Teaching and learning about geospatial aspects of energy resource issues requires that science teachers apply effective science pedagogical approaches to implement geospatial technologies into classroom instruction. To address this need, we designed educative curriculum materials as an integral part of a comprehensive middle school energy…

Observations, interviews, and a survey were used to study the staff of an educational-technology center which has been producing educational software (CDs) for about five years. Results showed that educators generally approached electronic curriculum development in terms of either programming processes or curricular concepts. Differences between…

Problem-based learning (PBL) is a powerful instructional design for professional education, which may be used to guide the design of interactive multimedia (IMM). An IMM package incorporating PBL principles has been developed to assist teachers in learning to integrate information and communications technologies (ICT) into their teaching. The…