This study examined the effectiveness of an intervention to increase levels of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) during girls' physical education lessons. Two Year 7 classes (age 11-12 years) were randomly appointed to control and experimental groups. Both followed the same six-lesson unit of gymnastics with identical lesson objectives. The experimental class teacher inclu...

Building a successful professional career in the physician-scientist realm is rewarding but challenging, especially in the dynamic and competitive environment of today's modern society. This educational review aims to provide readers with five important career development lessons drawn from the business and social science literatures. Lessons 1-3 describe career strategy, with a focus on promot...

There are a number of available tools that support teachers in the management of lesson plans on the web. However, none of them is task-centred and support any form of lesson plan’s execution over the web. PeerLearn is an application that allows both the design and the execution of lesson plans, where lesson plans are designed with respect to a selected rubric. PeerLearn uses electronic institu...

Courseware abstraction is an approach to CAL whereby the lesson author creates a general parametetized CAL lesson that is then applied to many concrete examples. This approach has the following advantages over alternative approaches to lesson development: it is cost efficient; it facilitates lesson verification; it encourages the provision of as many examples as are desirable; it simplifies the...

Lesson graphs are composed of Learning Objects (LOs) and include a valuable amount of information about the content and usage of the LOs, described by the LO metadata. Graphs also make explicit the links between the LOs (i.e. the graph semantics). This article proposes a conceptual model for taking advantage of this information. This model is based on an original diffusion process that copes wi...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of CBI lesson sequence type and cognitive style of field dependence on learning from Computer-Based Cooperative Instruction (CBCI) in WEB on the dependent measures, achievement, reading comprehension and reading rate. Eighty-seven college undergraduate students were randomly assigned to lesson sequence type levels, after assigning into th...

It is important to note that the development of pre-service teachers’ noticing abilities does not happen spontaneously; hence, assistance programs are crucial. This qualitative study aimed examine student thinking within context lesson study.<b> </b>Three teachers conducted three cycles. Lesson plans, voice and video recordings meetings implementations, observations, field notes, re...

An e-lesson is comprised of a “body” and a “view”. The body is the actual content of the e-lesson and the assumption is that it is an html document. The view is the metadata section of this html document, and it is made up of a set of words and phrases that are either explicit or implicit and are referred to as “terms”. This paper proposes a methodology that is capable of discovering the physic...