perspective of the science of psychology itself; Martin Seligman wanted psychology to be thought of as the study of the best things in life. The aim of positive psychology is to use scientific methodology to discover factors that allow individuals, group, organizations and communities to thrive. There are three levels of positive psychology, valued subjective experiences, positive individual traits and civic virtues. Using the models that have come out of the positive psychology may better equip us
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technological tools such as wireless laptop technology (Marino, Sameshima, &ump; Beecher, 2009). The limitations are as follows: first, the amount of time available for the researcher to conduct this study, which may also limit the study’s scope to a smaller group of respondents. The other limitation is the researcher’s inability to assess the accurate amount of time teachers will spend using an online network. The next limitation is the location, a rural school system and not a suburban or urban school system
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Web 2.0 Use and Knowledge Transfer: How Social Media Technologies Can Lead to Organizational Innovation Namjoo Choi1, Kuang-Yuan Huang2 Aaron Palmer1 and Lenore Horowitz3 1 School of Library and Information Science, College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA 2 Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada 3 Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology, Schenectady County Community College, Schenectady, NY, USA namjoo
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has seven hypotheses. Unified theory of acceptance use of technology (UTAUT) is the conceptual framework utilized by the author. The author utilized UTAUT with independent variables of social norm, performance expectancy and effort expectancy, facilitating condition and management consultants’ behavioral intention to accept WAT and the moderators of gender, age and experience to capture behaviors related to the intention to use information technology. There
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collective which are performed by social groups. The fact that sacred things create such powerful feelings, Durkheim suggests this is because they are symbols representing something of great power and he says that this great power is society itself. Even though sacred symbols vary from religion to religion, they all perform the essential function of uniting believers into a single moral. Social stability is a sociological perspective that states a group always seeks to maintain equilibrium by forcing
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Int. J. Human-Computer Studies 63 (2005) 436–451 www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhcs Developing creativity, motivation, and self-actualization with learning systems Winslow Burlesonà MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Available online 10 May 2005 Abstract Developing learning experiences that facilitate self-actualization and creativity is among the most important goals of our society in preparation for the future. To facilitate deep understanding of a
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Globalization Globalization is an ongoing process of integration and interaction amongst companies, governments and people. It is driven by invention of new technologies and forms of communications, international trade and investment. In addition to economic aspects, globalization plays an important part in other fields. It can also be defined as the integration of economic, cultural, political, ecological and social systems through internationalization and interconnectedness. Globalization
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online forum discussion between quantitative and qualitative subjects offered to learners of Open University Malaysia (OUM). OUM adopted by OUM for its open and distance learning (ODL) comprises three components; self-managed learning, face-to-face interactions and online learning through myLMS to facilitate teaching and learning process. The nature of online learning requires high commitment from the learners, especially self-managed learning and collaborative online learning. Learning quantitative subjects
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Are there cognitive benefits for young children in watching baby media? Introduction We live in the period when TV, online videos are used for many different purposes. Various video programs can provide educational purposes, accelerating and facilitating the processes of learning, different movies and TV shows can perform the function of entertainment. And although some video-reportages, films can carry the aggression, violence, etc. in general TV media themselves are not something positive or
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The term “failure to thrive” has historically been and remains today a broad and multifaceted label referring, in essence, to the inability of a child to flourish and grow due to a wide range of either external or internal factors. Failure to thrive (FTT) can be a somewhat ambiguous and difficult to define term used to address young children with abnormal or insufficient growth patterns. One standardized guideline used in defining FTT is a weight that falls below the 5th percentile (Steward, 2001)
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