PEBBLES (Providing Education By Bringing Learning Environments to Students) is a videoconferencing system which combines traditional videoconferencing equipment with simple robotics. It allows elementary school aged children who are unable to attend school because of hospitalization or other reasons to establish a presence in their classroom with a remotely controlled videoconferencing robot. E...

Repetition is often associated with traditional teaching drills. Yet, it has been documented how repetitions are exploited by learners themselves (Duff, 2000). In a study of immersion classroom conversations, it was found that playful recyclings were recurrent features of young learners’ second language repertoires. Such joking events were identified on the basis of the participants’ displayed ...

The major purpose of this case study was to document the classroom management beliefs and practices of three teachers reputed to implement student-centered instruction and to examine the relationship between their instructional and managerial approaches. More specifically, do teachers who use student-centered instruction also implement studentcentered management? Results indicate that, although...

The flipped classroom was utilized in a two-semester, high-content science course that enrolled between 50 and 80 students at a small liberal arts college. With the flipped model, students watched ~20-min lectures 2 days/wk outside of class. These videos were recorded via screen capture and included a detailed note outline, PowerPoint slides, and review questions. The traditional format include...

It is widely recognized that the Internet offers tremendous potential for education at all levels. This article describes a case study examining how an Internet communication program, EdPsy Web, which was used to support a pre-service teacher training course changed the quality of social and intellectual interactions relative to those found in a traditional classroom setting. Using a post-cours...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether in the local lay Hong Kong population, video self-instruction about cardiopulmonary resuscitation has comparable results to traditional classroom instructions. DESIGN Prospective randomised single-blind controlled trial. SETTING A first-aid training organisation in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Cantonese applicants for cardiopulmonary resuscitation courses aged be...

In this paper an integrated system to support an educational process called COSOFT (Computer Support for Face-to-face Teaching) is presented. It is intended for use by authors, teachers and students, who can use it to enhance the traditional ways of working inside and outside the classroom. The scenario for the system is the Computer-integrated Classroom (CiC), which is a traditional classroom ...

With the increase of ubiquitous data all over the internet, intelligent classroom systems that integrate traditional learning techniques with modern e-learning tools have become quite popular and necessary today. Although a substantial amount of work has been done in the field of e-learning, specifically in automation of objective question and answer evaluation, personalized learning, adaptive ...

The benefits of the flipped classroom (FC) model in students’ learning are claimed in many recent studies. These benefits are typically accounted to the pedagogically efficient use of classroom time for engaging students in active learning. Although there are several relevant studies for the deployment of the FC model in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects, and at Higher ...

More and more educational institutions are using educational technologies and online learning materials to help students achieve satisfactory learning effects. However, not all teachers are able to prepare and design digital learning materials for students. This research attempted to empirically demonstrate the effects of applying open educational resources (OERs) and a cloud classroom develope...