The author of this paper designs, develops, and teaches online courses. This paper examines the students' constructive sociocultural interaction in which learning occurs. This paper compares the classroom discussions in virtual and traditional classrooms and analyses the virtual communication in greater detail according to their

this study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between efl teachers’ emotional intelligence (ei) and their effectiveness in managing young learners’ classrooms. a total of 25 female teachers of kish language school in tehran expressed their willingness to participate in this study and a briefing session was conducted for them. two sessions of each teacher’s classes were observed by t...

Student attendance is both a critical input and intermediate output of the education production function. However, malleable classroom-level determinants student are poorly understood. We estimate causal effect class size, composition, observable teacher qualifications on by leveraging random classroom assignments made Tennessee’s Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) Project size experiment...

This paper presents our experiences promoting active learning in programming courses from introductory to advanced levels. We use a variety of techniques as our courses vary greatly in size and our facilities vary in layout and equipment. For large lectures, we present active interludes that require students to work in small groups, respond to periodic polls, or help a professor program. For mo...

This paper presents our experiences promoting active learning in programming courses from introductory to advanced levels. We use a variety of techniques as our courses vary greatly in size and our facilities vary in layout and equipment. For large lectures, we present active interludes that require students to work in small groups, respond to periodic polls, or help a professor program. For mo...

This study aimed to investigate the use of iPads as a learning tool for college-level EFL students and to explore these language learners’ perceptions of iPad reading. Drawn from an intermediate EFL reading class, three students with limited experiences of iPad reading participated in this study. Data from weekly journals and interviews showed that the iPads’ palm size, light weight, and access...

Detecting human arm motion in a typical classroom environment is a challenging task due to the noisy and highly dynamic background, varying light conditions, as well as the small size and multiple number of possible matched objects. A robust vision system that can detect events of students' hands being raised for asking questions is described. This system is intended to support the collaborativ...

In recent years, intelligent conversational agents have been used with some level of effectiveness as dynamic support for collaborative learning in online chat. The classroom discourse community offers insights from analysis of effective classroom discussion facilitation practices that might productively inspire the design of such facilitator agents. In this paper, we evaluate one such conversa...

We discuss two developments in our program [1] to develop web-content for individual teachers in web-connected classrooms, as a developing force in modernization of both pedagogy and content. The first involves development of web-based specimen explorers capable of supporting scripted, open-ended, and classroom-structured nanoworld exploration. The second involves use of "journal management sof...

The purpose of the present study is to show that an independent group contingency (GC) combined with self-management strategies and randomized-reinforcer components can increase the amount of written work and active classroom responding in high school students. Three remedial reading classes and a total of 15 students participated in this study. Students used self-management strategies during i...