We report on focus group feedback regarding the services provided by existing education-related Digital Libraries (DL). Participants provided insight into how they seek educational resources online, and what they perceive to be the shortcomings of existing educational DLs. Along with useful content, social interactions were viewed as important supplements for educational DLs. Such interactions ...

Adventure learning (AL) is a hybrid distance education approach that provides students with opportunities to explore real-world issues through authentic learning experiences within collaborative learning environments. Within hybrid environments, designers habitually attempt to replicate traditional classroom pedagogy resulting in experiences that do not support or afford meaningful collaboratio...

The design of educational software interfaces is a complex task, given its high domain dependency and multidisciplinary nature. It requires that teachers’ knowledge and pedagogical beliefs be incorporated into the interface, posing a challenge to both teachers and designers, as they have to act as partners from the earliest phases of the process, sharing their knowledge. The present work invest...

The problem of sharing heterogeneous database for accessing different educational resources has to be considered. The study is carried out to realize the heterogeneous database sharing for educational resources using multi-media educational resources as the researching object. XML is applied as middleware for the practical requirements of education. The study has important practical significanc...

This article analyses the professional identities of nine women academics from different universities and Latin American countries in their relationship with open education (OE) production educational resources (OERs) for teaching, as a significant key to understand meaning being an academic today social economic context such one, perspectives this contributes innovation. It arises need deepen ...

This discussion of the integration of computers into the curriculum begins by r "viewing the results of several surveys conducted in the Netherlands and the United States which provide insight into the problems encountered by schools and teachers when introducing computers in education. Case studies of three secondary and two elementary schools in the Netherlands are then presented. The discuss...

Computer games are very popular among children and adolescents. In this respect, they could be exploited by educational software designers to render educational software more attractive and motivating. However, it remains to be explored what the educational scope of educational software games is. In this paper, we explore several issues concerning the educational effectiveness, appeal and scope...

Computer games are very popular among children and adolescents. In this respect, they could be exploited by educational software designers to render educational software more attractive and motivating. However, it remains to be explored what the educational scope of educational software games is. In this paper, we explore several issues concerning the educational effectiveness, appeal and scope...

Systems that filter web search results to return open educational resources need evaluation. The Cranfield method, which is widely used in information retrieval evaluation, can be used as the basis of a model for evaluating such systems. The Cranfield method requires a collection of resources with associated judgments. In this paper, we describe an experiment to collect judgments of whether ope...