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Turner, Wendy – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2014
In the UK policies such as the Children's Plan 2008-2020 through to Promoting the Emotional Health of Children and Young People (2010) identify that professionals such as teachers, youth workers, social workers and youth offending specialists, do not have the necessary underpinning knowledge to adequately support children and young people's…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Public Policy, Undergraduate Students
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Simon, Shirley; Campbell, Sandra; Johnson, Sally; Stylianidou, Fani – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2011
The research reported here set out to investigate the features in schools and science departments that were seen as effective in contributing to the continuing professional development (CPD) of early career science teachers. Ten schools took part in the study, selected on the basis of their reputation for having effective CPD practices. To gain…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education, Effective Schools Research
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McAndrew, Patrick; Taylor, Josie; Clow, Doug – Open Learning, 2010
The process of developing innovative mobile approaches to informal and formal learning is challenging, not least in needing to satisfy stakeholders with diverse interests in the technology, the pedagogy and the overall system. Some approaches to evaluation may focus on examining the nature and quality of learning that occurs, while other methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Informal Education, Educational Technology
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Zhang, Li; Gillies, Marco; Dhaliwal, Kulwant; Gower, Amanda; Robertson, Dale; Crabtree, Barry – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009
This paper describes a multi-user role-playing environment, referred to as "e-drama", which enables groups of people to converse online, in scenario driven virtual environments. The starting point of this research, is an existing application known as "edrama", a 2D graphical environment in which users are represented by static…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Cartoons, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
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Laterza, Vito; Carmichael, Patrick; Procter, Richard – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2007
In this paper the authors describe a novel "Virtual Research Environment" (VRE) based on the Sakai Virtual Collaboration Environment and designed to support education research. This VRE has been used for the past two years by projects of the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Teaching and Learning Research Programme, 10 of which…
Descriptors: Vignettes, Research Tools, Case Records, Research and Development
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Pemberton, Lyn; Fallahkhair, Sanaz; Masthoff, Judith – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
Interactive television (iTV) is a new media technology that has great potential for supporting second language learning, particularly for independent adult learners. It has many characteristics demanded by modern second language (L2) learning theories and is technologically quite sophisticated. However, in order for it to succeed it needs to fit…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Focus Groups, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning