Constructivism is a learning theory that states that people learn by actively constructing their own knowledge, based on prior knowledge. A significant number of ICT-based constructivist learning systems have been proposed in recent years. According to our analysis, those systems exhibit only a few constructivist principles, and a critical problem related to the design and use of this kind of s...

 Current educational environments rely primarily on a text-based syllabus approach to describing course content as well as whole curricula. This traditional approach is too limiting, especially when it comes to distance learning environments. It fails to delineate the relationship of concepts and skills covered in a given course to those covered in other courses. It also fails to show the know...

Arguments have been made in favour of a constructivist or postpositivist approach to health promotion knowledge development and program evaluation, but little has been articulated about what such an approach would look like. This article describes a 'story/dialogue method' that was created with and for practitioners in response to their concerns that much of their practice did not lend itself t...

Concepts and theories to foster automation in organisations can be regarded as an essential research goal of the information systems discipline. Based on a few assumptions about essential inhibitors of successful automation, this paper describes and analyzes three prototypical approaches to accomplish a higher level of automation in organisations: a reductionist, a inductivist, and a constructi...

The systemic-constructivist approach to studying and benefiting couples was derived from qualitative and quantitative research on distressed couples over the past 10 years. Systemic-constructivist couple therapy (SCCT) is the clinical intervention that accompanies the approach. SCCT guides the therapist to work with both the intrapersonal and the interpersonal aspects of marriage while also int...

Concepts and theories to foster automation in organisations can be regarded as an essential research goal of the information systems discipline. Based on a few assumptions about essential inhibitors of successful automation, this paper describes and analyzes three prototypical approaches to accomplish a higher level of automation in organisations: a reductionist, a inductivist, and a constructi...

The challenge of teaching programming in higher education is complicated by problems associated with large class teaching, a prevalent situation in many developing countries. This paper reports on an investigation into the use of a blended learning approach to teaching and learning of programming in a class of more than 200 students. A course and learning environment was designed by integrating...