Considering that access to information is one of the most important aspects of modern society, the actions of certain governments or internet providers to control or, even worse, deny access for their citizens/users to selected data sources has lead to the implementation of new communication protocols. TOR is such a protocol, in which the path between the original source and destination is rand...

After a general overview in a previous paper [10], in which we proposed Didactic Networks (DN) as a new way for developing and exploiting web-learning content, we offer here a deeper study showing how to use them for web-learning design and content generation based on Instructional Theory with the coherence guaranty of the RST [3]. By using a set of expressivity patterns, it is possible to obta...

The Supreme Court recently denied certiorari to review the Federal Circuit’s ruling in Apotex v. Pfizer (S. Ct. 906-1006, October 16, 2006). The ruling was predictable. Pfizer had mooted the case by providing a covenant not to sue Apotex on its Quinapril patent. But the underlying legal issue – subject matter jurisdiction in declaratory judgment cases – is currently pending before the Supreme C...

The core intention of the pattern is to enrich the learner‘s perspectives by giving and receiving feedback through peer-review.

The images that individuals create of languages, people and cultures tend to refl ect their own communication educational behaviours. These can originate stereotypes, i.e., static, decontextualized, simplifi ed, abbreviated images, present in common memory accepted by particular groups (Castellotti & Moore 2002). Therefore, the diagnosis perceptions heritage language speakers associate with...

The paper defines the notion of “pedagogical stance”, viewed as the type of position taken, the role assumed, the image projected and the types of social behaviours performed by a teacher in her teaching interaction with a pupil. Two aspects of pedagogical stance, “didactic” and “affective – relational”, are distinguished and a hypothesis is put forward about their determinant factors (the teac...

The present paper organizes around the concept of didactic competence analyzed from the perspective of educational implementation of the new ICT tools. It presents the results of a large research regarding the development of certain general and specific didactic competencies, having as a support the virtual environment offered by the new technologies. Thus, the implications of the educational u...

Recent research in science education recommends the development of didactic resources that approach relations between Science, Technology and Society [STS] and articulate formal and non-formal educational contexts such as science museums and centres, the Internet and television. We consider it’s important to implement those recommendations through the use of ICT in science education. Therefore ...