A t the very moment when the idea of the university should be opening out, it seems to be closing in. The idea of the university has, of course, undergone many shifts and been subject to varying conceptions over time. For some hundreds of years, the idea of the university was –as it might be said– that of the metaphysical university, reflective of an inquiry that enhanced humanity’s connections...

International development is concerned with making life better for the least privileged people of the world. Since the 1990s, HCI has engaged increasingly with development through an interdisciplinary field known as “information and communication technologies for development,” or ICT4D. This article overviews the historical relationship between HCI and international development, compares their ...

Just as information technology has improved effectiveness in medicine, finance, manufacturing, and numerous other sectors of society, advanced computing and telecommunications have the potential to help students master complex 21 century skills. Research-based curriculum projects are developing technologies that enable online virtual communities of practice using advanced tools to solve real wo...

Developing strategies, methods, and criteria for changing educational practices requires a methodological and “scientific” warrant. This article explores transdisciplinarity as a methodological basis for working with paradox and contradictions as the inevitable result of reflective human consciousness. Transdisciplinary thinking is discussed as a conscious and concerted effort to conduct scient...

This study examines the problem of fragmentation asynchronous online discourse by using Knowledge Connection Analyzer (KCA) framework and tools explores how students could use KCA data in classroom reflections to deepen their knowledge building (KB) inquiry. We applied nine Forum® (KF) databases examine framework, identify issues with that may inform further development, provide on work. Our co...

Peirce's idea (1868) of a community of inquiry is more relevant today than notions of an invariant curriculum or conventional modes of instruction. In order to foster such a community, we have employed web-based communication and knowledge-building tools such as the Inquiry Page http://inquiry.uiuc.edu, through which users can create modifiable representations of ongoing stages of inquiry calle...

Recently, there is a need for fostering the critical reflective side of L2 teacher education. This study investigated the implications of personal narrative (PN) and reflective journal (RJ) writing for Iranian EFL teachers’ reflective writing. Sixty (36 women and 24 men) in-service secondary school EFL teachers were selected based on the convenience sampling from Iran. L2 teachers equally divid...