In this article we present how we use Bardram’s model of collective work dynamics [1] to elaborate a conceptual tool for coding and analyzing the self-organization of students involved in a mediated (computer-based) pedagogic collective challenge.

The usability of an eLearning system is a key feature for its success. This paper describes several aspects of the usability evaluation of the user-adaptive eLearning system ActiveMath to exemplify how usability engineering techniques can be applied to and adapted for an eLearning system and what the particularities of an eLearning system compared with a ‘conventional’ application are. Topics t...

on pedagogic retardation owing to the fact that the psychological retardation of large numbers of children was impossible to ascertain. The Binet test furnishes us with a method for measuring the psychological retardation of the child. It is, however, almost impossible to test every child in the school system of a great city by means of these tests. This is so for two reasons: first, the length...

Much effort has been and is being devoted to the reform of the teaching of physics. This has led to many new and imaginative approaches to the delivery of the course material, but a perusal of today’s Introductory Physics textbooks indicates that their basic structure has changed little in over fifty years. A radical restructuring is proposed that begins with a modern atomic picture rather than...

All communication is inherently multimodal, and understandings of science need to be multidimensional. The interactive whiteboard offers a range of potential benefits to the primary science classroom in terms of relative ease of integration of a number of presentational and ICT functions, which taken together offer new opportunities for fostering multifaceted pedagogic strategies. In this case ...