The Internet has enabled a great amount of information to be readily available and easily accessible. It has promoted several changes in the world, including in the education area. Nowadays, there is a great amount of educational and training systems, which provide different functionality according to specific administrative, pedagogical and technological approaches. Authoring tools, content re...

There is a complexity of challenges related to scientific and technological education in Brazil, including literacy in basic concepts and principles by students; better preand in-service teacher training; sufficient supply of computers, internet and other technological resources to all Brazilian public schools; provision of teacher training on how to effectively use such tools; and promotion of...

the purpose of this paper is to examine the threats and opportunities that information and communication technology (ict) has created with regard to sexual inequality. research shows that the education of ict, which is concentrated on women, directly increases their media knowledge and modifies inequalities created mainly by the family and the educational system in the socialization process, pr...

The educational design of seven on-line courses was analyzed whith the aim to relate the professors' pedagogic knowledge and technological abilities with the course design. The courses already imparted where analyzed in the LMS where they were designed (Virtual U, Moodle and Virtual UABC). Assesment where carry out with instruments to evaluate the quality of the designs and semi structured inte...

A. Fotiadi, E. Drakakis, N. Hatzianastassiou, C. Matsoukas, K. G. Pavlakis, D. Hatzidimitriou, E. Gerasopoulos, N. Mihalopoulos, and I. Vardavas Department of Physics, University of Crete, Crete, Greece Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Department of Electrical Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece Laboratory of Meteorology, Depa...

ENSO surface longwave radiation forcing over the tropical Pacific K. G. Pavlakis, D. Hatzidimitriou, E. Drakakis, C. Matsoukas, A. Fotiadi, N. Hatzianastassiou, and I. Vardavas Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Department of General Applied Science, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece Department of Physics, University of Crete, Crete, Greec...