The University of Victoria has a new centre for computer music and digital media called MISTIC (Music Intelligence and Sound Technology Interdisciplinary Centre). Research and educational activities pertaining to MISTIC are described.

CSILE is an educational knowledge-media system with which students collaborate to produce a database that encompasses most of their academic work. It is intended to promote the building and exploration of connections between ideas.

13 Italian Undergraduates Join Facebook, but Keep a Critical Distance: “It is Useless, but I’m Using It” Paolo Ferri, Observatory on New Media NumediaBios & Department of Educational Sciences, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Nicola Cavalli, Observatory on New Media NumediaBios, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Andrea Mangiatordi, Observatory on New Media NumediaBios, Universi...

MEDIANOVO provides a high quality, scientifically indexed multi-media database with comfortable authoring and download functions through a web-based frontend. Currently, MEDIANOVO is used by medical teachers as a repository for storing and sharing media for educational purposes. However a database was created which could also serve with training and further education, in computer based learning...

The impact of digital games in education by Begoña Gros In recent years, electronic games, home computers, and the Internet have assumed an important place in the lives and children and adolescents. New media are causing major changes in the nature of learning. There is a vast gap between the way people learn and the way in which new generations approach information and knowledge. Nonetheless, ...

Teaching database engineers involves a variety of learning activities. A strong focus is on practical problems that go beyond the acquisition of knowledge. Skills and experience are equally important. We propose a virtual apprenticeship model for the knowledgeand skillsoriented Web-based education of database students. We adapt the classical cognitive apprenticeship theory to the Web context ut...

Section 2 concerns the ways in which teaching and learning at a distance is being transformed in various international and practical contexts. Arguably, distance education has been characterised by transformation since its earliest correspondence days through to the integration of online media. Tony Bates pursues this latter theme in his opening chapter for the section where the range of new me...

The diagnosis of the problem of the contemporary world in the area of global media communication is a basic challenge for existing and modernised educational systems. Without a complete vision of the world, people cannot exist in a fully aware way. Hence, the most important questions related to such social development in which no one would be excluded from the world-wide circulation of informat...

The shift to new paradigms in education pushed by new media has initiated a critical re-thinking of the way we talk of and practice teaching and learning which is still open. Some concepts of the Western educational tradition can be helpful in finding a new way of integrating IT in learning. This paper propose to consider knowledge as a relationship and shows how this provides helpful insights ...

This paper tries to bridge the gap between engineering and education by introducing a new way of how to use existing and well known design techniques of engineering in order to structure teaching. It may be called the engineering approach to educational modeling. Planning a new course or restructuring an existing one can be understood as a system design task. Where the system is the course with...