There are many different teaching/learning styles and preferences described in literature. We can find differences in preferences of students in learning through experiential or concrete instruction, as well as we can find those who prefer cooperative activities to a learning process with a competitive motivation, and vice-versa. The style of an evaluation is also a key parameter for the learni...

Reputation systems are used both as a motivational and an assessment tool in cooperative and classic e-Learning. They can prove useful in accompanying learners along the paths of their didactic activities, by fostering their involvement in the socio-cooperative didactic game. A problem arises, though, when learners (and teachers) participate in different web systems and possibly in different re...

despite various efforts towards empowerment of cooperatives in iran, much in agreement with this concept and strategies can not be observed. the purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the solutions to empowering production cooperatives. the delphi technique was employed to do this study. the target population consisted of specialists in national provincial and specialists (n=15). ...

Requirements Engineering – one of the macro -activities of Sofware Engineering – is a systematic process of capturing, modeling and documenting requirements through an iteractive and cooperative approach[13]. It’s an activity which require s team work. Groups of people formulate requirements, design and implement a system and execute quality assurance activities during the software process[28]....

This study was an attempt to investigate the comparative impact of Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) and Think-Pair-Share (TPS) on EFL learners’ listening. Accordingly, 60 female EFL learners selected from a larger group of 90 learners based on their performance on a sample piloted Preliminary English Test (PET) who studied at a language school in Tehran were randomly divided into two ...

The aim of this study was to determine influencing factors on participation of fishermen member cooperative in sustainable fishing in Golestan Province. The methodological approach of this study was descriptive- correlative. The research population consisted of 144 fishermen who member cooperative, which were selected using census method. Validity of the instrument was established by a panel of...

Web-based learning programs enable learners to browse web pages individually through a predefined path or a personalized routine. However, they provide less social context and cooperative context for cooperation. The main idea presented in this poster is the concept of “informal cooperative learning program”. It is defined as a set of structured learning steps. Learners can go through all steps...

This paper reflects upon the issues posed by students' extensive use of collaborative internet tools, or social web (Web 2.0). Internet-based cooperative activities are usually underrated by academic and offical school practice, though students dedicate most of their time to the web. Moreover, the paper attempts to consider the innovative collaborative practices of Web 2.0, of social bookmarkin...