Case-Based Group Learning Using Concept Maps to Achieve Multiple Educational Objectives and Behavioral Outcomes

the relationship between using language learning strategies, learners’ optimism, educational status, duration of learning and demotivation

with the growth of more humanistic approaches towards teaching foreign languages, more emphasis has been put on learners’ feelings, emotions and individual differences. one of the issues in teaching and learning english as a foreign language is demotivation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the components of language learning strategies, optimism, duration o...

Using Concept Maps for Evaluating Program Objectives

1 Jessica Gerchak, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Industrial Engineering, 1068 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 [email protected] 2 Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Industrial Engineering, 1048 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 [email protected] 3 Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh, School of Engineering, 323 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15...

Using a Group Support System to Meet Educational Objectives

This paper presents a WWW-based Group Support System (GSS) to facilitate the teaching/learning process. This paper also describes our experiences over four successive editions of a pilot course offered using the GSS. We show the methodologies used and draw some results, experiences and impressions from this experience. We further describe planned future research, including discussion of the pos...

A Modeling Language to Describe Reusable Learning Processes to Achieve Educational Objectives in Serious Games

Serious games combine motivational aspects of games with pedagogical approaches to enhance their players’ learning performance. A major challenge in serious game development is the proper alignment of concepts coming from the two domains, game development and pedagogy. As a consequence, creating successful serious games is difficult for single individuals only well versed in one domain, but not...

Concept maps and meaningful learning in medical education