Abstract The present study aims at analyzing EFL learners’ attitudes towards motivating factors in learning vocab-ulary. A mixed-methods approach was used to conduct the study. In the qualitative analysis, Iranian EFL learners’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary were investigated through a semi-structured interview en-compassing 36 participants. Subsequently, a 56-item ‘motivation for v...

One of the goals of education can be considered the transfer of knowledge, skills, competencies, wisdom, norms and values between generations. Intergenerational learning program provide this goal and opportunities for lifelong learning and sharing knowledge and experience between generations. This review aimed to investigate the benefits of this program for the children and older adult and its ...

This paper reports on a computational model developed to study the effects of various modes of social learning on task coordination in teams through the mapping of distributed team competence, a significant aspect of efficient teamwork. The computational model emphasizes and operationalizes distinct modes of social learning, differentiated in terms of socialization opportunities. Simulation res...

and generating land-cover maps of the Earth have in common? Both are real-world problems for which we have applied machine-learning techniques to assist human experts, and in each case doing so has motivated the development of novel machine-learning methods. Our research group works closely with domain experts from other disciplines to solve practical problems. For many tasks, off-the-shelf met...

Methods A retrospective qualitative content analysis of a Norovirus outbreak was undertaken, using critical incident analysis as the basis for conducting semi-structured interviews with 24 key clinical and managerial participants. Behavioural references were mapped to a behavioural framework (Weick and Sutcliffe, 2007) that describes positive behaviours, known as ‘mindful behaviours’ and negati...

The paper is a position one, discussing the challenges and the opportunities offered to education by the new information technologies through the e-learning paradigm. It starts with different definitions for e-learning and then approaches several learning models, advocating for an e-learning centred on the student, adapted to different learning styles, to different knowledge backgrounds. Web 2....

BACKGROUND During postgraduate training, general practitioners and other specialists must learn how to deliver shared care to patients; however, the development of formal intraprofessional education is often hampered by curricular constraints. Delivering shared care in everyday work provides trainees with opportunities for informal learning from, about and with one another. METHODS Twelve sem...

Changes in innovation and technology, globalization processes, increasing competition determine changes the activities of learning organizations (educational institutions). Effective management helps manage these meet emerging challenges. The concept is closely related to future perspectives, perceptions an institution that constantly evolving changing. Those affect not only itself but also its...

Our interest in the techno-mathematical literacies employees need in their jobs has led us to do case studies in different industrial sectors and to design learning opportunities for improving employees’ techno-mathematical literacies. We conceptualise the learning opportunities not as training or transfer, but as forms of ‘boundary crossing’ between employees from a company and us as researche...

Traffic congestion is one of the leading causes of lost productivity and decreased standard of living in urban settings. In previous work published at AAMAS, we have proposed a novel reservation-based mechanism for increasing throughput and decreasing delays at intersections [3]. In more recent work, we have provided a detailed protocol by which two different classes of agents (intersection man...