Teaching can be understood as acting and deciding in a complex system. On that problem oriented mathematics instruction (POMI) can be characterized as very high complex particularly regarding to mathematical-cognitive aspects. To cope with resulting demands in the long run, the teacher has to be sensitive for this complexity. But what does this…

Learning networks are a proven way to deliver massively scalable blended learning solutions that have been successfully implemented in a variety of commercial situations. For learning challenges that involve educating hundreds of thousands of distributed learners across thousands of organizations, learning networks can enable the delivery of…

Bugscope is an emerging educational technology project that allows students and teachers across grades K-12 to study insects and other arthropods through remote access and control of an environmental scanning electron microscope from their classroom computers. Teachers and students in 33 schools from 18 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands were…

New technologies are used in many courses and for many occasions. Good teachers try to use the best tool and the best method to introduce or to treat difficult subjects by presenting the information in different ways: spoken words, written text, pictures, graphs, movies or by using interactive computer tools. It is a fact that students who…

Describes a computer learning program for career-oriented literacy, including a flow chart outlining the "how-to" of the system. (RB)

Article describes a lab to investigate instructional decisions and to help instructors acquire new strategies. It consists of a computer simulation of a set of students which permits the user, cast in the role of teacher, to make pre-instructional decisions. (Author)

The emerging discipline of clinical pharmacology is generating an ever increasing data base on the physiological disposition of a large number of drugs in man. Presents a system which would render this information readily understandable to students, regardless of their mathematical facility. (Author/PG)

Urges that computer programs continue to be developed for the English curriculum at the college level. (RB)

Article introduces a new concept in teaching with computers by stressing interaction. The computer interacts with the instructor who uses the computer as a management aid. (Author/ML)

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Argues that computer assisted instruction (CAI) contributes to a creative environment for students with varying abilities by encouraging student self-selection, exploration of new ideas and divergent thinking skills, and interaction between tutor and learner. An example of computer use to spur creativity is included. Fourteen references are…