Daily Archives: March 8, 2008

A New Desk A couple of weeks ago, I got so frustrated when working on my stats homework. I was trying to hand crunch factorial design, but I had no room for all the class notes, the textbook, my calculator, all kinds of pages for the assignment spread out, and my computer with SPSS installed. [...]

Topic Topic: Using Concept Maps to Enhance Students’ Prior Knowledge in Complex Learning Abstract: Relevant prior knowledge is an important component to learning new, complex topics. However, adults are often faced with learning new topics wherein they have low prior knowledge. Novice learners can experience difficulty learning new topics and learning can create high cognitive [...]