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21st century Learning is learning in a knowledge era. Change is necessary to foster new ways of learning to address 20th century shortcomings in learning that mostly catered to the traits of Gen-X. A transition is required to deal with the traits of Gen-Y. Global access to educational content at any time has diminished the functions of schools as information deliverers. To foster non-assessment based...
The ICTWays Network focuses on the use of ICT to support Science teaching classrooms. After identifying existing hardware and software resources in European schools, existing ICT training procedures for teachers, available software for science teaching and current best practices, the partners are working on the development of a Community of Practice for Teachers, as well as providing local workshops...
Many educational theorists stress the importance of social aspects for effective learning. In “communities of practice” for instance, groups of practitioners might learn from each other and eventually constitute a shared identity. Web 2.0 provides an ideal opportunity for this. An example of such a Web 2.0 information technology is slidecasting, which can be described as podcasting by synchronizing...
IT is viewed as a tool that provides extended opportunities for developing countries in poverty reduction, education and health care improvement and thus, assists in a more dynamic economic and social development. There has been a large wave of investment over the past decade in ICT for development (ICT4D) in African countries, and particularly, in creation of ICT or telecenters in rural areas. While...
Assistive technology (AT) describes any device or other solution that is used by people with disabilities to assist in performing tasks or activities. While potentially useful, the availability of appropriate AT for people with disabilities can be problematic due to high costs, limited funding sources, and a lack of expertise on what solutions might exist for their needs. This paper explores the potential...
Researches on information communication and technology (ICT) teacherspsila training are focused on training courses and train models in recent years, thus by lacking to probe into theories which support training, such as learning theories, activity theory and knowledge management theory. This paper briefly describes those theories above, and explores ICT teacherspsila training from multiple theoretical...
The synergetic theory, an important systems science has already been applied widely in each domain, but it is used little in the sports curriculum reform. This research is about the application of synergetic theory together with information technology and computer technology in sports curriculum. Culture is the important foreword parameter to conduct the deep research which to explore one kind of...
This paper aims to engage in the discourse of the transformation of the higher education sector through institutional restructuring and operational strategy. This entails the deliberation of six key elements and challenges during the development of a new integrated strategic and operational plan. The integrated professional management and support of these elements will ensure that the institution...
With a rapid deployment of mobile devices, mobile learning gives rise to new possibilities for extending learning opportunities to all social-economic levels. Nevertheless, current research on mobile learning has mostly been aimed at enhancing learning of school or college students. In this light, the paper seeks to throw light on the potential of mobile learning for distance learner communities,...
The knowledge society progresses at high pace and societies remaining aside of this evolution, face to be left behind for decades. The information and communication technologies (ICTs) have contributed dramatically in establishing the information and yet the knowledge society. The continuous decreasing investments costs facilitates individuals, businesses, administrations their inclusion in the world...
The blended learning can be defined as integration between the traditional training and E-learning. In a context where the student is at the centre of the training process, the tools used to bring the knowledge and professional competence must be most appropriate for every kind of learning path. The mere summation of both traditional and up-to-date approaches however is not sufficient to face with...
The demand for organizations to cope with the changing environment has led to the development of the concept learning organization (LO). The competitivity and growth in this environment largely depend on investments in human capital. This paper presents a LO model for Technical & Vocational Education & Training Institutes of Sri Lanka through an action research. This model could be considered...
E-learning has emerged as an attractive alternative for the delivery of teaching and learning or training. It has the potential to benefit student, instructor and the society at large. The advent of Internet and multimedia has injected a paradigm shift in training, teaching and learning thus contributes to easier, flexible, attractive, meaningful and effective learning without the constraint of time...
This paper presents a new specification to describe the context of learning environments. It provides suggestions how this specification should be discussed and further developed using the concept of social standardisation.
This study explores essential processes for developing a pedagogically meaningful e-tutor training program for online synchronous language teaching. The pedagogical values of synchronous cyber classroom for language teaching are addressed and detailed descriptions of an online training program conducted for language teachers in a synchronous classroom teaching environment are presented. Forum postings...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of Web-based community of practice in teacherpsilas professional development. The focus is on e-portfolio assisted mentoring for professional development in a Web-based community of practice. The design and structure of a community of practice is presented with the study of impact on competence development. The focus of survey was to establish, how...
This paper presents the results of a five year study of womenpsilas roles and status in Ennis Information Age Town - one of the largest community technology projects in Europe. Womenpsilas diverse roles and contribution to the project are explored within an ethnographic research framework which investigates womenpsilas experiences, expectations and relationships with ICT, their knowledge and expertise,...
Software engineering has emerged as a discipline, but it is still new and relatively small. It is important to consider how this process has progressed, and to ensure that the continued evolution of the discipline has the support and attention that will ensure success. Nancy Mead has positively influenced software engineering education for the past several decades. This paper discusses Nancypsilas...
Interaction analysis is increasingly used to study learning dynamics within online communities. This paper aims to investigate whether interaction analysis can help understand the practice and development of self-regulated learning (SRL) in virtual learning communities (VLCs). To this end, a set of SRL indicators is proposed to spot clues of self-regulated events within students' messages. Such clues...
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