The concepts of ‘lesson drawing’ and ‘policy transfer’ have become increasingly influential ways of understanding public policy, especially in the UK. However, the main proponents of the concepts, Rose for ‘lesson drawing’ and Dolowitz and Marsh for ‘policy transfer’, have difficulty in providing convincing answers to three questions that are important for them and those engaged in similar stud...

OBJECTIVE Various organizations have suggested that physical education (PE) should play a central role in increasing adolescents' physical activity (PA) levels. The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between students' self-determined motivation and their PA behavior during a structured PE lesson led by their teacher and a free-choice period in which they were not required to be ...

In preparing teacher candidates to effectively integrate technology into their future classrooms they need to work in classroom environments that support a variety of technologies that include best practice lesson planning and classroom experiences. They should be allowed an opportunity to work with model technology integration processes that best support the curriculum and enhance student lear...

Planning lessons is an essential responsibility for any competent teacher. This study focuses on examining Vietnamese Philology teachers’ competencies in developing lesson plans. We employ a quantitative research approach by surveying 1,001 primary, lower secondary and upper teachers different provinces cities Vietnam. The results show that spend significant amount of time their plans they norm...

Personal informatics, the trend in collecting and analyzing data about one’s own self, has been heavily influenced by the involvement of technology in our daily lives. In this paper we aim to understand what happens when novice self-experimenters are provided with a structured lesson in experimental design. We conducted a month-long study on self-experimentation, where twenty students in a semi...

Many organizations employ lessons learned (LL) processes to collect, analyze, store, and distribute, validated experiential knowledge (lessons) of their members that, when reused, can substantially improve organizational decision processes. Unfortunately, deployed LL systems do not facilitate lesson reuse and fail to bring lessons to the attention of the users when and where they are needed and...

With the advent of the Internet, educators now have access over the web to the first artificial intelligence productivity toolsites. This presentation will demonstrate a unique online lesson planning toolsite and a research toolsite where educators actually create documents in the website. Following a process guide, the user applies a natural language retrieval algorithm to locate educational r...

The planning of lessons and courses is a very complicated work. Unfortunately many teachers tend to prepare their lessons without profiting from the experiences of their colleagues. In this paper we show how the collaboration of teachers could be supported by a community software that supports the collaboration focusing on the knowledge elements that form the topic of the lesson that is to prep...

Many organizations employ lessons learned (LL) processes to collect, analyze, store, and distribute, validated experiential knowledge (lessons) of their members that, when reused, can substantially improve organizational decision processes. Unfortunately, deployed LL systems do not facilitate lesson reuse and fail to bring lessons to the attention of the users when and where they are needed and...