Browsing CBLIS Conference Proceedings 2003 Volume I: New Technologies and their applications in education by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A study of the pictorial representations of the phenomenon of friction on the internet
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)Τhe aim of this work is to study the ways in which a natural phenomenon of daily life, such as friction, is depicted on the Internet,. The Internet, apart from being an important source of information, can be developed so ... -
Epistemic perspective on a conceptual evolution in physics at the secondary level
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)The research deals with qualitative understanding of physics notions at the secondary level. It attempts to identify and to label, in the verbalizations of 12 to 16 year-old students, the tendencies that guide their cognitive ... -
Computer–aided genetics teaching
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)The main aim of the research was the attempt at finding the answer to the question regarding the influence of the way of realizing curriculum problems in genetics on the achievements of junior high school students in this ... -
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 ... -
Use of questionmark assessment software to improve learning and teaching
(Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)Computer aided assessment (CAA) using Questionmark Perception software can be used to enhance learning through the regular use of formative assessment. The range of question styles available within Perception provide good ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
