Describes FEWDATA, a Welsh viewdata system serving colleges and schools throughout Wales. Discusses how to use the system and examines its features, including (1) on-screen tutorials and systems update; (2) existing data screens; (3) information screens on education in Wales; and (4) data concerning Welsh counties and elections. (GEA)

Presents three specific examples of chemical engineering problems which can be interactively solved on personal computers with commercially available software. Illustrates the potential impact of interactive problem solving on chemical engineering. Discusses how this has been accomplished at Ben Gurion University (Israel) and the University of…

This paper illustrates the educational uses of the Word Wide Web in a university situation; it gives an account some of the ways in which the World Wide Web and other information technologies have been used to extend the scope of the history of science generally and the history of chemistry in particular. I observed that the World Wide Web…

The World Wide Web influences education and our lives in many ways. Nowadays, Web-based homework has been becoming widespread practice in physics courses and some other courses as well. Although are some disputes whether this is an encouraging or risky development for student learning, there is limited research assessing the pedagogical effect of…

This qualitative study aims to explore teachers' opinions on traditional professional development (PD) courses and their experiences from an online course. 10 teachers from a private school participated in an online professional development (PD) course. After completing the course, they evaluated their PD experience. A focus group discussion and…

By the developments of technology that is bridge among science and application to supply needs of human beings. Technology affects all aspects and issues in human beings' lives. Especially, it creates competitive trends and global action to people. On the other hand, adaptation to the changes becomes inevitable situation under the perspective of…

This document reports on a research and development project to develop and evaluate learning materials using a technological approach to science education and an in-service education and training (INSET) package designed to introduce this technology package to teaching. The evaluation aimed to identify effective INSET strategies in terms of…

This paper discusses the amount of vocabulary required by students learning in a second language to comprehend academic texts, explaining that a wide vocabulary is essential for reading comprehension and for speaking and writing clearly. It highlights an assessment of the vocabulary levels of students entering Hong Kong University, which found…

The Monash University (Australia) Transition to Tertiary Writing Project seeks to produce a World Wide Web-based resource for first-year students to facilitate their transition to the kinds of thinking and writing valued at the university. The background research on which this language and academic skills (LAS) project is based centers on three…

This paper presents some preliminary findings from a study with the two aims of examining gender differences in online participation and methods for obtaining better online debate. A number of research methods were used. The study involved a WebCT conference for a total population of 123 second-year undergraduate students at the University of…

The University of Wollongong (Australia) opened a new campus and two new access canters on the south coast of New South Wales in 2000. The combination of distance with limited funding, after seed funding was expended, provided opportunities to rethink teaching and learning strategies. Competition from traditional distance education providers in…

This paper analyses a case study of a pair of students working together, who were asked to produce conjectures and to validate them within the dynamic geometry environment Cabri. Our aim is to scrutinize the students' reasoning, how the gap from perception to theory is filled, how Cabri influences the reasoning. We have singled out a sequence of…

If the public policy goal to connect all schools to the information highway becomes a reality, public education as Canadians have known it--a shared social responsibility and a generally shared social experience--could be lost. This volume of contributed papers brings into focus the new context within which the struggle to technologize education…

This document contains two papers on globalization versus localization from ICCE/ICCAI 2000 (International Conference on Computers in Education/International Conference on Computer-Assisted Instruction). The first paper, "Implementing Modern Approaches to Teaching Computer Science: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Jill Slay and Kam W. Li),…

This document contains the full and short papers on multimedia and hypermedia in education from ICCE/ICCAI 2000 (International Conference on Computers in Education/International Conference on Computer-Assisted Instruction) covering the following topics: learner-centered navigation path planning in world Wide Web-based learning; the relation…