Reflections on the conference

The Interaction between Reflective Thinking and Grade Dropping: An Alternative Assessment Policy

The present study aimed to investigate the interaction among grade dropping and reflective thinking abilities of the participants and to also check if action research enhances learners’ reflective thinking. A cyclic action research was run for 8 sessions. Kember et al.’s (2010) reflective thinking questionnaire and three in-term quizzes were administered. Students also made questions based on t...

The American Cultural Identity: Philosophical Reflections on the Existing Controversies over its Nature

Zarathrustrian Mind: Some Comparative Reflections on the Philosophy of Zarathrustra

This paper deals with an essential problem which the modern western thinker faced with and tried to find a solution for that in the benefit of modern humanity. This problem is human reason and his free mind. The author tries here to go back to Zarathrustrian concept of mind and bring forth some fresh reflections in a comparative way. This will let him to evaluate in the main the view that argue...

THINKING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS-SOME REFLECTIONS ON THEIR RELATIONSHIP AND ON A CONFERENCE SPECIAL TRACK Systems thinking and Information Systems – some reflections on their relationship and on a conference special track

This paper is a reflection on the current status of the relationship between systems thinking and Information Systems. It starts with an overview of several major recent attempts at research level to bring these two fields closer to each other. The paper provides a reflection on the major issues that emerge from the papers submitted to the systems thinking/systems practice track of the ISOneWor...

CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on “Driving Change” Within the Health System

Learning health systems necessitate interdependence between health and academic sectors and are critical to address the present and future needs of our health systems. This concept is being supported through the new Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship, through which postdoctoral fellows are situated within a health system-related organization to h...

The second International Conference on Holy Prophet Mohammad’s Tradition (Sireye Nabavi) in Medicine

The second International Conference on Holy Prophet Mohammad’s Tradition (Sireye Nabavi) in Medicine