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The book begins with an investigation of improved diesel generator flexibility and coordination via low-load diesel applications. Case studies for Australia and Hawaii are presented to conclude that low-load diesel is a natural precursor to storage due to its accessibility and also benefits low and high-penetration isolated power systems. The book continues with Structural Equation Modelling of building occupants attitude, knowledge and behaviour to propose the inclusion of motivational factors in a Building Occupant Environmental Behaviour model for sustainable building energy performance. The following section presents an analysis of different levels of renewable energy integration and energy storage to suggest the most suitable in terms of the reduction of CO2 emissions and expected earnings from a lower LCOE. Further on, a proof-of-concept heat pipe technology for passive cooling to improve the performance of photovoltaic panels in the hot climate of Oman is presented using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The application of an uncontrolled diode rectifier-high voltage direct current transmission system for the Jeju Island power system with an off-shore new wind farm is simulated to demonstrate cost reduction and increased reliability and stability. The book concludes with view factor computations of bifacial solar photovoltaic based on the finite element method using two programming languages to demonstrate that Python offers a better platform than Microsoft Excel-Visual Basic for Applications where computation time is a significant modelling challenge.

building energy exchange --- view factor --- Python programming language --- bifacial solar photovoltaic (PV) --- diode rectifier --- HVDC --- Jeju Island power system --- offshore wind farm --- CFD --- heat pipe --- temperature --- photovoltaic --- spanwise --- wind energy --- storage --- islanded systems --- energy consumption --- Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), occupant environmental attitude --- Knowledge and Behaviour --- battery storage --- hybrid power system --- low-load diesel --- microgrid --- remote area

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In recent years, the methodologies of teaching have been in a process of transition. Multiple active methodologies have proliferated, with the aim of changing the concept we have had of teaching so far. These advocate for a student who plays a leading role in the process of building learning, while the teacher acts as a figure who facilitates and glimpses the paths to learning. In order to be able to carry out this type of teaching in an optimal way, it is necessary for the teaching and research community to be correctly trained in its pedagogical principles and in the tools that boost its implementation. Among these principles and tools, it is of vital importance that information and communication technologies (ICT) be adequately handled. The use of active methodologies (project-based learning, problem-based learning, service learning, flipped classroom, mobile learning, etc.) or innovative pedagogical approaches (simulation, role-playing, gamification, etc.) promotes an improvement in the motivation of students as well as their skills. This aspect is especially important in the area of mathematics, whose contents are characterized by their abstraction, thus highlighting the need for its dynamization in classrooms of different educational stages.

Research & information: general --- emerging methodology --- educational innovation --- e-learning --- educational experimentation --- adults --- students --- b-learning --- ICT --- vocational training --- constructivism --- mathematics learning --- MOOC --- new teaching techniques --- students’ access to MOOC --- learning --- reading comprehension --- complexity --- problem-solving --- arithmetic word problems --- fraction operator --- technological environment --- active methodology --- escape room --- gamification --- methodological contrast --- mathematics --- secondary education --- musical activities --- learning-teaching --- preschool --- mathematical modeling --- modeling projects --- elementary school --- learning opportunities --- computational thinking --- STEAM education --- leisure-time education --- mathematical education --- good practices in mathematics education --- mathematics achievement --- influencing factors --- university --- social sciences --- structural equation modelling (SEM) --- Flipped Classroom --- flipped learning --- higher education --- educational robotics --- active learning --- case studies --- videogame --- early childhood education --- education --- learning environments --- educational games --- engineering students --- augmented reality --- spatial intelligence --- STEM --- Geogebra AR --- teaching differential equations --- teaching mathematics --- solving problem --- formative assessment --- teacher education --- teachers’ knowledge --- game-based learning --- affective domain --- mathematics education --- systematic review --- EXPLORIA --- STEAM --- active methodologies --- university level --- afective domain --- mathematical teaching methodologies --- educative innovation --- learning through video games --- real-valued functions

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In recent years, the methodologies of teaching have been in a process of transition. Multiple active methodologies have proliferated, with the aim of changing the concept we have had of teaching so far. These advocate for a student who plays a leading role in the process of building learning, while the teacher acts as a figure who facilitates and glimpses the paths to learning. In order to be able to carry out this type of teaching in an optimal way, it is necessary for the teaching and research community to be correctly trained in its pedagogical principles and in the tools that boost its implementation. Among these principles and tools, it is of vital importance that information and communication technologies (ICT) be adequately handled. The use of active methodologies (project-based learning, problem-based learning, service learning, flipped classroom, mobile learning, etc.) or innovative pedagogical approaches (simulation, role-playing, gamification, etc.) promotes an improvement in the motivation of students as well as their skills. This aspect is especially important in the area of mathematics, whose contents are characterized by their abstraction, thus highlighting the need for its dynamization in classrooms of different educational stages.

Research & information: general --- emerging methodology --- educational innovation --- e-learning --- educational experimentation --- adults --- students --- b-learning --- ICT --- vocational training --- constructivism --- mathematics learning --- MOOC --- new teaching techniques --- students’ access to MOOC --- learning --- reading comprehension --- complexity --- problem-solving --- arithmetic word problems --- fraction operator --- technological environment --- active methodology --- escape room --- gamification --- methodological contrast --- mathematics --- secondary education --- musical activities --- learning-teaching --- preschool --- mathematical modeling --- modeling projects --- elementary school --- learning opportunities --- computational thinking --- STEAM education --- leisure-time education --- mathematical education --- good practices in mathematics education --- mathematics achievement --- influencing factors --- university --- social sciences --- structural equation modelling (SEM) --- Flipped Classroom --- flipped learning --- higher education --- educational robotics --- active learning --- case studies --- videogame --- early childhood education --- education --- learning environments --- educational games --- engineering students --- augmented reality --- spatial intelligence --- STEM --- Geogebra AR --- teaching differential equations --- teaching mathematics --- solving problem --- formative assessment --- teacher education --- teachers’ knowledge --- game-based learning --- affective domain --- mathematics education --- systematic review --- EXPLORIA --- STEAM --- active methodologies --- university level --- afective domain --- mathematical teaching methodologies --- educative innovation --- learning through video games --- real-valued functions --- emerging methodology --- educational innovation --- e-learning --- educational experimentation --- adults --- students --- b-learning --- ICT --- vocational training --- constructivism --- mathematics learning --- MOOC --- new teaching techniques --- students’ access to MOOC --- learning --- reading comprehension --- complexity --- problem-solving --- arithmetic word problems --- fraction operator --- technological environment --- active methodology --- escape room --- gamification --- methodological contrast --- mathematics --- secondary education --- musical activities --- learning-teaching --- preschool --- mathematical modeling --- modeling projects --- elementary school --- learning opportunities --- computational thinking --- STEAM education --- leisure-time education --- mathematical education --- good practices in mathematics education --- mathematics achievement --- influencing factors --- university --- social sciences --- structural equation modelling (SEM) --- Flipped Classroom --- flipped learning --- higher education --- educational robotics --- active learning --- case studies --- videogame --- early childhood education --- education --- learning environments --- educational games --- engineering students --- augmented reality --- spatial intelligence --- STEM --- Geogebra AR --- teaching differential equations --- teaching mathematics --- solving problem --- formative assessment --- teacher education --- teachers’ knowledge --- game-based learning --- affective domain --- mathematics education --- systematic review --- EXPLORIA --- STEAM --- active methodologies --- university level --- afective domain --- mathematical teaching methodologies --- educative innovation --- learning through video games --- real-valued functions