The increasing demand for creative individuals in the labor market requires well-prepared professionals, capable of enhancing competitiveness through new ideas and innovative actions. Educational programs should therefore rely on approaches and learning environments that foster creativity. In this study, video game development projects were used as an approach to foster creativity in educationa...

This paper describes a research study that focuses on analysis of different approaches used in the development of educational multimedia products. Within the study, the inherent need for the “client-centered” design approach, in the development of educational software, was noted. A new approach to user interface development, that utilizes a visual interface design tool, is discussed. The tool i...

Research in education has brought to light the complexity of the learning process, demonstrating that students' development is influenced by a myriad of cultural and social factors, as well as the environment in which learning takes place. Engineering curricula, however, are primarily focused on teaching content knowledge, often resulting in a gap between what is taught and what is learned. We ...

after development of a great concern (in last decade) about the adequacy and fidelity of the undergraduate educational program of electrical engineering in the electrical engineering department of sharif university of technology, a committee was assigned in 2004, to identify the shortcomings of the program and initiate a dynamic, restructured program to satisfy the educational requirement of a ...

This is a quite unique book, as the problem-based and project-organized models are not primarily reflected upon on the basis of educational theories, but rather upon the basis of the theories and methods of the various university programmes. Thus this book contains a profession-based approach to the further development of the problem-based and project-organized educational practice at the unive...

The main goal of this study is to investigate the role of the urban bias in the Brazilian development on the educational attainment process. Theories of educational inequality and socioeconomic development and modernization are considered to construct the hypotheses. The study is based on a nation-wide probability sample survey (the 1988 PNAD). OLS regression models are estimated to assess the ...