Game Based Learning seems to be an interesting new possibility of teaching and learning, but the effort spent on designing games and the possible positive outcomes have to be weighed carefully. The following paper describes the development process and the conceptual design of a simulation game on sustainability for teenagers. The design process is participatory in nature. Members of the future ...

Ever since Communicative Language Teaching (CLT hereafter) was first proposed in 1970 the UK, there has been widespread implementation of CLT methodology as it evolved over years incorporating local needs and conditions particular contexts, especially Asia. This paper seeks to revisit significance being used English-as-a-lingua-franca (ELF settings an English-medium-instruction (EMI university ...

The study sought to establish the level of parental involvement and learners’ academic performance at P.L.E in rural government- aided primary schools Sissa Sub-County, Wakiso District, Uganda. Three specific objectives guided thus; · To home-based government-aided Ssisa Sub county, district. school-based Subcounty, examine relationship between PLE schools, employed a descriptive research desig...

Learning attitudes and motivation are among the most important factors that affect students' second language learning outcomes. Many previous studies also revealed have a positive relationship with students’ However, non-native Chinese Language (CL) learners may require more attention. Hence, objectives of this study (1) to identify Malaysian former SJKC CL learners’ proficiency levels; (2) exa...

HIV/AIDS programmes in schools ultimately intend to decrease high risk sexual behaviour. One factor facilitating this outcome is a strong health promoting environment in the school. This paper reports a study surveying the health promoting environments supporting HIV/AIDS education in Namibian senior secondary schools. It develops a twodimensional model for classifying the strength of a school’...

This paper presents the open learner modelling capabilities offered by an adaptive web testing tool. Adaptation decisions are based on user customizable compound rules requiring the identification of several learner characteristics which are then displayed graphically and textually to learners and educators. The open learner modelling capabilities include anonymous access to models of peers and...

This chapter describes the application of self-organising principles to the field of e-learning. It argues that traditional managed approaches to e-learning suffer from deficiencies both in cost and adaptativity that are addressed through the application of nature-inspired processes such as stigmergy and evolution. Such systems, primarily those employing social navigation, are built to generate...

In the study reported on here, we analysed parents’ involvement in their children’s primary education 4 schools rural Malawi, focusing home and school. Through interviews focus-group discussions, information was obtained from 19 parents, 24 teachers (6 each school), head teachers. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory used to design interpret data, mainly micro- mesosystem elements. The sc...