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Pérez-Marín, Diana; Boza, Antonio – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2013
Pedagogic Conversational Agents are computer applications that can interact with students in natural language. They have been used with satisfactory results on the instruction of several domains. The authors believe that they could also be useful for the instruction of Secondary Physics and Chemistry Education. Therefore, in this paper, the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Wood, Denise; Willems, Julie – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
The Australian Government's widening participation agenda--also referred to as the social inclusion agenda--considers equity through the triple focus of access, participation and outcomes. These foci are catalysts for re-examining teaching and learning approaches in formal education. This article considers this national refocus and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Inclusion, Outcomes of Education
Kafai, Yasmin B., Ed.; Peppler, Kylie A., Ed.; Chapman, Robbin N., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2009
This book is about the Computer Clubhouse--the idea and the place--that inspires youth to think about themselves as competent, creative, and critical learners. So much of the social life of young people has moved online and participation in the digital public has become an essential part of youth identities. The Computer Clubhouse makes an…
Descriptors: Creativity, Evaluators, Social Life, Video Games
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Glahn, Christian; Specht, Marcus; Koper, Rob – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
Contextualised and ubiquitous learning are relatively new research areas that combine the latest developments in ubiquitous and context aware computing with educational approaches in order to provide structure to more situated and context aware learning. The majority of recent activities in contextualised and ubiquitous learning focus on mobile…
Descriptors: Interaction, Group Activities, Learner Engagement, Student Participation
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Woollard, John – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2005
The teaching of computing, like all subjects, requires a range of strategies to take the curriculum content (skills, knowledge, understanding and attitudes) and put it in a form that is more easily learned by students. Metaphor has a particular role in the world of computing: embedded in the design of computer hardware and software; part of the…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Figurative Language, Computer Software, Computer Interfaces
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Bernier, Roxane – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2003
This article investigates three types of content presentation (video documentary, computerized dictionary, and games) within interactive computer use at the Quebec Museum of Civilization. The visitors' viewpoint is particularly relevant for interface designing outcomes, since they argued that terminals require specific content display for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Literacy, Museums
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Ihamäki, Heli; Vilpola, Inka – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2004
Most of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) design methods focus on producing content for a VLE. However, usability of the VLE is also of great importance. Several potential usability problems have been reported in recent e-learning conferences. These problems could have been avoided by applying usability engineering methods before the VLE was…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Safety, Work Environment, Occupational Safety and Health