The new stage 6 science syllabuses draw on constructivism, a pedagogy based on educational research relating to teaching and learning. Teachers will need to employ appropriate strategies and use new resources to deliver the material effectively. UniServe Science has identified a number of useful alternate teaching strategies and associated resources. The following examples illustrate the applic...

In Hungary, a lot of electronic-based syllabuses have been developed during the last 8-10 years at a most considerable cost. However, not much has been heard of their success or efficiency, as would be supported by scientific testing. First, the present study is to provide a survey of our project, which aimed at creating an integrated electronic learning environment. The processing of an educat...

TheWeb is probably the largest collection of digital resources ever built, and it maintains it’s continuous growth. But this large collection is not a digital library, according to the most accepted sense, since it lacks some fundamental mechanisms. While it is possible to create and maintain a structured site, with powerful cataloging mechanisms and information retrieval, in a way that can be ...

For the past six years all new entrants to two first year electronic engineering courses have been questioned on their use and awareness of basic computer literacy. This includes their ownership of personal computers, what they do with them, how they use them to study and their knowledge of different types of software, such as word processing, databases and spreadsheets. The original syllabuses...

Vicki Gregory enters a textbook market dominated by Edward Evans' many editions of Developing Library and Information Center Collections and, more recently, by Peggy Johnson's Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management. Other introductory texts exist, as do many narrower collection management (CM) works focused by type of library, by material format, or by specific subtopics (such as...