Research and experience suggest that structured reflections and metacognitive thinking positively influence prospective teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and beliefs and attitudes (dispositions) about mathematics and science learning and teaching. To provide a motivating learning environment for such activities, prospective teachers from different educational cultures will be paire...

Lack of quality textbooks and good educational resources is a wellknown problem in developing regions. In this paper, we describe the design of CollectiveTeach, a web platform that aims to integrate rich educational content into an inquiry-based framework, viz. the 5E learning model, for generating web-annotated lesson plans for school and college teachers in developing countries. Given the wea...

a community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. this study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. to this end, the study examined how learning situations in two ...

abstract: the aim of this research is to study factors affecting teachers’ job satisfaction in agricultural applied scientific centers in tehran and alborz provinces. research population included all the teachers in the mentioned centers (n=156), 72 of them were selected by stratified random sampling method. the main tool for data collection was a questionnaire whose content validity and reliab...

A well-known challenge of adaptive educational systems is the need to develop intelligent content, which is very time and expertise consuming. In traditional approaches a teacher is kept at a distance from intelligent authoring. This paper advocates the involvement of teachers in creating intelligent content. We are presenting an approach to the development of intelligent content as well as an ...

Efforts to improve the educational process must focus on those most responsible for implementing it: the teachers. It is with them in mind that we propose a face-to-face computersupported collaborative learning system that uses wirelessly networked hand-held computers to create an environment for helping students assimilate and transfer educational content. Two applications of this system are p...

Research on teachers’ (personal) theories and beliefs and their (practical) knowledge derived from experience, whether held implicitly or stated explicitly as their personal practical theories (PPTs), indicates that such beliefs can influence teachers’ classroom practices and, therefore, the opportunities that their students have for learning. This study uses a content analysis of 472 self-repo...

In 2002 the Virtual Medical Campus Graz (VMC), the eLearning portal of the Medical University of Graz (MUG), was launched. Since 1 Oct 2010 the primary learning management system is VMC/Moodle. It currently holds more than 10,600 unique learning objects, and serves more than 4,300 students from three studies. We introduce the concept and its technical implementation of virtual lessons within th...

Under a grant to improve outcomes for students who are deaf or hard of hearing awarded to the Association of College Educators--Deaf/Hard of Hearing, a team identified content that all teachers of students who are deaf and hard of hearing must understand and be able to teach. Also identified were 20 practices associated with content standards (10 each, literacy and science/mathematics). Thirty-...