In this study, the experiences and beliefs of volunteer tutors using a multi-user virtual environment to teach literacy instruction are examined to get a better understanding of the benefits and challenges of learning within this environment. Literacy tutors who were teaching adults with poor reading skills served as participants. During the study, participants delivered direct instruction read...

There is an increasing demand for high-quality experiential placements for pharmacy students. As a result, pharmacy schools across Canada are confronted with the need to find innovative ways to expand experiential educational rotations. Near-peer teaching is one model with the potential to address this issue. Near-peer teaching involves the provision of learning support to junior students by th...

The paper discusses the results of an action research to improve teaching practice which applied the philosophy of Knowledge – Experiential – Self-regulated (KES) at the Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The teaching and learning strategies were implemented to achieve the following objectives; (i) to enhance students’ mathematical competencies;...

In this paper we propose a new integrated programming environment for teaching the object-oriented programming paradigm. The environment is based on the microworld approach to teaching programming and the programming language of Karel++. Its main features are: a series of e-lessons, a special kind of structure editor, run-time error detection, program animation and recordability of students’ ac...

This thesis describes extensions to the DrJava development environment that make it suitable for production programming. DrJava is an effective tool for teaching introductory programming skills in Java, and its simplicity is a desirable characteristic for projects of any size. To better support the development of large projects in DrJava, a carefully selected suite of features has been added to...

To study cognitive and social factors that facilitate the tutor-learning effect, we have developed an on-line game-like environment where students learn algebra equation solving by teaching a computer agent, called SimStudent. SimStudent is a first pedagogical teachable agent that commits to genuine inductive learning and studied in authentic classroom settings. Our Learning by Teaching (LBT) e...

This study develops a flexible simulation game environment called SIMPLE (Simulation of Production and Logistics Environment) in order to raise teaching effectiveness and improve classroom teaching in emerging production paradigms. Instructors can tailor SIMPLE by simply setting the appropriate parameters. SIMPLE can thus be adopted at various teaching stages to teach different major business c...