Aprender, desde un punto de vista sociocultural, está relacionado con cómo las personas se apropian de herramientas para pensar y actuar en una comunidad de práctica. Esta perspectiva del aprendizaje tiene implicaciones sobre el diseño de las tareas y entornos…

In the North of Morocco, the mountain landscapes of the Rif are
submited to the strong socio-economic changes of the XXth century.
These changes originate demographical, economical and political constraints
that affect both natural and cultural structures of the traditional

Open Source Software projects base their operation on collaborative structure for knowledge exchange in the form of provision or reception of information, expertise and feedback on the creation of source code. Here, we address the direction of these knowledge flows…

The purpose of this study was to investigate sources of knowledge acquisition of high school team sport coaches. Six teacher/coaches were interviewed using a semi-structured open-ended interview format. Cote, Salmela, and Russell's (1995) guidelines were used to inductively analyze and…

In this thesis we follow two directions: Zero Knowledge Protocols and the Discrete Logarithm Problem. In each direction we present the necessary background and we give a new approach for some parts of the existing protocols., The new parts are…

Metacognitive knowledge is a critical piece of the information literacy puzzle. In a world of exploding information and communications possibilities, the difficulty for users of information systems and services may not lie in finding information but in filtering and integrating…

The purpose of this study was to identify the knowledge and successful strategies utilized by intercollegiate team sport coaches who have worked with a large number of international athletes. Six head coaches were selected to participate in a semi-structured open-ended…

This dissertation is a study of organizational learning. Organizational learning is a cyclical process through which knowledge that has been learned on an individual or group level is institutionalized on the organizational level. Organizational learning is at the heart of…

This study addressed computer-supported collaborative scientific inquiries in Remote Networked Schools. Three dyads of grade 5-6 classrooms from remote locations collaborated using the knowledge-buildng tool Knowledge Forum. Customized scaffold supports embedded in the online tool were used to support student…

Representing a major public health concern, suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide. Generally regarded as a behavior with a multitude of state and trait dependent risk factors (e.g. psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, genetics), explanations as to why certain…