A lesson plan is an important methodological component of the learning process. The key purpose of the article is to analyse the current situation and suggest how the information technologies can assist in the development of lesson plans, their accumulation and retrieval, thus ensuring their effective application. The authors disclose the problems of lesson plan creation and their description a...

The extensive system of poultry production (commonly known as “free-range”) is based on the practice of allowing the bird access to foraging areas outside the poultry house. This system was widely practiced prior to the development of more productive strains of poultry and better management facilities (automated feeding and watering, better housing, environmental control) around the middle of t...

eLML, the open source “eLesson Markup Language” has been developed out of the proven XML-based content structure of the Swiss Virtual Campus (SVC) Project GITTA (Geographic Information Technology Training Alliance). This paper presents the eLML structure and how sustainable e-Learning content can be developed, exchanged and employed using eLML. eLML is based on the didactical concept ECLASS (ad...

In order to achieve coherence and flexibility in multimedia-based learning units many authors recommend that the lesson components are structured as a graph. In a lesson graph, educational resources are encapsulated into learning objects (LO) along with their respective metadata (LOM) and are interconnected through different kinds of rhetorical and semantical relationships. Lesson graph LOs are...

Many variables affect the outcome of classroom teaching. Planning is needed to consistently achieve success. This includes creation a lesson plan, with teacher and learner activity focused on achieving intended learning outcomes. Key issues be considered are class size; creating physical psychological environment for learning; supporting ‘scaffolding’ formative assessment.

This short paper introduces a novel use of timeline-based planning as the core element of a dynamic training environment for crisis managers called PANDORA. A trainer is provided with a combination of planning and execution functions that allow him/her to maintain and adapt a “lesson plan” as the basis for the interaction between the trainer and a class of trainees. The training session is base...

Over the past five years, we have implemented and applied efficient, general-purpose temporal reasoning as a substrate for building planning and scheduling systems. We have also investigated the kinds of temporal reasoning that will be most useful, and for what problems. Our results confirm that temporal reasoning is a sufficiently self-contained activity to be implemented entirely independentl...

Overview of Lesson This lesson is designed to give students more insight into both mathematical and real-world assumptions that can be involved even in what appears to be a simple task: to find the “average household size” for students at their school. The context of this lesson has real-world relevance: it is not only part of the Census at School questionnaire, but is also part of what the Cen...