Being familiar with all the benefits of e-Health and the strategic plan for the Slovenian health sector’s informatization, Telekom Slovenia and the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Maribor, along with other partners, have initiated an e-Health project. The project group is developing various e-Health services that are based on modern ICT (information and communications technology) sol...

As students are engaged in sustained inquiry supported by technology various challenges arise. One particular challenge is how to introduce learning technologies within a currently enacted curriculum. To meet this challenge student supports must both be imbedded within the technology itself (intrinsic supports) as well as within the classroom (extrinsic supports). Learner centered design resear...

Teaching is changing in deep, due to, on one hand, the evolutions of the society expectations and, on another hand, the widely spreading of new technologies. By the way, teachers and trainers need now to structure and formalize their internal designs and should become designers but do not have the competence. We aim to help them during the instructional design process. In that way we propose so...

In this presentation, we share the experience of a partnership project between two teams representing Azerbaijani and American higher education institutions. The researchers (a) examine the challenges of collaborative work in the context of cultural differences related to applying learner-centered pedagogy, sustaining collaboration and managing learning process, and (b) introduce the strategies...

Being main teaching media and major source of comprehensive target language input, teacher talk plays an important role in learners' second-language acquisition. Under the trend of "learner-centered" teaching mode, some researchers think that the best teacher talk means less. But the author holds that, in Chinese second language classroom, it is not advisable to lay too much stress on the forma...

This paper investigates how to transform machine creativity systems into interactive tools that support human-computer co-creation. We use three case studies to identify common issues in this transformation, under the perspective of User-Centered Design. We also analyse the interactivity and creative behavior of the three platforms in terms of Wiggins’ formalization of creativity as a search. W...

The purpose of this study is to explore the complex nature of Singapore teachers’ beliefs about knowledge and learning and how these beliefs influence pedagogical practices in their classes. This paper presents findings from a large-scale survey study with 1806 teachers in Singapore. Data revealed that while teachers’ beliefs about pedagogies, knowledge and learning were largely consistent, the...