Teacher Research: Learning to Listen

learning to listen to expectant mothers: assessing learning needs

learning to listen to expectant mothers: assessing learning needs     ahmadi fz [1] *     received: 22 dec , 2012 accepted: 25 feb , 2013       abstract   background & aims : different surveys in iran show that antenatal education is not conducting effectively. this research aims at interpreting pregnant women’s experiences of maternal health education to understand the current educational appr...

A Review of Research on Mobile Learning in Teacher Education

Mobile devices have become attractive learning devices for education. While the majority of the existing research has focused primarily on the value of mobile learning for students, researchers have recently started exploring its potentials within teacher development. The present qualitative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative research aimed to address trends and gaps observed in the lite...

Learning to listen: background conversations in enterprise system implementations

The research study described in this paper utilises the theoretical lens of background conversations to examine the phenomenon of resistance to change in a longitudinal case study of an enterprise system (ES) implementation. In order to reveal the complex nature of resistance, the research study adopts a social constructionist perspective, leading to findings which are significantly different f...

Listen, Interact and Talk: Learning to Speak via Interaction

One of the long-term goals of artificial intelligence is to build an agent that can communicate intelligently with human in natural language. Most existing work on natural language learning relies heavily on training over a pre-collected dataset with annotated labels, leading to an agent that essentially captures the statistics of the fixed external training data. As the training data is essent...

Contributions of Qualitative Research to Research on Teacher Qualifications