Object-oriented software design is a kind of black-art that requires a combination of common sense, experience, good taste and the capability to look at a problem from different points of view. According to our experience, these abilities cannot be easily transferred to the students in a lecture. Taking ideas from the way software is designed in industry, according to agile methodologies, we ha...

The in-depth development of education reform makes more and enterprises units begin to seek comprehensive quality talents in line with the demand, tourism etiquette course, as a professional course management, has an important significance application-oriented school education. contextual teaching method can effectively improve students' ability apply etiquette, show artistry enliven classroom ...

The present study explored stu dents' use of boredom related coping strategies at trait and state levels. Two trait based dimensions of coping relevant to boredom were considered, namely approach versus avoidance oriented and co gnitively versus behaviorally oriented coping strategies. The two dimensions were assessed in a self report questionnaire administered to 537 grade 11 students (55.3% f...

Regarding the education of deaf students (in Brazil), three conditions have to be met in order to bring qualitative reasoning (QR) models into the classroom: (a) a bilingual education should be provided, the Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) being the first and Portuguese the second language; (b) in the absence of scientific vocabulary in LIBRAS, it has to be created; (c) given the aural impairm...

Many children spend more of their waking hours in classrooms than they do at home; within these settings they are exposed to experiences that for better or worse, intended and unintended, shape their development—they may learn to read, write, and think critically; they make friends and have to face the inevitable challenges of peer relationships; and they are oriented increasingly to become pro...

Introduction: Successful language comprehension in elementary school is a key predictor of long-term educational outcomes, and requires adequate skill in both narrative and expository genres (e.g. stories versus science/history material). Historically, expository comprehension has received lower attention in the classroom, resulting in a performance gap between expository and narrative in grade...

Educators are currently investing much effort into the conversion of their textbooks and lectures into hypertext documents. Within our KBS Virtual Classroom project, we have recently developed a data-base oriented method for systematically designing such hyperbooks. However, converting theoretical material into a hyperbook is only the first step towards a modern, project-oriented, computer-supp...