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"Those who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do"

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  To answer the question about education, I really had to think for a moment. The more I pondered, the more I wondered about the importance of education in my life and how it had brought a desirable change in my behavior. The systematic change, the knowledge I gained, the skills I learned, and the understanding I achieved about life, about humanity, about my existence, and about the world and its inhabitants all have a new meaning and has reshaped me into a new person than the one I was. After going through the LTEC-PhD rigorous program, I see the world with different eyes. The enlightening experience of learning has taken me into a new realm of life, and I want others deprived of such a precious element to benefit from it. The journey towards my Ph.D. was not the result of an impulsive midlife crisis but was a calculated and well-educated decision. After many drastic mishaps in life, instead of retiring, I ended up making a detour of doing my own Ph.D. To continue my loved ones'...
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Virtual Reality and Intelligent Tutoring System

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  Enable Ginger Cannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connection or reload the browser Disable in this text field Edit Edit in Ginger Edit in Ginger ×   Virtual Reality and Intelligent Tutoring System: A Possible Solution to Educate the Masses I will be very honest to say that I do not have any exposure to a VR application, but I intend to use AR apps with Intelligent Tutoring Systems in my future endeavors. To know a little more about my ambitions, you may want to read the blog in full.  In order to answer the question, let me give a little background on my answer. The Right to Education is legally guaranteed for all without any discrimination by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Unfortunately, many nations have failed to comply with their obligations. Even though there is an excellent aspiration for learning and education, unfortunately, these nations' general population is not aware that their respective governments are responsible for taki...
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The Future of Gamification

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  With respect to the various types of technologies involved in the development of digital games, which seem to be experiencing the highest degree of innovation and change? Which technologies are likely to shape the experience of gameplay in the near future and what can we expect to see in relation to how games are used in teaching and learning? T he word gamification may have only received its name in 2002, but the practice of making everyday tasks fun by making them game-like has been around for millennia. The word “gamification” has emerged in recent years as a way to describe interactive online design techniques where designers insert gameplay elements in non-gaming settings so as to enhance user engagement with a product, service or educational activity. Gamification, as a 21st-century phenomenon is a powerful tool for designers to drive user engagement for several reasons. Firstly, you use it to inject fun elements into applications and systems that might otherwise lack immed...
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Online/F2F learning

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  The environment in which a student is most likely to thrive depends on the individual's study preferences and habits. Older students like I am, prefer face-to-face learning environments because they are already familiar with that style of learning from ages. Face-to-face learning is the more traditional way of instruction, where students and teachers attend an in-person session at the same time. The instructor leads the class, and usually, students are passively learning. The debate about the superiority of online learning has been going on since the eighties. However, proponents of face to face learning argue that it lends a hand in organizing students and their studies. They also reason that a F2F offers an effective way to learn knowledge and skills because it often combines different learning methods, including writing, reading, discussion, presentations, projects, group work, demonstration, and practice. One of the learning process's key elements is the dynamic relatio...
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My Passion, My Vision, My Plans: I wonder if I am going to succeed?

  My Passion, My Vision, My Plans  I wonder if I am going to succeed? For a  scholar  or doctoral student, research is to challenge beyond the classroom environment. By research, we learn new things, pursue a new horizon, find gaps in the current research, and postulate different field approaches. In my study framework, to make it more understandable, I may have to give a little background that would provide elaborative reasons for my research.  My life was going on fine as a senior enterprise engineer at Microsoft when I was struck with cancer. Ie ended up in the hospital for a very long time and was let go from my position since that senior position could not be vacant for a long time. Laying down in the hospital bed and thinking along long nights, I told myself that I would become a doctor and help those who were suffering like me if I survive. I survived and went to school to do my prerequisites for medical school. I have a degree in mechanical engineering, ...
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  The LTEC-6210: Literature Review Blog Research is a critical component of a Ph.D. Program. It allows a potential scholar to expand their textbook knowledge to understand their chosen field out of the classroom. It fosters critical thinking and enhances analytical skills through experimental learning. By doing research, a student expands his knowledge in the chosen field outside his classroom, as it allows broader educational experience by applying new ideas through study and testing. We, as students, can utilize that experience in the field later in future endeavors. This exercise of reviewing some 30 plus scholarly writings in my interest reinforces the foundation of knowledge on the Intelligent Tutoring System. I was able to identify prior work done on this mode of teaching and learning. I was able to find the gaps in research and problems related to student's engagement in case of boredom and zoning out while using a machine to learn. I could identify that learning effective...
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  The Multimedia and Computer S upported Cooperative Work The exercise of viewing presentations by my classmates was a great example of learning from other's experiences. This interpersonal transfer of knowledge-in-use is quite necessary for individual and organizational learning. Learning from others depends on people's ability to integrate their own and others' experiences. In order to do that successfully, people have to abstract from single experiences (that they or others have had) and recognize those features that different situations have in common. This type of learning is termed observational learning, also known as vicarious learning, social learning, or modeling. This type of learning occurs as a function of observing, retaining, and replicating novel behavior executed by others. It could be argued that reinforcement affects which responses one will partake in, more than it influences the actual acquisition of the new response. It may be noted here that imit...
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