The fast growing accessibility and capability of emerging technologies have fashioned enormous possibilities of designing, developing and implementing innovative teaching methods in the classroom. The global technological scenario has paved the way to new pedagogies in teaching-learning process focusing on technology based learning environment and its impact on student achievement. The present ...

Many instructors claim that the teaching process of programming education improves problem-solving abilities. However, if the instructor focuses on teaching programming grammar (syntax) or on memorizing well-known algorithms’ process maps, such as sorting and searching, students’ cognitive loads could increase and this does not enhance their problem-solving abilities. Therefore, this paper prop...

Many studies have been conducted in order to develop systems that respond to user requirements in domotic environments. These systems generally offer predefined scenarios corresponding to general requirements and enable users to select those he/she wants to trigger. We claim that such behaviors cannot be hardwired: user scenario definition should be supported. In this article, we propose the sp...

To reduce the production cost of 3D-CG educational contents for e-Learning system and to improve the capability of self-learning system, we developed a new self-learning system based on the Cyber Person. Cyber Person is a Human Shaped Software Robot by using 3D Computer Graphics and Speech Synthesis technologies. This system includes 3DCG stage, many kind of stage parts (3D-CG shaped models, Ph...

Moving to Web-based student assessment is a natural progression from current deployment of Web-based delivery of teaching materials. This paper notes similarities in requirements between network-based student assessment and network-based e-commerce. The parallels are instructive since they indicate the stringent technical demands that must be met by both contexts if confidence is to be assured....

Aim To create sustained improvements in medical students' critical thinking skills through short teaching interventions in pharmacology. Method The ability to make professional decisions was assessed by providing year-4 medical students at a UK medical school with a novel medical scenario (antenatal pertussis vaccination). Forty-seven students in the 2012 cohort acted as a pretest group, answer...

In this study we report two studies on the testing of a scenario-based learning (SBL) activity delivered to 191 preservice teachers in UK and Australia. SBL uses interactive classroom scenarios enhance self-efficacy readiness teachers. Findings from Study 1 indicated that participants found engaging useful, with increased preparedness for teaching placements. 2 revealed most reported higher lev...