Action Research On Web is a teaching program and a set of web-based resources, which is the subject of a long-term action research project. This report of educational research includes a description of the Action Research On Web learning system, a report of long-term action research from 1995 to 2000, and discussion of the use of Internet technology for participatory approaches to learning and ...

This paper considers professional development (PD) from the perspective of Social Learning Theory (SLT). While a single component of SLT, self-efficacy, is frequently referred to in teacher education research, the full theory has not been used in this field previously. In this paper SLT is evaluated in terms of the extent to which it is able to describe and explain the phenomena of professional...

The evolution and spread of PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal or Participatory Reflection Action) CLTS (Community‐Led Total Sanitation) have involved activities sharing co‐generating knowledge which can loosely be considered a form Action Learning. Key for this been sequences participatory workshops evolved as creative collective experiences fed by feeding into wider networking dissemination. ...

Present study was conducted in the three provinces of Pakistan with the objectives to study the curricula relevancy with the participatory extension, supervision and administration and its practical applicability at the field level. For this extension agents of the selected provinces were selected purposively. Mail questionnaire were used as instruments for data collection form 227 respondents ...

Abstract Introduction and Purpose: Students’ academic progress in the universities of medical sciences and its related factors is one of the priorities of researches in education. Learning styles and students engagement are the influential factors of this variable. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the condition of learning styles and student engagement and its rel...

This paper provides a description and some reflections on the ongoing development and use of an evaluation model. This model was designed to support the integration of new learning technologies into courses in higher education. The work was part of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP). The context and the rationale for...

Intended for the interest of individuals and organizations who provide adult/worker training and education, we present a discussion of a computer-based simulation training tool used as part of a hazardous waste site worker health and safety training curriculum. Our objective is to present the simulation's development, implementation, and assessment for learning utility from both trainee and tra...

____________________________________________________________________ ii Chapter 1_____________________________________________________________________1 1. Towards Improving Representative Democracy in Canada _____________________________ 1 1.1. Defining Democracy: A “Dynamic Balance” ______________________________________________1 1.2. The Contemporary Model: Representative Democracy __________...

The ‘‘real world’’ is changing and new problems are arising. Some of these new problems in the computer science area are related to the need of manage high-volume and complex non-stationary data streams. The design of processing systems that can extract meaningful knowledge in real time from stream data is a present-day challenge. A potential solution for this challenge is offered by the evolvi...