Recently we are urged to transform education into an evidence based profession, and promote scientific standards or practice. These calls are not new – they seem to emerge every few years. We do not argue with their goal, but we contend that the suitable frame of reference is the paradigm of design science, rather than the common metaphor of medical research. This paper proposes Design Inquiry ...

Despite their advantages, blended approaches have been met with mixed results by learners. There is a general view that learners who are known as Digital Natives or Millennials, are technologically savvy. Research, however, suggests rather that they possess poor levels of digital literacy and have demonstrated some degree of avoidance towards e-learning tools (Boyd, 2014; Chigeza and Halbert, 2...

Stiffness matrix of the four-node quadrilateral plane stress element is decomposed into normal and shear components. A computer program is developed to obtain the straining modes using adequate and reduced integration. Then a solution for the problem of mixing straining modes is found. Accuracy of the computer program is validated by a closed-form stiffness matrix, derived for the plane rectang...

A successful water management scheme for irrigated crops requires an integrated approach that accounts for water, crop, soil and field management. Most existing models are designed for a specific irrigation system, specific process such as water and solute movement, infiltration, leaching or water uptake by plant roots or a combination of them. There is a shortage in models of a generic nature,...

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are critically important in the 21 century (National Research Council, 2006; National Science and Technology Council, 2007). This is the field in which major sciences are joining, blending, and integrating (Battelle Memorial Institute & Foresight Nanotech Institute, 2007; Goodsell, 2004). The prospect of nanoscience and nanotechnology in tomorrow’s science and tec...

The article presents results of the empirical research revealing readiness of adults to participate in the lifelong learning process using e-learning, m-learning and t-learning technologies. The research has been carried out in the framework of the international project eBig3 aiming at development a new distance learning platform blending virtual learning environments, television and mobile tec...

In this paper we investigate which principles people use when they name new things as results of blending. The aim is to uncover patterns with high creative potential and to use them for automated generation of names for new creations or phenomena. We collected examples with a web survey in which participants were asked to evaluate pictures of animals with blended anatomies from two different a...

Superelements have been developed to enable the finite-element method to be used for computing accurate eigenvalues of the Laplacian over domains containing re-entrant corners of arbitrary angle. A truncated asymptotic expansion of the solution is employed in the region of the corner, and linear blending is used over the remainder of the superelement to provide a smooth transition to piecewise ...

I Zwicky 1 (I Zw 1) is the prototype narrow line quasar. Its narrow line profiles minimize blending effects and thus allow a significantly more accurate study of individual quasar emission lines. We report here the results of our study of the 1150-3250 Å emission of I Zw 1 using a high S/N (50-120) spectrum obtained with the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). T...

Of key importance to avoiding significant health problems such as cardiac disease and stroke is eating nutritious foods and leading an active lifestyle. However, leading a healthy lifestyle remains elusive and obesity continues to increase in North America. We investigate how online social networks (OSN) can change health behaviour by blending theories from health behaviour and participation in...