 The introduction of new technologies both internal and external to the classroom affect both the teaching / learning process as well as the way that curricula is presented to students. The introduction of wireless networks that guarantee mobility through out the campus as well as a series of always on line and on demand services affect the way that students interact with the professors and th...

Learning student names has been promoted as an inclusive classroom practice, but it is unknown whether students value having their names known by an instructor. We explored this question in the context of a high-enrollment active-learning undergraduate biology course. Using surveys and semistructured interviews, we investigated whether students perceived that instructors know their names, the i...

When facilitating asynchronous discussion forums, should online instructors be encouraged to take a prominent ‘sage on the stage’ role, a more constructivist ‘guide on the side’ role, or an ultra low profile as ‘the ghost in the wings’? There is no shortage of anecdotal advice on how to conduct discussion forums in online education, but there appears to be very little research available so far ...

In order for out-of-school science activities that take place during school hours but outside the school context to be successful, instructors must have sufficient pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) to guarantee high-quality teaching and learning. We argue that PCK is a quality of the instructor-pupil system that is constructed in real-time interaction. When PCK is evident in real-time interac...

Problem statement: Many instructors in academia wish to know how much their students understand the content of the lecture; however, doing this manually will be very difficult and time consuming. Similarly, most students have communication problems with their instructors and they wish if they can ask their questions without any fear. So a need for a technology to bridge these gaps is becoming a...

In this paper, we present ENWiC (EduNuggets Wiki Crawler), a framework for intelligent visualization of Wikis. In recent years, e-learning has emerged as an appealing alternative to traditional teaching. The effectiveness of e-Learning is depended upon the sharing of information on the web, which makes the web a vast library of information that students and instructors can utilize for education...

Timely, formative feedback is just as important for instructors students. In this project, “embedded students” provided with through anonymized reports. Students associated the First2 Network NSF INCLUDES Alliance and enrolled in first or second year STEM courses volunteered to submit weekly reports documenting their ongoing experiences learning content, specifically chemistry math courses. Emb...

With the progress of research on cluster computing, more and more universities have begun to offer various courses covering cluster computing. A wide variety of content can be taught in these courses. Because of this, a difficulty that arises is the selection of appropriate course material. The selection is complicated by the fact that some content in cluster computing is also covered by other ...

Research methodology courses are challenging for students and instructors. They demand teachers to master abstract knowledge of the content. Therefore, present study attempted shed light on active teaching learning—an instructional approach that engages learners in interactions reflection learning—of research from perspectives undergraduates course instructor at Majmaah university. Classroom ob...