Currently virtual learning environments (VLEs) and learning objects (LOs) repositories are under active implementation into general education and vocational training system in Lithuania. The article aims to review LOs interoperability standards development tendencies as well as to compare VLEs under existing well-developed pedagogical and technical evaluation frameworks in order to suggest the ...

In this ever changing competitive global society, universities in China strive to achieve quality in the programs, courses, qualifications and services offered to their clients. This paper debunks that myth and argues that micro-teaching can be used as a tool to ensure quality of pre-service English teachers. The paper reviews relevant literature to support the experiences of the author and exp...

Pre-service primary (elementary) teachers’ mathematics anxiety affects their engagement with and future teaching of mathematics. The study measured the range of mathematics anxiety in 219 pre-service teachers starting a teacher education course in an Australian university. They responded to the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Scale (RMARS) and a set of demographic questions. Age differences in anxi...

We describe the main features of an in-service teacher training proposal aimed at helping the teachers to use logic as a means of encouraging students to develop valuable models of thinking, taking into account the evolution of common sense reasoning and the reasoning capabilities required by the complexity of global rationality. Referring to the situation in Italian schools, we firstly discuss...

National standards have arisen in recent years to address the process of preparing teachers to incorporate technology into education in effective and appropriate ways; both pre-service and inservice teacher education now commonly include technology components. This presentation will describe the ways in which one particular College of Education in an urban setting has chosen to include technolo...

The practical value and usefulness of IT-assisted instruction for Taiwanese preschool children are popular topics in academic and practical settings. The purpose of this study was to survey early childhood pre-service teachers’ attitudes regarding the workplace advantage of IT-related pedagogy and their learning intentions regarding IT-based applications for teacher education in Taiwan. The res...