“What shall I do with my students to help them understand this science concept? What materials are there to help me? What are my students likely to already know and what will be difficult for them? How best shall I evaluate what my students have learned?" These questions are common for every teacher, and central to describing the knowledge that distinguishes a teacher from a subject matter spec...

This paper compares the results of two surveys conducted between July 2009 and January 2010 with 45 subject matter experts (SMEs) and 41 game experts in the UK. The surveys examine the attitudes and attitude differences of the participants towards teachers who use games in the classroom and studios that produced educational games. The findings revealed respondents’ attitudes were statistically ...

one of the requirements mentioned in islamic jurisprudence for the subject-matter of the contract is its being free from other’s rights, and in view of this requirement, sale of such things as pledge and vaqf (property that is religious endowment) is forbidden. there is disagreement whether this requirement is an independent term or is deduced from preclusion of such sales. iranian civil code d...

This paper proposes an instrument to allow instructional designers and subject matter experts (SMEs) to balance gender and ethnicity categories from inception of mobile courses throughout the complete design of the course. This instrument can also be used to analyze the matter of gender and ethnicity in all Technology Enhanced Learning courses.

This study addressed three questions: 1. What are the objectives of the leaders of ISIL? 2. What are the objectives of the followers of ISIL? 3. How are the two sets of objectives related? To answer these questions we analyzed the transcripts of interviews and presentations of 59 subject matter experts (SMEs) and conducted a separate analysis of speeches of ISIL leaders and selected Internet so...