As commonly known, a tutor’s role changes when teachers appoint her/him as an etutor. A requirements analysis carried out at our university shows that more and more teachers believe that e-tutors have to be soft skilled particularly in e-moderation and online communication skills. To account for such requirements, existing university e-tutoring curriculums have to be adopted. This paper describ...

The Pierre Mendès France University (Social Sciences, Grenoble, France) is setting-up an intranet intended for three kinds of users : students, teachers and staff. It will provide them with informations and services that fit their needs : information broadcast, shared documents and resources, cooperative spaces. Better than launching a huge and heavy project for analyzing all the needs and all ...

This paper presents the first causal evidence on the effects of school accountability systems on teacher labor markets. We exploit a 2002 change in Florida's school accountability system that exogenously shocked some schools to higher accountability grades and others to lower accountability grades, and measure whether teachers in shocked schools are more or less likely to move. Using microdata ...

Abstract: The Didactics of Informatics research group at the University of Paderborn is involved in efforts to design, implement and evaluate a curriculum for Media education for prospective teachers at the secondary school level. One major issue is the question of whether it is necessary for future teachers to learn the basic concepts of informatics, and if so, which topics within informatics ...

Constructing a rigorous identification strategy based on a unique educational reform involving preference-based random assignment of students to different middle schools in Beijing, this paper examines how school and teacher characteristics affect student academic performance. Results show that school effects matter for the test scores on the High School Entrance Exam. We identify the role of t...

This study investigated student teachers’ perceptions about the impact of internet usage on their learning and future jobs. The sample consisted of 448 student teachers from the Early Childhood and Primary Education Departments at the National University of Athens, in Greece. Student teachers’ perceptions regarding the impact of internet usage on their learning and future jobs were, in general,...

The need to improve the quality of higher education has fostered an interest in technology tools to support effective design for teaching and learning. Over the past decade this interest has led to the development of tools to support the creation of online learning experiences, specifications to underpin design systems, and repositories to share examples. Despite this significant activity, ther...