With the development of research on educational psychology and foreign language teaching and learning, one of the most controversial concepts in educational psychology might be the issues related to the students’ achievement goal orientations. Regarding the goals that students adopt which might influence their academic success and failure, this study was undertaken to determine whether gender a...

If games are to be used to reform educational practice then there needs to be a better understanding of how they motivate learners. Previous research on the classic intrinsic vs. extrinsic model of motivation is reviewed. Achievement Goal theory is suggested as a way to further unpack how games can affect motivations to learn, particularly in the use of badge or achievement systems. The Fosteri...

experiences make their contribution. Thus, the goal of Microworlds are educational environments intended to our work is to produce a process model account of support the student in the active exploration of a education in microworlds. The research described here subject-matter domain. We present preliminary work is preliminary, demonstrating a problem-solving whose goal is to attain a better un...

The paper discusses the problems of applying adaptive hypermedia techniques, namely adaptive navigation support in Web-based educational courseware. Adaptive navigation support techniques provide support mechanisms, which are tailored to accommodate the current knowledge, background and learning goal of an individual user. Web-based education with adaptive guidance is a way to maximize educatio...

The goal of educational methods is to allow the pupil the acquisition of knowledge. Even so, the way in which this aim is pursued originates four different currents of methods sorted by two criteria: (1) who leads the educational process and (2) requirement of pupil physical attendance. Regarding the former criterion, the process may be conducted either by the teacher—Teaching-Oriented Process—...

Many of software designers of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environment have been suffering with complex and subtle educational requirements offered by clients. One of major causes of the problem they face is the lack of shared understanding of collaborative learning. We do not know what design rationale of CSCL environment is and even do not have common vocabulary to describ...