One of the most important applications of Digital Libraries (DL) is learning. In order to enable the development of eLearning applications that easily exploit DL contents it is crucial to bridge the interoperability gap between DL and eLearning applications. For this purpose, a generic interoperability framework has been developed that could also be applied to other types of applications which ...

Modern learning environments would greatly benefit from a better management of two apparently conflicting goals. On the one hand, in order to support autonomous, self paced, and discovery oriented learning, learners must be offered access to a large amount of information and tools. On the other hand the quantity and variety of the information and tools provided should not overwhelm learners who...

The painful experiences of an adolescent boy treated in analytically oriented psychotherapy are used as a lens through which we can consider the effects of homophobia, their internalization, and their entanglement with intrapsychic processes. Controversies in the psychoanalytic literature on internalized homophobia are also considered. Homophobia within the developmental literature and the nasc...

This paper describes our experience with using hardware description languages (HDLs such as VHDL) in the sophomore level Computer Architecture course for Computer Science (CS) majors. In our approach, we leverage the students’ understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) to introduce programmatic specifications of computer components such as multiplexors, adders etc. Students will be expo...

Research and musical creation with gestural-oriented interfaces have recently seen a renewal of interest and activity at Ircam. In the course of several musical projects, issued either by from young composers enrolled in the Cursus of Composition and Computer Music or by guests artists, the Pedagogy and Creation departments of Ircam have proposed various solutions for gesture-controlled sound s...

The aim of this study was to analyze the views and conceptions shared by the graduate students who attended the Pedagogy and Didactics in Health Sciences Course, offered by the Graduate Programs at the UNIFESP. The methodological approach consisted of bibliographic research on the higher education teaching; documental analysis involving the national legislation for higher education, teaching an...

Despite widespread calls for reform in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education, effecting lasting change in instructor practice is challenging to achieve. This article describes the results of a 2-yr research study that involved efforts to develop the pedagogical expertise of a group of anatomy and physiology instructors at the college level. Data were collecte...

Technology proficiency has widely been considered a necessary quality of school teachers, yet how to help teachers develop this quality remains an unanswered question. While teacher education programs often offer one technology course as a solution to this issue, scholars have recently argued that such technical skill-oriented courses are not sufficient to develop preservice teachers’ ability t...

Research is being done within the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning community to investigate how to apply the approach of Problem Oriented Project Pedagogy in distance learning using groupware. Successful implementation of groupware in distributed collaborative settings is not without difficulties. Investigations of different problems are needed to find how to get distributed groups in ...