Learning object-oriented design and programming is a challenging task for many beginning students. CIMEL ITS coordinates student learning in two client programs: web-based multimedia courseware (CIMEL) and the Eclipse IDE, each of which post student interactions to a server-based CIMEL ITS. The Expert Evaluator analyzes student work in Eclipse, comparing novice with expert solutions. The Studen...

In order to examine the implications of applying a teaching strategy that integrates a systems approach and project-based learning (PBL), it was implemented in two courses. The objective of the first course was to train preservice teachers to teach the subject of “science and technology for all.” The second course was an introductory freshman course in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Thi...

According to authors’ idea this paper presents a new general approach to the theoretic pedagogics and the pedagogical practice. As the substance authors use following terms: pedagogical system, pedagogical process, pedagogical technology. Pedagogical system describes the main bounds and relations, structure and organisation of an object. Pedagogical process describes, what takes place in the st...

This paper discusses the rationales and design considerations for developing the use of haptics (virtual touch) for learning aspects of cell biology in secondary schools. The paper considers issues in understanding concepts in cell biology and how a 3-D environment enabled by haptics could support learning of difficult concepts. In this endeavour, a number of educational and design challenges n...

In this study, we present users assistants for e-learning environment over the Web called AVUNET. It was made up of an educational server that allows access to the available courses on the site. The server was structured in pedagogical labs that respond to the user needs. It offers also a module for self-evaluation so that the user can evaluate his/her level. Trainers have created this facility...

In order to design information retrieval (IR) learning environments and instruction, it is important to explore available pedagogical solutions and their impact on learning experiences and performance in learning situations. The particular focus of this study is the demonstration of how pedagogical solutions like scaffolding and anchored instruction can be implemented in IR instruction and what...

We review classical monopole solutions of the SU (2) Yang-Mills-Higgs theory. The first part is a pedagogical introduction into to the basic features of the celebrated 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole. In the second part we describe new classes of static axially symmetric solutions which generalise 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole. These configurations are either deformations of the topologically trivial s...

The School Timetabling Problem (STP) regards the weekly scheduling of encounters between teachers and classes. Since this scheduling must satisfy organizational, pedagogical and personal costs, this problem is recognized as a very difficult combinatorial optimization problem. This work presents a new Tabu Search (TS) heuristic for STP. Two different memory based diversification strategies are p...

This paper provides a nice example to illustrate that without supporting analysis, a numerical simulation may lead to incorrect conclusions. We explore a pedagogical example of failure of Runge–Kutta–Felberg (RKF) algorithms for a simple dynamical system that models the coupling of two oscillators. Although the system appears to be well-behaved, the explicit RKF solvers provide erratic numerica...