While vocational education is meant to provide occupational-specific skills that are directly employable, their returns may be limited in fast-changing economies. Conversely, general should learning skills, but these have little value at low levels of education. This paper contributes this debate by exploiting a reform introduced Spain 1990 postponed students’ choice between two educational pat...

background: continuing medical education (cme) of general practitioners (gps) regarding most of the diseases, especially psychiatric disorders, is implementing worldwide to maintain and develop their knowledge, skills, and professional performance. we investigated the effects of cme on gps knowledge in the field of psychiatric disorders in dezful university of medical sciences (dums) as a newly...

Knowledge management has become a major application of information technology (IT) and a major focus of IT research. Thus, it becomes increasingly important to understand the nature of the knowledge object and knowledge engineering processes. The assumption underlying this article is that in order for knowledge to be managed by technological means, it must first be represented in the relevant t...

Elaborations of Competence-based Knowledge Space Theory (CbKST) incorporate skills that refer to the conceptual information of the domain as well as to the activities learners are expected to perform in this context. Thus, they are suggested as a formal knowledge representation framework that is able to take into account current activity-oriented pedagogical trends in designing effective Units ...

This paper presents an original method of knowledge base (ontology) creation from transformations of several sources of knowledge. These sources are derived from the knowledge organization systems (thesauri, taxonomies, etc.). The sources are weighted by a confidence score. The method is based on a module aggregating ontological design patterns. We have implemented this method in an agronomical...