since ‘the development of whole person’ was brought to the focus of attention by humanist psychologists as a central concern in educational theory, affective variables have been assumed to have a significant share in the learning process that goes on in a pedagogical setting. meanwhile, the process of second language development, because of the very nature of language as a vehicle for communica...

Our project involves the development of a novel web-based adaptive learning system to improve student mastery of digital logic concepts while considering the demographics of the individual student. Adaptive learning is a pedagogical approach that dynamically alters the difficulty of content based on an ongoing assessment of the student’s capability. This technique is becoming more popular with ...

The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is an open educational resources project at Carnegie Mellon University that began in 2002 with a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. OLI creates web-based courses that are designed so that students can learn effectively without an instructor. In addition, the courses are often used by instructors to support and complement face-to-face classroo...

The Teacher Education Institutions plays a crucial role in improving the system of education by training, educating and inspiring the future student teachers. A teacher requires understanding and mastering of skills to make his classroom interactive. For this purpose the exercise of instructional designing or lesson planning becomes very essential. Although innovative lesson plans based on beha...

This study examined the perceptions of headteachers, teachers, and learners regarding instructional effectiveness University Cape Coast distance trained teachers. The convergent parallel mixed-method design was employed to conduct study. Research participants comprising 25 667 138 were selected through purposive sampling, stratified random simple sampling techniques respectively. Mean standard ...

Traditional university instructional formats and methods are experimenting an increasing lack of effectiveness, mainly because student's lack of motivation. The NUCLEO e-learning system tries to approach the learning scenario to the engaging and immersive formats of the videogames. It provides a futurist scenario in which students (represented by avatars) have to collaborate to solve a learning...

This article describes the concurrent development of paper-based and e-book versions of a textbook and related instructional material used in an introductory-level financial accounting course. Break-even analysis is used to compare costs of the two media. A study conducted with 109 students is also used to evaluate the two media with respect to relative learning effectiveness and selected quali...

In this paper we evaluate the instructional effectiveness of tutorial dialogue agents in an exploratory learning setting. We hypothesize that the creative nature of an exploratory learning environment creates an opportunity for the benefits of tutorial dialogue to be more clearly evidenced than in previously published studies. In a previous study we showed an advantage for tutorial dialogue sup...