World Economic Forum’s report (2020) reported that the top five out of 10 skills needed by employers in 2025 are (1) analytical thinking and innovation, (2) active learning strategies, (3) complex problem solving, (4) critical analysis, (5) creativity, originality, initiative. These thrive workers entering Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) core Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). Parallelly, ...

In this paper we investigate on the potential of combining social and technical networks to collaboratively provide services to both human users and technical systems. In the Internet of Things (IoT), things talk and exchange information to realize the vision of future pervasive computing environments. The common physical and social space emerges by the objects’ ability to interconnect, not onl...

In recent years we have been witness to rapidly growing adoption and spread of smart mobile devices, not only for personal use but also by enterprises. An important feature provided by majority of these devices is location awareness – ability to detect the device’s location on Earth and use it in applications. For enterprises, there is tremendous value in ability to leverage location context in...

I consider directed technical change in an economy where market structure is endogenous. Endogeneity of market structure leads to both theoretical and empirical implications that are substantially different from those in the existing literature and that in some cases are rather surprising. There are two dimensions of directed technical change: directed firm entry (new firms enter the industry w...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects Augmented Reality (AR) intervention on students' spatial skills and academic achievement. was conducted in a freshman technical drawing course at Mechanical Engineering Department. An exploratory quasi-experimental method used for study. two groups (Experiment-Control) as pre-post design. pre-test results were only determine control group ...

ew system of secondary education has been incepted in 1992, consisting of three study branches of theoretical, technical/ vocational, and kardanesh. regarding the founding philosophy of kardanesh branch, i.e. provision of skilled manpower proportionate with labor market need and also training skilled, semi-skilled and master workforce, art students may receive kardanesh high school diploma prov...