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Computer mediated communication—including web pages, email and web-based bulletin boards—was used to support the development of a cooperative learning community among students in a web-based distance education unit for practicing science and...

Computer mediated communication—including web pages, email and web-based bulletin boards—was used to support the development of a cooperative learning community among students in a web-based distance education unit for practicing science and...

Secondary school science teachers have a wide variety of teaching approaches available to them as they support the development of their students’ scientific literacy and knowledge of, and about, science. Information technologies, on computers and...

Students in 4 Canadian high school physics classes completed instructional sequences in two key physics topics related to motion – Straight Line Motion and Newton’s First Law. Different sequences of laboratory investigation, teacher explanation ...

This study investigated whether conceptual development is greater if students learning senior chemistry hear teacher explanations and other traditional teaching approaches first then see computer based visualizations or vice versa. Five Canadian...

Explanation is an under-researched area in science education. The ways in which successful physics teachers explain physics concepts to their students were studied in Australia and Canada using video analysis of classroom teaching. This paper...

Abstract: The Rural Advanced Community of Learners (RACOL) project undertook an initiative to develop broadband synchronous and asynchronous technologies to a rural school district in northern Alberta, Canada. Relying on the recently installed...

Teachers in the Rural Advanced Community of Learners (RACOL) project in northern Alberta, Canada, are teaching geographically separate classes in up to 5 schools, some over 100 km apart, using Virtual Presence Learning Environments (VPLEs). These...

Scientific visualisations such as computer-based animations and simulations are increasingly a feature of high school science instruction. Visualisations are adopted enthusiastically by teachers and embraced by students, and there is good evidence...

The ways teachers explain ideas to their students are an important part of teaching and learning physics. They are also related to the context of the physics course, and to the personal style of the teacher. This study used qualitative analysis of...

The Rural Advanced Community of Learners (RACOL) project is intended to provide learning opportunities to high school students in remote communities in northern Alberta. This paper uses a narrative case study research methodology, and reports the...

Enormous amounts of money and energy are being devoted to the development, use and organisation of computer-based scientific visualisations (e.g. animations and simulations) in science education. It seems plausible that visualisations that enable...

Visual modes of representation have always been very important in science and science education. Interactive computer-based animations and simulations offer new visual resources for chemistry education. Many studies have shown that students enjoy...

A quantitative, quasi-experimental study of the effectiveness of computer-based scientific visualizations for concept learning on the part of Year 11 physics students (n = 80) was conducted in six Queensland high school classrooms. Students' gender...