This study approaches educational marketing from the perspective of the customers, the students. Instructors and instructional designers have designed online learning using a process that revolves around delivery. The process addresses meeting the needs of administrators and aligns well with the growing demands of the educational marketplace. But the growing failure of students to successfully ...

FLOYD MERRELL (b. 16 November 1937). Academic Status: Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. Mail Address: Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University, West lafayette, IN 47907, USA. E-mail: . Personal Office Tel: (765) 496-2265. Fax: (765) 496-1700. Educational Background: Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1972. Research Interests: (1) Spanish an...

Objective: Evaluate the educational software application Semiotics and semiology of the preterm newborn. Methods: The layout and content evaluation of the application was performed with the participation of three information technology specialists, two audiovisual specialists and eleven nurses (professors and healthcare nurses). Results: Most of the items evaluated in the application received g...

This paper suggests that Peirce’s pragmatism might be a more suitable underpinning of educational research than the currently prevailing constructivism, in particular with respect to science and mathematics education. Using examples from the educational literature, a case is made for a notion of “truth”, a pragmatist scientific method, Peirce’s doubt-belief cycle and his semiotics and logic in ...

This volume focuses on the role of language, discourse and semiotics in the construction of knowledge in HIV/AIDS education in different regions of the world, within the broader framework of applied linguistics and public health. The contributions examine the production, location and utilization of local knowledge in educational settings vis-à-vis discourses that are transmitted through offi ci...

Introduction The theme of proof has been at the core of a number of studies, different aspects have been discussed and different perspectives have been proposed. Although not always researchers found an agreement, certainly some basic ideas can be considered as shared and among others the assumption that proving constitutes an important part of mathematical activity, so that education to mathem...

The usability requirement is extremely important to software artifacts especially in the area of computer games. This requirement can be classified as a quality or a nonfunctional requirement. Our work focuses on the operationalization of usability in the context of an educational game using the Semiotics Inspection method from the area of Human-Computer Interaction. SimulES-W is the first digi...

This paper argues that methods used for the classification and measurement of online education are not neutral and objective, but involved in the creation of the educational realities they claim to measure. In particular, the paper draws on material semiotics to examine cluster analysis as a ‘performative device’ that, to a significant extent, creates the educational entities it claims to objec...

Interpretation of artificial intelligence on the base of the philosophical fictionalism allowed discussing the educational technologies in the context of conditions for strengthening of discursive power of pupils’ thought. The artificial intelligence received broad interpretation as an embodiment of a literary image, which did not have unambiguous link with the area of logical formalisms and ma...

OBJECTIVE Identify resources that support learning mediated by technology in the field of neonatal nursing. METHOD Systematic review with searches conducted in MEDLINE, LILACS and SciELO. Titles and abstracts were independently evaluated by two experts. RESULTS Of the 2,051 references, 203 full-text articles were analyzed, resulting in the inclusion of nine studies on semiotics and semiolog...