Designers of computer-based instruction (CBI) and web-based instruction (WBI) need approaches that support the creation of products that are effective, efficient, and appealing. In order to achieve these product qualities, early CBI researchers pursued goals of adaptivity, generativity, and scalability (Stolurow, 1969; Suppes, 1969). Researchers also felt that computerizing instruction would al...

This paper presents the outcome of the first stage of the ongoing research that deals with the education of children with cerebral palsy using the adaptive hypermedia courseware. Teachers can use software as an interactive multimedia designed unit of instruction to supplement traditional education teaching methods. This requirement acquires even greater significance in smaller non-English speak...

This paper discusses the design and the development of the multilingual e-learning materials covering 17 different languages. The project is now being carried out by the Graduate School of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) under the auspices of Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The system covers four modules such as pronunciation, dialogue, grammar...

This paper is devoted to scenario development methodology for planning and management of business simulation games. Nowadays the high efficiency of simulation games as a training method is obvious. Requirements to this kind of training are increasing. Modern computer technologies allow developing complex simulation games that are close to real life conditions. Generation of game scenarios is no...

It is believed that the communicative language teaching approach (abbreviated as CLTA) is one of the most effective methods to keep away from the weaknesses of the traditional English teaching method in developing students’ communicative ability. Using games, which is communicative in essence, are often considered effective in developing students’ communicative ability. In order to help English...

because of its widespread needs in different scientific fields, statistics and probability theory have gained great importance and medical students as well as students of other medically related disciplines including nursing need to use them especially in their research projects in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate schools. this article deals with the question of finding the most effecti...

E-learning nowadays plays an important role in teaching because it is oriented toward the use of information and communication technologies that have become a part of the everyday life and day-to-day business. E-learning contributes to traditional teaching methods and provides many advantages to society and citizens. The main goal of the chapter is to explore e-learning use in developing countr...

different teaching methods favoured in the same medical school by successive staffs. The mark left by the teacher upon the student body has been studied with particular care by the authors, as also the changing balance between research and teaching programmes. For those unfamiliar with certain links between European and American pharmacology in the last century and the role played in recent yea...

Surgical simulation for medical education is increasingly perceived as a valuable addition to traditional teaching methods. Simulators provide a structured learning experience, permitting practice without danger to patients, and simulators facilitate the teaching of rare or unusual cases. Simulators can also be used to provide an objective assessment of skills. This paper is a survey of current...

The Java Programming Language is now very well established and is frequently the first Object-Oriented Language that is taught to students. This paper discusses the results of a wide-ranging survey conducted by the authors to help identify aspects of the language that students perceive to be most difficult. It also reports on the teaching methods and other resources that students find most effe...