... general design, because not only focuses on technology transfer from the academy to industry, but also the transfer of technology in general. It consists of the following four steps: The exploratory phase, which consists of research, analytical and decision-making moments dedicated to the review of alternative concepts, technologies and selecting those that meet the requirements of ... phase consists of the final development, modification technologies and end-user changes. Figure 2: The process of technology transfer Some other existing models for technology transfer, focusing on technolo...

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... psychology, particularly educational psychology. Thirty years ago defining the term research in an educational or psychological context was not difficult. Research was quantitative, it involved a research design (often control-experimental group or correlational), and it was done to support a particular theory (Willis, Jost, and Wright, 1999). But a growing dissatisfaction with quantitative empirical research spawned other ... or very important to training teachers to enable the design of constructivist-based distance learning environments included: (a) establishing facilitator roles for ...

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... knowledge gains R and W reported. 2.2 Maximizing Volume These experiments provide unequivocal evidence that frequent reading encounters "work"; meeting words often makes it possible for learners to engage in the crucial process of formulating and testing hypotheses about meanings. We saw that even when R and W met words in the same contexts, their knowledge of the items grew substantially over the course of ... and excluded data produced by students who were absent from any of the reading sessions. We took these steps because there was uncertainty about whether participants had actually ...

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... repression of dissent, regionalism and tradition-the American Civil War is just one example of this. In the first half of the century, governments developed the machinery to control great number oc citizens through military conscription, public education and in some places, social legislation. Governments would encourage nationalism as a way of absorbing masses of previous excluded people ... internal combustion engine fueled by petroleum products and applied it to a car. With this development, the automobile age began; ultimately, petroleum power democratized many aspects of the indust...

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