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The Virtual Learning Environment ROODA: An Institutional Project of Long Distance Education
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Behar, Patricia Alejandra; Leite, Silvia Meirelles – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2006
This article describes ROODA (http://www.homer.nuted.edu.ufrgs.br), a virtual learning environment and one of the official Long Distance Education platforms that has been in use since 2005 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil. It is free software that integrates syncronous and assyncronous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Distance Education, Computer Software
Integrating History of Science in Science Education through Historical Microworlds to Promote Conceptual Change
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Masson, Steve; Vazquez-Abad, Jesus – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2006
This paper proposes a new way to integrate history of science in science education to promote conceptual change by introducing the notion of historical microworld, which is a computer-based interactive learning environment respecting historic conceptions. In this definition, "interactive" means that the user can act upon the virtual environment by…
Descriptors: Science Education History, Science Education, Concept Formation, Computer Uses in Education