The details of the inception, development, and implementation for an online masters of mathematics degree, primarily for K-12 mathematics teachers are given. While the program is not yet complete, insofar as all of the courses having being written and taught, we know at this point enough information to begin a process of reflection and refinement about the creation, administration, and operatio...

The purposes of this study were to examine how well middle school programs support the attainment of key scientific ideas specified in national science standards, and to identify typical strengths and weaknesses of these programs using research-based criteria. Nine widely used programs were examined by teams of teachers and specialists in research on teaching and learning. Reviewers found that ...

The department of Curriculum and Instruction at Iowa State University, USA offers a leading residential program of information communication technology (ICT) in teacher education. Based on the success of this program, in 2003, faculty members and instructional developers at Iowa State University Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching (http://www.ctlt.iastate.edu) created an online maste...

Technology, media and the Internet are major agents of change in the language teaching profession. This presentation introduces skills and tools language teachers need to do their job more effectively and how they can embark on a strategy of self-development seeking assistance from institutional and organizational programs, peers and other sources. The following topics are addressed: (a) Change...

This study sought to identify the most effective elements required in online professional development to enable teachers to improve their use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in their classrooms. Four schools in Queensland were involved, with twelve classroom teachers participating in a year-long online professional development program over the school year supported by an on...

In this paper we describe the design of a managed learning environment called MTutor, which is used to teach an online Masters Module for teachers. In describing the design of MTutor pedagogic issues of problem-based learning, situated cognition and ill-structured problems are discussed. MTutor presents teachers with complex real-life teaching problems, which they are required to solve online t...

Creating and maintaining adaptive educational applications is a hard work for teachers and developers. In order to help the author to perform these tasks the e-learning systems must provide authoring and management tools. In this chapter we are going to describe several useful tools for working with adaptive educational hypermedia systems, concretely with the AHA! system. AHA! is an well-known ...

one of the main concerns of teachers in modern learner-centered approaches is whether published teaching materials can meet the needs of students at a particular leaning situation or the teachers ought to prepare their own materials. this dilemma gets worse when the teaching situation includes a textbook prescribed by an authority such as the ministry of education. in such cases, the teacher ha...

Despite the global spread of English, it seems that voices from Persian-speaking teachers concerning English as an international language (EIL) teaching methods and materials are underrepresented. The present study set out to explore how nonnative Persian-speaking English language teachers respond to the increasing global dominance of EIL and native- and non-native-speakers’ language norms with...