background and purpose: active learning, combined with computer-assisted instruction, can enhance medical students’ performance and learning. this article is an attempt to introduce a new web-based approach to information technology instruction for medical students. methods: eight topics were selected to be instructed in web-based workshops. phpbb forum was used for web-based collaborative lear...

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) provide students with activities to improve their learning (e.g., reading texts, watching videos or solving exercises). But VLEs usually also provide optional activities (e.g., changing an avatar profile or setting goals). Some of these have a connection with the learning process, but are not directly devoted to learning concepts (e.g., setting goals). Few w...

this study investigated the role of the principal in managing teaching and learning. it examined how and to whom principals distributed the management of teaching and learning.  it was found that participants thought principals could improve school effectiveness most by engaging in activities that develop a good climate and ensure appropriate resources are available for instruction. there is a ...

This paper review past and current research activity in the area of generalisation of spatial data and presents a new methodological framework for segmentation and generalisation of raster data. In order to overcome drawbacks associated with supervised classification and generalisation of raster data, an Interactive Automated Segmentation and Raster Generalisation Framework (IASRGF) was develop...

Sequential action makes up the bulk of human daily activity, and yet much remains unknown about how people learn such actions. In one motor learning paradigm, the serial reaction time (SRT) task, people are taught a consistent sequence of button presses by cueing them with the next target response. However, the SRT task only records keypress response times to a cued target, and thus it cannot r...

External representation is the use of the physical world for cognitive ends, the enlargement of the mechanisms of representation to include the actionperception cycle. It has recently been observed that such representation is pervasive in human activity in both pragmatic and more abstract tasks. It is argued here that by forcing an artificial learning system to off-load all of its representatio...