This communication describes the theoretical and practical tools that permit the automatic construction of a verbal lexicon in view of a didactic utilisation by linguists and an automatic treatment of written texts. Firstly we present the taken theoretical choices for the representation of the verbal polysemy in view of a practical utilisation; and secondly we present some elements of a semi-au...

Introduction . In the process of developing distance learning and changing forms educational materials used in different countries, there are such problems as lack direct communication, insufficient control low motivation. The effectiveness guiding orienting influences teacher, his/her professional creative teaching methods is decreasing. As a result, implementation cognitive activities by stud...

This will enable an evaluation of the Return On Investment (ROI) using the new concept of Yield Index “e-lYI” (e-learning Yield Index), introduced in this study. The Yield Index “e-lYI” suggests an original way to evaluate the implementation of e-learning methodologies into campus based environments; still, the new index will help professionals involved in the management of the transition from ...

While the effectiveness of one-on-one human tutoring has been well established, a great deal of controversy surrounds the issue of which features of tutorial dialogue separate effective uses of dialogue in tutoring from those that are less effective. In this paper we present a formal comparison of Socratic versus Didactic style tutoring that argues in favor of the Socratic tutoring style.

This study evaluated physical education knowledge according to gender, secondary school programme, year of study and type of knowledge. The results of multivariate analysis of variance show that the programme of study had the highest impact (20.2% of the variance) on both dependent variables (conceptual and specific knowledge), the impact of gender was about half as high (11.7% of the variance)...

Tablet computers are becoming a common tool to support learning since primary school. Indeed, many didactic applications are already available on online stores. Most of these applications engage the child by immersing the educational purpose of the software within an entertaining environment, often in the form of a game with sophisticated graphic and interaction. Unfortunately, this makes most ...

In 2009 the authors developed an open source Java application and framework, GraphsJ, to help the students in their approach to the study of graph algorithms, by guiding them to understand their logical structures through experiments on numerical instances. After four years, the availability of Java 7 and of new tools suggested the implementation of a new major release. We present a new major r...

We report on MobiDics, a mobile learning platform for professors, lecturers and tutors. In a survey with 100+ participants, we revealed that young, inexperienced teaching personnel at universities rarely use specific didactic methods to plan and structure courses. Such methods play an important role in learning processes since they, for example, activate students and contribute to more profound...

1 Introduction Between the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) and Lausanne (EPFL) a teleteaching experiment has been established in order to gain practical and didactic experiences in three main areas of application-oriented communication and didactic research: • Network support for dialog-oriented, isochronous services; • Technical equipment to be utilized, such as advance...