Our research team evaluated 18 months of National Science Foundation (NSF) program announcements and awarded programs to discern the amount and type of emphasis placed upon educational technologies. NSF issued 65 solicitations for proposals, with 53.8% calling for educational technology components. A sampling of 366 of the 1,180 funded projects showed that 34.7% included educational technology....

The aim of this study was to investigate educational philosophy and philosophical mindedness of Iranian physical education and sports science lecturers (state-run Universities and Islamic Azad Universities). 150 questionnaires were randomly distributed among them, 123 filled questionnaires returned and finally 98 were confirmed. Two major instruments of Philosophy Preference Assessment (PPA) ...

Introduction. Creativity is the production of the new, original, unique, and divergent prod

Algorithm visualizations have been used a lot in computer science to help students understand abstract concepts such as data structures and algorithms (DSA). The most widely used algorithm visualization systems are all based on Java and, alas, are not usable on mobile devices. We tackled this problem by designing a set of assignments for mobile learning of an important concept in DSA, namely bi...

introduction: web citations (urls) are at risk of decay and can be easily fade because of the variable and unstable nature of the internet. so, the purpose of this research was to assess web citation accessibility and decay of articles published in journal of the medical library association (jmla). methods: in this applied– descriptive study, jmla articles (231) in a seven year period (from 200...

This paper describes an extractive summarizer for educational science content called COGENT. COGENT extends MEAD based on strategies elicited from an empirical study with domain and instructional experts. COGENT implements a hybrid approach integrating both domain independent sentence scoring features and domain-aware features. Initial evaluation results indicate that COGENT outperforms existin...

This study was carried out in response to the announcement of the reversal of the ETeMS policy (English in the Teaching of Mathematics and Science) which had been practiced by teachers in Malaysia since 2003. The Ministry of Education took a drastic approach in gradually halting this controversial policy for several related reasons, namely the poor performance of students and teachers in applyi...