatar,
  • Batbaatar Gunchin and
  • Enkhtur Yadamsuren
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

19 December 2025

This paper examines the 14-year journey of the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences (MNUMS) in achieving and sustaining international accreditation for its undergraduate medical program. Beginning in 2010, MNUMS undertook a series of ins...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,837 Views
19 Pages

20 January 2023

Sustainability is a difficult topic, and education systems are generally complicated, including multiple levels as well as diverse organizations and actors. This dual complexity, which affects both sustainability and higher education systems, poses g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Teaching and Learning in Education for Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
712 Views
31 Pages

20 September 2026

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is being integrated rapidly across higher education, yet its educational value depends less on adoption intensity than on the institutional conditions through which its use is organized and enacted. This con...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,469 Views
21 Pages

13 January 2024

The Portuguese educational system aims at nurturing the holistic development of individuals and societal progress, surpassing the mere transmission of curriculum-based knowledge. While considerable advancements have been made, the need for ongoing in...

(This article belongs to the Section Teacher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,500 Views
16 Pages

Objectives: This study examined whether integrating an isometric exercise program into physical education (PE) lessons influences functional outcomes and cardiovascular risk markers in adolescents beyond the effects of standard PE alone. Methods: Boy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Practices for Health in Physical Education and Psychomotricity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,510 Views
26 Pages

Recent language models exhibit significant logical reasoning abilities, yet the mechanisms supporting deductive inference remain poorly understood. This paper studies small transformer-based language models trained from scratch on multi-step deductiv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue LLM-Inspired New Generation Machine Learning: Hyperparameter Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,890 Views
26 Pages

Academic self-pressure is a significant source of stress for students, with physiological and cognitive implications that can influence academic performance. This study investigated the impact of academic self-pressure on heart rate variability (HRV)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,464 Views
32 Pages

Anthropocene pressures underscore that human well-being and societal resilience depend on both biodiversity and geodiversity, the latter providing the abiotic foundation of Earth’s life-support systems. Despite increasing emphasis on systems th...

(This article belongs to the Section Geoheritage and Geo-Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
145 Views
22 Pages

The Relational Architecture of Complex Thinking in International Postgraduate Education: Psychometric Network Evidence from Japan

  • Jenny Paola Lis-Gutiérrez,
  • José Carlos Vázquez-Parra,
  • Chris Blakely,
  • Arantxa Lucero Ramos-Huerta and
  • Sergio Palomino-Gámez

Complex thinking is increasingly relevant in international postgraduate education, yet limited evidence exists on how its components are internally articulated within multicultural graduate cohorts. This study examined the relational organization of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
678 Views
18 Pages

Low Back Pain as a Nursing Education Priority

  • Juan A. Sanchis-Gimeno,
  • Juan Jose Valenzuela-Fuenzalida,
  • Andreea-Bianca Zuld,
  • Mathias Orellana-Donoso and
  • Guinevere Granite

Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of years lived with disability globally, and a major rehabilitation priority, yet nursing education often does not translate burden evidence into first-contact actions across care settings. This article aimed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,403 Views
31 Pages

14 October 2024

Over the past two decades, the expanding environmental and ecological crises highlight the need to broaden the concept of sustainability to encompass support for cultural sensitivity and social well-being. This study explores the role of architectura...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Engineering Education and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,823 Views
49 Pages

A Mission-Oriented Autonomous Missile Evasion Maneuver Decision-Making Method for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

  • Yuequn Luo,
  • Chengwei Ruan,
  • Dali Ding,
  • Zehua Wang and ,
  • Hang An,
  • Fumin Wang,
  • Mulai Tan,
  • Anqiang Zhou and
  • Huan Zhou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

26 November 2025

The aerial game environment is complex. To enhance mission success rates, UAVs must comprehensively consider threats from various directions and distances, as well as autonomous evasion maneuver decision-making methods for multiple UAV platforms, rat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in UAV Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,957 Views
24 Pages

Using Data Tools and Systems to Drive Change in Early Childhood Education for Disadvantaged Children in South Africa

  • Sonja Giese,
  • Andrew Dawes,
  • Linda Biersteker,
  • Elizabeth Girdwood and
  • Junita Henry

28 August 2023

In line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.2, South Africa’s National Development Plan commits to providing high-quality early childhood education to all children by 2030 to drive improved child outcomes. Prior to 2016, So...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Early Childhood Care and Education in Low- and Middle- Income Countries)
  • Entry
  • Open Access
59 Citations
21,821 Views
25 Pages

Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), is rapidly reshaping higher education by transforming teaching, learning, assessment, research, and institutional management. This entry provides a sta...

(This article belongs to the Collection Encyclopedia of Social Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,390 Views
28 Pages

9 February 2026

This study explores how teachers interpret the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 13 (Climate Action), as pedagogical frameworks and how they translate these goals into pedagogical practice through th...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,960 Views
12 Pages

Universities without Walls: A Blended Delivery Approach to Training the Next Generation of HIV Researchers in Canada

  • Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco,
  • Catherine Worthington,
  • Sean Rourke and
  • Colin Hastings

(1) Background: Although HIV has not diminished in importance in Canada, the field of HIV research remains small, and the graduate students who decide to pursue careers within it feel isolated and uncertain about their professional skills and opportu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
982 Views
19 Pages

Effects of a Cognitively Enriched Playful Physical Activity Program on Executive Functions and School Readiness in Preschool Children

  • Anis Ben Chikha,
  • Özgür Eken,
  • Birgül Arslanoğlu,
  • Rahma Lousaif and ,
  • Chiraz Goumni,
  • Nejha Bouallegui,
  • Melih Çalışır,
  • Nizar Souissi and
  • Monira I. Aldhahi
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

10 July 2026

Executive functions (EFs) are foundational for early learning and school readiness. Interventions that couple motor engagement with explicit cognitive demands may offer an efficient approach to support EFs during preschool years. This exploratory ran...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Activity for Psychological and Cognitive Development—Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
25,230 Views
57 Pages

20 June 2021

Drawing from both enactivist and cognitivist perspectives on mind, I propose that explaining teleological phenomena may require reappraising both “Cartesian theaters” and mental homunculi in terms of embodied self-models (ESMs), understood as body ma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applying the Free-Energy Principle to Complex Adaptive Systems)