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Liu, Chen-Chung; Chung, Chen-Wei; Chen, Nian-Shing; Liu, Baw-Jhiune – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
Collaborative learning is extensively applied in classroom activities, but the screens on handheld devices are designed for individual-user mobile applications and may constrain interaction among group learners. The small screen size may lead to fragmented and tete-a-tete communication patterns and frequently obstruct the externalization of the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Visual Aids
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Fedorov, Alexander – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
The author of this article thinks that the basic difficulties of wider introduction of media education in the Russian and French universities & schools first of all are connected with patent defect purposefully prepared of media educators; with the certain inertness of many educational establishments; with traditional approaches of the…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Mass Media, Comparative Education, Educational Practices
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Ghere, David; Amram, Fred M. B. – British Journal of Music Education, 2007
The first British patent describing an educational game designed for musical "amusement and instruction" was granted in 1801 to Ann Young of Edinburgh, Scotland. The authors' discovery of Young's game box has prompted an examination of the nature and purpose of the six games she designed. Ann Young's patent is discussed in the context of…
Descriptors: Music Education, Educational Games, Intellectual Property, Cultural Context
ENTWISLE, DORIS R. – 1961
TWO REPLICATIONS OF AN EXPERIMENT WERE CARRIED OUT WITH GIFTED (MEAN VERBAL IQ -- 127) 11TH GRADE STUDENTS IN A LARGE HIGH SCHOOL. THE MAIN PURPOSE WAS TO EXPLORE WHETHER "SET-LEARNING" MIGHT BE A MECHANISM OF LEARNING EMPLOYED TO A MARKED DEGREE BY GIFTED SECONDARY STUDENTS. CONTROL AND EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS WERE THE TWO TOP-ABILITY…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Gifted, Grade 11, Learning Activities
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Oliver, Ron; Omari, Arshad; Herrington, Jan – International Journal of Instructional Media, 1998
Describes a study which investigated the impact of implementation strategies on learner behavior and engagement in a university classroom-based World Wide Web learning activity. In particular it examined the influence of a collaborative activity on learner behavior and the role played by a printed guide designed to focus and direct learners'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning