The need for tele-education is rapidly growing. This paper describes a tele-educational environment and reports on experiences obtained during international trials. The tele-educational environment is build around the metaphor of a college. The virtual college offers the opportunity for students to participate in desktop tele-education from their homes or offices. The environment is based on In...

This paper reports on a qualitative study that examined the perceptions of English teachers towards ‘teachability’ metaphorical language in Chilean EFL classrooms. The aimed at gaining better understanding teachers’ role metaphor classroom. A group six in-service participated this study. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews, which addressed three broad dimensions: (i) views and...

This paper presents an extensible multi-platform educational game framework. This new framework enhances the point-and-click adventure game model used in a preexisting educational game framework (eAdventure) by extending it with new game metaphors and interactions. These include minigames (e.g. puzzles, stories, word-games) suited for a greater variety of subjects (e.g. math, history, science) ...

In this Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, attention is given to the new image of 'courseware'. A collection of contributions originating from the University of Twente discusses aspects of this changing image. Now what is changing? From the contributions some strong impressions can be derived. Courseware, the generic term used for educational software and related paper ...

P may grind their teeth, chagrin and impatience coursing through their arteries with the above commonplace metaphoric declarations. These declarations pervade what may go down on record as the hottest summer (2012) since weather records have been kept. I won’t concern myself with teasing apart various metaphoric cousins (most commonly, simile, metonymy and personification) on the grounds that a...

sa'adi shirazi, as one of the greatest persian poets, was also fluent in arabic language. despite his fluency in arabic, he has few poems in this language; however these few poems show his high position among iranian poets who composed in arabic. metaphor as an important rhetoric figure would be analyzed in sa’adi’s poems to show how much the manner of metaphor use, both in terms of form o...