AbstructThis paper describes application of information technologies to education, outlines the educational foundations and design strategies of the applications, and addresses related research issues. In this paper, we introduce the CORAL (COoperative Remotely Accessible Learning) system, currently under development at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, as an example of how information ...

in recent years, mathematics is an essential aspect of all areas of daily life and the best predictor of being successful in economic situations of society. for many students, the mathematics accompanied with frustration, anxiety and negative attitudes towards mathematics. these students believe their anxiety have been derived from their math teachers, math misconception and weakness in math as...

in recent years, language-learning research has been more concerned with factors that may affect the choice of learning strategies among learners. in studies conducted by cohen (1990), ehrman and oxford (1995), macintyre and gardner (1989) and reid (1987), these factors have been identified as motivation, gender, learning style, previous experience, and personality type. this study attempts to ...

Do we really know what critical reflection means in the context of work-integrated learning, more specifically cooperative education? Critical reflection, in some form, is located within many higher education programmes, including cooperative education and many educators would say this is important for in-depth student learning. It is a form of reflection that is complicated as well as challeng...

the present study aimed at investigating whether vocabulary-learning strategies had any impact on the vocabulary learning of iranian efl learners. the participants of the study were 67 male and female undergraduate university students, majoring in english translation and english literature at islamic azad university, north tehran branch, who were taking “reading comprehension ii” course. in ord...

the purpose of this study was to expose a group of iranian students to an e-learning program and find out the effects of this exposure on their learning and motivation strategies. this study made an attempt to evaluate the degree of strategy use in both traditional and e-learning modes of learning. moreover, the effects of the e-learning program of the participants of the study on learning stra...

in order to confirm the effectiveness of language learning strategies in theiranian context in junior high schools, this study was designed to examine thepatterns of strategy use, the effects of strategy instruction on the students’ strategyuse, and the relationship between the participants’ strategy use and their englishachievement. to achieve this objective, 57 junior high school participants...

abstract the present study aimed at discovering the practices and strategies autonomous efl learners pursue in their endeavor to master english. it thus set out in the iranian context, with 60 efl learners, both autonomous and non-autonomous, as participants. the gathered data through a questionnaire and an interview were subjected to content and descriptive analysis. the results showed that bo...

Cooperative learning has been used effectively at the elementary and secondary levels, but it has only recently found its way to the college level. Therefore, in colleges, universities and work places throughout the world, tremendous efforts are underway to move from a lecture-based approach to more active, cooperative learning activities. This study investigates the effect of cooperative learn...