The fastest-growing student population in U.S. schools today is children of immigrants, half of whom do not speak English fluently and are thus labeled English learners. Although the federal government requires school districts to provide services to English learners, it offers states no policies to follow in identifying, assessing, placing, or instructing them. Margarita Calderón, Robert Slavi...

To be effective change agents, continuing education (CE) professionals must be able to develop strategies that assess and affect learners’ motivation to learn about specific topics and engage in specific learning activities. This article suggests a framework for assessing and influencing learner motivation. Need reduction theory based on discrepancy analysis provides one way to explain and pred...

Collaborative technologies offer a range of new ways of supporting learning by enabling learners to share and exchange both ideas and their own digital products. This paper considers how best to exploit these opportunities from the perspective of learners' needs. New technologies invariably excite a creative explosion of new ideas for ways of doing teaching and learning, although the technologi...

Information technology professionals comprise an important segment of adult learners seeking a four-year undergraduate degree, and it is important to provide programs that address not only the conceptual and theoretical, but also adult learning needs in terms of career orientation and practicality together with providing real-life applications relevant to the needs of the IT job marketplace. Th...

In 2004 the Language Sciences department of Montpellier 3 University, introduced a new Masters degree in “Knowledge Management, Learning and eLearning” (www.univmontp3.fr/metice/_masterprogaf/), the first year of which is delivered both face-to-face and online, and the second entirely online. In previous research (Marsh & Panckhurst, 2006), an analysis of questionnaire responses from learners a...

Current research shows that computer games were integral to the life of young learners across the globe. Hence, educators were looking at opportunities to use computer games in teaching and learning in order to address the needs of young learners. Meanwhile, learning needs and expectations were varied depending on the culture of a particular individual. Researches show that there were compellin...

In a virtual learning environment, learners can lose motivation and concentration easily, especially in a platform that is not tailored to their needs. Our research is based on studying learner’s behaviour on an online learning platform to create a system able to clustering learners based on their behaviour, and adapting educational content to their needs. Eye tracking is a set of techniques fo...

Providing adaptivity in web-based educational systems supports learners in their learning process and makes learning easier for them. However, providing adaptivity requires knowing the needs of the learners. Therefore learner modelling, the process of building and updating a learner model, is a crucial aspect of adaptive systems and necessary for providing course content that fits to the learne...

Collaborative technologies offer a range of new ways of supporting learning by enabling learners to share and exchange both ideas and their own digital products. This paper considers how best to exploit these opportunities from the perspective of learners' needs. New technologies invariably excite a creative explosion of new ideas for ways of doing teaching and learning, although the technologi...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the health education needs of educators at health promoting schools in Makapanstad in North West Province. METHODOLOGY Qualitative, exploratory and descriptive paradigm was conducted. The population consisted of educators, at Makapanstad schools, who were directly involved with learners. The participants were purposively selected. ...