Intercultural competence in foreign language teaching has gained importance recent times. Although current work highlighted the advantages of content and integrated learning (CLIL) for intercultural development, little is known about its potential literature secondary schools. Treating itself as an art form, aim this article to formulate research-based design principles literary pedagogy (IILP)...

BACKGROUND Continuous training of teachers, in discipline and pedagogical topics, is a key step to improve the quality of educational processes. AIM To report the perception of Chilean teachers of undergraduate health care programs, about continuous training activities. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty teachers working at different undergraduate health care programs in Chile were interviewed. Ma...

This article presents a reflection about the way in which recent advances in pedagogy and technology could be harnessed to increase the access to Cultural Heritage. This would happen by using it as a resource for mobile learning in seemingly unrelated areas, such as economics, engineering, science and languages. The ‘long-tail effect’ of such contextualized content driven social interactions wo...

We present an experience report detailing the use of games as a means of teaching empirical evaluation of user interfaces. We discuss the implementation of a similar course project structures in an engineering course on human-computer interaction (HCI) and a humanities course on game design. Both courses featured a milestone-driven, iterative approach to student projects, which provided student...

Work organisations face demanding challenges, such as expectations to be creative, innovative, agile, competitive, efficient and adept at using employees’ knowledge while understanding and taking care of employees’ wellbeing. Organisations are actively implementing new ICT systems and environments because they seem to increase the effectiveness of interaction and collaboration, workplace learni...

Education, by regarding the social and critical elements can be traced back to the 20th century. Critical pedagogy was started out of the need of reforming education in a way that it would acknowledge the influence of the present social and political elements in each and every educational context. Some critical theorists applied ideas in critical theories to education in the society....

Speakers who engage in the joint activity of a conversation tend to align their utterances with those of their interlocutors by reusing, reinterpreting, hence playing with co-present linguistic material. One dimension of alignment is the activation of resonance, as recently developed within the model of ‘dialogic syntax’ (Du Bois, 2001). When speakers establish cross-turn parallelisms in the fo...