Educational institution reform: Insights from the Complexity-Intelligence strategy

The Simple, the Complicated, and the Complex: Educational Reform Through the Lens of Complexity Theory

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Refreshing reform: Ideas from British welfare strategy

Learning. Before PRWORA, states that wished to deviate from national requirements in their welfare programs had first to secure a federal “waiver” of regulations and to agree to evaluate the outcomes of the programs. Waivers and evaluation are no longer required even for quite significant program innovations. The ability of federal agencies to monitor state activities and promote evaluation has...

Conceptive Artificial Intelligence: Insights from design theory

The current paper offers a perspective on what we term conceptive intelligence - the capacity of an agent to continuously think of new object definitions (tasks, problems, physical systems, etc.) and to look for methods to realize them. The framework, called a Brouwer machine, is inspired by previous research in design theory and modeling, with its roots in the constructivist mathematics of int...

How to Manage the Inclusion of E-Learning in Learning Strategy: Insights from a Turkish Banking Institution

The purpose of this research paper is to demonstrate how a banking institution in Turkey is managing the inclusion of e-learning in its learning strategy. The case study demonstrates that the adoption of e-learning is actually influencing bank’s learning strategy, and that the simple delivery through technology cannot be sustained as a separate form of training, an appendix to traditional instr...