Virtual exchange projects with participants in countries conflict can challenge future teachers to examine previous assumptions and prepare them better meet the needs of others whose daily lives may be punctuated by violence. Through virtual exchange, are pushed out their comfort zones through interactions geographic, sociocultural, sociolinguistic backgrounds different from own. such projects,...

Most people are uncertain about how nutrients enter and are distributed in the body. They may be capable of naming the different parts of the digestive system on a torso but have vague ideas of the relation between these organs and the chemical processes they govern. Reasons for this are poor understanding of gas exchange, the role of the circulatory system, and that most processes are intracel...

(2002) The evolution of pedagogic models for work-based learning within a virtual university. Abstract The process of designing a pedagogic model for work-based learning within a virtual university is not a simple matter of using 'off the shelf' good practice. Instead, it can be characterised as an evolutionary process that reflects the backgrounds, skills and experiences of the project partner...

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Teaching introductory computing courses with Scheme el evates the intellectual level of the course and thus makes the subject more appealing to students with scienti c interests Unfortunately the poor quality of the available programming environments negates many of the pedagogic advantages To overcome this problem we have devel oped DrScheme a comprehensive programming environment for Scheme I...

As part of the special issue marking transition Higher Education Research Group to Geography and Group, in this final paper we argue that reformed group has a key role play promoting spaces exchange between communities practice have stake shared endeavours geography education. We draw on structured conversations from group’s launch event, existing literature, our particular vantage points ident...

The potential of corpora for language learning and teaching has been widely acknowledged and their ready availability on the Web has facilitated access for a broad range of users, including language teachers and learners. However, the integration of corpora into general language learning and teaching practice has so far been disappointing. In this paper, I will argue that the shape of many exis...

This article aims to study the educational phenomenon of museums from the sociological analysis of museum didactics. Based on Basil Bernstein’s theory of pedagogic discourse, and, in particular, on the author’s concepts of recontextualization and recontextualizing field, the study addresses the process of production of exhibition discourse of five science museums. The study assumed exhibition d...

In this paper, the possibility of children studying by using an interactive learning technology called Pedagogic Conversational Agent is presented. The main benefit is that the agent is able to adapt the dialogue to each student and to provide automatic feedback. Moreover, according to Math teachers, in many cases students are unable to solve the problems even knowing the procedure to solve the...