Innovative use of technology in education often comes about through a champion exploring possibilities. Because this approach is often informal, the need to assess the effectiveness of the technology is often overlooked. An agile systems approach to the introduction of new technology in education can provide effective ways of measuring outcomes. The agile approach also allows us to build on the...

GALCIT, the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories at the California Institute of Technology, is a system now 50 years old, with which I have been associated for nearly 40 years. Conceived by R. A. Millikan as part of his general scheme to construct a small, very high level technological school, GALCIT was built up by Theodore von Karman (in the spirit of Felix Klein) to serve as a center for the f...

Effective teaching with technology in adult education stems from many factors. Technology is only used to enhance learning. Not only are teachers of adult learners required to study the tools related to the use of technology, but are also required to study the nature of knowledge, the nature of learning, constructivism and various kinds of teaching philosophies. Without thorough knowledge of th...

With the advent of Information communication technology (ICT) and the growth of Internet, particularly the Web has changed the way of giving the curriculum materials to the students in online environment. Along with the print material, the materials are given in e-formats also. The online teaching tools like e-mail, discussion list, chat mode, lecture notes via web, use of computer mediated com...

Simulation is becoming very beneficial in the area of health care education. Dentistry has used various types of simulation in preclinical education for some time. This article discusses the impact of the current simulation laboratories on dental education and reviews advanced technology simulation that has recently become available or is in the developmental stage. The abilities of advanced te...

Blended Learning, a learning facilitation that incorporates different modes of delivery, models of teaching, and learning styles, introduces multiple media to the dialog between the learner and the facilitator. This paper examines online communication as the link between established theory of learning and literature on e-learning in order to better understand the appropriate use of blended lear...

In this short note, we give a brief introduction to the status of technology usage in mathematics education in China. We first introduce the government’s effort to build the infrastructure for CAI. Then we discuss representative CAI software systems developed in China. Finally we discuss efforts to integrate technology and education in middle schools, and curriculum developments. 1 Infrastructu...

If you really want to be smarter, reading can be one of the lots ways to evoke and realize. Many people who like reading will have more knowledge and experiences. Reading can be a way to gain information from economics, politics, science, fiction, literature, religion, and many others. As one of the part of book categories, mental retardation research education and technology transfer always be...

Robotics is a unique educational tool for many reasons including its ability to inspire students and motivate them to be creative. This paper presents our experiences in designing and teaching introductory robotics courses in Qatar and Ghana, two contexts in which robotics is not established and computing technology is in its early stages of impact. We discuss the motivation, challenges, approa...

This paper describes how virtualization technology was used to facilitate the teaching of three classes and presents heuristic results describing when certain technologies were preferred over others.