Presents information on short courses recommended by the APS society.

This study examined the pedagogic practices of primary teachers in Ghana. The major goal was to identify innovative pedagogic practices, as well as to understand why the transmission practices continue to prevail in a majority of Ghanaian primary classrooms. Using a qualitative approach, the study tried to probe deeply into how and why teachers in Ghana engage with their practices, at the same ...

The paper focuses on knowledge transfer and learning based on experiences from developing and carrying through master courses in Industrial IT (MII) and civil engineering at Aalborg University and 25 years of teaching experiences within the field. In the MII the students are recruited from industry to follow a 3 year 1/2 time national open education with most learning and project work done in a...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, distance learning had be increasingly implemented at universities, and more e-learning formats applied. The LBS2ITS project carried out under lead of Department Geodesy Geoinformation TU Wien (TUW), Austria, came right time for these tasks. Education in Location-Based Services (LBS) is put a new level including interactive Problem-Based Learning (PBL) pedagogy. In ...

The slime mold Physarum polycephalum is a well-established model organism within fields of biology, physics and computing. It is also increasingly employed within art and design disciplines, pedagogic practices and public engagement activities as a vehicle for exploring questions of intelligence, agency and emergence. This work was presented at PhysNet 2015.

This paper outlines the provincial frameworks that define the Spanish bilingual program in Alberta, Canada, provides an historical overview of its pedagogic constraints and evolution, and proposes a framework for bilingual pedagogy. The framework is conceptualized from the research evidence of three local case studies, and is based on the centrality of cross-linguistic transfer, in relation to ...

Some of the issues arising from the development of this pilot course are discussed, together with the experiences of the project team in bringing it through to a successful pilot. These have included not only technical matters, but also managerial, pedagogic and classroom control issues that are often neglected. Only if all these are addressed can large-scale distance-learning activities be dev...

Personalization approaches in learning environments can be addressed from different perspectives and also in various educational settings, including formal, informal, workplace, lifelong, mobile, contextualized, and selfregulated learning. PALE workshop offers an opportunity to present and discuss a wide spectrum of issues and solutions, such as pedagogic conversational agents, personal learnin...