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      PsychologyCognitive ScienceResearch MethodologyEducational Psychology
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This paper discusses the effective education of internal and external students, concerning business processes and principles, using an enterprise resource planning application as a cognitive tool. The teachings explain a number of core... more
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      Computer ScienceInteractive LearningBusiness ProcessEnterprise Resource Planning
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      HistoryEducationEnvironmental EducationSense of Place
In environmental and ecological education, a rich literature builds on the premise that place, the local natural context in which one lives, can be an emotionally engaging context for learning and the source of life-long concern for... more
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The nature of mental activity is one of the issues are being studied in cognitive science. From a cognitive point of view, understanding a conceptual domain based on another conceptual context is "metaphor". The use of body organs, as a... more
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      Conceptual MetaphorEyeغزليّات حافظHafiz's Sonnets
The selection, and use of educational software and its impact in schools are still controversial issues. In this paper we present an alternative conceptualisation of educational software based on considering the software as an instrument... more
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      Computer ScienceEducationEvaluationPedagogy
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      TechnologyEducational TechnologyComputer Supported Collaborative LearningComputer Mediated Communication
Higher education institutions are experiencing increasing pressure from government, industry, funding bodies and students, to place greater emphasis on developing generic skills that are currently delivered through the" hidden... more
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What is exactly level design? It is juggling 12 balls in the air at the same time, it is solving differential equations with 12 variables, it is trying to realize a vision when everybody is tearing at it. Artists, programmers, marketing... more
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Investigations about changes of conceptions during physics instruction are seen as the logical and necessary next step to follow the successful international research on students' pre-instructional conceptions. The paper analyses... more
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While a great variety of fields are addressed in the discussions concerning digital game studies, the natural sciences are rarely among them. We do see references to evolution and biology when we look at new directions in the technical... more
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      Cognitive ScienceMnemonicsCognitionChild Development
In this paper, we investigate the coupling of two differ-ent cognitive modules, within the framework of embodied cognition. On one hand, an artificial agent is let to inter-act with its environment in order to learn the prediction of... more
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      PerceptionCognitionEmbodied CognitionNeural Networks
Abstract: Word problem solving is one of the most challenging tasks in mathematics for most students. It requires the solver to translate the problem into the language of mathematics, where we use symbols for mathematical operations and... more
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      Interpersonal CommunicationLearning EnvironmentExperimental AnalysisCognitive Tool
Higher education institutions are experiencing increasing pressure from government, industry, funding bodies and students, to place greater emphasis on developing generic skills that are currently delivered through the" hidden... more
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      Teaching and LearningInstructional DesignHigher EducationProblem Solving
This paper reports on the incorporation of an embedded tool within a virtual classroom environment (ClassSim) and the use of this by pre-service teachers as they engage with the software. The classroom simulation reported on in this... more
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Interventions to support children with autism often include the use of visual supports, which are cognitive tools to enable learning and the production of language. Although visual supports are effective in helping to diminish many of the... more
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A complementary relationship exists between technology and constructivism, the implementation of each one benefiting the other. Constructivism is a doctrine stating that learning takes place in contexts, while technology refers to the... more
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Currently there is considerable enthusiasm for exploring how we can apply digital gaming paradigms to learning. But these approaches are often weak in linking the game-playing activity to transferable social or conceptual processes and... more
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      Computer ScienceGame TheoryHigher EducationInteraction
Currently there is considerable enthusiasm for exploring how we can apply digital gaming paradigms to learning. But these approaches are often weak in linking the game-playing activity to transferable social or conceptual processes and... more
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Three related studies replicated and extended previous work (J.A. Danielson et al. (2003), Educational Technology Research and Development, 51(3), 63–81) involving the Diagnostic Pathfinder (dP) (previously Problem List Generator [PLG]),... more
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      Human BehaviourAutomatic code generationMassage Design PrincipleCognitive Tool
Higher education institutions are experiencing increasing pressure from government, industry, funding bodies and students, to place greater emphasis on developing generic skills that are currently delivered through the" hidden... more
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Abstract - This paper compares how different student teams with engineering and industrial design backgrounds approach design problems and create design solutions. We collected data by observing team meetings throughout the design... more
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This article addresses research conducted in Portugal on the application of Rand Spiro’s Cognitive Flexibility Theory, describing work developed in the last decade. The studies presented range from the theory itself and the pedagogical... more
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      Computer Supported Collaborative LearningCSCLCollaborative LearningHigher Order Thinking
Differences in cultural contexts constitute differences in cognition, and research has shown that different cultures may use different cognitive tools for perception and reasoning. The cultural embeddings are significant in relation to... more
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Currently there is considerable enthusiasm for exploring how we can apply digital gaming paradigms to learning. But these approaches are often weak in linking the game-playing activity to transferable social or conceptual processes and... more
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      Computer ScienceGame TheoryHigher EducationInteraction
Higher education institutions are experiencing increasing pressure from government, industry, funding bodies and students, to place greater emphasis on developing generic skills that are currently delivered through the "hidden... more
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      Teaching and LearningInstructional DesignHigher EducationProblem Solving
The aim of the paper is to characterize two new advanced video technology software systems developed for uses in collaborative learning (DIVER and HyperVideo), and how they extend the paradigms of video use in classrooms today. The... more
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      Teacher EducationCollaborative LearningSoftware SystemsCollaborative knowledge construction
This paper reports on the incorporation of an embedded tool within a virtual classroom environment(ClassSim) and the use of this by pre-service teachers as they engage with the software. The classroomsimulation reported on in this... more
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      Computer ScienceTheoryCognitiveVirtual Environment
The V.E.Ne.Re. Project (Virtual Executive NEuropsychological REhabilitation) consists in the constuction and validation of artificial environments based on Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, aimed for cognitive rehabilitation of executive... more
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      PsychologyExecutive FunctionVirtual RealityCognitive Rehabilitation
A theoretical perspective of physics learning processes as cognitive development is described, referring to theoretical frames and empirical results of other authors. Students' cognitive system is described with cognitive elements,... more
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      College StudentsElementary SchoolKnowledge ConstructionElectrical Circuit Analysis
Investigations about changes of conceptions during physics instruction are seen as the logical and necessary next step to follow the successful international research on students' pre-instructional conceptions. The paper analyses... more
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This design-based research uses handheld computers as cognitive tools to facilitate students' inquiry-based learning on environmental issues—3Rs (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) in a Singapore primary school. Using handheld computers... more
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