|
|
A Comparative Study of Sa'adi Shirazi's View of Education and Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory
Golestan, Fatemeh ; Šaroch, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Kočí, Jana (referee)
The present study examines works of Sa'adi, who renowned Iranian scholars consider to be almost the first teacher in his time, 700 years ago. He taught moral and educational lessons to all Iranian families as a social reformer. He is also considered one of the greatest educational poets of Iran. For a long time, Sa'adi's books were taught in schools before schools came into their present form. The aim of this study is to compare learning theories in two works of Sa'adi, Bustan and Golistan, and the Environmentalist, Albert Bandura's theory of learning. The method of content analysis of Sa'adi's works is utilized to investigate his theories about education, child nature, stages of education, manner of education, purpose of education, child-centeredness, importance of the teacher, teaching method, motivation inheritance and the role of punishment and encouragement in behavior and learning. The findings show that both Sa'adi and Bandura believed in the effect of social environment and observing in learning and behavior, while Bandura advocates the cognitive factors, Sa'adi favors heritage. Keywords: Sa'adi, learning theories, environmental influence, Bandura, content analysis method Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
|
|
|
User Interface of Learning Management Systems Design and Validation of Functional Criteria as Basis for a Partial Evaluation
Ovesleová, Hana ; Štogrová Jedličková, Petra (advisor) ; Slussareff, Michaela (referee) ; Šušol, Jaroslav (referee)
Main topic of this thesis is evaluation of user interfaces of learning management systems (LMS). It is the users and their interaction with the system who are the focus of user interface design within the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and that is why user experience was taken into account for interface evaluation. The aim of the thesis was proposition of function criteria field that reflect users' requirements on the system and that can therefore serve as a basis for partial LMS evaluation. Within the scope of HCI interdisciplinarity, we focused on technical-psychological view (computer - human), complemented by the field that reflects the very purpose of LMS - pedagogical process. We believe that combination of general function criteria, which can be applied to any system, and learning content criteria is crucial for LMS evaluation, together with criteria concerning distribution forms and work methods. Based on defined areas, LMS Unifor courses from 2012- 2014 period of time and LMS Moodle courses from 2015-2017 period of time were evaluated using qualitative and quantitative research methods. The output of the research is a set of function criteria, which we regard to be elementary and suggest to be taken into account when considering a LMS.
|
guest ::
