Through the inception of the Chartered Teacher Programme in Scotland there is the intention that continuing professional development can enable teachers to become increasingly effective in promoting learning in the classroom (Scottish Executive, aim since what is meant by learning (and its promotion) is not contextualised either in learning in any coherent way. The implications of such a ‘non-l...

This paper describes work carried out to explore the role of a learning companion as a teachable student of the human student. A LCS for Binary Boolean Algebra has been developed to explore the hypothesis that a learning companion with less expertise than the human student would be beneficial if the student taught it. The system implemented two companions with different expertise and two types ...

Two studies investigated teacher activities that may lead to the development of competence, if not expertise. In Study I, 136 teachers indicated in a questionnaire that evaluation and planning activities (informal and formal) best parallel deliberate practice activities that Ericsson and colleagues report as accounting for expertise in other domains. In Study II, log data and interviews from ei...

one of the main concerns of iranian students who learnenglish is the fact that they cannot learn the different english rules ofnegative and interrogative tenses and hence suffer from numerous grammar rules.the present study is based on the researchers' experiences, who have beeneducated in linguistics, in teaching english to persian students. they applieda new teaching method (the rule tea...

This paper discusses the place of GTE as an approach for bridging the gap between CAL and ITS systems. It presents the DCG, our architecture for dynamic courseware generation which allows dynamic planning of the contents of an instructional course with a given goal. Finally a further development of DCG by combining it with GTE is described which includes explicit representation of generic teach...

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To design efficient, flexible and user-adaptable learning environments, we need to embed a great deal of knowledge into them. This paper emphasises the teacher’s knowledge, which encompasses all the expertise of the teacher or of the trainer. Thus it is broader than that which is usually called tutoring knowledge. We start with a description of several facets of teaching expertise and of variou...

The application of information technology can have positive and negative impacts on social capital. In this paper we discuss technologies which have the potential to foster social capital by matching human actors. The matching algorithms are based on the personal data describing the actors' behavior, background, qualification, or interests. Consequently, actors who are little known or even unkn...