This paper examines the effects of using weblog technologies to support cooperative learning in higher education. The study focused on the effects of features embedded in weblogs on social interactions, time lags, and cognitive loads. A quasi-experimental control-group research design was adopted. The participants were 115 undergraduates who were randomly divided into two groups. Students in th...

English vocabulary, especially at the elementary stage of language learning process, is easily forgotten. Language games seem to be a good strategy for learning a foreign language. This study aimed to find a way to help elementary EFL learners fix the new English numbers in their minds. First, the general test of English numbers as a pretest was administered to 60 participants. They were requir...

The purposes of this research were: 1) to study the effects of cooperative learning on English reading skill development of 40 first–year students at BU, 2) to survey the students’ attitudes towards cooperative learning method used in English classroom, and 3) to examine their cooperative learning behaviors. A Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) program was used with the subject group ov...

Color image segmentation can be considered as a cluster procedure in feature space. k-means and its adaptive version, i.e. competitive learning approach are powerful tools for data clustering. But k-means and competitive learning suffer from several drawbacks such as dead-unit problem and need to pre-specify number of cluster. In this paper, we will explore to use competitive and cooperative le...

ion involves taking an entity and focussing on the essential aspects of that entity while ignoring or hiding the non-essential elements. This allows the simplification of complex phenomena. Abstraction is implemented in Object-Orientation via classes and objects. The principle of separation refers to separating the class or object’s observable behaviour from the methods that it uses to achieve ...

in the present decade approaches of cooperative learning have been studied from different viewpoints. reviewing these outlooks has led to presenting a paradigm taken into operation in the form of present research (a quasi-experiment). this field study was conducted on the 5th grade students of the seven education districts of the city of mashhad. a sample of 132 by random method were selected. ...