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Enquiry-based learning using pictures: the geograph project
(University of Cyprus, 2010)
This paper discusses the rationale underlying enquiry-based learning in terms of problem-solving activity and the technical infrastructure needed to support it. Some of the issues underlying the implementation of this ...
Taking an electronic mathematics examination from home: what the students think
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
The Open University’s Science department produced a short course in Mathematics. Its aim was to assist science undergraduates in obtaining the key skills required in order to progress through higher level science modules. ...
Personal inquiry: scripting support for inquiry learning by participatory design
(University of Cyprus, 2010)
This paper focuses on the participatory design processes during a project concerned with supporting children aged 12 – 15 to carry out personal scientific inquiries and in particular how the process varied between two case ...
Simulations, applets and learning in schools
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
This paper reviews the problem of establishing learning effects with computer simulation packages in science teaching. It is stated that evidence is accumulating about the effects of simulations in a laboratory environment ...
Modeling in school mathematics: generating active learning environments
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
Models and the modeling process are at the heart of mathematics. The paper discusses the importance of developing pupils’ modeling abilities and skills in the context of school mathematics and focuses in particular on the ...
Changing online paradigms: beyond Information transmission 'lectures' to research-based interactive science laboratories
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
Robust online courses in the sciences must be based on: (1) sound, research–based pedagogy, (2) rich laboratory environments with skills and operational knowledge transferable to the wet ‘lab’, (3) a paradigm that is ...
The evolving use of information technology in a large canadian high school – what’s working and what’s not
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
This presentation provides an update on the evolving use of information technology (IT) in the classrooms of a large Canadian high school. The discussion concentrates on IT developments in the mathematics and science ...
The exploration of experimental data with the aid of numerical models
(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 ...
Internet facilities for virtual and hands-on educational experiments
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
Real time computer simulators of the standard educational Physics laboratory works were designed in VRML and Java for distant learning and self-studies of University students. Experimental schemes and software were developed ...
Innovation of former courseware
(University of Zilina, 2005)
In the project Theoretical concepts, sources and technical background of e-learning we want to explore the possibilities how to transfer the teaching aids created within the sixties up to the nineties into electronic version ...