The paper presents the rationale, significance, method and procedure of building a taxonomy of semantic relations in the oil spill domain for supporting knowledge discovery through inference. Difficult problems during the development of the taxonomy are discussed and partial solutions are proposed. A preliminary functional evaluation of the taxonomy for supporting knowledge discovery was perfor...

This work intends to explain step-by-step the special role of standards and their complexity in exercising innovation policy in the European Union. Standards might be an important policy tool for intentional diffusion of market sectors beyond textually available official policy documents/guidelines. This diffusion, having been initiated intentionally, continues in a self-regulated way as the in...

Constructive Alignment devised by John Biggs is a widespread didactic approach and one of the most in uential ideas in higher education. The basic assumption is that a course is designed in a way that learning activities and assessment tasks are aligned with intended learning objectives. Additionally Bloom developed a taxonomy which classi es learning objectives. This taxonomy was revised later...

Richard E. Mayer is a professor of psychology and education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. L EARNING INVOLVES THE ACQUISITION of knowledge. This is a commonsense view of learning that has implications for how to teach—such as presenting information to learners in books and lectures—and how to assess—such as testing to see how much of the presented material students can remember...

Research into games in education most frequently expresses itself in the form of noting that games interest and motivate, and that we might therefore find the learning process improved if we were to use games as a vehicle for the delivery of learning content. We do not wish to take this approach, but to analyse what it is that makes games interesting and motivating and apply this in the context...

Title of Dissertation: Group Involvement Experiences in College: Identifying a Thematic Taxonomy John Patrick Dugan, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professor Susan R. Komives Department of Counseling and Personnel Services The purpose of this study was to explore whether latent phenomena could be identified to assist in the classification of students into subgroups based on their patte...

The juxtaposition of two images often produces the illusory sense of time passing, as found in the visual language used in modern comic books, which creates the sense that this linear sequence presents a succession of moments or temporal units. Author and theorist Scott McCloud took this view to an extreme, proposing that sequential images are guided by a notion that ‘time = space’ (McCloud 200...

The growing phenomenon of Social Software seems to provide an opportunity to complement the top-down approach based on central knowledge repositories with tools that are simpler, smarter and more flexible. This article includes a brief description of the main categories of Social Software – weblogs, wikis and social networking sites followed by an analysis of their utilisation in relation to th...

While still influential, the view that concepts are organized as a hierarchical taxonomy as proposed by Rosch (1973) has been challenged on several occasions. For example, some studies have attributed a larger role to thematic relations (Gentner and Kurtz, 2005; Lin and Murphy, 2001), whereas others have stressed the role of affect in structuring word meaning (Niedenthal et al., 1999). A compre...