AbstractObjectiveThe last two decades have seen major advancements in our understanding of some of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in the field of child neurology. However, in the majority of individual patients, it is still not possible to arrive at…

Siemens and Downes initially received increasing attention in the blogosphere in 2005 when they discussed their ideas concerning distributed knowledge. An extended discourse has ensued in and around the status of ‘connectivism’ as a learning theory for the digital age.…

Knobler (1971) notes that within society at least three
communities are affected by intellectual property rights and
these include; the stakeholders who produce and distribute
the new knowledge such as Microsoft or Disney, individual
generators of new knowledge such as…

Abstract: This study attempts to reconstruct Western critical pedagogy from an Islamic perspective and to explore its contribution to the resolution of the crisis in the Muslim mind and Islamic education. It analyses the underlying philosophical assumptions behind critical theory,…

Canoe-polo is a team sport. It is played in over 50 countries around the world. The role of coach concerns not only the technical – tactics skills but also the managerial, organizational and logistical skills of the players. From the…

The paper presents the findings of a PhD study into
design decision-making and specifically the use of values
during design decision-making. Firstly it presents a model
of design decision-making as a combination of the use of
knowledge, skills and values…

Abstract: The Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) began to experiment with online technologies in 1994, in part as a response to the increasing commodification of scholarship by commercial academic publishers. This article reviews and reflects on the CJC’s online publishing…

The radiofrequency coil is a crucial component of the magnetic resonance imaging scanners, so that a solid knowledge on the design and physical characteristics is important for those interested in its development. A birdcage coil with a 10 cm radius…

Educational Software is one of the pillars of distance learning and educational systems and has become the basic tool for current generations of students. However, recent methodologies used in this development have too many problems: a lack of common theoretical…

A functional understanding of Newton's second law as a vector equation requires that students be able to reason about forces as vectors. In this paper, we present data describing students' conceptual difficulties with forces as vectors. These data suggest that…