Shared responsibilities such as mentoring, instruction, learner monitoring and classroom management enable the peers to observe, review, reflect on and learn from the overall practical professional expertise of one another through collegial instruction experience. The present exploratory case study has The present exploratory case study has attempted to study collegial teaching as an innovative...

article history: received date: 28 august, 2016 review date: 7 october 2016 accepted date:25 october 2016 printed online:1 september purpose: the initiation of anti-bullying movements in school’s dates back to nearly three decades ago in some countries. despite the importance of such a movement and its grave implications for education systems, no particular program or action has been organized ...

New online courses are often created by using existing materials on the net. However, those materials are usually proposed without information on their aims and the typology of users which they are destined to. Moreover, the contents are not clearly synthesized so that a complete analysis of the whole materials is often necessary to understand their relevance to the new course. Using our experi...

The MERLIN corpus is a written learner corpus for Czech, German, and Italian that has been designed to illustrate the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) with authentic learner data. The corpus contains 2,290 learner texts produced in standardized language certifications covering CEFR levels A1–C1. The MERLIN annotation scheme includes a wide range of language characteri...

At present e-Learning systems are widely introduced in education. There are various systems developed and implemented for learners. However, most of these systems are static and inflexible. These traditional systems are developed on the basis of “one-size-fit-all”. They cannot be adjusted to fit the individual’s capability. In this paper the user-centric approach is applied to improve the perfo...

This study aims at empirically measuring a universal criterion for materials evaluation, i.e., learning opportunities, in a locally- and a globally-designed materials. Adopting the conceptual framework of sociocultural theory and its conceptualization of learning as participation (Donato, 2000), the researchers utilized the methodological power of conversation analysis to examine how opportunit...

OBJECTIVES To investigate medical students´ utilization of and problems with a learning management system and its e-learning tools as well as their expectations on future developments. METHODS A single-center online survey has been carried out to investigate medical students´ (n = 505) usage and perception concerning the learning management system Blackboard, and provided e-learning tools. Da...