Occupational safety is a complex phenomenon. If occupational safety management is to be successful, both the systematic and the systemic aspects of safety need to be understood. System dynamics modelling appears to be an appropriate methodology for exploring the array of occupational safety strategies open to employers. This paper summarises the process of developing, then empirically testing a...

This paper examines teachers’ ‘practical theories’ concerning the contribution of ICT to teaching and learning, as they are elaborated and refined in action. The study arose from a collaborative programme of ten small-scale projects through which participating teacher-researchers aimed to develop a range of pedagogic strategies involving the use of computer-based information and communication t...

In this paper, the possibility of children studying by using an interactive learning technology called Pedagogic Conversational Agent is presented. The main benefit is that the agent is able to adapt the dialogue to each student and to provide automatic feedback. Moreover, according to Math teachers, in many cases students are unable to solve the problems even knowing the procedure to solve the...

The design of human settlements is a key factor for addressing carbon emissions, finite resource availability, ecological deterioration and climate change. The role of architectural education in promoting the principles and practices which address these issues is significant. New pedagogic paradigms are required to produce graduates endowed with holistic competences including environmental know...

The flipped classroom is an educational strategy about inverting the traditional use of in-class time for conducting lower-level learning activities and out-of-class time for conducting higher-level learning activities. Guided social inquiry learning (GSIL), which is a scaffolded constructivist pedagogic approach, has been conventionally adopted in learning and teaching of Liberal Studies (a “y...