this paper aims to discuss the possibility of juxtaposition of critical thinking and religious experience, as an approach for religious education, and introduce its educational outcomes. a deductive research method has been used to theoretically discuss the possibility of combination of these two concepts in religious education and its results. religious education of iranian educational system ...

In English, the distinction between belief verbs, such as think, and desire verbs, such as want, is tracked by the tense of those verbs’ subordinate clauses. This has led some authors within the syntactic bootstrapping literature to propose that subordinate clause tense is an integral part of the acquisition of belief and desire predicates. This proposal is problematic since the correlation bet...

Cross-curricularity is being implemented in the upper secondary school curriculum reform Finland. This study investigates changes conceptual constructs when studying humans and humanity from points of view six subjects (biology, physics, physical education, philosophy, psychology arts) a pilot unit. We found evidence with vast individual differences. Learners mastery goal orientation manifested...

An answer of a learner can be interpreted as a learning evidence for demonstrating the understanding of the learner, while a confidence on the answer represents the belief of the learner as the degree of understanding. In this paper, we propose Kit-Build concept map with confidence tagging. KitBuild concept map (KB map in short) is a digital tool for supporting a concept map strategy where lear...

This paper presents a novel recommendation methodology for learners who are doing tasks in ubiquitous learning environments. The main concept is to deal with a learning task as a set of real objects and to orient the recommendation methodology towards these objects. These objects can be detected using ubiquitous technologies. An intelligent agent can propose diverse recommendations for the lear...

This article takes a critical look at three pervasive urban legends in education about the nature of learners, learning, and teaching and looks at what educational and psychological research has to say about them. The three legends can be seen as variations on one central theme, namely, that it is the learner who knows best and that she or he should be the controlling force in her or his learni...

Discriminative learners for functions with structured outputs have been successfully applied to sequence prediction, parsing, sequence alignment, and other problems where exact inference is tractable. However, these learners face challenges when inference procedures must use approximations, e.g., for multi-label classification, clustering, image segmentation, or loopy graphical models. In this ...

students took at least one online course in fall 2005, an increase of more than 800,000 over the previous year (Allen and Seaman 2006). At the same time, questions persist about the quality of online learning. In one recent study, about two-fifths of senior academic officers at U.S. degree-granting higher education institutions expressed a belief that distance learning is inferior to face-to-fa...