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    • What’s on the menu? Today’s specialty: a European networked university 

      Retalis, S.; Haugen, H.; Avgeriou, P.; Papasalouros, A.; Skordalakis, S. (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      In the midst of one of the greatest challenges ever faced, the great demand for learning, educational organizations are being reformed. The MENU consortium is working on meeting this challenge by creating a European Networked ...
    • How do students navigate and learn from nonlinear science text: can metanavigation support and promote learning? 

      Stylianou, Agnes; Puntambekar, Sadhana (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      In the past few years there has been an emphasis in the development and use of hypertext resources to promote science learning in interactive inquiry-based environments. Nonlinear resources such as hypertext and hypermedia ...
    • Educating reason. From craft to technology 

      Rolf, Bertil (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      In designing, developing and evaluating educational software supporting reasoning, three aspects are important. The first is the cognitive domain of practice, relating to the nature of reasoning and the idea of support. ...
    • Can internet based scenarios enhance critical Care nurses clinical decision making skills? 

      Boulanger, Carole; Yorke, Jon (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      Nurses need to be trained to make rapid and accurate clinical decisions in a rapidly changing and complex environment. Unfortunately, a reliance on traditional training methods (lectures, small group sessions, experiential ...
    • Exploiting internet & multimedia technologies to advance educational process 

      Angeletou, Sophia; Bovilas, Kostas; Giannakopoulos, Michalis; Sakkopoulos, Evangelos; Syrmakessis, Spiros; Tsakalidis, Athanasios; Tsaknakis, Ioannis (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      Internet technologies and multimedia applications are becoming the new trend in educational process. The number of schools, universities and other educational institutions that intend to adopt computer-based learning is ...
    • ICT in science teaching Investigating the spreadsheets integration Into science teaching to promote both curriculum aims and science skills via ict strands 

      Chrisostomou, Charalambos; Savvidou, Stavroulla (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      Spreadsheets can be implemented into Science teaching as learning tools. The issue is that whether such ICT integration (Spreadsheets) into science teaching can facilitate both the: a) Promotion of specific curriculum aims ...
    • Computer representation versus reality: which has more value of truthfulness? 

      Caporaloni, Marina; Ambrosini, Roberto (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      Due to mass production, many modern instruments are so simple to use that students are driven away from their inside complexity (and this fact can be very nice); but too often now students prefer to blindly accept those ...
    • Teaching and learning numerical calculus and Its applications with can 

      Vladoiu, Monica; Marcu, G. (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      CAN is a part of a five-year program meant to create multimedia software tools that offer teachers the possibility to build and present their e-learning applications (courses, seminars, laboratories and exams) in a hypermedia ...
    • Should we be using web-based learning to supplement face-to-face teaching of undergraduates? 

      Andrew, Malcolm (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      There are several pressures to use web-based learning to augment traditional undergraduate teaching, not least of which are to fulfil students’ expectations, to increase student retention and improve progression rates. ...
    • Investigating the impact of learning from hypermedia 

      Vovides, Yianna (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      Distance education via the internet is now one of the most viable options for delivery of information to people in different places and because of this the concept of hypermedia is gaining in popularity. In the healthcare ...
    • Using interactive simulations to enhance Students’ explanations regarding physical Phenomena 

      Zacharia, Zacharias C. (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      The objective of this research was to investigate the effects of Interactive Computer-Based Simulations (ICBSs) on student’s ability to give “scientifically accepted” explanations regarding physical phenomena in Mechanics, ...
    • On the cognitive transfer in CBL environments 

      Karoulis, Athanasis; Triantafillou, Evangelos; Pombortsis, Andreas (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      In this paper we report on a longitudinal study of a Leonardo da Vinci program about the application of a Computer Based Learning environment in three EU countries, Greece, Germany, and the Netherlands. Firstly we clarify ...
    • Computing in education: new technologies applied to the senior high teaching 

      Ferreira, Jeane Silva; Moreira Pinto, Evaldinolia Gilbertoni; Sá Fernandes, Eveline de Jesus; Fook, Karla Donato (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      The present paper proposes a modeling for a Support Tool to the Cooperative Teaching (STCT) applied to the senior high school teaching. Such a modeling has been developed based on the result of researches with students, ...
    • Educational game design: bridging the gab between computer based learning and experimental learning environments 

      Andersen, Kristine; Witfelt, Claus (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      Considering the rapidly growing amount of digital educational materials only few of them bridge the gab between experimental learning environments and computer based learning environments (Gardner, 1991). Observations from ...
    • A model & support tool for modeling the computer-based/e-instructional process 

      Vladoiu, Monica (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      While in psychology instruction appears as a binder and an intersection between conscience, activity and personality structures, in didactics, at individual level, instruction is conceived as a bi-dimensional activity that ...
    • The exploration of experimental data with the aid of numerical models 

      Rogers, Laurence T. (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      Computer-based methods of capturing data in laboratory experiments (data-logging) invite a range of approaches to exploring data. The rich variety of analysis and calculation tools provided in software helps to extend the ...
    • Solving some physical problems using the methods of numerical mathematics with the help of system mathematica 

      Trojovský, Pavel; Seibert, Jaroslav; Slabý, Antonín (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      Every future teacher of mathematics must know symbolic approaches, for example, for finding derivations and integrals, solving algebraic and differential equations very well. But most of the problems from practice are not ...
    • Robot soccer: integrated framework for Multidisciplinary hi-tech education 

      Sen Gupta, G.; Lim, Y.S.; Messom, C. H.; Demidenko, S.; Mukhopadhyay, S.C.; Pinder, D.N. (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      Robot Soccer has become increasingly popular over the last decade as a platform for education and entertainment. It is a powerful vehicle for dissemination of scientific knowledge in a fun and exciting manner. It encompasses ...
    • Creating a teacher and software-developer partnership 

      Pollard, J.; Duke, R. (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      As teachers are the educational experts, if we want to produce software that is both directly relevant to their needs and can be successfully integrated into the classroom, we need to facilitate a strong co-operative working ...
    • ICT application - virtual assistant algorithm 

      Nevrivova, Petra; Berankova, Martina (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
      The ICT application will cultivate new methods, with a possibility to be used in all subjects. It will contain influences from inside and outside the faculty or university. The scheme for the application ICT is in the form ...