In Dutch Design and Technology Education the beginning of a process of learning is usually determined by the teacher. In this paper it is argued that a beginning, determined in interaction with the students, is more profitable as the interaction will lead to joined-up exploring, creating and thinking and an increased motivation to learn. Furthermore, students are empowered to treat an activity ...

Milgram's famous experiment contained 23 small-sample conditions that elicited striking variations in obedient responding. A synthesis of these diverse conditions could clarify the factors that influence obedience in the Milgram paradigm. We assembled data from the 21 conditions (N = 740) in which obedience involved progression to maximum voltage (overall rate 43.6%) and coded these conditions ...

Recent formal models of pedagogy (Shafto & Goodman, 2008) assume that teachers provide evidence likely to increase the learner’s belief in a target hypothesis. Thus in pedagogical contexts, the learner can infer that evidence is not merely true of the concept but representative of it. If for instance, a teacher demonstrates a single function of a toy, the learner should assume that only that fu...

Being main teaching media and major source of comprehensive target language input, teacher talk plays an important role in learners' second-language acquisition. Under the trend of "learner-centered" teaching mode, some researchers think that the best teacher talk means less. But the author holds that, in Chinese second language classroom, it is not advisable to lay too much stress on the forma...

Abstract: This paper focuses on a communicative language-learning environment between a native speaker and a learner using a videoconference system. This paper describes Viclle (Video-based Communicative Language Learning System) that supports both a teacher and a learner. A teacher (a native speaker) can correct a recorded video with Viclle. This paper also describes VCML (Video-based Correcti...

Interaction in distance education processes; It has a very important place the learner's academic performance, attitude and motivation, participation lesson acquisition of instructional goals behaviors. According to data obtained as result analysis this study, which interaction synchronous asynchronous processes was investigated by qualitative meta-synthesis method; In processes, themes emerged...

recent interaction studies havefocused on the relationship between interactional feedback and l2 development.despite the large body of knowledge in this regard, few studies have examinedlearners’ preferences for interactional feedback. besides, different findingshave been reported concerning learners’ preferences for feedback and none hasexamined the factors accounting for the variation in the ...

In the classic educational context, observing and identifying learner’s emotional response allow the teacher to adapt the lesson, with the aim of improving the quality of the learning process. In computer environment, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) should consider relationships between emotion, cognition and action in order to improve the interaction with the learner. Hence, inspired by cog...