In the present article, a specified Pedagogical Infrastructure Framework, including technical, social, epistemological and cognitive components, is introduced as a conceptual tool for design-based research to examine the design of complex learning settings. The applicability of the framework was assessed by retrospectively exploring an evolving design effort in four, consecutive, undergraduate ...

The article describes the pedagogical requirements for organization of educational process in state specialized institutions.

The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of an effective State Interactive Video (ITV) program relating to teacher qualifications and strategies, student research and involvement, organization, economical benefits, and technical support. Evidence from this study suggests that ITV instructors need more organization and preparation than is typically required for face-to-face te...

Academic organizations are changing. Students require systematically for more effective means to support their daily activities. Managers are concerned with providing special structures and mechanisms, disposing to students the necessary means to evolve themselves in specific knowledge domains. Some of them consider implementing special computational systems integrating educational abilities in...

Nowadays, information and communication technologies are incorporating extremely rapidly to the individual’s education and training. This trend lead the European academic research to focus on key terms like open distance learning or lifelong learning. In this context, there are a large number of past and actual projects and researches concerning the content, methodologies, technologies and new ...

This thesis will discuss a knowledge-based model for the design and development of units of learning and teaching aids. The idea behind this work originates from previous theoretical work on ECM Educational Concept Map (a logical and abstract annotation system, derived from the theories of instructional design), from the open issues in designing instructional authoring system, and from the lack...

The evident standardization of Information Technology (IT) in education, by way of the widespread adoption of robust and dependable Learning Management Systems (LMS), has made distance learning courses possible and easy to mount, even in institutions or universities that had no previous experience in online education. However, based on evidence gathered through the ODL-NET Experience project, w...

Computer Science departments across the country have embraced computer gaming classes as part of the core curriculum. However, instructors need to define guidelines that accommodate students’ proficiency in game development and consequently address the growing needs of industry. We develop and evaluate a Game Authoring Class in an attempt to begin to close the gap between industry and academia....

Theoretical information on the pedagogical and psychological features of primary school age. Also, recommendations for organization social activities teachers based characteristics