The proposed learner environment presented in this paper is based on constructive perspective (learner focus) learning according to Hadjerrouit (2007). This model offers an environment where focus is on the learner and encourages them to construct new ideas by testing theory through the solving of problems. Associated pedagogy with this model is: the provision of an interactive environment for ...

Teaching and learning mathematics in Ghanaian basic schools has been a concern for many years. This is because of the low learner achievement national assessments by West African Examination Council, where learners’ performance at end primary education consistently low. In other assessments, such as Trends International Mathematics Science Survey (TIMSS) report, average learners below internati...

Gaming and simulation may be two of the most powerful tools available to those who design online instruction because they engage and challenge the learner in a very personal way. In order to succeed in simulation and gaming, the learner must work at a higher cognitive level than the recognition and recall that often succeeds in the traditional classroom. Instead, the learner must become immerse...

This paper discusses the potential of technology-mediated forms of L2 strategy instruction (SI) to not only facilitate SI but to enhance evaluation of SI interventions and L2 strategy research more generally. It uses results from a recent empirical study to show how computer-based forms of SI may offer remedies for problematic features of evaluation, including access to process data showing how...

This chapter presents results from a meta-analysis that compares the effectiveness of Web-based instruction (WBI) to classroom instruction (CI). The results suggest that when the same instructional methods are used, WBI and CI are equally effective for teaching declarative knowledge. However, the instructional methods and course design features incorporated in WBI are critical factors in determ...

The problem is to optimize the learning of a large German-English vocabulary. Four optimization strategies are proposed and evaluated experimentally. The first strategy involves presenting items in a random order and serves as a benchmark against which the others can be evaluated. The second strategy permits 5 to determine on each trial of the experiment which item is to be presented, thus plac...

arabic language instruction in iran has always relied on cognitive factors, and has been based on grammar-translation method. consequently, issues such as arabic learner's and teacher's mental processes during learning and teaching, metacognitive factors, interlocutors' characteristics and the conversation setting, learner's information processing procedure, etc. have never ...

This paper compares student learning in challenge-based and traditional engineering classrooms from the perspective of adaptive expertise. Collaborating learning scientists and biomedical engineers designed and implemented a challenge-based method of instruction that followed learning principles presented in the National Research Council report “How People Learn” (HPL). The study was conducted ...

This study attempts to analyze teaching and learning processes of web-based instruction (WBI) as shown in recent literature, and to develop a theoretical framework of WBI using a prominent existing distance education theory called Transactional Distance Theory in order to provide better understanding of the essential pedagogical components of WBI. Recent studies have shown that the key elements...