Educational games have been used as an innovative instructional strategy in order to achieve learning more effectively. However, it is essential to systematically evaluate such games in order to obtain sound evidence on their impact. Thus, the objective of this article is to present the state of the art on how to systematically evaluate educational games. Therefore, we performed a systematic li...

Software engineering education has acquired a notorious reputation for producing students that are ill-prepared for being productive in real-world software engineering settings. Although much attention has been devoted to improving the state of affairs in recent years, it still remains a difficult problem with no obvious solutions. In this paper, I attempt to discover some of the roots of the p...

This paper will report and reflect on the innovative technical approaches adopted by UKOER projects to resource description, search engine optimisation and resource discovery. The HEFCE UKOER programmes ran for three years from 2009 to 2012 and funded a large number and variety of projects focused on releasing open educational resources (OERs) and embedding open practice. The Cetis Innovation S...

The cause of many security problems is vulnerabilities in the underlying code. These vulnerabilities are the result of security mistakes made by programmers during application development, often because of lack of knowledge of the security implications of their code. Thus, educators need to teach students as future developers not only how to program, but how to program securely. Many researcher...

Background In response to national media attention on restraint and seclusion (R/S), state and national efforts in the USA have organized around the goal of eliminating their use. Several states/organizations have significantly reduced and stopped using these violent procedures. Participants will learn: 1) How some states/organizations changed treatment practice to prevent inpatient violence, 2...

Educational Modelling Languages (EMLs) have been proposed to support the computational modelling of educational units accordingly to different pedagogical approaches. These languages are presented as formal specifications to capture the elements and behaviours involved in educational units. Eventually, these models are intended to support the execution of appropriate e-learning systems, enablin...

Problem-based and case-based learning are well-known inquiry-based pedagogies. 3 We propose a new inquiry-based approach called systems-questions-solutions (SQS) 4 that combines the two more general approaches. SQS is based on proven educational 5 principles plus general systems theoretic approaches to systems. This approach natu6 rally introduces verification and validation into the educationa...

the major purpose of the present this study is to reviews the classifications of approaches to religious education, and introducing an alternative classification of religious educator theory. to this end, approaches to islamic education which have been categorized typologically and are associated with the cognitive context of iranian intellectuals have been studied. in line with this goal, the ...

In this paper we focus on specific approaches to knowledge transformation within the educational domain. Our approaches can be briefly characterized as processdriven, because the core concepts are educational processes and semantic representations of them. In this paper we present two alternative ways of using process models for knowledge transfer in educational domain. First one is deductive a...