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The Gartner Hype Cycle for Higher Education from 2022 labeled "AI in Education" 2-5 years before becoming mainstream. It seems to me that AI tools will come much more rapidly to institutions.
09 March 2023 7,549 7 View
I am looking for Thailnd's census data on a district basis (amphoe, อำเภอ). Recent data have already been made available. Thanks in advance for any data, scans or links. SOLVED: My friend in...
31 May 2015 3,241 8 View
Problem: More and more countries are getting involved in the globalized world, partly by strengthening such transnational communities as the European Union and the AEC (ASEAN Economic Comunity)....
28 February 2015 6,475 23 View
We want to find (or build by ourselves) a tool for evaluating those skills in the course of medical training, which could even be used via telemedical applications. As a first step, we need an...
31 January 2015 7,806 7 View
It's not only Google, all search engines can be asked to remove search results. They then must delete results that are "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant". That sounds like services...
13 May 2014 3,192 42 View
"Intelligence agencies hire lots of mathematicians, but would-be employees must realise that their work is misused to snoop on everyone, says Tom Leinster" New Scientist has published an article...
29 April 2014 3,186 44 View
Youtube and similar channels for video materials (e.g. used in education) are popular among teachers and students. Why don't we use RG as the single platform for disseminating and discussing such...
19 March 2014 2,767 57 View
'Conference proceedings removed from subscription databases after scientist reveals that they were computer-generated.' The last section of the article is rather scary, making me think of a...
26 February 2014 4,608 17 View
The ESL Mentoring Network here on RG is an approach to provide effective feedback to ESL speakers, who want to get help regarding grammar, style and vocabulary by native speakers of English. (1)...
23 February 2014 129 46 View
Today's hardware is powerful enough to let us create realistic and instructive animations of a wide area of topics. The saying 'a picture is worth a thousand words' could be extended to 'an...
10 February 2014 2,236 3 View
I remember an old computer game (called Tetris) by a Russian programmer, where the player had to rotate and move objects with straight edges (squares, rectangles, and more complex ones) that were...
29 January 2014 2,954 4 View
Question: "Can I block ads on Facebook or opt out of ads showing on my account?" Facebook says: "If you don't want to see a specific ad, you can click the x on the top right corner of the ad and...
22 December 2013 1,538 7 View
Companies are increasingly checking online representation and social network activities of candidates for suitability. This also applies to academic institutions, I would assume. What are the...
10 December 2013 5,024 8 View
This question does not ask for answers from law, social anthropology, or psychology. What are the convincing arguments for and against monogamy or polygyny in terms of biological and human...
15 November 2013 4,980 15 View
In Thailand students are habitually silent and do not ask questions, because they do not want to let the teacher look like they haven't done their job in teaching the 'right' things the 'right'...
08 September 2013 5,686 11 View
Most reviewers of academic papers are volunteers, who spend valuable time for research when they try their best to improve our papers and evaluate their appropriateness for publication. Usually,...
05 September 2013 3,058 83 View
Discrete is a vast field of knowledge. What do students need to know about it nowadays and in the forthcoming years? Taking into account such topics as information security and data warehousing?
25 July 2013 1,694 2 View
In many areas we need to model personal perceptions of people relating instances of concepts. Take the famous pizza topping ontology and extend it to perceptions of guests in a restaurant. Those...
20 December 2012 8,498 1 View