AIM This paper reports the findings of an investigation into teachers' and students' understanding of the term self-directed learning (SDL), and their views concerning its value in paediatric intensive care (PIC) nurse education. METHODS Qualitative methods of data collection and analysis were used. The findings from interviews with teachers and students across eight PIC nursing courses are r...

This paper studies the similarities and differences among the views of school principals and teachers regarding a mobile computer lab (MCL) initiative implemented in 1,591 public schools in Chile. It also characterizes the aspects in which their views diverge. A mixed methods study was carried out in two stages: first, a quantitative stage, where a self-administered (web-based) questionnaire wa...

In the past decade, widespread educational changes were proposed for education at all levels of the system in South Africa. Educational reform has therefore become an inescapable part of the reality of teachers’ work. Initial implementation of the new curriculum for schools, guiding reform after the shift to democracy in 1994, was not easy for teachers and this was later revised and streamlined...

Previous studies on inferring the origin of routing changes in the Internet are limited to failure events that generate a large number of routing changes. In this paper, we present a novel approach to origin inference of small failure events. Our scheme focuses on routing changes imposed on preferred paths of prefixes and not on transient paths triggered by path exploration. We first infer the ...

The aim of the study is to explore the effect of the creative drama method on pre-service classroom teachers’ writing skills and attitudes towards writing. Additionally, the views of the pre-service teachers concerning the creative drama method were also investigated in the study. The participants of the study were 24 pre-service teachers studying at Karadeniz Technical University Fatih Faculty...

_______________ This paper describes a qualitative study in which English as a second language (ESL) teachers’ views on the innovation of visual language (the use of both words and graphics, images, placement, etc. to make meaning) were explored. The researcher carried out interviews with seven experienced instructors who taught ESL to adults in intensive English programs. Five teaching sites i...

The researchers conducted this study to investigate undergraduate preservice teacher candidates’ perceptions regarding variables related to instructor presence in online courses. Participants included 52 undergraduate education students enrolled in 100% online technology integration courses at a doctoral research university in the southeastern United States. The researchers used a mixed-methods...

There exists great diversity in the teachers’ digital world. Teachers are being discriminated based on numerous educational gaps. This paper seeks to assess the extent of the digital divide among the North Cyprus vocational teachers along the four axes: age, Internet access, computer access, and performance (computing knowledge/experience). A research was carried out through a questionnaire, wh...

The study focused primary teachers views on the educational use of Virtual Environments (VEs). A 3D reconstruction of a Portuguese Romanesque castle, XII Century, was developed. A sample of 21 teachers explored the VE. The study intended to construct a detailed description of the exploration process implemented by the school teachers and to elicit their perspective on the educational potential ...

Cognitive psychology research has suggested an important role for executive functions, the set of skills that monitor and control thought and action, in learning mathematics. However, there is currently little evidence about whether teachers are aware of the importance of these skills and, if so, how they come by this information. We conducted an online survey of teachers' views on the importan...