Constructivism and Development: Reply to Smith’s Commentary

Commentary: “Rabies in Iranian Traditional Medicine” & Reply to Commentary on “Rabies in Iran: Past, Present and Future”

Radically Questioning the Principle of the Least Restrictive Alternative: A Reply to Nir Eyal; Comment on “Nudging by Shaming, Shaming by Nudging”

In his insightful editorial, Nir Eyal explores the connections between nudging and shaming. One upshot of his argument is that we should question the principle of the least restrictive alternative in public health and health policy. In this commentary, I maintain that Eyal’s argument undermines only a rather implausible version of the principle of the least restrictive alternative and I sketch ...

Further Comments on "Detection of Faults in Programmable Logic Arrays"

In a recent correspondence 111, Ye-Wei and Wei have shown two counterexamples which contradict Theorems 4 and 5 of Smith [2]. In his author’s reply [3], Smith has stated an additional condition under which Theorems 4 and 5 will hold good. In this correspondence, we provide a counterexample which contradicts Smith’s modified Theorem 5. We also provide another counterexample which contradicts eve...

The Effectiveness of E-Learning in Bacteriology Course Based on Constructivism vs. Cognitivism

Introduction: Increasing development of technology and information has created changes in the field of teaching and learning. For effective learning, e-learning design should be based on educational principles. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of e-learning content based on two educational approaches (constructivism and cognitivism) on the level of learning and learner...

Effective Constructivism for the Arch-Design Studio

Aim of this paper is to search and find ways and methods of constructivism teaching and learning ideas inteaching the architectural design studio. The objective is to extract all the positive things constructivism has to offer the architectural design studio for efficient teaching and effective learning. Although there are similarities in the curricula of training architects all over the world,...