Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory is a powerful foundation for research into teacher professional development. However, while this has been growing, it largely focused on pre-service second/foreign language. Furthermore, there lack of how the instructional process informed by principles Theory, including assessment candidates’ mediated performance, can be orchestrated to promote teachers’ concept...

(2011) "Knowledge processes, knowledge-intensity and innovation: a moderated mediation analysis", Journal of Knowledge Management, Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine innovation from a knowledge-based view by exploring the effect of knowledge processes and knowledge intensity on innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach – First, a theoretical model of the connections bet...

Two asynchronous conferencing systems were used in subsequent years in a management skills course. These systems had comparable technological features but were not equally effective in supporting the course. This paper examines differences in the systems and their deployment that led to the success of one and the failure of the other. Data from student surveys show differences in user behaviors...

Previous research has indicated that the creative task of deciding upon the initial specijcations for a sojtware SySfem can benefit from a structured process to guide group interaction in Face-to-Face meetings, and can benejlt from computer support. This 2x2 experiment is the Jrst to look at the joint effects of a distributed asynchronous computer conferencing mode of communication (CC, as comp...

Negotiation Support Systems offer a sophisticated support of electronic negotiations. During a negotiation process, different types of conflicts can occur. Up to a certain level, they can be constructive, afterwards they become destructive. Such escalating conflicts should be handled and resolved. In this paper, the potential and challenges of conflict resolution support for such type of negoti...

dynamic assessment (da) which is rooted in vygotsky’s (1978) sociocultural theory involves the integration of instruction and assessment in a dialectical way to achieve two main purposes: enhancing learners' development and understanding about their learning potential. however, the feasibility and appropriateness of mediation are two main concerns of da. the former is concerned with the applica...

Asynchronous circuits are widely used in many real time applications such as digital communication and computer systems. The design of complex asynchronous circuits is a diicult and error-prone task. An adequate synthesis method will signiicantly simplify the design and reduce errors. In this paper, we present a general and eecient partitioning approach to the synthesis of asynchronous circuits...

(Riedl, Saretto, & Young 2003) describes narrative mediation, a plan-based technique for addressing human user actions that conflict with the story structure maintained by computer-controlled agents within interactive narrative environments. This technique is used to generate real-time system responses to unanticipated user actions while balancing user freedom with story coherence. Narrative me...