...Yung-Ming Cheng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the roles of task-technology fit (TTF), learning-technology fit (LTF) and cognitive absorption (CA) in determining medical professionals’ cloud-based electronic learning (e-learning) system continuance intention and performance...

... of Science https://apps.webofknowledge.com IEEE Explore http://IEEExplore.IEEE.org/ Nima Jafari Navimipour can be contacted at: jafari@iaut.ac.ir © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Knowledge Knowledge sharing Learning...

... several past guidelines, from McCulloch, Wiener, Conant, Ashby and von Foerster to Bateson, Beer and Rosen’s concept of a non-trivial system to arrive to an indispensable and key anticipatory learning system (ALS) component for managing unexpected perturbations by an antifragility approach as defined...

...Hugo Letiche Purpose Second-order cybernetics is explored here as a learning intervention strategy. Researcher reflexivity, both the student’s and the professor’s, that is asserted is crucial to achieving a liberatory learning experience. But as Lacan has revealed, the “symbolic” (written...

... regarding the chosen concept of designing and learning from the perspective of a constitutive epistemology. These were investigated as circularities and as distinctions in language. The variety of intended meanings and hence implicit entailments was examined from the perspective of implicit domains...

... system density followed Maxwell-Boltzmann statistical theory if in equilibrium, which is capable of finding macro-statistics of the system with statistical average methods. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Behaviour Artificial intelligence Intelligent agents Learning Social...

...Philip Baron, Professor Ranulph Glanville, Professor David Griffiths and Dr Ben Sweeting; Michael Hohl Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to learn from successful educational frameworks how to inform a possible framework for design education that includes ecological literacy, systems thinking...

... individuals outside the cybernetics and systems communities in learning key concepts of cybernetics. Design/methodology/approach – The main approach used to make this case is consideration of how individuals can come to understand circular systems and circular causality. The paper makes a case...

... which harm people’s rights). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Control systems Philosophy Cybernetics Education Learning Social change If current societal ills are mainly a product of our social system rather than of its failure, a feature and not a bug, it would...

... of cybernetics, to contribute through their actions and through the development of cybernetics practice. The result of this will be a self-organization that evolves naturally between theory and practice of cybernetics, leading to better learning of cybernetics, and in the process, sustaining it through continued...

... – In the 1970s, the first author implemented a computer program model of the cognitive processes involved in learning and skill acquisition, based on a series of empirical investigations. Recently, with assistance from the second author, the model has been reviewed, updated and re-implemented. The paper sets...

... structure as a framework for creating a system of schools world-wide is new and has value for anyone contemplating alternative educational systems. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Teaching Learning Conversation Action and understanding Knowledge and wisdom Non-hierarchical systems...

...Ranulph Glanville; David Griffiths; Philip Baron; Ranulph Glanville Purpose – To establish the essential centrality of a circular relationship between acting and understanding, and a role learning plays in this circularity, with special reference to Aristotle's phronesis and sophia. The purpose...

... by incorporating approaches and theory from education inquiry. Conversely, educators can de-anthropocentrize their discipline by entering into learning relationships with other species. By rallying around the concept of “eduction”, second-order cybernetics plays a role in both syntheses. Practical implications...

... in the observation of the landscape of thought. This paper aims to introduce a matrix as an orientating heuristic to guide this form of praxis and provides reflections on its use in the enactment of social learning. Design/methodology/approach – The signifiers for four different orientations to learning...

...Prof Ranulph Glanville, Prof David Griffiths; Debora R. Hammond Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the significance of recursive processes in the evolution of learning in both individuals and organisations, beginning with a clarification of the distinction between recursion...

... at: jeff.bloom@nau.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Complexity Curricula Learning Relationship Complex systems Teaching Epistemology Ecology of mind Gregory Bateson Epistemological shock After the release of the film, “An ecology of mind: a daughter's portrait...

...Alfonso Reyes Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show, through a case study, the relationship between organizational learning and the need to improve the organization's management of complexity. Design/methodology/approach A case study is used. Findings The case study illustrates both...

... distinguishing system capable of pre‐programmed adaptation, system‐specific adaptation and learning. It determines the cybernetic starting point of individual psychology. In previous papers we developed increasingly complex goal‐orientated systems out of the structure of simple feedback systems (Nechansky...

... subjects (cybernetics, art, design, and mathematics) in our conference title. Ranulph Glanville can be contacted at: ranulph@glanville.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Conference Consistency Conversation Cybernetics (of cybernetics) Internet Learning Papers Questions...