Early education is a key element for the future success of students in the education system. This work analyzes the feasibility of using augmented reality contents with preschool students (four and five years old) as a tool for improving their learning process. A quasi experimental design based on a nonequivalent groups posttest-only design was used. A didactic unit has been developed around th...

In this paper we describe the aims and requirements of a project devoted to designing and developing Open Source didactic Software (SW) for children in the autism disorder spectrum, conforming to the Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) learning technique. In this context, participatory design with therapists and child’s parents is necessary to ensure a usable product that responds to these childre...

In this paper we present a multi-user hypertextual glossary prototype which can improve the learning of a group (classroom) of university students in a multimedia environment. The glossary prototype has been designed to solve the typical problems encountered when using traditional electronic and printed glossaries: the authoring problem, the loss of reading context, the fact that glossaries are...

This article presents a novel educational software package which develops an Interactive Didactic Application (IDA) created by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and which contains the essentials of textile design. It is an open application which uses a database in ASCII format. The principal elements of this database are lists of whole numbers structured according to indexed colors...

: Maternal parenting behaviors during a mother–infant play interaction were examined in a sample of 160 low-income mothers and their 15-month-old infants. Maternal responsive/didactic, intrusive, and negative behaviors were coded from videotapes and examined in relation to mothers’ age, marital status, stressful life events, and depressive symptoms, and infants’ cognitive scores at 15 and 25 mo...

The research that we propose in this article is placed within a didactic framework for the analysis of ordinary classroom practices. It seeks to understand and then compare the modalities for productive disciplinary engagement of students in the teaching-learning process in two different institutions in the course of physical education lessons in Tunisia. To this effect, we rely on two theoreti...

BACKGROUND The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that topical fluoride application may prevent early childhood caries in high-risk populations. Yet, there are few published descriptions of caries prevention curricula for primary care residents. METHODS In 2003, the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Family Practice Residency hired a dentist and a hygienist to develop and implement a did...

Consumers require personal firewalls that are highly secure, easy to use, configurable and up­to­date with the latest signatures to detect malicious network activity. Robustness tests were performed on a selection of the ten most popular firewalls by market share. The test system used was a vanilla installation of Windows XP with SP2 and all the most recent updates and patches. Each firewall wa...

Didactic meta-programming is an answer to the need of rational introducing hypermedia, as part of information technologies, to didactic processes. A thorough analysis explaining the causes of traditional methods failures in a programmed training is needed to move beyond technological (equipment) school modernization expressed, at most, by well-equipped computer rooms with Internet access and mu...

In this paper we will discuss the nature of a curriculum in Help Systems, how it can be used to guide users in opportunistic coaching, and, most importantly, how it can be generated automatically for EuroHelp domain models that do not provide such a didactic view. In EuroHelp, a shell for building Intelligent Help Systems for computer applications, curricula take the form of a network of Didact...