The advancement in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has provided new opportunities for teaching and learning in the form of e-learning. However, developing specialized contents, accommodating profiles of learners, e-learning pedagogy and available ICT infrastructure are the real challenges that need to be properly addressed for any successful e-learning system. The adaptability in...

Pedagogy is a term widely used in educational writing but all too often its meaning is assumed to be self-evident. An examination of how the term is used and the implicit assumptions about teaching and education that underlie its use is a valuable way of understanding how the education process is perceived. Many of the strategies that have been developed to redress inequity in schooling have ta...

Dutta Ritam, “Let’s Talk”: Promoting Dialogue and Answerability in Critical Humanities Education with Permeable Curriculum and an Adda-Based Pedagogy [“Porozmawiajmy”: zalety dialogu i odpowiedzi w programach edukacji humanistycznej opartej na zasadach pedagogiki adda]. Kultura – Społeczeństwo – Edukacja nr 1(7), 2015, Poznań 2015, pp. 35–59, Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISBN 978-83-232-29...

This article is a reflection on the experience of using textile making, arpilleras, as creative practice to stimulate engagement with literature and lived environment in course Latin American literature. The discussion will illustrate how, by recognising body another place learning, this approach can help students engage at deeper more personal level ecological fiction relate their rea...

The Institute of Medicine’s report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2010), calls for new approaches in nursing education, including developing curricula to teach fundamental concepts that can be applied in a variety of situations. Concept-based teaching as a pedagogy focuses student learning on a core set of concepts relevant to nursing, such as perfusion, pain, coping,...

The project-based undergraduate J-term course Kinematics and Mechanism Design is described, both technically and from a pedagogy point of view. In this course students discovered the kinematic car, a classic example of a nonholonomic mechanical system that everyone can relate to; especially mechanical engineering students. Technical work entailed kinematic modeling using MATLAB/SIMULINK and CAD...

For sighted people, pictures provide an important mechanism of communication; they are also a valuable learning resource. This paper discusses these issues in context to their use in developing and promoting online pictorial pedagogy through the medium of computers. As the size of an image collection grows, some form of picture repository is needed in order to store, manage, and retrieve images...