The aim of this study is to characterize the current status of blended learning in Portugal, given that b-learning has grown exponentially in the Portuguese market over recent years. 38 organizations (representing 68% of all institutions certified to provide distance training by the Government Labour Office – DGERT -) participated in this study. The results revealed that in 2007, although the p...

Attempts to provide a practical framework in which practitioners may develop human resources (HR) strategies in line with their organizations' corporate planning processes. Proposes a four-step approach involving: development of a strategic framework; generating of HR mission statement; application of analysis; and making strategic planning decision between HR options. Outlines a four-dimension...

This study examined the relations among Hong Kong students’ perceived classroom environment, achievement goals, and strategy use. A total of 1522 Grade 5 students from six primary schools and Grade 7 students from six secondary schools in Hong Kong voluntarily responded to a questionnaire that measured these three sets of variables. Consistent with previous studies on goal orientation theory, f...

According to situated cognition theory, cognitive accomplishments rely in part on structures and processes outside the individual. This article argues that interactional structures particularly those created through language use can make essential contributions to situated cognition in rational academic discourse. Most cognitive accomplishments rely in part on language, and language in use alwa...

Corpus-based research has shown that the frequency of use of particular grammatical structures and lexis in English is not always congruent with the content or ordering of explicit rules in pedagogical materials. The present study provides an additional example from French, focusing on word-order rules related to adjective position and the (in)congruity of those rules with classroom input and t...

With the expectation that engineering students ought to be prepared to adapt to a continuously evolving workplace environment to solve the complex problems of the future, engineering educators ought to also adapt and provide innovative learning environments that support not only technical agility, but also psychological agility to support the development of our students. Capstone design serves ...

The so-called Intelligent Tutoring Systems evolved in the past five years to Intelligent Learning Environments. This shift was supported by the stronger role of software agents and the possible ways they can be used to promote human learning. The aim of this paper is to explore further on one possible style of formalization taking now a point of view from DAI in stead of AI and Education: a cla...

“Note taking is an important practice during lectures. With the rapid development of electronic devices such as smart phones, tablets and laptops, digital note-taking has become an option for many students. In the classroom setting, note takers might fail to record clearly organized notes due to limitations of time and devices. Therefore, users often need to manually organize long paragraphs of...

This paper analyzes a professional development Web site for teachers that features ‘virtual classroom visits’—video clips of teachers teaching, together with asynchronous forums for discussing the videos. The site was designed with the explicit goal of fostering community among teachers and teachers in training, where community is defined in part as self-sustaining, ongoing interaction. We anal...