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Jou, Min; Liu, Chi-Chia – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
This article describes an implementation of interactive virtual environments that have been designed for supporting the education of technical skills in material processing technology. The developed web-based systems provide the capability to train students in the technical skills of material processing technology without the need to work on…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Semantics, Internet, Web Based Instruction
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Larson, Heidi J.; Tseng, Kevin S. – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2006
This article discusses how Montessori teachers create authentic and meaningful experiences for older students in the modern technological age while fostering the sensitive stages of imagination and exploration of the world around them. Maria Montessori observed that children learn to read and write through their spontaneous, independent behavior.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Literacy Education, Pilot Projects
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Hsieh, Chung-Hsiang; Sun, Chuen-Tsai – International Journal of Instructional Media, 2006
From a constructivist point of view, the importance of MUDs (Multiple User Dungeons) in education is justified based on their community-forming, learning, and role-playing functions. The authors propose a typology for educational MUDs and discuss their individual instructional approaches in order to measure MUD potential in ten-os of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language, Classification