Children's Discussions During Cooperative Learning in a Science Class

Ethics Is Not Rocket Science: How to Have Ethical Discussions in Your Science Class

The Effect of a Nutrition Education Program on Learning During Pregnancy: A Comparison of Group Discussions Versus Multimedia

Background: The perquisite of an effective nutritional intervention is a proper educational method. The aim of this study was to define the effectiveness of nutritional education using discussion group and multimedia on learning of pregnant women. Method: This randomized educational trial was conducted among 174 pregnant women in northeastern Iran, Gonabad city. Participants were assigned rand...

Learning Through Discussions in

This paper reports research into the student experience of learning through discussions in a blended environment. Third year engineering students studying e-commerce engaged in both face-to-face discussions and online asynchronous discussions as key aspects of their learning experience. Adopting a quantitative methodology, questionnaires based on what students thought they were learning through...

Cooperative and Collaborative Learning in Computer-based Science Instruction

In this paper, we provide a basic introduction to several popular cooperative learning activities and explore how these activities might be modified for computer-based science learning activities. We review research that describes science programs that employ collaboration. Then, we describe innovative computerbased tools developed and/or utilized at the University of Hawaii Curriculum Research...

Enabling Automatic Just-in-time Evaluation of In-class Discussions in On-line Collaborative Learning Practices

Learning by discussion when applied to on-line collaborative learning settings can provide signifi cant benefi ts for students in education in general. Indeed, the discussion process plays an important social task in collaborative learning practices. Participants can discuss about the activity being performed, collaborate with each other through the exchange of ideas that may arise, propose new...