Is it possible to teach a learner to become a better question asker in as little as 25 minutes? It is well documented that the ideal scenario of a curious question asker does not match reality. Students are unspectacular at monitoring their own knowledge deficits and their question generation is both infrequent and unsophisticated. Given that many teachers and school districts do not have the r...

Technology has for long been used as a pedagogical aid in learning. While technology has numerous ways of providing pedagogical assistance, the current paper attempts to focus on online discussion boards as a pedagogical tool in an elearning environment. The paper highlights some of the pedagogical attributes of online asynchronous discussion boards that do not exist in a traditional classroom ...

This paper introduces the pedagogical agents and describes its characteristics and roles in multimedia modules. It will also include examples of the use of pedagogical agents in previous studies and effective use of pedagogical agents on learning. Next, pedagogical agent variability in terms of physical (ethnicity, gender, image, voice) and internal features (roles, communication and competency...

This paper focus on the construction of general pedagogical guidelines for the design of Educational Digital Storytelling Environments (EDSE) based on a specific evaluation model, named the DS 'Pedagogical Evaluation Star'. DS 'Pedagogical Evaluation Star' is based on modern social and constructivist views of learning and is consisted of sixteen pedagogical dimensions, namely: collaborative lea...

Rapid advances in educational and information communications technology (ICT) have encouraged some educators to move beyond traditional face to face and distance education correspondence modes toward a rich, technology mediated e-learning environment. Ready access to multimedia at the desktop has provided the opportunity for educators to develop flexible, engaging and interactive learning resou...

N. S. A. Silva, G. J. M. Costa, S. Rogerson and M. Prior 1 PhD Students, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom 2 Principal Lecturer, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom 3 Director, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom

The creation of new pedagogical designs are some of the next challenges for the future of the Technology-enhanced Learning. This article examines two different ways of describing pedagogical designs: Pedagogical Patterns and Learning Designs. We argue that they are two complementary approaches that theoretically have so much in common, while being disparate in practice. Yet we consider that the...

In this paper I discuss the importance of and need for pedagogical materials to support the development of new interfaces and new instruments for electronic music. I describe my method for creating a graduated series of pedagogical etudes composed using Max/MSP. The etudes will help performers and instrument designers learn the most commonly used basic skills necessary to perform with interacti...

The preliminary results presented in this paper corresponds to a research project oriented to the search of the relationship between the predilection of students concerning learning style and the pedagogical protocols used by the human tutors (professors during the first courses of the Computer Engineering undergraduate Program) by using intelligent systems tools.

This article examines the pedagogical challenges and value of using objectionable texts in the classroom by way of two case studies: Martin Luther’s writings on Jews and two works by J.S. Bach. The use of morally or otherwise offensive materials in the classroom has the potential to degrade the learning environment or even produce harm if not carefully managed. On the other hand, historically i...