Research on the symbolic functioning of very young children has important implications for educational materials. We argue that there are no transparent symbols; one can never assume that what seems to be an obvious symbolic relation is obvious to young children. We have discovered that young children have particular difficulty understanding and using symbols that are themselves interesting obj...

This paper investigates the mechanics through which wealth may, in the long run, trickle down from the rich to the poor. In the presence of indivisibilities in investment of human capital and impossibility of borrowing money, investment in education is financed through an intergenerational transfer. In an OLG model where aggregate production requires capital and both skilled and unskilled labou...

The use of computer networks and information technology are becoming an important part of the everyday work in almost all professions, especially in scientific areas, and facing new education concepts, many universities and education organizations decided to plan new strategies concerning computer based technologies. As a result of these developments Computer Aided Education (CAE) methods came ...

This article examines the implications for education in practice of the document. Preparation of Mentors and Teachers (ENB/DoH 2001), and the changes that it imposes on those who teach in the practice area. The range of academic and clinical skills practitioners require to teach and assess students at differing levels of professional practice is explored. The authors discuss the need to support...

Development of educational ontologies is a step towards creation of sharable and reusable adaptive educational systems. Ontology as a conceptual courseware structure may work as a mind tool for effective teaching and as a visual navigation interface to the learning objects. The paper discusses an approach to the practical ontology development and presents the designed ontology for teaching/lear...

As a domain of application and reference for the proposed approach, we focused on Constructionism, a theory that studies the use of technology in the creation of educational environments. The most well known pragmatic result of Constructionism is the Logo programming language which, for the past 20 years, has been used by millions of students as a fertile soil for the development of critical re...

This paper reports the development of teaching materials for mechatronics in tertiary education. Current industrial societies strongly require many mechatronic engineers, and most technical universities actually provide mechatronic exercises in their courses. On the other hand, it is a little difficult for teachers and students to freely modify and improve the mechatronic materials provided by ...

The study presented here concerns the results obtained from the development and the experimentation of a didactic exergame realized by the University of Salerno. The aim of this exergame, called “Gioco delle Forme”, is to evaluate, measure and “train”, by means of a playful activity with a high degree of body involvement, the skills of visual and motor integration, skills that for scientific li...

background and purpose: the first step in educational planning is identification of educational needs. the increasing scientific movement, information explosion and technology development, especially in medical sciences remind the need to empower faculty members as specialized human power. in this regard, in this study initially a valid and reliable tool was designed to investigate educational ...

background and purpose: the first step in educational planning is identification of educational needs. the increasing scientific movement, information explosion and technology development, especially in medical sciences remind the need to empower faculty members as specialized human power. in this regard, in this study initially a valid and reliable tool was designed to investigate educational ...