Researchers have debated whether instructional-based teaching or exploration-based active learning is better for decades with unsatisfying results. A main obstacle is the difficulty in precisely controlling and characterizing the pedagogical methods used and the learning conditions in empirical studies. To address this, we leveraged existing computational models of teaching and active learning ...

This chapter presents the conceptual and theoretical aspects of emerging pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Communities (NKCs). The author looks into the notions of networked knowledge communities and emerging pedagogies by analyzing their basic concepts, structures, and components. Then, the chapter explores the possibilities of emerging pedagogies as a concept and as a practice in the cont...

Concept map is a powerful tool to achieve meaningful learning. In order to improve the capabilities of traditional classroom response systems to foster students’ higher-order thinking, in this study we propose an innovative Concept Map based Classroom Response System characterized by interactivity, diagnosticity and enjoyment, and empirically evaluate its effectiveness on improving students' co...

In this paper, we discuss lessons learned from an evaluation of the EACoach, an Intelligent Tutoring System that aims to foster meta-cognitive skills during analogical problem solving. The evaluation of the EA-Coach demonstrated that overall, it is effective in its pedagogical approach, but that there are instances where its scaffolding for meta-cognition is too subtle. We discuss implications ...

Wikis are promoted as collaborative writing tools that allow students to transform a text into a collective document by information sharing and group reflection. However, despite the promising collaborative capabilities of wikis, their pedagogical value regarding collaborative writing is still questionable. Wiki alone cannot make collaborative writing happen, and students do not automatically b...

With the advent of a relatively newly recognized social phenomenon, human trafficking, there are dozens of agencies providing awareness and training materials on the subject. Many of these materials are available online through these agencies and are free to use. However, little is known about the effectiveness of these training and public-awareness materials, their pedagogical application, or ...

Education is one of the most relevant domains in which the integration of emerging technologies such as multimedia, groupware, and the Internet, is enabling significant innovations. A prerequisite for this development are appropriate frameworks to guide education professionals in exploiting advanced information and communication technologies to significantly enhance the quality and efficiency o...

This paper describes the design and empirical validation of three distinct pedagogical agent roles (Expert, Motivator, and Mentor) for college students within the MIMIC (Multiple Intelligent Mentors Instructing Collaboratively) agent-based research environment. The pedagogical agent roles were operationalized by image, animation, affect, voice, and dialogue and were developed in Poser 4 and imp...

This paper examines the impact of a series of design changes to an online mathematics education course in terms of transactional distance between learner and teachers, pre-service education students’ attitudes towards mathematics, and their development of mathematical pedagogical knowledge. Transactional distance theory (TDT) was utilised to investigate and describe the interactions among cours...

This paper, based on the results of a multi-country study, emphasises on the development and growth of a culture specific and customized entrepreneurship education within universities so as to make them powerful engines of economic development. Taking the example of the University of the South Pacific (covering 12 Pacific Island Countries having different languages and diverse cultures), a few ...