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This demonstration is an overview of Operation SPLASH: an educational video game that motivates high school students to learn physics and chemistry. By designing game features according to specific motivational principles, we aim to trigger...

Operation SPLASH is an educational video game, which focuses on inspiring and developing student interest in high school physics and chemistry. Our design concept is to spark interest in a subject before providing instruction. While many...

Due to the emphasis on accountability in today's education system, teachers are faced with the task of achieving and maintaining their NCLB-mandated High Quality Teacher status through continuing education; as a result, administrators at the campus, ...

This paper discusses the process of upgrading CD-based reading teacher professional development courses to an entirely Internet-based system. This process included using a content management system (CMS) to organize and manage an extensive amount...

This roundtable gives attendees a "crash course" in setting up their own content management system (CMS) for the purposes of disseminating professional development resources utilizing the Plone CMS system.

Searchlight delivers online professional development resources to reading teachers in the state of Texas. The purpose of our poster is to demonstrate the use of an open source content management system (CMS), Plone, to offer teachers access to a...

There are many biology concepts that secondary students struggle to understand. Students in schools with low socio-economic status (SES) and high English language learner (ELL) populations often lack the required cognitive understanding in biology...

The concept of human cell structures and functions is a difficult area of instruction and learning, especially at the middle school level. We propose the implementation of an animation that is designed and developed with a framework grounded upon...

This paper presents a cognitive model of how interactive multimedia authoring (IMA) affect novices’ cognition in object-oriented programming. This model was generated through an empirical study of first year computer science students at the...