The advancement in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has provided new opportunities for teaching and learning in the form of e-learning. However, developing specialized contents, accommodating profiles of learners, e-learning pedagogy and available ICT infrastructure are the real challenges that need to be properly addressed for any successful e-learning system. The adaptability in...

The current educational system is constructed so as to emphasize the evolution of rule-based reasoners (students who understand the ‘what’ of a task/problem). However scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technologists are not rule-based reasoners. They are model-based reasoners/thinkers (e.g., they do recursion, diagnostic reasoning, cognitive assessment, cognitive appraisal). To provide ...

Advances in multiagent systems have led to their successful application in experiential training simulations, where students learn by interacting with agents who represent people, groups, structures, etc. These multiagent simulations must model the training scenario so that the students’ success is correlated with the degree to which they follow the intended pedagogy. As these simulations incre...

I 1996, the National Survey of Desktop Computing in Higher Education reported that assisting faculty in course design and integrating it into the curriculum as the single most important issue facing institutions of higher learning (Green, 1996). This was five years ago, and it is still an issue today. In fact, the report issued in October of 2001 reiterates this same concern. It is still the si...

Pedagogy has always been open to other disciplines that reflect about the educational process (philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, technology, etc.). Its interdisciplinary openness puts education, as the subject of pedagogy within a broader context of the community, enabling the knowledge of other disciplines to contribute to a better understanding of the fundamental pedagogical no...

Audiolingualism and Communicative Language Teaching are two pedagogies both of foreign origin, however, they have made drastically different impact on English Language Teaching in China. The paper explains from a cultural perspective why audiolingualism is painlessly integrated into traditional Chinese approach of English learning while Communicative Language Teaching seems to have encountered ...

Free Culture A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does this indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. ...The opposite of a free culture is permission culture – a culture in which creat...

Our Introduction to Biology course (BIOL 1010) changed in 2004 from a standard instructor-centered, lecture-homework-exam format to a student-centered format that used Web-enhanced, interactive pedagogy. To measure and compare conceptual learning gains in the traditional course in fall 2003 with a section of the interactive course in fall 2004, we created concept inventories for both evolution ...