Competing claims about the level of ignorance, or knowledge, among the current Nexus generation are addressed. The core of the paper is a theoretical analysis of ignorance in the knowledge society. Specifically, the knowledge-ignorance paradox suggests that the intense specialization…

“On Experience: L. Wittgenstein and C.I. Lewis”. This essay attempts to illustrate the parallelism –in spite of certain dissimilarities in their approach and conceptualization– between Wittgenstein’s thought at the beginning of the thirties and C.I. Lewis’ theory of knowledge. The…

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Recent research in early childhood education centres suggests that the classroom environment and educators' knowledge about computers are not at a level that would support computer learning opportunities. The purpose of the present study was to determine what…

We propose an organic approach to educational web-based systems where learning objects, operations on these objects, and actors that perform them are aggregated in meaningful ways. The users of a learning system must be able to observe it globally, at…

Little attention has been given to involving the deaf community in distance teaching and learning or in designing courses that relate to their language and culture. This article reports on the design and development of video-based learning objects created to…

La aparición de los manuscritos de las dos canciones sobre textos de Pierre Loti, Crépuscule y Tristesse, permiten datar definitivamente dichas obras, ya que el lugar y fecha de composición aparecen indicados por Albéniz en cada una de las partituras:…

En este artículo tratamos de reconstruir la vida de Diego de Urrea, uno de los traductores e intérpretes de árabe más importantes de finales del s. XVI y principios del XVII en España. Sus actividades como catedrático en Alcalá de…

Knowledge management in organizations, the learning objects paradigm, the advent of a new web generation, and the “Semantic Web” are major actual trends that reveal a potential for a renewed distance learning pedagogy. First and foremost is the use of…

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the method of meaning implication discourse analysis can be applied in the context of online collaborative reflective practice of student teachers. The method was developed to identify knowledge building in networked…

Abstract: Born into a religious family, Ḥamka traveled extensively to acquire knowledge. Having gained mastery of Arabic, ḤAMKA translated the Qur’ān, commented extensively on its various aspects and used it as a tool for the purification of Islam in Indonesia.…