This paper shows that policy reforms in Vocational Education and Training in Australia since the late 1980s developed with the specific intention of reforming the official pedagogic discourse and associated pedagogic spaces that existed at that time. The discourses of flexible delivery, flexible learning, online learning, e-learning and blended learning established pedagogic spaces that are des...

Simulations provide highly interactive experiences in which users can learn a variety of skills and competencies in a situated and active learning environment. Pedagogic scaffolding within simulations has typically been an after taught of the design process. To promote “serious learning” in simulations, this pedagogic scaffolding must be an implicit part of the design process. To support pedago...

For an autonomous system to provide value (e.g., to customers, designers, or society at large) it must have a reliable method to determine the intended goal. This is the essence of the value-alignment problem: ensuring that the objectives of an autonomous system match those of its human users. In robotics, value alignment is crucial to the design of collaborative robots that can integrate into ...

Textbooks play a pivotal role in language learning classrooms. The problem is, among a wide range of textbooks available, which one is more appropriate for a specific classroom and a group of learners. In order to evaluate ELT textbooks, theorists and writers have offered different kinds of evaluative frameworks based on a number of principles and criteria. This study evaluates one example of s...

Scaffolding pedagogic excellence in higher education.

We report the results of mining student learning data from SlideTutor – a cognitive tutor in a medical diagnostic domain. The analysis was aimed at finding both individual learning patterns as well as common misconceptions that students possessed. We have discovered that indeed there are distinct learner stereotypes: hint-driven learners, failuredriven learners, and a mixed group of learners th...

This paper argues that pedagogic efficacy for multimedia packages cannot be achieved by experimental or by summative research in the absence of a comprehensive pedagogical screenwriting framework. Following a summary of relevant literature, such a framework is offered, consisting of micro-level design and development guidelines. These guidelines concentrate on achieving pedagogic synergy betwee...

The contribution presents a brief characteristic of structural and object models used for development and maintenance of information systems. It also describes utilisation of these models for generation of pedagogic information system IS STUDENT at the Technical University in Košice. It describes possibility of application of UML language (Unified modelling language) in life cycle of pedagogic ...