Recent calls for improvement in undergraduate education within STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines are hampered by the methods used to evaluate teaching effectiveness. Faculty members at research universities are commonly assessed and promoted mainly on the basis of research success. To improve the quality of undergraduate teaching across all disciplines, not on...

While video has long been used to capture microteaching episodes, illustrate classroom cases and practices, and to review teaching practices, recent developments in video annotation tools may help to extend and augment teacher selfreflection. Such tools make possible the documentation and support self-analysis using verifiable evidence as well as to examine changes in development over time. Vid...

This paper reports three normative models for project-based learning (PjBL) in university-industry relations in computing. The models are inspired by normative theories on business ethics, and are designated as archetypes that describe the objectives and responsibilities of parties in collaboration: 1) The Slaver model prescribes that a university should sell students as slaves for business and...

The initial training of quality teachers is seen as a key to improving the learning outcomes of students in Chile. The TYMMI project is one of the initiatives being developed to provide a space for simulation for teaching practices in immersive virtual environments in Second Life and Open Sim. Initial Teachers Training belong to the School of Education at the Universidad Católica de la Santísim...

Pedagogical patterns propose to take advantage of the expertise in teaching and learning practices, in an organized manner that can be easily reused by educators. In this paper, we propose a pedagogical pattern targeted to teaching programming in higher level courses in Computer Science. This pattern is centered on the presentation and discussion of good and bad examples of code produced by the...

Current studies on media tablets illustrated that mobile technology may improve learning when truly integrated into learning settings. The question remains what truly integrated means, how it might be operationalized. In a study of Scandinavian classrooms, the question was how teachers adopt and integrate media tablets in their teaching practices in order to provide learning opportunities for t...

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are web-based systems that allow instructors and/or students to share materials, submit and return assignments, and communicate online. In this study, we explored the uses and perceived benefits of using a LMS to support traditional classroom teaching as reported by instructors and students at a large American Midwestern university. We examined two years of sur...

The integration of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) into teaching practices has the potential to improve both teaching and learning outcomes. Governments and educational authorities worldwide are increasingly investing in various initiatives to introduce ICTs in education. However, the rate of ICT integration by teachers at various levels and types of schools remains low. Researc...

IN MY INTRODUCTORY EDITORIAL (1), I mentioned the Associate Editors, Editorial Board members, and I were planning an Editorial series that would link educational concepts to their implementation within the classroom. We have mapped out the initial themes of that series, a series we call Best Practices. We hope Best Practices will provide opportunities for faculty development in two ways: by rev...

Amateur minor hockey coaches have recently begun to capture and play back video recordings to provide their teams with visual feedback of their play as a learning tool. Yet what is not clear is whether such video feedback is useful and how video feedback systems could be designed to better match the needs of amateur hockey coaches and players. As such, we wanted to understand coaches’ current p...