During the past few decades, major advances in the fıelds of cognitive psychology, brain research, and discipline-based education research in college science classrooms are providing guiding principles for how to achieve learning of complex knowledge and skills such as science. In part I, we describe the nature of expertise and how it is learned, primarily based on the fındings of cognitive psy...

The present paper introduces a new model for teaching randomized learners. Our new model, though based on the classical teaching dimension model, allows to study the influence of various parameters such as the learner’s memory size, its ability to provide or to not provide feedback, and the influence of the order in which examples are presented. Furthermore, within the new model it is possible ...

In an effort to increase female student interest in computing we applied and evaluated an interdisciplinary approach at a suburban high school in eastern Los Angeles County, California. Three classes, an IB Environmental Science class, an AP Environmental Science class, and a Computer Science were surveyed to assess attitude changes toward information technology. Results indicated gender differ...

The same forces are raising the position of teaching and learning methods on the institutional agendas of most universities and other higher education organisations. A declining unit of teaching resource has put the spotlight on teaching methods because teaching staff costs are a high proportion of total costs within universities. Greater focus on, and publicity about, performance indicators of...

In this paper a model to integrate the technology of tutoring systems to existing virtual reality training systems is described. The training systems are devoted to dangerous activities for energized line maintenance in the electrical domain. The systems are already in use and have impacted positively the traditional training method, which was based on classroom classes and camp training. The s...

Preschool teachers rely on several strategies for motivating children to participate in learning activities. In the current study, we evaluated the effectiveness of and preference for three teaching contexts in which embedded, sequential, or no programmed reinforcement was arranged. The embedded context included highly preferred teaching materials, the sequential context included highly preferr...

Recent advances in technology have brought major changes in pedagogy methods. Distance Learning (DL) has emerged as an innovative teaching method and it is becoming very popular in today’s education. We study a business simulation game in a DL environment and examine the learning outcomes and benefits of using the game in this environment. We also compare our test results to a game conducted in...

Objectives To examine the perception of educational environment among clinical year students in Thailand using Dundee ready education environment measure (DREEM) and identify factors associated with the DREEM scores. Methods A total of 2,467 fourth- to sixth-year students from 34 teaching hospitals nationwide responded to a Thai version of DREEM questionnaire. Data on each student's sex, year...

The method is derived from the Greek word "methodos" (Metha-to, odos way) and is defined as the way forward to reaching the goals. Recently, the method has been perceived as the teachers’ means to help students find their own way to rediscover the world around them. In other words, the teaching method is the model or set of procedures or methods organized for implementing the operations underly...

Many scholars have listed the problems that prevent organizations’ employees to attend face to face training methods. Additionally, they have presented Information and Communication Technology (ICT) especially distance learning system as important way to overcome these obstacles. However, they did not depend on empirical studies to mention those problems and to compare between traditional train...