Policy documents across the globe call for citizen engagement to fight climate change emergencies and build more sustainable societies. They also recognize key role of formal non-formal education in preparing citizens address those challenges. However, there is a need identify appropriate instruments evaluate impact educational interventions on people’s knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, which ar...

Neuromuscular disorders constitute a significant proportion of neurologic complaints. However, it has not been very long since they came into focus in Iran. The first specialized meeting on muscle and nerve disorders was held in Isfahan, 2010. The second gathering took place soon after in Tehran 2011 as a joint program with French experts.1 Kerman was the third place to contribute to neuromuscu...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the construction of a systematic theoretical base for educational multimedia design. The paper delineates different layers of explanation. It then argues for the interactional layer as the most appropriate for multimedia learning environment design. It proposes 'context' as the central construct at this layer. The relationships between multimedia contex...

The implementation of Mobile Pedestrian Navigation and Augmented Reality in mobile learning contexts shows new forms of interaction when students are taught by means of learning activities in formal settings. This research presents the educational, quantitative, and qualitative evaluation of an Augmented Reality and Mobile Pedestrian Navigation app. The software was designed for mobile learning...

This paper describes how activity theory (AT) and its principle of contradictions may be relied on to guide research in educational technology. The paper begins with a theoretical overview of AT and of its principle of contradictions. It follows with a synthesis of studies that have used AT as a lens to study information and communication technologies (ICTs) in educational contexts. We analyse ...

This article addresses the issue of curriculum for adults’ learning and education in a formal non-formal terms from psychological perspective. In this sense, adults are strongly focused on psychocentric approaches, which must be relevantly reflected curriculum. Namely, has as object reflection relationship between individual, society educational (learning) institution. The approach is following...

The nature of learning is being augmented by new digital tools, particularly by mobile devices and the networks and structures to which they connect people. In this paper I examine some longitudinal research 'threads' that have pervaded my work over the last two decades: (i) the powerful perspectives on learning and development put forward by Vygotsky, (ii) an evolutionary educational design re...