In order to understand whether conceptual obscurity is truly the reason for the slow uptake of IMS Learning Design (LD), we have initiated an investigation into teachers’ understanding of IMS LD outside of technological environments. Using paper representations (“snippets”) of IMS LD component and method elements at levels A and B, 21 higher education teachers from nine countries recreated a pr...

The study focused primary teachers views on the educational use of Virtual Environments (VEs). A 3D reconstruction of a Portuguese Romanesque castle, XII Century, was developed. A sample of 21 teachers explored the VE. The study intended to construct a detailed description of the exploration process implemented by the school teachers and to elicit their perspective on the educational potential ...

1 Tzu-Chien Liu, National Central University, Teachers Education Center, Chung-Li, Taiwan, [email protected] 2 Yih-Ruey Juang, Jin-Wen Institute of Technology, Department of Information Management, Taipei, Taiwan, [email protected] Abstract  With the prevalence of information in the digital age, it is more important to assist teachers to manage their own practical knowledge. According to thi...

This book has the worst title ever. The title is not only too literal but it really does nothing to indicate the book’s true value. The book is really about something much more engaging than the title implies, and academics, researchers and teachers (especially teachers already working in online environments – which is in fact, the perspective of this reviewer), will find much of what is writte...

Talents are the most important factor of all in the efforts to establish an innovative country. In universities and colleges, the bases for talent cultivation, the turnover of teachers in an explicit or recessive way calls for our urgent attention. This article aims at analyzing the complex causes of college teachers’ turnover from the perspective of institutional economics including Limitation...