The use of computer networks and information technology are becoming an important part of the everyday work in almost all professions, especially in scientific areas, and facing new education concepts, many universities and education organizations decided to plan new strategies concerning computer based technologies. As a result of these developments Computer Aided Education (CAE) methods came ...

The paper describes a proposal a new platform whose main objective is to assist in preparing of the author’s guide and the development of educational software. This platform has support the X-TEC (TechnoDidactical Extension for Instruction/Learning based on the Computer) model. It's composed for two parts: a graphical tool and a code generation tool. The graphical tool makes possible the editio...

The discipline of Computer Theorem Proving (TP) distinguishes itself by formal rigor in doing mathematics in various application domains [1]. This short paper is, however, not on TP but on educational software based on TP components. Such software promises advantageous features [7] some of which are demonstrated by a prototype [3] called Isac. Isac is based on the TP Isabelle [2] and generates ...

This article presents a novel educational software package which develops an Interactive Didactic Application (IDA) created by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and which contains the essentials of textile design. It is an open application which uses a database in ASCII format. The principal elements of this database are lists of whole numbers structured according to indexed colors...

As a domain of application and reference for the proposed approach, we focused on Constructionism, a theory that studies the use of technology in the creation of educational environments. The most well known pragmatic result of Constructionism is the Logo programming language which, for the past 20 years, has been used by millions of students as a fertile soil for the development of critical re...

Computer-based instructional interventions are increasingly popular in classroom curricula. For students to benefit from these interventions, it is vital that they are properly trained to use the software. We investigate the effects of using active versus passive training techniques to familiarize users with a graphical programming environment, Alice. We examine the impact using measures of kno...

Prior research and development demonstrates that dynamic notations and multiply-linked representations can enable ordinary students to achieve extraordinary learning of scientific and mathematical concepts (Kaput, 1992). However, prior techniques for building such software have resulted in expensive, incompatible, and inflexible products (Roschelle & Kaput, 1996). The vast majority of education...

With the ever-growing number of choices of educational software for children scholastic programs, the task of choosing software can be a nerve-wracking one. As computer use becomes more substantial in home and classroom learning, the selection of software endeavors even more importance. The key aspects for providing a better learning experience lies in choosing software that successfully combin...

Many researchers have focused on the mining of educational data stored in databases of educational software and Learning Management Systems. The goal is the knowledge discovery that can help educators to support their students by managing effectively educational units, redesigning student’s activities and finally improving the learning outcome. A basic data mining technique concerns the discove...

Increasing class sizes, expanding curriculum, added time pressure on students and lecturing staff, contention for library resources and study space as well as the cost of educational administration are common problems being experienced within Irish and UK universities today. To alleviate some of these pressures and to improve the overall quality of learning within a university, there is a disce...