The history of environmental education in Australia has been well documented (Fien, 1993; Fien & Gough, 1996; Gough, 1997) and this paper specifically focuses on the apparent acceptance of the terms education in, about, and for the environment1. Lucas (1979) first used these terms to characterise different forms of environmental education according to their program goals and to reduce the ambig...

A maturity environment is presented, aiming to support software engineering education. This environment is part of a processes framework being developed in the Software Technology Laboratory (LTS) of the Department of Computer Engineering of Escola Politécnica of University of São Paulo, Brazil. The framework is a three-level model with Reference Model, Maturity Environment and Real Environment...

Effectiveness of teaching and learning in any subject at any institution is dependent on the instructional strategies used by the teachers. This is a major factor responsible for the level of performance in any subject by the students. Learning difficulties can be solved up to a great extent by using suitable teaching methods with proper utilization of available computer techniques and tools. D...

Our work introduces immersive collaborative learning to geometry education. More specifically, we present a system that uses collaborative augmented reality as a medium for teaching, and uses 3D dynamic geometry to facilitate mathematics and geometry education. Both these aspects are novel to geometry education. We describe improvements in the user interface and visual design of such an applica...

Pyro, which stands for Python Robotics, is a Python-based robotics programming environment that enables students to explore topics in robotics. Programming robot behaviors in Pyro is akin to programming in a high-level general purpose programming language; Pyro provides abstractions for low-level robot-specific features much like the abstractions provided in high-level programming languages. Co...

We describe PIAVEE (Platform Independent Agentbased Virtual Educational Environment), which has been conceptualized around having a lightweight, flexible environment that utilizes educational objects or resources held in a virtual data base and supported by an intelligent delivery system. The concept is being implemented using an evolutionary approach, where the initial focus is upon the virtua...

The rapid development of communication and information technologies lead to the changes in continuing medical education by offering the possibility to move up-to-date medical information through Internet to the physicians. The main goal of this study was to create a virtual space for continuing medical education. In this context, a number of computer-assisted tools for instruction, evaluation a...

For the last few decades, there was tremendous interest in harnessing 3D virtual environments for education and training. Multi-user game-like environments make use of non-player characters and quest activities in tutoring and training. This approach incorporates successful active learning and incremental progress. This article presents issues encountered while adapting the multi-user online ga...