Putting the Generic Solution of Transparent Thinking Approach (TTA) in Instructional Material Production

Humanity is overburdened by an overwhelming challenges, problems and failures that are plaguing global development system, in general, and global educational system in specific. Transparent Thinking Approach (TTA) is developed in response to these multi scale and multi domain problems by offering a generic reform approach that enable the thinker to employ a multi perspective, maneuvering, and modeling tools while looking for a solution. TTA is a newly developed value-engrained and thinking based educational reform approach. It is generic and unique features enables it to easily diffuse in all domains (Aliedeh, M. A., 2015 a, b, c, 2016, 2017 and 2018). The main goal of this interactive workshop is to help the participants to “taste the real fruits” of TTA by “grasping the ability” to employ different TTA perspective, modeling, and maneuvering tools in producing a new instructional materials

Customizing Transparent Thinking Approach (TTA) by Building and Implementing TTA Toolboxes: Paving the Road for TTA Operationalization Phase

Humanity is overburdened by an overwhelming problems that necessitate a change in our “way of thinking”. Recently, Transparent Thinking Approach (TTA) which is a Conceptual Framework of a new thinking-based higher educational reform approach is published. This paper revisited the TTA Conceptualization Phase and presented the results of TTA Customization phase by constructing TTA Toolboxes. Connected and Analogical Thinking Perspectives and Models are presented using a domain-specific examples that illustrate the practical use of Generic Transparent Thinking (GTT) in the Modeling Stage of TTA Life Theater. This paper almost accomplished TTA Customization Phase and paved the road for TTA Operationalization Phas

Application of full factorial design to optimize phosphogypsum beneficiation process (P 2 O 5 Reduction) by using sulfuric and nitric acid solutions

Abstract Inventing new ways to recycle and reuse the accumulated by-products is the most pressing and daunting challenge that face future engineers. Millions of tons of phosphogypsum (PG) is stacked worldwide every year and is progressively considered as an asset more than an environmental burden. Jordan cement industry is largely expanded in the last ten years and is considered as an opening to reuse the huge amount of Jordanian PG that is stacked every year. The impurities that PG contains hinder its use as an additive to the cement industry which is pushing towards developing a low cost and effective process to clean PG. Many researches used a number of physical, chemical and thermal methods to reduce P 2 O 5 content in PG, but all of these studies are invariant, did not go deep in understanding the process of washing/leaching of P 2 O 5 and is not oriented towards developing a process. In this study, a multivariate 2 4 full factorial methodologies is designed to study the effect of particle size, acid concentration, loading and number of washing on the P 2 O 5 washing/leaching process using sulfuric and nitric acid solution

Phosphate removal from aqueous solutions by using natural Jordanian zeolitic tuff

In this study, a naturally occurring zeolitic tuff located in Jordan was investigated as a potential adsorbent for phosphate removal from aqueous solution. Adsorption kinetics and thermodynamics of phosphate adsorption under different temperatures were studied. The pseudo-second-order kinetic model adequately fitted the collected experimental data under different initial ion concentrations. The Langmuir model is found to be successfully fitting the experimental data. Thermodynamic parameters such as Gibbs's free energy change, standard enthalpy change, and entropy change were evaluated and the results indicated that the sorption process is spontaneous, exothermic with small degree of randomness during the sorption process