"Kybernetische PP adagogik" (cybernetic pedagogic) and research in "Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS)" basically are based on the same idea: to model the structure and process of instruction where the goal is to develop a learner-adaptive, exible and objective teaching programs. The theoretical background was developed by the cybernetic pedagogic. As H. Frank ((Frank70b], S. 260f) realized ins...

This study explored both teachers’ and learners’ perceptions of teachers’ pedagogic strategies which may engender willingness to communicate (WTC) in an English as a foreign language class and the difference between their perceptions to detect how convergent or possibly how divergent these are. The project used a convenience sample of 300 students taking an intermediate English course and their...

This chapter discusses the changed nature of literacy within new communication contexts, the literacy that is needed for reading, viewing, responding to and producing multimodal and digital texts. Potentials for redesigning literacy pedagogy within new modes of communication are demonstrated for educational contexts. As a basis for this discussion, the author analyses classroom evidence using e...

theatre is not just bound to what happens on the stage and in front of the eyes of the spectators. the process of preparing and practicing theatre is effective in training people. in this way theatre sociologists have studied theatre from the point of view of affects on social contacts and pedagogical theorists who think that childhood is the most important period in forming people personality ...

This paper describes current research on the optimisation of the pedagogical path of a student in an existing e-learning software. This optimisation is performed following the models given by a fairly recent field of Artificial Intelligence: Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) [1,2,4]. The underlying structure of the E-learning material is represented by a graph with valued arcs whose weights are opt...

The theoretical models of teachers’ knowledge bases, as developed by Shulman (1987) and Turner-Bisset (1997, 1999), do not overtly support Elbaz’s (1983), Lampert’s (1984) and Nias’ (1989) earlier suppositions that a teacher’s knowledge of self influences their pedagogic work. A review of the empirical literature produced by Connell (1985), Sikes, Measor and Woods (1985), Weber and Mitchell (19...

The ability to create pedagogically driven, activity oriented personalized eLearning is a key factor in the success of future eLearning. The ability to empower course developers with intuitive environments which provide pedagogic, subject matter, activity and personalization support during the process of creating a personalized course is fundamental to the adoption of adaptive educational hyper...