And They Lived Happily Ever After

And they lived happily ever after.

When I was a little girl, my favorite stories were fairy tales. There was always a beautiful and bright princess who managed to get herself into some difficulty. But no matter how dire her circumstances, Prince Charming came along and gave her a kiss or put the slipper on her foot and rescued her just in the nick of time. We all know how the story ended: and they lived happily ever after. Somet...

RUTH AYLETT AND THEY BOTH LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER ? Digital

In this paper we consider the role of story in digital technology enhanced learning and the issues involved in constructing digital narrative learning environments. We will see that story has played an important role in education for a very long time, well pre-dating the use of digital technologies, and can be closely related to a number of theoretical approaches to learning. However story has ...

“and They All Lived Happily Ever After”? Marital Quality, Marital Dissolution, and Mortality*

Lived happily ever after: Combing a dynamic CMS front-end with Semantic Mashup Personalization features

Upfront Semantic Web applications are often lacking desirable features related to their ‘Web’ part, despite the novelties and acknowledged addedvalue introduced with them. On the other hand, characteristics like front-end intuitiveness, dynamic content rendering and streamlined user management have been dealt with, elaborated and improved over the course of many years in the world of traditiona...

Happily Ever After? Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce, and Happiness in Germany

In Germany the life satisfaction of those in first marriages traces the following average course. Starting from a baseline of life satisfaction in noncohabiting years one or more years prior to marriage, those who cohabit prior to marriage have an increase in life satisfaction significantly above the baseline. In the year of marriage and that immediately following, the life satisfaction of thos...