Telling the whole story about simulation-based education

The Method of Story-Telling in Ethical Education in the View of Shahid Motahhari

Morteza Motahari is one of those speaking on ethics in contemporary Iran. In addition to his extensive theoretical efforts for the theoretical foundations of the Islamic Movement, writing simple works for the public, he tried to promote certain moral values. If his moral reformist minds were to be recognized, it would be necessary to study the same series of his works, since they indicate the m...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

Virtual signposts for location-based story-telling

This paper outlines the development and background for a nonintrusive location-based mobile hiking story guide for the Montafon region in Austria. The system comprises different classes of mobile applications and a remote media server, and is designed to be used by a wide userbase of hikers. Our system allows a tourism agency to put up location-based narratives for points of interest that will ...

Design, story-telling, and robots in Irish primary education

This paper describes “Empowering Minds,” a collaboration between the MIT Media Laboratory, St. Patrick’s College, and Irish primary school teachers. In this project, we are introducingLEGO Mindstorms technology into Irish primary schools, along with a framework for teacher professional development that centrally recognizes teachers’ passions and interests in bringing about pedagogical change.

Telling a story

The genre of storytelling in the form of case studies is an effective way of teaching and learning. Contemporary research on the case method is absent in the academic discipline of communication. This issue needs to be addressed and research on the effectiveness of the case method needs to be done in the academic area of communication. This paper discusses the reasons behind the popularity of t...