Our aim was to develop an easy to use JavaScript library that allows a teacher student or a teacher, who knows only basics of HTML and JavaScript, to implement little educative applications similar to Bebras interactive tasks. Using the method of design-based research we developed such a library and named it sprites.js. In our paper we describe the experiments with the library, which focused on...

This paper contributes to our knowledge of teacher educators' strategies for, and dilemmas with, working with gender inclusion in teachers' education. It illustrates how gender is constructed and reconstructed in teachers' education. The study revealed that teachers' education is not only – as earlier described – a highly feminised field, it is also a discipline that is permeated by horizontal ...

Trends in distance education show a growing emphasis in collaborative learning, stimulating students to exchange ideas and information. A collaborative environment, however, will demand a higher effort from the teacher, who will have to supervise all the discussions among the learners, so that they do not deviate from the intended topic for the lesson. Moreover, the information proceeding from ...

This paper describes the evolution of a teacher that imparted eleven online courses over a seven year period. Courses were set up with a HTML editor (Front Page) and a LMS system (Moodle), three courses were given to students of two different postgraduate programs and eight on a graduate program. The analysis was based in the teaching practices and the types of media and tools used in each cour...