After a short introduction that describes the author’s interest in educational and vocational guidance, this paper reports on the psychological and pedagogical contributions to the analysis of the phenomenon. The limits of the above approaches are then analyzed and the need for the monitoring of the students’ cognitive, relational and affective spheres is explained. The last section of the pape...

In instructional psychology, cognitive load theory has applied knowledge of processing limitations of human cognitive system to enhance effectiveness of instructional procedures and information presentation formats. Underlying assumptions and principles of cognitive load theory are based on a recently proposed evolutionary perspective that regards both human cognitive architecture and biologica...

Web based systems has started to broaden their span of a applications. Implementing Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) are now more likely with higher speed and country-wide. In this study, a web based GDSS framework has been designed, a pilot study has been developed and demonstrated on car selection process.

One of the greatest concerns for many employers recruiting beginning information systems (IS) professionals is not the new recruit’s inadequacies in discipline skills or knowledge, but their general lack of the skills required to work effectively within a collaborative team in a changing workplace environment. It is the responsibility of education institutions to prepare beginning IS profession...

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It is the assertion of this paper that Informing Science (IS) framework (Cohen, 2009) gives insufficient attention to role of the client, a failing traced to the framework’s derivation from the Shannon-Weaver model of communication (Shannon & Weaver, 1949). The IS framework ignores developments in information and communication technology (ICT) and human rights and the resulting emergence of a c...