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Creating Better Human Motivation Theories for Personal Flourishing in Organizations
2017
In order to pursue organizational objectives effectively and to develop skills and virtues that lead to flourishing in the workplace, motivation has to be properly understood and explained. This study contends that the classical and most popular taxonomies describing employee motives and needs have either neglected or minimized the importance of the ethical and spiritual dimensions of motivation, resulting in a model of a person as self-interested, amoral and non-spiritual. This work summarizes, discusses and expands some of the ideas recently published by the author and two other colleagues in the Journal of Business Ethics. There they presented a new categorization of motivations that bri…
Developing Solutions For Healthcare : Deploying Artificial Intelligence to an Evolving Target
2017
—The pace of deploying artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to healthcare has been speeding up. Many of the initiatives have been technology driven aiming at finding problems matching the new technology while systematic, demand driven search for solutions has been limited. Here we describe the process of identifying opportunities for deploying artificial intelligence to healthcare and social services on regional and national levels in Finland. The process includes idea generation and elaboration using a design thinking method complemented with architectural design for identifying required AI capabilities for the 34 best use cases. In this paper, we focus on the development of use case “M…
HIERARCHICAL AND NON-HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING METHODS TO ANALYSE AN OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONNAIRE ON ALGEBRAIC THINKING
2016
In recent years, some papers have tried to develop detailed models of the reasoning competences of the student populations tested, or to subdivide a sample of students into intellectually similar subgroups, by using quantitative or qualitative analysis methods. It is worth noting that research papers using quantitative analysis methods to study student responses to open-ended questionnaire can be found in Science and Physics education (Springuel et al., 2007), but the same cannot be said for research in Mathematics education. In this paper we focus on the application of hierarchical and non-hierarchical clustering methods referred to dendrograms and k-means approaches (Everitt, et al., 2011…
Games: Artefacts in Gameplay
2016
This chapter reviews the past and looks to the future of the potential for games and gameplay to provide opportunity for engaging in mathematical activity. This review a glimpse into a possible future is conducted with a specific focus on the role of artefacts in gameplay. The chapter is in four sections. The first section considers the range of games; the second section considers artefacts in games and gameplay; the third section addresses games in mathematics education; and the final section looks to future development.
Basic Mathematical Thinking
2016
Mathematics, from the Greek word “mathema”, is simply translated as science or expression of the knowledge.
Mathematical Modelling Problems in a Mathematics Course for Engineers: A Commognitive Perspective
2021
Mathematical knowledge is very important for engineers; both quantitative and qualitative analysis of physical systems and manufacturing processes require solid scientific principles and appropriate mathematical tools. Teaching of mathematical modelling at the university contributes to the development of mathematical competencies, motivates the interest to mathematics and plays a significant didactical role in promoting advanced mathematical thinking. These views are supported by the analysis of students’ work on a mathematical modelling assignment in a university mathematics course for future engineers with the help of the commognitive framework. Students’ narratives in written solutions a…
The Materialisation of Children’s Mathematical Thinking Through Organisation of Turn-Taking in Small Group Interactions in Kindergarten
2020
This chapter reports from a case study which focuses on the coordination of turn-taking within two small groups of kindergarten children (age 5–6) working on addition problems. The two segments of small group interaction were analysed from a multimodal, interpretative perspective. Drawing on Radford’s (J Res Math Educ, 2:7–44, 2013) theory of knowledge objectification, the study explores the characteristics of children’s turn-taking and what role children’s organisation of turn-taking plays in the movement of the joint activity, and thus for the materialisation of their mathematical thinking. The findings suggest that children’s various ways of organising turn-taking give rise to different …
LAS TECNOLOGÍAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN Y COMUNICACIÓN EN LA EDUCACIÓN LATINOAMERICANA: MODELOS Y TENDENCIAS DE USO (Information and Communication Technolo…
2021
Spanish abstract: Resumen: La iniciativa para la elaboracion de un libro resultados de investigacion, nace de una reflexion realizada por un grupo de docentes investigadores de Latinoamerica y America Central, con el proposito de producir una obra en formato digital, para la socializacion de proyectos de investigacion y los resultados de estos. Por lo anterior, se propuso lineas tematicas vinculadas en la docencia y la brecha tecnologica, servicios empresariales con TIC, la gamificacion con uso de apps y plataformas educativas libres en el aula, modernizacion de procesos empresariales y agronomia uso en el sector agrario con TIC. Se presentan resultados investigativos variados, desde el pro…
Novel pedagogical tool for simultaneous learning of plane geometry and R programming
2018
Programming a computer is an activity that can be very beneficial to undergraduate students in terms of improving their mental capabilities, collaborative attitudes and levels of engagement in learning. Despite the initial difficulties that typically arise when learning to program, there are several well-known strategies to overcome them, providing a very high benefit-cost ratio to most of the students. Moreover, the use of a programming language usually raises the interest of students to learn any specific concept, which has caused that many teachers around the world employ a programming language as a learning environment to treat almost every possible topic. Particularly, mathematics can …
University Applicants’ Critical Thinking Skills: The Case of the Finnish Educational Sciences
2016
This study investigates the quality of the critical thinking skills of applicants (n = 77) seeking entry to the faculty of educational sciences in a Finnish university and how these skills are associated with the applicant’s age, previous higher education experience, and matriculation and entrance examination scores. The data consist of the applicants’ responses to problem-solving tasks and their matriculation and entrance examination scores. Critical thinking skills were measured with comparison and argumentation tasks. The results indicate that comparison of the texts and analysis of the arguments they contained were more difficult tasks than putting forward arguments both for and against…