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In this investigation we concentrated on the criteria what should be considered in de-veloping effective educational web sites. The proposed evaluation scale of educational web sites consists of 48 different aspects divided into three units:...

The aim of the present work was to study applicability of the relevant teaching method based on supplementary printed students' worksheets together with two educational Web sites - "Estonian Vertebrates" and "Estonian Plants". The teaching method...

The aim of the present research was to study the role of the individual and shared mental models in the process of forming students' competent environmental decisions in synchronous CSCLE. An environmental role-play was carried out in the CVW...

The study investigated the development of 53 students' representations about a genetic problem while performing exploratory and expressive modeling in a synchronous environment. The influence of collaborative scientific representation on individual...

The general aim of the research was to propose appropriate meta-communicative scaffolding patterns for supporting expressive modeling activity. The study focused on 20 teams carrying out the expressive modeling task during the introductory lesson of ...

Nine groups of students (total 36) from three different schools participated in a three-week pilot study and passed five virtual communities of the web-based simulation "Hiking Across Estonia". The members of hiking teams had to solve 35 different...

The study was designed for analyzing the mechanisms that guide students in developing their skills to formulate research questions, hypotheses, and plan experiments. Two web-based models ‘Ecological balance’ and ‘Changes of ecosystems’ were used by...