The Spring Symposium on Knowledge-based Environments for Teaching and Learning focused on the use of technology to facilitate learning, training, teaching, counseling, coaxing and coaching. Sixty participants from academia and industry assessed progress made to date and speculated on new tools for building second generation systems. Selection of topics and participants was motivated by a desire...

The Spring Symposium on Knowl· edge-based Environments for Teaching and Learning focused on the use of technology to facilitate learning, training, teaching, counseling, coaxing and coaching. Sixty participants from academia and industry assessed progress made to date and speculated on new tools for building second generation systems. Selection of topiCS and participants was motivated by a desi...

For a university in regional Australia, a new degree program on offer to a remote campus and access centres, provided a supportive environment for faculty to trial new teaching and learning methods, specifically making use of learning management system (WebCT) for aspects of communication and content. This paper examines the impact this had on the faculty, in particular at the increased usage o...

Decreasing heating needed energy of building located in mountainous areas without any urban infrastructure of energy supply and services is one of the most important things to get thermal comfort. Accordingly, using building conditions based on different types of applicability and passive design strategies should be considered. Therefore, the objective of this study was to achieve the pro...

Utilizing the concept of autonomy-supportive from Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000), the present study examined the levels of depression and treatment motivation among 193 cancer patients within repeated measure research design. The Treatment Motivation Questionnaire (Ryan, Plant, & O'Malley, 1995) and Beck Depression Inventory (Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock & Erbaugh, 1961) were admi...

OBJECTIVES: Autonomy support is a component of the motivational climate in youth sport that may promote youth's internalization of behaviors and attitudes. This study examined the psychometric properties of the Autonomy-Supportive Coaching Questionnaire (ASCQ), a measure of two forms of autonomy-supportive coaching perceived by young athletes. DESIGN: The study design was non-experimental. METH...

Communities at far northern latitudes must respond rapidly to the many complex problems that are arising from changing climate. An emerging body of theoretical and empirical work has explored the role that education plays in enhancing the resilience and adaptability of social-ecological systems. To foster effective, local, and timely responses of high-latitude communities to climate-driven soci...

organizational justice is the employee perceptions on fairness and justice in work relationships and behaviors in the organization. organizational commitment is individual’s participation in organization and their sense of belonging to the organization and job. this study was conducted to identify the relationship between organizational justice and organizational commitment from the view of adm...