Much effort has been and is being devoted to the reform of the teaching of physics. This has led to many new and imaginative approaches to the delivery of the course material, but a perusal of today’s Introductory Physics textbooks indicates that their basic structure has changed little in over fifty years. A radical restructuring is proposed that begins with a modern atomic picture rather than...

All communication is inherently multimodal, and understandings of science need to be multidimensional. The interactive whiteboard offers a range of potential benefits to the primary science classroom in terms of relative ease of integration of a number of presentational and ICT functions, which taken together offer new opportunities for fostering multifaceted pedagogic strategies. In this case ...

Science teachers can lack pedagogic skill and confidence in handling multifaceted socio-scientific issues. This project has explored the development, implementation and evaluation of a ‘cross-curricular’ day as a suitable vehicle in 8 different schools for both engaging 14-16 year old pupils in active consideration of social aspects of genetics and enabling science and humanities teachers to co...

This paper advances conceptual tentative bases for understanding workplace pedagogic practices. It proposes that whether arising through everyday work activities or guided learning in workplaces, learning is shaped by workplace participatory practices. This learning is held to be co-participative: the reciprocal process of how the workplace affords participation and therefore learning, and how ...

This paper identifies computational challenges in restructuring encyclopedic resources (like Wikipedia or thesauri) to reorder concepts with the goal of helping learners navigate through a concept network without getting trapped in circular dependencies between concepts. We present approaches that can help content authors identify regions in the concept network, that after editing, would have m...

The purpose of this study was to find out students' math anxiety levels and compare between semesters. This research conducted because the impact online lectures during pandemic era, namely decrease in student achievement all mathematics courses. Primary School Teacher Education Study Program Tribuana Kalabahi University. method used is a quantitative with comparative approach. subjects were 15...

In 2002, the Brazilian Ministry of Education approved the official curricular guidelines for undergraduate courses in Brazil to be adopted by the nation's 188 dental schools. In 2005-06, the Brazilian Dental Education Association (BDEA) promoted workshops in forty-eight of the schools to verify the degree of transformation of the curriculum based on these guidelines. Among the areas analyzed we...

Nontraditional manufacturing (NTM) is becoming increasingly important in modern engineering. Therefore, it is important to develop up-to-date pedagogic materials for the area. This paper reports collaborative efforts among three universities in such a development sponsored by National Science Foundation of USA. The features of the development include systematic introduction, recent research res...

Elements of the work of Basil Bernstein’s (Bernstein, 1996, 2000) are used in this paper to analyse the national structure and policy of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia. The analysis is part of work towards a Doctor of Education degree at Monash University which aims to investigate the impact of online technology on the teaching practice of teachers employed in Technical an...

The last several decades have seen a growing trend in incorporating pedagogic conversational agents in interactive learning environments. Software systems have increasingly integrated intelligent virtual agents that can interact with students in natural language to fulfill specific tasks such as reviewing content or providing tutor training. The use of an agent-based approach in education has s...