Researchers long ago demonstrated that top-down, inference-based approaches to research have comfortably co-existed with more traditional bottom-up, hypotheses-driven research. Yet most faculty omit any mention of top-down approaches in direct instruction or training of students, despite these approaches being both relatively common, occasionally necessary, and considerably more efficient than ...

Information Technology (IT) now plays a central role in almost all aspects of business. However to best realise the potential of IT, it is vital that educators adopt strategies that challenge rather than reinforce existing disciplinary divides in IT education and business. This paper supports the application of active learning, via the use of a serial teaching case, towards bridging disciplinar...

Knowledge from college major and minor—see OIR 10 to 15 (or 16 or 17), Teaching in the Disciplines 1.1 Cognitive, Moral, and Emotional Development of Students Integrative Learning [1] Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning [2] Undergraduate Research [3] Academic Integrity [4]. See especially the following: Research & Scholarly Integrity (The Graduate School at MSU) http://grad.msu.edu/research...

While disciplinary identities are among the most fraught subjects in academia, much less attention has been given to what disciplinarity actually entails and risks different strategies involve. This article sets out a theory of that recognises not only their coercive but also redeeming features, particularly view coexistence multiple competing disciplines powerful transdisciplinary movements (s...

Abstract Reading strategies are seen as supportive means to help learners process and comprehend English texts effectively. The present research probed to posit a discipline-specific model of reading strategies for Iranian TEFL postgraduate students. The motive behind developing a local model of reading strategy is twofold: first, a variety of postgraduate students admitted for M.A and Ph.D. pr...

Background: Successful waste management programs are linked to internal factors, SW (strength and weakness points), and external factors, OT (opportunities and threats), and at the macro level are grounds for sustainable development. Studies may be related to David’s study which presented a method to quantify strength, weakness, opportunity, threats (SWOT) analysis. Methods: In this study...