complicacy, variety and ever-increasing changes, assumed as outstandingly evident organizational environment features, impose a situation where inconsiderate attitude or carelessness could end in loss of competitiveness or even survival among rivals. today, organizations have come to the point that nothing, but knowledge and innovation could make them desirably successful in a competitive world...

this study was conducted in english for academic purposes (eap) context to explore iranian teachers' perceptions of their pedagogical content knowledge (pck) and their sense of professional identity (pi) as well as to scrutinize how their cognitions were practiced in eap classes. to this end, two elt teachers and two content instructors (i.e. subject experts who teach eap courses in addition to...

In this paper, the qualifications considered essential by teaching professionals to be effective in pedagogical and didactic work are put together based on the results of a national survey carried out in Greece, to which secondary education teachers of all subjects contributed. One of the aims of this study was to systematically record the qualifications deemed essential by teachers for them to...

This paper investigates a problem of sharing and reuse of innovative practices among teachers, rather than technical platforms. The paper starts from the emerging concept of learning designs (LDs) that are increasingly used to express teaching/learning scenarios that could be based on any pedagogical model (e.g. problem-based learning, role-playing etc). To address the identified research probl...

This work takes place in the framework of the design of a training environment using virtual reality. In this context, we defend the thesis that it is possible to integrate a generic and adaptive intelligent tutoring system (called PEGASE) in a virtual environment, in order to provide pedagogical aid for the learner and pedagogical assistance for the trainer. Our proposal is a multi-agent syste...

This paper aims to use a priority framework based on Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) to help organizations build awareness of the critical influential factors affecting successful implementation of KM. To identify critical influential factors, the authors studied and reviewed relevant literature from numerous fields of study associated with the essential issues of ...

the present paper deals with the role of played by knowledge management in organizations and its impact on their improved operations, including libraries. the km mission within an organization is to transform the tacit knowledge of employees into an important source for decision making as well as proactive documentation of explicit knowledge for achieving organizational goals. the closer man’s ...

Theories associated with teacher knowledge suggest that teachers transform subject content knowledge into pedagogical content knowledge in teaching to enhance the content comprehensibility. It is assumed that the connection between teacher content knowledge and curriculum is characterized by the content knowledge transformation. This study, using an interpretive research method combined with co...

Utilizing the resources of the web in educational practices has made instructional processes more efficient and interesting and has made the learning process on the other hand much easier and attractive. With the web, English language teachers now have the option of engaging learners in online (web-based) instructions in addition to the use of conventional classroom instructions or alternativel...

acquiring and modeling knowledge in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) design is more complex than in most other knowledge based systems since ITS incorporate different kinds of expertise (knowledge on the subject matter, knowledge on the learner’s knowledge, pedagogical expertise, etc.) that evolve continuously. The pedagogical expertise, in particular, tends to be distributed among several co...