Motivational scaffolding is of key importance in online learning since learners are isolated alone. Recently, this need has doubled with the educational disruption because COVID-19 pandemic, which moved classroom to entirely online. However, little research been particularly conducted explore perceptions before and during pandemic. Therefore, study empirically investigated 26 university-level T...

Supporting teachers to represent their teaching ideas has attracted researchers’ interest in developing digital learning design tools that provide some form of guidance around the practice a Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) environment. This paper reports on study teacher education context utilising WebCollage as tool. The research focuses teachers’ needs determining resources and technologie...

Although modeling instruction has been identified as a productive professional development activity that coaches can use with teachers in their classrooms, are provided little guidance regarding how to support teacher learning they model mathematics instruction. While previous research points the importance of providing examples high-quality through coach’s model, may need additional unfolds ma...

There is wide agreement on the importance of scaffolding for student learning. Yet, models of individual and face-to-face scaffolding are not necessarily applicable to educational settings in which a group of learners is pursuing a process of inquiry mediated by technology. The scaffolding needed for such a process may be examined from three perspectives: the organisation of activities, the aff...

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...

Assembly of certain classes of bacterial and animal viruses requires the transient presence of molecules known as scaffolding proteins, which are essential for the assembly of the precursor procapsid. To assemble a procapsid of the proper size, each viral coat subunit must adopt the correct quasiequivalent conformation from several possible choices, depending upon the T number of the capsid. In...

This study examined and organised comments made by teachers participating in a variety of learning communities in order to sort a list of recommendations for future development of webbased teachers’ training taking into consideration possible trajectories of web powerful technological innovations. The comments are organised under a theoretical framework of professional scaffolding.

It is well known that introductory physics students often have alternative conceptions that are inconsistent with established physical principles and concepts. Invoking alternative conceptions in the quantitative problem-solving process can derail the entire process. In order to help students solve quantitative problems involving strong alternative conceptions correctly, appropriate scaffolding...