Instructional objectives provide a student with a “blueprint” of what is considered important in a given course and create a common understanding between the teacher and student as to what information will be provided by the teacher as well as what is expected of the student. Thus, instructional objectives serve as the basis for a valid and purposeful evaluation of the instructional process and...

This paper examines the process of preparing and coordinating a group of graduate students to work with faculty in the development of online hybrid courses for the Post-Baccalaureate Certification in Secondary Education and the Master’s in Special Education programs at the College of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa. The analysis revealed several themes about the online course developme...

The Physics Teacher ◆ Vol. 49, February 2011 DOI: 10.1119/1.3543579 ment. In its original version, designed as a self-study online lesson for science teacher preparation, it focuses mostly on a conceptual approach to the study of lenses and how they form images. In addition, a step-by-step derivation of the thin lens equation is provided. In the following, we will describe the different element...

IMPORTANCE The governments of high-income countries and private organizations provide billions of dollars to developing countries for health. This type of development assistance can have a critical role in ensuring that life-saving health interventions reach populations in need. OBJECTIVES To identify the amount of development assistance that countries and organizations provided for health an...

This work presents an integer programming formulation for a variant of the Class-Teacher Timetabling problem, which considers the satisfaction of teacher preferences and also the proper distribution of lessons throughout the week. The formulation contains a very large number of variables and is enhanced by cuts. Therefore, a cut and column generation algorithm to solve its linear relaxation is ...

The use of response cards during whole-class English vocabulary instruction was evaluated. Five low-participating students were observed during hand-raising conditions and response-card conditions to observe the effects of response cards on student responding and test scores and teacher questions and feedback. Responding and test scores were higher for all targeted students in the response-card...

How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the notion of literacies which are bound to social practice, and adapting teaching practices which align these two perspectives. Literacy teacher traini...

Using an innovative method, a Single-Target Implicit Association Test (ST-IAT) was created to explore the implicit theories of intelligence among science and liberal arts teachers and their relationships with their gender. The results showed that for science teachers—especially for male teachers—there was a negative implicit association between “intelligence” and “modifiable” stimuli, whereas l...

This paper presents the system for automatic generation of IMS LD compliant E-Course from three components: machine readable explicit representation of instructional design, ontology of learning goals, and IMS Content Packaging compliant learning resources. For the explicit representation of instructional design, we have created a new domain-specific language named ELIDL which is aimed primaril...

Many Web-based educational applications are expected to be used by very different groups of users without the assistance of a human teacher. Accordingly there is a need for systems which can adapt to users with very different backgrounds, prior knowledge of the subject and learning goals. An electronic textbook is one of the most prominent varieties of Web-based educational systems. In this pap...