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Almost all college and university courses have integrated disciplines for the teaching of programming in their curricula. The importance of knowing “how to program” has contributed towards increasing private and public initiatives for the teaching of programming in different countries. Many of such initiatives include changes in the curriculum of primary and high schools, replacing disciplines by...
In this paper, we analyzed whether the ability of students to solve problems can be influenced by the implementation of Computational Thinking (CT) in the teaching of mathematics. In this sense, we performed a quasi-experiment with students in the Brazilian's Basic Education Regular System (particularly in a group of students around fifteen years old) comparing their performance after being trained...
Today it is already widely accepted that out of school education exceeds formal education in content and knowledge and that it is not a plus, but a necessity. However, unlike formal education, educators working in informal settings are often volunteers or/and they do those activities on top of their daily jobs. The research questions we pose here are (i) what motivates people to volunteer in K-12...
The development and innovative application of digital research methods in humanities disciplines, characterised as Digital Humanities or e-Humanities, is an established feature of the e-Science and e-Research landscape. Typically these digital methods enable existing research questions to be tackled in new ways, at a scale and speed that transcend manual methods. In this paper we present a different...
This paper presents results of an exploratory study that examined the effects of different types of correctness feedback on children's actual and perceived performance with a math app. In the study, forty-flve grade-2 students solved easy, moderate, and hard drill questions with a math app augmented with textual, icon, and emoticon correctness feedback. Results suggested that, for the most part, neither...
Several studies have shown the use of digital games in education and their contributions to the teaching-learning process. However, many of these educational games do not have mechanisms to monitor the learner's performance and/or to reconfigure the game to new situations. This article aims to present a digital game environment for support teaching mathematics, integrated with a management tool that...
This study focuses on the use of new technologies in the implementation of an inverted classroom pedagogy at the University of Oujda in Morocco for students enrolled in a course of Technology of Web of the faculty of science. It shows, in particular, that the flipped classroom method is more beneficial for students with academic difficulties, since their results show that they succeed better in the...
Calin: It started with my passion for mathematics. I grew up in communist Romania. The country was more or less closed to the outside world at that time. There was a shortage of food, gas, and electricity. There was no freedom of speech and basically no TV. There was one good thing though in Romania at that time: the rigorous, math-and science-oriented school system. With not much to do, studying...
The world of Higher Education (HE) uses ‘learning outcomes’ as the usual way of specifying what any particular educational activity is designed to do. They are outcome-based statements of the learning that is occurring in the programme. The learning outcome is also the basis upon which the ‘competence’ of the student is assessed. In technical subjects this assessment is relatively ‘hard’ in that the...
Music is filled with mathematical relations. When creating music, the composer must keep in mind the rhythm, the notes, and how well they ring with each other. Our aim was to design an application that teaches these relationships and allows users to compose their own songs using numbers. Our work follows the design science research method, and we have co-designed the application together with elementary...
Adaptive teaching consists in a teaching style aimed at overcoming inner differences among learners by providing them tailored ways to achieve outcomes according to their learning style, culture and needs. ICTs play an important role in supporting teachers with the adoption of adaptive strategies. Adaptive teaching acquires relevance in contexts of scholastic remediation and in reducing failures....
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have recently received a great deal of attention from educational organizations. The benefit of MOOCs is that they provide free access to education that could lower down the cost of education. A MOOC have potential to provide much more advantage to the students than a traditional online course. Every student has diverse learning needs and it would be beneficial...
This research aims to associate the gap of old tradition teaching and learning mathematics with the help of dynamic mathematical software. Also, enhancing the learning capabilities and interest of students by creating a platform of variations to teach mathematics based on existing world problems. To improve the discovery learning procedure by empowering both the teacher and learner to visualize and...
Within this paper, we consider recent developments in methods of research and consider the context of how students are introduced to this compared with late 20th Century methodologies. We compare these strategies and consider why changes of approach have occurred and what this means for the quality of research. Finally, we suggest two further routes that will help in this analysis which are likely...
With reference to rapid increment of hyper-urbanization and speedy declination of rural birthrate in the contemporary Taiwanese, a bulk of students in rural districts have gradually fallen off their educational resources that results in a majority of recruiting freshmen of top-ranking higher education institutes have come from urban regions. Under this most solemn the fewer newborns condition, “how...
The study presented in this paper aims to explore students' characteristics and to determine student groups based on their previous education and socio-demographic characteristics. Descriptive data mining method, cluster analysis, is applied in the analysis process. Data used in the research is collected among first, second and third year IT students. Research results indicate profile of successful...
In this study, we use a new proposed teaching framework to develop the Hamiltonian circuit learning games for the 7–9 grade high-school students. The framework is for enhancing learners' activities with learning reflxiveness. The design of these games is based on this framework to achieve the targeted learning outcomes. In recent years, the game-based learning is a very popular research topic. The...
Recent developments in Learning Analytics have attracted much attention from researchers and practitioners, as well as diverse stakeholders, in exploring the potential for Learning Analytics to enhance learning and teaching practices. Hence, this paper presents a literature review of the use of the Learning Analytics Intervention implemented in various educational institutions in order to improve...
In this paper, we extend previous work on the use of ontologies as a tool in teaching geometry. As ontologies gather the information in a well-organized form, where relations between geometrical objects are exposed and explained, we took advantage of the properties of the circle's central and inscribed angles, we connected them to the notion of the right angled triangle and created the liaison between...
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