This paper considers Aristotle’s account of technē (craft-knowledge) and the relationship it bears to phronesis (the capacity for excellent ethical deliberation). Neither techne nor phronesis are exclusively intellectual: both require practice and an evaluative capacity. Phronesis, however, structures a person’s…

Social knowledge is one of the key aspects of MAS in order to face complex problems in dynamical environments. However, it is usually incorporated without specific support on behalf of the platform and that does not let agents take all…

Effective document retrieval using domain knowledge and semantics is one of the major challenges in Information Retrieval. Over the last years, there has been a growing interest in ontologies as an artifact for human knowledge representation and a critical component…

This study compares the effectiveness of online textual glosses enhanced with modified corpus-extracted sentences presented in concordance lines and textual glosses enhanced with dictionary definitions drawn from an online learner’s dictionary for academic vocabulary learning at higher proficiency levels. Particularly,…

This paper demonstrates how architectural representations can be used to identify both differences and commonalities in the way first-year architecture students – as freshmen – and fourth-year architecture students – as pre-architects – perceive the discipline of architecture.  It is…

Open source lectures not only provide knowledge-seekers with convenient ways to obtain knowledge and information, they also serve as potential language learning resources that provide extensive language input and repeated exposure to vocabulary within specific topics or disciplinary. This current…

Originally published in Rhizomes, an international peer-reviewed online journal. Reprinted in Giffney, N. ed., 2008. Queering the Non/Human. London: Ashgate., Subjectivities configured as post-human may challenge investments in former configurations of what it means to be human, but there remains…

The willingness, the pre-college training, earned cultural and knowledge background of a student are important factors that have effect on student profiles. A 3-stage sketch problem examination which is aimed to evaluate their drawing, problem solving abilities and creativities was…

With retail-war becoming harsh, companies desire to be rescued by using experiential approach. Consequently, visual display is gaining huge acknowledgement in the Indian retail scene. But, to our surprise, there is dearth of empirical researches in grocery visual merchandising. Retailers…

The purpose of this research study was to explore the influence of Confucian-heritage culture on Chinese learners’ online learning and engagement in online discussion in U.S. higher education. More specifically, this research studied Chinese learners’ perceptions of power distance and…