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What is Boundary of Meaning (BoM)

Chapter 16
Handbook of Research on Applied Learning Theory and Design in Modern Education
Given a community of specialists that share a sublanguage, and a Target Statement that encodes a particular conceptual situation, then BoM is defined as the boundary between two mutually exclusive semantic spaces in the sublanguage: a semantic space that contains only representations that do share equivalence-of-meaning with the Target Statement; and a semantic space that contains only representations that do not share equivalence-of-meaning with the Target Statement.
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Concept Science Evidence-Based MERLO Learning Analytics
Uri Shafrir (University of Toronto, Canada) and Ron S. Kenett (KPA Group Ltd., Israel & University of Turin, Italy)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9634-1.ch016
Abstract
This chapter is about Concept Science Evidence-Based MERLO Learning Analytics, an educational informatics system based on the teaching and learning methodologies described in the chapter on “Learning in the Digital Age with Meaning Equivalence Reusable Learning Objects (MERLO)” (Etkind, Kenett, & Shafrir, 2015). It collects, documents, analyzes, and reports data gathered from implementation of a pedagogy for conceptual thinking and peer cooperation in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary educational institutions, as well as from learning programs in private and public organizations.
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