Recruiting students to informatics can be a challenge, particularly when it comes to recruiting female students. The Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen has had severe problems with both recruitment and retention of female students. As part of an effort to raise interest in computers and programming in general, and among women in particular, we organised a two-week summer scho...

Th is research explores why academics in Hong Kong embed learning technologies into their teaching despite competing demands at work. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. In embedding learning technologies, some academics reported that they could support learners who were not active in learning better, extend learning opportunities and engage in alternative learning experiences. Others re...

A key problem in using automatic visual surface inspection in industry is training and tuning the systems to perform in a desired manner. This may take from minutes up to a year after installation, and can be a major cost. Based on our experiences the training issues need to be taken into account from the very beginning of system design. In this presentation we consider approaches for visual su...

The current study aimed at examining the relationship between English language teachers’ assessment literacy and their teaching experience. In other words, it intended to inspect the relationship between native and non-native English language teachers’ assessment literacy and their teaching experience. To achieve such goals, 100 native and non-native English teachers from ESL and EFL contexts w...

different factors determine language teachers’ degree of success in their teaching practices. among these factors, teachers’ own learning experience can play a pivotal role since it affects teachers’ attitudes toward aspects of the knowledge they are to teach. educators and researchers may have paid less attention to an indispensable component of teachers’ learning experience: learning strategi...

Abstract The study is focussed on perception of teaching practices by pre-service teachers in preschool and primary education university programmes. Further, the analysed reality shock that occurred these students during practice. sample consisted 41 programmes, while 54 followed primary-level programme. data collection methods were student portfolios diaries from In it was possible to analyse ...

In the available teacher development literature, the linkage between teaching experience, as one the crucial factors in teacher development (Tsui, 2005), and English teachers’ job performance with regard to gender differences has remain widely underexplored. To fill up this lacuna, this study investigated whether there was any significant correlation between Iranian English teachers’ years of e...

Relatively little is known about the role of early interventionists as teachers of caregivers. The current study was conducted to better understand interventionists’ perspectives about teaching caregivers. A national sample of 1525 multi-disciplinary interventionists completed an online questionnaire which elicited information about interventionists’ preferences for use of caregiver teaching st...