1 Department of Curriculum and Instruction, [email protected] 2 Department of Curriculum and Instruction, [email protected] 3 Department of Biomedical Engineering, [email protected] Abstract This paper presents the results of a study comparing student learning in a challenge-based and a traditional course in biotransport. Collaborating learning scientists and biomedica...

The term knowledge management (KM) has lost most of its magic during the past few years: While knowledge has been identified as an important resource and key factor for productivity gains and innovation in organizations, there seems to be no generally applicable (and easy) way to utilize this resource. In this paper we present results of a field study that was conducted within a major European ...

There is a growing critical social science literature around contemporary expressions of alternative spirituality. However, this literature appears to have overlooked a core feature of these spiritual experiences. For many contemporary alternative spiritual practitioners, spirit plays an active and ever present role in their everyday lives and relationships. However, the critical social science...

Distributed team field research has shown that shared group awareness, coordination and informal communication are the most common ways for teams to inform each other of progress. In addition, we have observed that poorly documented, informal communication causes a fragmented workday due to frequent interruptions and knowledge loss due to the passage of time and team attrition. Because informal...

Digital inequality, or the unequal access and use of information communication technologies, inhibits under-privileged people from opportunities in the digital world. Although government and private organizations have devoted considerable resources to address this inequality, issues remain unsolved. A theory-based investigation of the phenomenon is essential for effective policy-making and inte...

A model of human behavior is first presented based upon the force field analysis of Lewin. This model includes feedback forces and represents the entire system rather than isolated parts. The model is constructed with weights and input forces; these are combined to produce output forces which are fed back to other components. A questionnaire is used to gather the input for the model, and the re...