Computer Based Learning in Science (CBLIS): Recent submissions
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Teaching and learning numerical calculus and Its applications with can
(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?
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Information and communication technology; First-aid to the private tutoring problem?
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)In the past pupils at the elementary and high schools were only complaining about homework. Nowadays they must be rightfully complaining about private tutoring. Private tutoring has been seen by many as the plague of our ... -
Integrating information and communication Technology into teaching and learning - a Second level course for prospective teachers
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)Commonly, introductory-level courses on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for prospective teachers focus on the development of knowledge and skill with the use of technology tools. These types of courses are ... -
Regrex: a java-based package for teaching and active learning in regression
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)REGREX is a software system designed to improve teaching and learning some concepts in regression. Even though there is a lot of commercial statistical software we have chosen to develop this computerized package, in order ... -
Cobbalt “multimedia self-learning telecommunications on internet”
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)E-learning represents in our times a very important technology for learning/teaching without having many of the constraints of the classical methods. COBBALT is a multimedia Web based application for self-learning ... -
Graphical representation of data: the effect of the use of dynamical statistics technological tool
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)In response to calls for reform an innovative course which has at its core element a dynamical statistical software package, Fathom, was developed as an alternative approach to traditional introductory statistics in college. ... -
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 ... -
Experience with teaching of commercial applications in logistics
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)The syllabus of the Transport Engineering and Logistics Diploma Course at the University of Applied Sciences at Bremerhaven (Hochschule Bremerhaven), Germany, contains a subject called Data Processing Systems in the Transport ...
