The paper investigates the use of computational intelligence for adaptive lesson presentation in a Web-based learning environment. A specialized connectionist architecture is developed and a formulation of the planning strategy retrieval in the context of the network dynamics is proposed to select the content of the lesson in a goal-oriented way of 'teaching'. The educational material of the co...

Lesson study involves planning and revising a sequence of lessons collaboratively to encourage learners to construct their own understandings based on a carefully guided sequence of activities. Here we consider the nature of mathematics that makes it significantly different from other forms of knowledge and the ways in which its developing structure involves both building on solid foundations a...

Introduction Despite the interest in fostering new intentional online communities that support learning, online professional development is still a rarity and often not well understood (Barab, 2003). Many on-line communities are emerging in the wake of social networking tools, but how these environments benefit knowledge construction is unclear. In the Web 2.0 era, it seems only natural that th...

Many international organizations, governments and academics concerned with economic development look to Asia’s success, recommending that other poor countries follow similar models and paths of development. This study argues that such Asian ‘lesson-making’ is a grave mistake in policy-thinking—and in the historical understanding of the nature and process of development. In identifying what we c...