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Decuypere, Mathias – Learning, Media and Technology, 2019
Apps are becoming increasingly important in education. However, critical educational research has hardly ever undertaken up-close analyses of educational apps. This article provides an extensive analysis of one 'learning to code' app called Grasshopper. Drawing from the field of Science and Technology Studies, the article adopts a theoretical…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational Technology, Coding, Web Sites
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Ho, Jeffrey C. F.; Yao, Mike Z. – Journal of Educators Online, 2018
Constructivist learning posits that learners should construct their own meaning and organization of knowledge through exploration. Web-based distributed interactive learning (DIL) environments are a type of information and communications technology that supports learners in exploring learning materials. Although educators can access learners'…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Visualization, Web Sites, Outcomes of Education
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Serafini, Frank; Kachorsky, Dani; Aguilera, Earl – Journal of Children's Literature, 2015
Like other multimodal texts, the design, publication, and delivery of contemporary picture-books have been impacted by the digital revolution and the affordances of digital reading devices. Print-based picture-books are being published alongside digital narratives, and new digital picture-books are being created that no long begin as print-based…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Electronic Publishing
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Liu, Chang; Downing, Charles – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2010
The menu has become an integrated component within nearly all professionally designed websites. This teaching tip presents a no-code way to design either a vertical or a horizontal fly-out menu by using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) within Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The approach described in this tip helps students fully understand how to…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Computer System Design, Navigation (Information Systems), Computer Interfaces
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Hansbol, MIkala; Meyer, Bente – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
This article takes as its point of departure a language project which is a subproject under the larger ongoing (2007-2011) research project Serious Games on a Global Market Place. The language project follows how the virtual universe known as Mingoville (http://www.mingoville.com) becomes an actor in English education for beginners. The virtual…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Simulated Environment, Role
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Handal, Boris; Handal, Parvin; Herrington, Tony – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2006
Gradually Internet-based educational resources are making their way into the school mathematics curriculum. Online resources are potentially useful compared to normal courseware because of their abundance, availability at no cost, platform-free accessibility, and wide reaching accessibility. On the other hand, a major limitation of online…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Instructional Design, Evaluation Criteria, Internet