The area of software applications for teaching (teaching applications for short), whether for distance teaching or for traditional presence teaching, is characterized by a multitude of different requirements and expectations. A corresponding multitude of different teaching applications have been and continue to be implemented, most of them sharing parts of their functionalities that tend to be ...

INTRODUCTION The University of Florida (UF) has 13 satellite programs where various undergraduate degrees are offered in the agricultural fi elds. The development of these programs is part of an overall strategy to reach students who are place-bound due to jobs, families, or other community responsibilities. While development of degree programs at off campus research and education centers does ...

Many factors influence teaching nowadays. Numbers of students are increasing, some students pay for studies and require more flexible teaching, more students have access to Internet, the learning material is changing rapidly (especially of subjects, related to information technologies), publishing industry is slow and expensive. All that stimulates usage of modern technologies in education. Vir...

The present paper surveys recent developments in algorithmic teaching. First, the traditional teaching dimension model is recalled. Starting from the observation that the teaching dimension model sometimes leads to counterintuitive results, recently developed approaches are presented. Here, main emphasis is put on the following aspects derived from human teaching/learning behavior: the order in...

We propose and study a new intelligent teaching paradigm called active teaching in this paper. In contrast to active learning, we assume that the learner can only passively conduct inductive learning from the given examples, but the teacher (oracle) can actively provide “good” examples to the learner, in order to speed up the teaching (learning) process. We establish the framework with four spe...

An active learning approach was developed and implemented to address inherent difficulties in teaching subjects in engineering dynamics. A variety of active learning exercises have been introduced to replace a portion of traditional lecture presentations. Demonstrations sessions involving student participation in simulations using MECHANICA_Motion, physical models and Videos have been introduce...

We have implemented an instructional design for teaching mechanics that combines a Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environment with traditional instruction. We detected superior performance compared with traditional teaching alone and found evidence in favor of the position that certain kinds of epistemological beliefs held by students can inhibit the full realization of CSCL e...

Teaching involves a search for meaning in the world. Teaching is a life project, a calling, a vocation that is an organizing center of all other activities. Teaching is past and future as well as present, it is background as well as foreground, it is depth as well as surface. Teaching is pain and humor, joy and anger, dreariness and epiphany. Teaching is world building, it is architecture and d...

With the development of education informationalization, many teaching application based on multimedia and network are gradually penetrated into all kinds of education processes and the teaching activities which formed a huge challenge to traditional education mode . But the immaturity of the multimedia and network teaching which developed in recent decades lead to some practical problems. This ...