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  2. Knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Knowledge is a form of familiarity, awareness, understanding, or acquaintance. It often involves the possession of information learned through experience [1] and can be understood as a cognitive success or an epistemic contact with reality, like making a discovery. [2] Many academic definitions focus on propositional knowledge in the form of ...

  3. DIKW pyramid - Wikipedia

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    DIKW pyramid: Each step up the pyramid creates value based on the initial data, and can be used to answer high-level questions. The DIKW pyramid, also known variously as the DIKW hierarchy, wisdom hierarchy, knowledge hierarchy, information hierarchy, information pyramid, and the data pyramid, [1] refers to a class of models [2] representing purported structural or functional relationships ...

  4. Learning styles - Wikipedia

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    A 2017 research paper from the UK found that 90% of academics agreed there are "basic conceptual flaws" with learning styles theory, yet 58% agreed that students "learn better when they receive information in their preferred learning style", and 33% reported that they used learning styles as a method in the past year. [70]

  5. Indonesian Institute of Sciences - Wikipedia

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    www.lipi.go.id. Dissolved. September 1, 2021. (2021-09-01) Indonesian Institute of Sciences. The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (Indonesian: Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia, or LIPI) was the governmental authority for science and research in Indonesia. It consisted of 47 research centers in the fields ranging from social to natural sciences.

  6. Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Lucubrationes, 1541 edition, one of the first books to use a variant of the word encyclopedia in the title. An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopaedia (British English) [1] is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline. [2][3 ...

  7. Science - Wikipedia

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    Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world. [1] [2] Modern science is typically divided into two or three major branches: [3] the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; and the behavioural sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which ...

  8. Knowledge economy - Wikipedia

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    The knowledge economy, or knowledge-based economy, is an economic system in which the production of goods and services is based principally on knowledge-intensive activities that contribute to advancement in technical and scientific innovation. [1] The key element of value is the greater dependence on human capital and intellectual property as ...

  9. Education - Wikipedia

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    Education. Education is a wide phenomenon that applies to all age groups and covers formal education (top row) as well as non-formal and informal education (bottom row). Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework ...