Design/build: A Relevant Pedagogy for Architecture Education

Designing a Cultural Efficiency Model for Elementary School Teachers based on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Being an efficient educator is a virtue that includes the notion of cultural efficiency as well. To assess the extent to which Iranian teachers/educators are culturally efficient a model is needed by which different components of this construct are clearly defined. To design such a model a group of ten elementary school teachers with maximum cultural diversity was selected and then asked to wri...

Special Issue—Pedagogy for Education for Sustainability in Higher Education

Three-dimensional Pedagogy for Business It Education

Information technology (IT) is developing at a blistering pace and the pedagogical methods used to teach it are evolving as well. There have been many developments in academia to accommodate the growing reliance on IT. Distance learning and web-based instruction are the latest attempts to meld traditional methods with the new methods emerging today. This subject is of great concern not only bec...

DRAFT PIAVEE – A Pedagogy-Independent Education Environment

We describe PIAVEE (Platform Independent Agentbased Virtual Educational Environment), which has been conceptualized around having a lightweight, flexible environment that utilizes educational objects or resources held in a virtual data base and supported by an intelligent delivery system. The concept is being implemented using an evolutionary approach, where the initial focus is upon the virtua...

Does Online Education Need a Special Pedagogy?

The extensive integration of information technologies in teaching and learning in the 21st century has initiated a dramatic change of educational paradigm. To a large extent this change was caused by the online education. A rapid growth of online university programs raises a number of new pedagogical, psychological and social issues. Online learning creates a learning environment that, compared...