The development of computer-facilitated learning (CFL) for higher education has grown substantially in recent years. The complexity of modern CFL development has resulted in the need to form teams of people with a range of skills – academics for content knowledge, graphic and interface designers for the human computer interface design, programmers for coding, educational designers who focus on ...

In this paper, we describe our efforts in providing a holistic environment for our trainee teachers at the National Institute of Education (Singapore) to ‘learn by experiencing and doing’ about using technology in classroom instruction. In our deliberate attempt to move away from lecturing and teaching of discrete IT skills, we modeled various strategies that are built upon established learning...

Sociocultural constructivism assumes that a learner’s capacity for intellectual growth increases with the presence of scaffolding or support during interaction. Moreover, from participating in dialogic interaction, there is appropriation of the knowledge shared and jointly created by learners which could transform individual understandings. Hence, interactions are opportunities for scaffolding ...

Many of the instructional practices that have been used with preschool-aged children with disabilities are predicated on the belief that children with disabilities need adult direction to engage in meaningful learning activities. This study investigated the effects of directiveness and other elements of teacher style on the participation of children with disabilities in dyadic play and instruct...

The author's thesis is that there is sufficient research evidence to make any reasonable person skeptical about the benefits of discovery learning--practiced under the guise of cognitive constructivism or social constructivism--as a preferred instructional method. The author reviews research on discovery of problem-solving rules culminating in the 1960s, discovery of conservation strategies cul...

background: above all methods effective learning results from decent training, acquired in the proper environment and encouraging creative methods. computer-assisted training by educational software is considered a fundamental measure to improve medical and dentistry education systems. this study aims to design and assess fixed dental prostheses via 2 multimedia instructional contents at the gu...