Technological developments have altered pedagogies in classroom teaching but approaches to teacher professional development have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to describe an evolving learning process that spans the last decade and draws from three different investigations into professional development. The author compares and contrasts the key findings from two indepe...

This paper presents findings from the pattern of participation and discourse analysis of the online interaction among in-service teachers in the teacher training institute in Singapore. It was found that the teachers formed a knowledge-building community and jointly discussed issues related to integrating information technology into the classroom. There was evidence that teachers formed a socia...

The present study examined the effect of multimedia glosses on foreign language listening comprehension. To this end, 94 male students studying at Rasa English Institute in Tehran were selected for the treatment. The participants consisted of three groups, and each group was randomly assigned to one of the following treatment conditions: textual, pictorial, and textual-pictorial glossing....

The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of agricultural literacy materials designed for the Incubators in the Classroom program used in Indiana fourth grade classrooms. This article reports on the study objectives: determine the impact of the educational materials on fourth grade students’ and teachers’ knowledge level of agricultural professions and identify fourth grade st...

The Mathematics Education Markup Language (MeML) is central to the Web-based Mathematics Education (WME) [12] framework (see Figure 1) under investigation at ICM/Kent. Defined in XML syntax, MeML provides effective and expressive markup elements to represent and structure mathematics education pages that may also contain XHTML and MathML [6] elements. MeML aims to empower mathematics teachers, ...

This work describes an eye tracking study of Moodle outlining how Moodle’s components and teaching materials are ‘seen’ by Moodle users. In order to investigate navigation schemes, usability aspects as well as the learning process itself, Austrian students were eye-tracked during using Moodle. The study addressed objectives to find out about user’s visual scanning of Moodle’s environment identi...

Online communities and social-network sites are used to deliver professional-development services for teachers. Professional development should help teachers reflect on their practice improve in helping them guide students' growth. Peer community models, such as coaching sharing knowledge network communities, have been proposed. Recently these practices taken into use social media services, Fac...

English Language Teaching (ELT) textbook evaluation checklists are instruments that help teachers select the most appropriate books for their learners. This paper presents a phase of an on-going project proposed out of the need for a valid, reliable and a practical checklist. The phase includes a focus group study designed to further refine a checklist previously developed by the present resear...

In response to the need to cultivate pre-service Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers’ information and communication technology (ICT) competency in online synchronous environments, this research adopted a three-stage cyclical model named cooperation-based cognition, action, and reflection (CoCAR). The model was implemented in an 18-week program to prepare pre-service CFL teachers for on...