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We describe a software toolkit called Indie, for building hybrid Investigate and Decide (Indie) learning environments. In Indie learning environments, students can run simulated experiments, construct reports, and submit these reports for critiquing....

Individualized feedback is an important factor in fostering effective learning. It is, however, often not seen in schools because providing it places a significant additional workload on teachers. One way to solve this problem is to employ...

An important skill engineering students need to learn is how to solve problems by running experiments and using the results to make a sound diagnosis of the problem. This paper describes a software tool called Indie, which includes an authoring tool ...

Individualized feedback is an important factor in fostering learning. However, it is often not seen in schools because providing it places considerable additional workload on teachers. One way to solve this problem is to employ critiquing systems....

Problem-based learning is a pedagogical strategy that centers learning activities around the investigation and development of solutions to complex and ill-structured problems. There are a number of difficulties in implementing it in schools. To...

Educational critiquing systems can provide students with individualized feedback on their work. These systems, however, rarely attend to student affective states such as motivation and self-confidence in learning. This paper describes the design and ...

Abstract: In Software Engineering classes, students need to learn how to use Unified Modeling Language (UML) in the software design process. In this paper, we describe a sketch-based software tool called SketchUML that allows students to create UML...

TThe study examines preservice teachers’ learning experience in two blended courses that used Angel LMSTM to supplement face-to-face instruction. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected from surveys designed to measure students’...

This study explored the role of the incorporation of web-based activities in augmenting student engagement and interaction in a traditional course. Data were collected in two semesters from four classes of students who took the course, using survey...

This one-year case study reports on the effectiveness and value of electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) from the preservice teachers' perspectives. Using surveys and selected interviews, the study explored how 38 preservice teachers' understanding...

Mixed or hybrid method has become an increasingly popular course delivery model in recent years, but research regarding the effect of mixed learning is limited because of its recent debut in the landscape of educational technology. This one-year...

This one-year case study examined hybrid learning in two elementary teacher education courses, which incorporated the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) into the online portion of the coursework. Fifty-one elementary teacher candidates who...