this study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in tefl in comparison to those who have educated in literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. on a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...

O ur society is infatuated with computers and their ever-expanding possibilities. Learning online using Web-based modalities is now widespread throughout the educational system. However, I believe that a degree of vigilance about its use in nursing education is in order and that it must be accompanied by in-person learning. Research so far supports the effectiveness of Web-based education. As a...

This article describes two web-based tools for teaching dendrochronology, the scientific study of tree rings, and presents quantitative evaluations of their value in a large class. Because of its wide scientific applicability, dendrochronology is appropriate for teaching in a wide array of courses, including those in the fields of natural resources and life sciences. Until recently, professors ...

The application of virtual worlds through Internet for teaching allows that the student can submerge himself in friendly environments that make learning more pleasant. This article presents three educational applications developed in these worlds. The first, for vocabulary learning, shows a set of virtual worlds designed in VRML where the student interacts with different objects. When an object...

Teamwork is recognized as an important skill for engineering and computer science students. Industry strongly advocates inclusion of teamwork in the curriculum and teamwork is a requirement for ABET accreditation. Unfortunately most engineering and computer science programs fail to address teamwork as something that needs to be taught. It is usually expected that students should learn teamwork ...

The article tackles the issue of the teaching dimension in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) contexts. In particular, it describes two Web-based courses that were held in 2006—one by the Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche – CNR and one by the University of Genoa, which, while sharing the socioconstructivist theoretical framework, adopt different approaches as far as the teaching dime...

This paper describes how an area of learning theory, specifically learning styles, is used to evaluate the learning outcomes of a web based course The Kolb (1985) Learning Style Inventory was administered to a group of 70 accounting students who had no prior experience with web based learning. Results are tentative, however it appears that there are learning style differences with respect to pr...

We describe a cooperative Web architecture that logically connects contents with hyperlinks and aggregates Web servers into a extremely distributed database. The cooperative architecture thus can turn the Web into a gigantic database and at the same time provide adequate navigation assistance for the Web. We implemented it with an advanced web server that is compatible with the conventional Web...