Computer models as social learning tools in participatory integrated assessment

Web Based Integrated Models for Participatory Planning

The present paper focuses on the development of an integrated assessment model that embeds the web dimension and aims at increasing awareness in society, especially on environmental issues. The model incorporates features that make it capable of promoting participatory planning procedures in dealing with environmental problems. The first part of the paper presents the notion of both Integrated ...

Students' Attitudes Towards Animated Demonstrations as Computer Learning Tools

Animated demonstrations are increasingly used for presenting the functionality of various computer applications. Nevertheless, our understanding of whether and how students integrate this technology into their learning strategies remains limited. Although, several studies have examined animated demonstrations’ learning efficiency, this study aims at investigating users’ initial attitudes toward...

Tools for participatory analysis of poverty, social exclusion and vulnerability

Participatory approaches have been broadly advocated in development policy as means of enabling local people to share and analyse their conditions and experiences (See for example Chambers 1994; Leavy and Howard, et al. 2013). This report identifies and reviews a selection of participatory tools that have been used in micro-level poverty, social exclusion and vulnerability analysis. The approac...

Integrated Assessment Models

Evaluating Computer Programs: Tools and Assessment

One goal of this paper is to review efforts that attempt to provide tools for evaluating computer programs in general and educational computer programs in particular. These tools include open tools and closed tools in the form of ‘forms’ which in turn include an online form which gives the score for the computer program which you evaluate, depending on your own evaluation. Another goal is to re...