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Fostering science education objectives with teacher-made computer games
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
The new generation of learners in today's schools is accustomed to a digital world. The students are surrounded by visual stimuli and are becoming proficient in areas not on the test! Their new ways of learning offer ...
Teaching sciences and mathematics concepts in the early grades: k-3 teachers engaging developmentally appropriate practice which Incorporates technologies
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
This paper examines the practices and concepts used in teaching science and mathematics concepts to young children (kindergarten through grade 3) while integrating computer and multimedia technologies and hands-on activities ...
Online physics lecture notes
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
Internet is a very powerful medium and is being widely used by the academic community. A large amount of resource on physics education in the form of lecture Notes, online lectures, books, databases and journals are ...
Images of ‘cell division’ on the internet
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
The use of images in teaching biology is considered to be of great importance for the comprehension of concepts by secondary school students. Important questions for the didactics of biology, which might be of interest to ...
CBL tools require the change of learning processes and their environment
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
Computer Based Learning (CBL) represents one of the terms for implementation of information & communication technologies (ICT) in education and learning. ICT enable changes of the education processes. They cannot be realized ...
How do students navigate and learn from nonlinear science text: can metanavigation support and promote learning?
(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 ...
What’s on the menu? Today’s specialty: a European networked university
(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 ...
Development of a computer assisted learning environment of electromagnetics at the undergraduate level
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
Conventional teaching of electromagnetics, based on lectures, static written materials, laboratories etc. has become rather difficult recently at all levels of education. The main objective of this paper is the development ...
Educational websites in chemistry - expectations versus reality
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
The World Wide Web is a promising medium for chemical education. The huge chemical databases, the threedimensional and dynamic graphics together with the computational and communicational power, offer exciting new ways to ...
Ways of portraying science ideas on the internet and their interaction with science education
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)
In this work, Internet serves as a field of research for the study of the various ways of visual representation on several scientific areas. The variety of sources on the Internet allows the detection of alternative ways ...