In the mid-1980s, Brian Gaines first developed a model to predict the trajectory of progress in human–computer relationships, including how the knowledge science research programme would naturally transform itself over time into something he called ‘‘symbiosis science.’’ In this article, we reflect both on the extraordinary prescience of this model, and the contributions and challenges faced by...

The use of ontologies has become increasingly widespread in many areas, particularly in technology enhanced learning. They appear promising in supporting knowledge representation and learning content creation for domains of interest. In this paper, we show how ontology-based scaffolding has helped mobile learners to perform scientific enquiry investigations. Enquiry-based learning aims to provi...

We explored how the intended purpose of a knowledge model can influence the modelling process and in particular, how it impacts on the choice points of the underlying modelling methodology. We introduce a classification of knowledge models according to their intended scope, expressiveness and degree of acceptance. As a result, we aim to define critical success factors of methodologies for ontol...

science popularization is an exigency in the era of knowledge explosion which has made the dissemination of scientific knowledge and attitudes of public aligned with such understanding of a prerequisite for further development of all societies. the concept of skaq has been introduced with an accompanying argument that can play a constructive part in making an objective determination of nation’s...

introduction: web citations (urls) are at risk of decay and can be easily fade because of the variable and unstable nature of the internet. so, the purpose of this research was to assess web citation accessibility and decay of articles published in journal of the medical library association (jmla). methods: in this applied– descriptive study, jmla articles (231) in a seven year period (from 200...

This case study focused on a university teacher-education course that included NOS content. An adapted questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data 83 secondary science teachers’ views about three themes before and after completing the course. Qualitative were collected from eight of teachers who observed teaching during their field experience The post-course mean scores statistically si...

From the perspective of cognitive informatics (CI), this paper proposes internal relations between distance and orientation knowledge of extended objects, and presents a formal representation of spatial knowledge. The connection relation is taken as primitive. Notions of near extension regions and the nearer predicate are developed. Distance relations between extended objects are understood as ...

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