Curriculum packages have been developed that attempt to build in a view of teaching and learning to promote ‘good practice’ in teaching. Improving the quality of teaching is influenced by the ability of curriculum ...

Over the past decade, the field of educational technology has endorsed constructivism as a suitable referent for the development and meaningful use of appropriate software in education. Examples in science include the ...

Professionals, in addition to being technically competent, require skills of collaboration, communication and the ability to work in teams [1,2]. There is a reported competency gap between these skills required by employers ...

This paper presents an agent-based approach to supporting e-Iearning. In contrast with other work, we facilitate learning of learners by providing them with a set of services that are useful to construct knowledge. ...

Higher education institutions undertake a range of approaches to evaluating and making judgments about the quality of their e-learning provision. This paper begins by exploring benchmarking as one current strategy in ...

The purpose of the study reported on here was to explore ways in which the interactive whiteboard (IWB) can support students¿ understanding of texts. A Year 3 and a Year 4 primary school class in New South Wales, Australia, ...

One aim of academic development is to help university teachers become aware of and capable of using student-focused ways of experiencing teaching. Phenomenographic approaches which focus on variation and relevance ...

This paper describes five 'ways of experiencing dissemination, from distributing project products and information to experiencing dissemination as an ongoing two-way engagement aimed at bringing about change in the culture ...

E-learning on the Internet is constituted by the options that this global technology gives the user. This article explores these options in terms of the lifestyle choices and decisions that the learner will make about the ...