The importance of content knowledge on proficiency in teaching practices is well documented (Borko et al., 1992; Shulman, 1986). But is this statement completely unimpeachable? Are there drawbacks for teaching that are specifically due to subject matter expertise? In this paper we draw on evidence from mathematics and language arts education to show ways that advanced knowledge in a content are...

The goal of the Pedagogical Discourse project is to develop instructional tools that will help students and instructors use discussion boards more effectively, with an emphasis on automatically assessing discussion activities and building tools for promoting student discussion participation and learning. In this paper, we present a two related participation and learning scaffolding tools that e...

This paper presents PACO-T, a common sense-aided computational tool that helps teachers on planning culturally contextualized learning activities supported by common sense knowledge. The tool is based on the framework PACO, a seven-step framework for planning learning activities that concerns pedagogical issues, for an effective learning. It implements the framework seven steps and makes availa...

Logistics is regarded as an area of high importance in business, contributing to profitability and competitiveness. Logistics is crucial also from a societal perspective, since logistical activities count for a big proportion of a country’s GNP, and since effective logistics systems can help reducing some of the environmental problems we face today. Higher education has an important role to pla...

Higher education ought to support the identification of training needs for industrial building information modelling (BIM) curriculum development and sustainability education in the fields of civil engineering and management (CEM). This paper proposes a framework based on a four-phase step-by-step quality function deployment (QFD) application for CEM curriculum planning and quality management. ...

The purpose of this paper is to present the design of a web-based system to enhance learning problem solving in artificial intelligence. The system design contains learner model, pedagogical model, domain knowledge model, communication model, expert model, and knowledge management model. The design is based on Robert Gagné’s concepts of instructional theory and Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS)...

Personalization of learning is a complex task to implement. This task is even more complex if one wants to adopt a generic approach taking into account the many different teaching situations, and the wide variety of pedagogical activities that may exist. In this paper, we describe the GEPPETO approach designed to assist teachers during personalization of pedagogical activities. This approach in...

The difficulty of designing and developing more useable and costeffective intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) has caused the realization of some new approaches in that field, the realization of intelligent tutoring shells authoring tools. Our starting point and perspective on developing ITSs shell is motivated by issues of pragmatics and usability. The paper describes pedagogical aspects and th...

TELOS is a new eLearning system being built within the Canadian LORNET project. TELOS aims to provide an open operating system in which users can develop and use eLearning and knowledge management resources and environments within a service-oriented and ontology-driven framework. A special emphasis is put on the aggregation of resources through a graphic scenario editor and the referencing of t...