An electrical test performing involves high risk therefore utility companies require high qualified electricians. Traditionally, training on electrical tests has been based on classroom courses; and recently it has been supported by virtual reality systems. These systems have improved training and reduced training time. However the training still depends on courses schedule and instructors, and...

Incorporating Work Integrated Learning (WIL) into business curriculum has now become a popular way of improving university graduates’ employability. This study provides empirical evidence of the effect of an WIL program designed and implemented through a project on students’ self-efficacy within an accounting information systems course in an Australian business school. Data from a questionnaire...

The aim of this study is to design and develop an interaction model to perform the collaborative teaching process among pedagogical agents. A pedagogical agent has a role in a situation of the teaching process. However, the role is not fixed, but dynamically changed according to the learner's understanding. So, in this paper, we have analyzed the collaborative teaching process between one learn...

The need for change and development in pedagogical approaches in infant classes in Ireland is clearly indicated by a number of recent reports. These reports, reviewed here, present a picture of pedagogy in infant classes as overly formal, insufficiently interactive and incoherent with current knowledge about learning in early childhood. Future developments in early childhood pedagogy will need ...

Despite attempts to encourage greater teacher collegiality, the privacy of the classroom persists. Online communication tools offer opportunities for teachers to overcome these boundaries in professional communities of practice. This study of two cohorts of preservice teachers sought to determine if they were successful in building community in class and online and to examine factors in the too...

The paper describes a pilot study on the use of computer algebra at upper secondary level. A symbolic calculator was introduced in a pre-examination class studying for advanced pre-university mathematics. With the theoretical framework of Realistic Mathematics Education and Developmental Research as a background, the study focused on the identification of obstacles that students encountered whi...

Is it possible to teach a learner to become a better question asker in as little as 25 minutes? It is well documented that the ideal scenario of a curious question asker does not match reality. Students are unspectacular at monitoring their own knowledge deficits and their question generation is both infrequent and unsophisticated. Given that many teachers and school districts do not have the r...

Background: One of the ways for effective communication between learners and instructional multimedia content in mobile learning systems is taking advantage of characters or pedagogical agents. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of the levels of realism in mobile-based pedagogical agents on health e-learning. Methods: The s...

Animated agents have been found to positively impact student learning and/or perceptions within computer-based learning environments. However, there is little research on the agent characteristics preferred by K-12 students. The main purpos e of this study was to examine student preferences for individual pedagogical agents and their preferences for various agent chara cteristics. Student prefe...

Instructional systems are computer programs that provide educational support to individual learners. One such system is the intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). ITSs center on individualized learning and do not consider the situation where learners can learn beyond the teacherlearner relationship. Several learning companion systems (LCS) were implemented to create social learning environments. ...