Racism, Prevent and education: insisting on an open space

Typology and Efficiency Evaluating of the Open and Semi-Open Space in Vernacular Housing With an Emphasis on Enviromental Quality Factors:a Case Study of Western Kurdistan ,Iran

Aims & Backgrounds: The traditional spaces of the vernacular houses have been neglected in architectural and urban designs due to globalization policies and modernizing urban models, so it is necessary to review and classify their efficiency again in the reconstruction and the design of new villages to strengthen the vernacular identity of villages and to consider it in their physical developme...

Insisting on Persistent Mobile Agent Systems

In this paper we continue arguing that persistence is a fundamental requirement to support the development of next-generation agent-based applications. After a general overview of mobility and persistence to clarify the main issues discussed in the paper, we propose a tentative list of facilities that should be supported by persistent mobile agent systems. The main contribution of the paper is ...

On Transitional Space, Unresolved Conflicts, and an Uncertain Teacher Education

Open Education and Virtual Communities: an Experience

In Fall 2007, Utah State University professor David Wiley held a course about Open Education. That time Dr Wiley’s course was followed by an unusual group of students. The Fall 2007 edition, in fact, was available to anybody, free of charge, all over the world. The only requisite required was the possession of a blog for the completion of the weekly assignments. The present paper, whose authors...

Investigating the Impact of Schools' Open Space on Learning and Educational Achievement of Elementary Students

Background It is obvious that most of informal learnings of social skills and constructive plays occur in school yards and play-fields where children spend much of their non-official time of teaching. This study aimed to investigate the impact of schools' open space on learning and educational achievement of elementary students in Ahvaz, Southwest of Iran. Materials and Methods At a cross-secti...