Understanding BIM’s impact on professional work practices using activity theory

the impact of using inspirational quotes on abstract vocabulary recall

the present study is an attempt to investigate the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving english abstract vocabulary recall. to achieve this goal, a multiple choice language proficiency test of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students whose age ranged between 17 to 22 and they were studying en...

Impact of Professional Nursing Practices on Patient/Nurse Outcomes: Testing the Essential Professional Nursing Practices Instrument.

Increasing patient and healthcare system complexity and the need to accurately measure the engagement of clinical nurses (CNs) in holistic, professional nursing practice indicates that an update to the Essentials of Magnetism instrument is needed. The purposes of this research were to critique and weight items, assess the value and psychometric properties of the newly constructed Essential Prof...

Understanding Innovation in Education Using Activity Theory

The purpose of this study was to describe how four teachers in four different cities in Missouri implemented a constructivist-based learning environment (CBLE) that included an innovation cluster that paired an emerging online technology with a unit design framework. The motivating question for the study originated from prior research on teacher reform efforts including the adoption of technolo...

Communities of Practice as a framework for understanding the professional impact of collaborative cultural work

Use of information systems in professional work practices

Organisations have been more knowledge intensive and professional during the last decades. Professional work generally has certain specific properties related to its working context. Two different case studies have been conducted within two different work disciplines; aircraft maintenance and emergency healthcare. This paper explores different characteristics for the different types of professi...