background and aim: grounded theory has taken some different theoretical perspectives since its creation in 1967 by barney glaser. considering that applying grounded theory partly depends on an awareness of its philosophical perspectives, gaining knowledge about these various perspectives is required for health care professionals who are interested in studying the social processes. this review ...

We examine whether constructivist eLearning tools can be used to help learners cope with special educational needs, such as difficulties with attention and concentration. Preliminary work is reported here, in which we seek to determine the reasons why a constructivist approach is difficult for learners with ADHD. This work is intended to lead to recommendations of how learners with ADHD could b...

Currently many instructional Web sites just simply deliver course materials without integrating the role of teacher in guiding learners to use these materials to construct knowledge. Learners only passively receive the presented materials. Our research is to provide support services to actively assist learners to construct knowledge using the constructivist approach to learning. This paper focu...

The aim of this study is to find out the effects of active learning methods based on constructivist approach on the prospective teachers’ achievements, attitudes towards the subject matter and perceptions about the learning process. Experimental design and qualitative research method were used in the study. In the experimental group, constructivist learning methods were applied and in the contr...

The aim of this paper is to present a perspective on intelligent systems to support learning that is in line with constructivist views of learning. In order to develop such a perspective we have defined formal mechanisms to support knowledge representation, reasoning, and decision making in intelligent systems, that are attuned to the values of constructivist views of learning. These point to t...

The founding fathers of grounded theory (GT) claimed it is an inductive methodological approach. Yet, some scholars argue that purely inductive GTs are not possible given researchers’ involvement in data collection and analysis. Subsequently, a constructivist GT approach was introduced. Still, full-length methodological articles that include rationales or detailed explanations for using constru...