Introduction Despite the interest in fostering new intentional online communities that support learning, online professional development is still a rarity and often not well understood (Barab, 2003). Many on-line communities are emerging in the wake of social networking tools, but how these environments benefit knowledge construction is unclear. In the Web 2.0 era, it seems only natural that th...

BACKGROUND Child and adolescent mental health disorders are present in around 10% of the population. Research indicates that many young people possess negative attitudes towards mental health difficulties among peers. AIMS To assess the impact of a mental health teaching programme on adolescent pupils' understanding. METHOD Two-group pre-test-post-test control group study in two English sec...

Our 2003 article clashed with conventional wisdom by concluding that high self-esteem has only a couple of benefits, notably high initiative (based on trusting one's own judgment) and feeling good. Its high citation rate reflects not only the novel conclusions but also widespread interest in self-esteem both among researchers and in the broader society. Psychology may have lost some credibility...

Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia’s success, recommending that other poor countries follow similar models and paths of development. This study argues that such Asian ‘lesson-making’ is a grave mistake in policy-thinking—and in the historical understanding of the nature and process of development. In identifying what we c...

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Librarians who provide instruction, whether it be online or in-person, are always on the lookout for technology that enhances their presentations and makes their professional lives easier. More importantly , librarians seek technology to boost student engagement, promote collaborative experiences, assess student comprehension, and allow the freedom to create active classroom alternatives to the...

Lessons learned systems are knowledge management solutions that serve the purpose of capturing, storing, disseminating and sharing an organization’s verified lessons. In this paper we propose a two-step categorization method to support the design of intelligent lessons learned systems. The first step refers to the categories of the lessons learned processes the system is designed to support. Th...