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Direct linkBini, Giulia; Robutti, Ornella; Bikner-Ahsbahs, Angelika – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
Mathematical memes are an Internet phenomenon with an epistemic potential noteworthy for the teaching and learning of mathematics. The aim of this paper is to conceptualize this phenomenon on an empirical base, elucidating its educational potential. To pursue this goal, a two-year ethnographic research study has been conducted in a selection of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Lee, Kerry; Toso, Meripa – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2015
Teacher educators have a very daunting task requiring currency in their discipline, curricular, policy and institutional imperatives as well as pedagogical and cultural issues. Tertiary institutions are facing increasing expectations to cater for and increase retention of underrepresented groups, whilst class sizes increase and face-to-face…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Pacific Islanders, Indigenous Populations
Download full textBuchan, Janet – Journal of Distance Education, 2010
In a case study of a large Australian university the metaphor of panarchy is used as a means of describing and understanding the complex interrelationships of multi-scale institutional projects and the influences of a variety factors on the potential success of e-learning initiatives. The concept of para-analysis is introduced as a management…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Figurative Language, Educational Technology, Prediction
Braley, Susan – E-Learning, 2005
The study "New Media in the Humanities: from metaphors of inevitability to metaphors of possibility," argues that using digital technologies in humanities classrooms (at the post-secondary level) is transformative for both students and professors. It begins by identifying and then allaying the fears that scholars in the humanities…
Descriptors: Internet, Humanities, Educational Technology, Figurative Language
McShane, Kim – E-Learning, 2006
Teaching and learning online is one of several risky practices in higher education today that threaten to disfigure academics' work and identity. For many academics, accustomed to the tempo and practices of face-to-face teaching, it threatens disorientation. In this article the author examines the teaching beliefs of a computer science lecturer,…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Online Courses, Computer Science, College Faculty
Baskin, Colin; Anderson, Neil – Australian Educational Computing, 2003
This paper begins with three very "public" examples of how education providers across Australia are attempting to assimilate new teaching and learning technologies into existing teaching and learning structures. The transition, as predicted, is not altogether smooth. The dual concepts of the online classrooms as a "self-actualising…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language
