The importance of cross-cultural understanding is accelerated nowadays by globalization and joint efforts of different countries in the face of global challenges. Countries’ educational systems display attempts to incorporate cross-cultural studies in their curricula across all stages of formal learning. Many higher education institutions offer special courses aimed at promoting cross-cultural ...

This paper reports a pilot study of how to utilize simulated animal companions to encourage students to pay more effort in their study in the classroom environment. A class of students is divided into several teams. Every student keeps her own individual animal companion, called My-Pet, which keeps a simple performance record of its master for self-reflection. Also, every team has a team animal...

The provision of awareness is a well-known method for fostering students’ selfreflection, a metacognitive skill often related to academic success and considered one of the key skills of the 21st century. Although the information discovered using learning analytics techniques can be useful in fostering self-reflection, its delivery to students should be done without distracting them from their l...

This position paper presents open issues for using self-models to guide introspective learning, focusing on five key types of areas to explore: (1) broadening the range of learning focuses and the range of learning tools which may be brought to bear, (2) learning for self-understanding as well as self-repair, (3) making model-based approaches more sensitive to processing characteristics, instea...

First, the recommendation for a child-centric perspective is very much in harmony with calls from these literatures which widely exhort – as did both AR and H-K – for careful attention to the perspectives of the children and youth themselves. This attention to their perspectives can be viewed as a matter of theory/philosophy of science to the extent that it endorses the subjective perception of...

Two hundred and sixty-three subjects each gave examples for one of five geographic categories: geographic features , geographic objects, geographic concepts, something geographic, and something that could be portrayed on a map. The frequencies of various responses were significantly different, indicating that the basic ontological terms feature, object, etc., are not interchangeable but carry d...

Five focus groups (n = 23 students) were conducted to understand the feelings and views of the students taking a course entitled “ Tomorrow ’ s Leaders ” at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Several observations were highlighted from the fi ndings. First, students generally had positive perceptions of the subject content, the class, and the lecturers. Second, almost all students regarded th...

To better understand the pattern of language use and classroom interactions, this sequential mixed-methods study investigated the teachers’ use of self-repair strategies based on their level of reflection. To this end, 33 Iranian EFL teachers were selected from various institutions in Tehran. Data for the quantitative phase were collected from the reflectivity questionnaire developed by Akbari,...

Background Individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are responsible for the daily decisions and actions necessary to manage their disease, which makes self-management the cornerstone of diabetes care. Many patients do not reach recommended treatment goals, and thus it is important to develop and evaluate innovative interventions that facilitate optimal motivation for adequate self-manag...

We present a reflection-on-action system supporting students’ reflection and self-assessment after a tabletop brainstorming learning activity. Open Learner Models (OLMs) were core to the reflection task, to scaffold student’s self-assessment of egalitarian contribution; and group interaction from ideas sparked from each other. We present multiple OLMs to the group generated from logs automatica...