Interaction in the classroom plays key role for cultivating students’ 21st century skills. Insufficient breadth of interaction, uneven interaction opportunities, and chaotic existed many classrooms. With integration technology into education, smart classrooms were built, with one aims being to promote interaction. However, differences behaviors engagement a class versus traditional could rarely...

Past studies have shown the efficacy of flipped classrooms and gamification learning approaches. However, we know little about blend these This study compares effectiveness gamified (GFC) to traditional classroom (TC) We two different undergraduate cohorts over six-week course delivery in management IT a university UAE. collected data through an online survey from 105 students (control experime...

Despite our increasing knowledge on vocabulary and its learning and teaching, the reality in a classroom may still be somewhat more traditional. This paper looks at how lexical knowledge is portrayed in an EFL classroom and in pupils’ ideas of words. The data derives from a longitudinal study that investigated the development of children’s metalinguistic awareness during their first six years a...

A Case Library is a collection of cases arranged to allow easy, meaningful access for a user. This Library covers an array of turf problems encountered by golf course superintendents. The cases help fill gaps in a student’s knowledge that are a result of their inexperience. Indices to the cases are based on the most salient factors in turf problem-solving. The case was structured to provide a f...

In this paper we present an approach of enriching grown structures of teaching in German schools with innovative technology and collaborative software tools. Two applications for collaborative modelling and mind mapping will be introduced. Together with a community of secondary school teachers we have elaborated classroom experiments which give an added value but without redefining well suited ...

This study aimed to determine the effects of a flipped classroom (i.e., reversal of time allotment for lecture and homework) and innovative learning activities on academic success and the satisfaction of nursing students. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare three approaches to learning: traditional lecture only (LO), lecture and lecture capture back-up (LLC), and the flipped classro...

 SUMMARY Problem based learning as an innovation in education specially medical domain has been used since few decades and its positive effect in improving learning outcome bas been proved in several investigations. There are some obstacles that prevent shifting from traditional medical education, toward P.B.L. in medical school, so there has been several efforts managed by educationists searc...

This paper reports the results of an investigation into the efficacy of Tablet PC technology in teaching introductory level corporate finance to a large cohort of 400 students, of which three quarters were enrolled for distance study. Tablet technology consolidates elements of traditional white-board-based teaching and PowerPoint presentation in a manner that can generate a far more dynamic and...

Preliminary results are reported for a field experiment in distance communication and learning. Students enrolled in traditional classroom courses are provided with asynchronous distance communication support, consisting of optional anytime/anyplace access to classroom lectures via the World Wide Web. The traditional classroom lectures are audio-recorded and the audio transcripts are digitized,...