While the pervasive use of interactive whiteboards in education has emphasized the need for large public displays, a growing number of schools are moving towards a one to one (student to computer) ratio. Thus there is significant interest in understanding how personal devices (e.g. laptops, clickers) can be coupled with large public displays in a technology enabled classroom. We describe a corr...

In today’s primary classrooms, the definition of “text” has expanded to include multiple modes of representation, with combined elements of print, visual images, and design. Emergent research on literacy highlights the imaginative, interpretive, nonlinear, interactive, dynamic, visual, and mobile features of communication (Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear, & Leu, 2008). Although these interactive featu...

A real-time interactive distance lecture is a joint work that should be accomplished by the effort of the lecturer and his students in remote sites. It is important for the lecturer to get understanding information from the students which cannot be efficiently collected by only using video/audio channels between the lecturer and the students. This article proposes RIDEE-UIM (Understanding Infor...

Malone's suggestion of challenge. curiosity, and fantasy as the key aspects of instrinsic motivation for learning. based on his analyses of computer games, is used as a format for discussing four interactive videodisc lessons for general physics. The idea of challenging learning is expressed in the lessons based on the Physics and Automobile Collisions and Energy Tranformations Featuring the Bi...

The interactive narratives for developing interactive & educational documentaries have served for developing interactive installations & products in galleries, exhibitions, museums, universities, webs & videogames. During the last years, these previous experiences of applying interactive narrative techniques in digital historical or educational products have served to developed interactive narr...

In the following, I will outline some implications of the Cologne program of “interactive constructivism” (founded by Kersten Reich) 1 for educational theory. I will proceed in three steps. In an introductory section, I will first briefly locate the Cologne program within the context of the so called „cultural turn“ in recent constructivist discourses. Secondly, I will introduce some main theor...

BACKGROUND Educating patients with asthma about the pathophysiology and treatment of their disease is recommended. In recent years, several computer programs have been developed to provide this education. These programs take advantage of the population's increasing skill with computers and the growth of the Internet as a source of health care information. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectivene...

We developed and tested a multimedia education system, called LEMMA, which allows educators without programming experience to design 3D interactive multi-modal tutorials. For the learner, our system aims to leverage advantages of interactive computer visualizations and the navigational benefits of hypermedia. LEMMA supports upcoming design principles in computer-aided education, such as modular...

Learning medicine is a difficult process to undertake, partially due to the complexity of the subject and limitations of traditional methods of teaching (lectures, textbooks, laboratory and anatomical dissections). These resources have been effective for decades, even though presenting intrinsic drawbacks. Textbooks are non-interactive education tools and do not provide any three dimensional ex...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of peer education among university students for reproductive health promotion based on researchers' experiences. methods: this interventional study was conducted in qazvin university of medical science during 2002 to 2004 through stakeholders' partnership and selection of 24 volunteer students according to their knowledge, ...