Multiple criteria analysis of the popularity and growth of research and practice of visual analytics, and a forecast of the future trajectory

The field of sport coach development has changed considerably in the last decades and everything indicates that, in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world (VUCA world), many other changes will take place. It seems increasingly likely that ways will have to be found to harmonize on-the-job learning with the formal coach education programs from which qualifications are derived. In an attempt to analyze the present and to address some directions for the future of sport coach development research and practice, this insight paper presents the summary of a series of conversations with one of the researchers who has greatly influenced the development of sport coaches over the past 30 years, Professor Pierre Trudel.

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Discourses on Learning in Education:Making Sense of a Landscape of Difference

Frontiers in Education ◽

10.3389/feduc.2021.760867 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Author(s):

Brent Davis ◽

Krista Francis

Keyword(s):

Educational Research ◽

Network Theory ◽

Iterative Process ◽

Conceptual Metaphor ◽

Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽

Research And Practice ◽

Metaphor Theory ◽

The Future ◽

To Come

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of “theories of learning” at play in the field of education. Given scant agreements on the meaning of “learning” and the purpose of “theory,” such quantity is perhaps unsurprising. Arguably, however, this situation is indefensible and debilitating in an academic domain so focused on interpreting and influencing learning. We describe our own efforts to come to terms with this matter. Oriented by Conceptual Metaphor Theory and network theory, we are attempting to “map” contemporary treatments of learning—whether implicit or explicit, written or spoken, descriptive or prescriptive, formal or informal, scientific or folk. We report on our iterative process, evolving design, and emergent insights. We discuss the potential relevance of this and similar efforts for the future of educational research and practice.

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DECISION SUPPORT FOR THE EVALUATION OF BUILDING LIFE CYCLE EFFECTIVENESS

Technological and Economic Development of Economy ◽

10.3846/13928619.2004.9637656 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 57-66 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nerija Banaitiene ◽

Zenonas Turskis

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Decision Support ◽

Complex Analysis ◽

Multiple Criteria ◽

Multiple Criteria Analysis ◽

Single Family ◽

Conceptual Information ◽

Model Base ◽

Analysis Process ◽

Building Life Cycle

This paper presents a multiple criteria decision model for the life cycle of single family houses analysis based on a decision support system. Methods of multiple criteria analysis are applied for a complex analysis of the single‐family houses life cycle as well as for the evaluation of decisions. The method of multivariant design is applied for making variants of the life cycle of single‐family houses. The multivariant design and multiple criteria evaluation of a building life cycle allow the interested parties (client, contractor, user, etc.) to make efficient decisions on the ground of a quantitative and qualitative variants analysis. The decision maker's attitude can be reflected in the analysis process by the weighting of criteria. The proposed methodology provides a useful tool for building life cycle evaluation. Having applied the information gathered in the database, using the models of a model base, various interested parties of a building life cycle are able to make effective decisions. The system provides a user with all the necessary support required for decision making: in information terms the receipt of quantitative and conceptual information describing a building life cycle, gathering and use thereof, in terms of evaluation the analysis of such information applying the methods of a multiple criteria analysis.

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