Science teachers can lack pedagogic skill and confidence in handling multifaceted socio-scientific issues. This project has explored the development, implementation and evaluation of a ‘cross-curricular’ day as a suitable vehicle in 8 different schools for both engaging 14-16 year old pupils in active consideration of social aspects of genetics and enabling science and humanities teachers to co...

This paper advances conceptual tentative bases for understanding workplace pedagogic practices. It proposes that whether arising through everyday work activities or guided learning in workplaces, learning is shaped by workplace participatory practices. This learning is held to be co-participative: the reciprocal process of how the workplace affords participation and therefore learning, and how ...

This paper identifies computational challenges in restructuring encyclopedic resources (like Wikipedia or thesauri) to reorder concepts with the goal of helping learners navigate through a concept network without getting trapped in circular dependencies between concepts. We present approaches that can help content authors identify regions in the concept network, that after editing, would have m...

Nontraditional manufacturing (NTM) is becoming increasingly important in modern engineering. Therefore, it is important to develop up-to-date pedagogic materials for the area. This paper reports collaborative efforts among three universities in such a development sponsored by National Science Foundation of USA. The features of the development include systematic introduction, recent research res...

Elements of the work of Basil Bernstein’s (Bernstein, 1996, 2000) are used in this paper to analyse the national structure and policy of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia. The analysis is part of work towards a Doctor of Education degree at Monash University which aims to investigate the impact of online technology on the teaching practice of teachers employed in Technical an...

The last several decades have seen a growing trend in incorporating pedagogic conversational agents in interactive learning environments. Software systems have increasingly integrated intelligent virtual agents that can interact with students in natural language to fulfill specific tasks such as reviewing content or providing tutor training. The use of an agent-based approach in education has s...

Conversational agents can be defined as computer programs which can have an animated face and/or body, understand natural language and respond in natural language to a user request. Pedagogic Conversational Agents are a subset specifically designed for educational purposes. Some of the existing conversational agents provide predefined answers irrespectively of the student model. In this paper, ...

In the previous chapters there was continual talk of: (i) possible structures of pedagogical situations with which it is noted that still other pedagogical structures might exist that are not yet noticed and that such structures are possibilities that can be actualized in pedagogic situations; (ii) pedagogical structures (with their essences) that are available to the participants in pedagogica...

Approaches to mathematics teaching which offer an alternative to stating facts and demonstrating procedures have been criticised for undermining the base for teachers’ sense of their own effectiveness. Data from an ethnographic study of the classroom practice of an experienced teacher of mathematics who has developed an inclusive (or emancipatory) pedagogic approach indicate that while establis...

LabSET (Support Laboratory for Telematic Learning) – ULg (University of Liège) developed, in close collaboration with higher education teachers willing to "go online", more than 100 distance courses, representing a large spectrum of disciplines and a wide range of teaching/learning objectives, methods and challenges. For those courses, LabSET used the "8 Learning Events Model" (Leclercq & Pouma...