Technology use in classrooms is often employed for all the wrong reasons—such as convenience, pressure from school administrators, the belief that students need to be entertained, and so on. In this paper, we argue that technology presents the opportunity to employ powerful cognitive tools that can be used by students to solve complex and authentic problems. In order for this to occur, however,...

This research sought to examine the mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between authentic leadership and work engagement among school principals and teachers. The study had a descriptive, correlational design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all school principals and teachers in Aleshtar (located in Lorestan Province) in school year 2016-17 from ...

There is a dearth of research content about the integration Chinese excellent traditional culture and kindergarten curriculum in studies related to curriculum. Most begin with minority cultural characteristics or regional curriculum, only few on integrity as entry point. We investigated teachers’ awareness connotation culture, teaching objectives, content, form, existing problems Jinshan Distri...

Simulations and Serious Games (SGs) are very promising educational tools as they include new powerful characteristics such as learner engagement or authentic environment for learning. Moreover SGs are highly interactive applications that can provide valuable information about the ingame students' interaction. Educators can take advantage of this information with different purposes such as stude...

  The Purpose of this study is Survey The effect of the three components of authentic leadership, Self-awareness, Self-regulation and Behavior on Implementation of Talent Management process. The research is applied and survey was conducted in sample of 270 of force staff in the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company; for data gathering a questionnaire was used after reliability and...

This article is the second installment in a four-part Educational Technology series exploring a contemporary perspective on the process of instructional design. In this article, the authors reintroduce the framework of Role-Based Design (RBD) and describe practical strategies for its integration into design workflow. Next, they examine their design process through a role-by-role breakdown, begi...

Complex learning aims at the integration of knowledge, skills, and attitudes; the coordination of qualitatively different constituent skills; and the transfer of what is learned to daily life or work settings. Recent instructional theories stress authentic learning tasks as the driving force for learning; but due to the complexity of those tasks, learning may be hampered by the limited processi...

This paper describes a research evidence-based practice model, TSOI Hybrid Learning Model as a viable alternative to support productive integration of Web 2.0-mediated collaboration for learning. The model is advanced from the Science learning cycle and the Kolb’s experiential learning cycle. An authentic example on understanding multimedia learning pedagogy for preservice teachers in chemistry...

Reproducibility is the key to science. Therefore, the fidelity of organisms, particularly type strains, used in molecular biology must be authenticated before embarking on a series of experiments. In the case of microbes the authentic strain can be obtained from a culture collection. However, tracking down a culture collection that possesses the strain can be an arduous task. With this in mind ...

The ongoing problems in business leadership over the past five years have underscored the need for a new kind of leader in the twenty-first century: the authentic leader. Author Bill George, a Harvard Business School professor and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and his colleagues, conducted the largest leadership development study ever undertaken. They interviewed 125 business leader...