The Interrelationship of Encouragement and Confrontation Skills for On-Line Mentoring

Daniel Eckstein; Donna Eckstein; Yu-Fen Lin; Chi-Sing Li

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 308–317

Empowerment and confrontation are two important skills for mentoring on-line learners .In this paper, each of these skills are defined and illustrated. Specific on-line postings are included. Implications and applications for on-line instructors...

Peer Coaching and Community of Practice in Professional Development in ICT for Teachers

Chi-Syan Lin; Jan-Pan Hwang; Yu-Chi Kuo; Chung-Chi Wu; Yu-Chung Chu; Ya-Ting Carolyn Yang; Chi-Sung Laih; Jia-Rong Wen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 188–196

The paper reviews the PBL.NET project, which is targeted at professional development in ICT for school teachers in Taiwan. The strategy of professional development adopted by the project is combining peer coaching and community of practice online. A ...

Topics: Professional Development

The Effects of Integrating E-learning into the Direct-instruction Model

Yu-Chu Yeh; Li-Chuan Lin; Kai-Ming Huang; Chi-Che Lin; Yueh-Yin Peng

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 1539–1543

The Direct-instruction Model favors the use of teacher explanations and modeling combined with student practice and feedback to teach thinking skills. Using this paradigm, this study incorporates e-learning during an 18-week experimental instruction ...

Topics: Teachers, Instructional Design

The Design of a 3D Virtual Game for Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) Practices

Yi-Mei Lin; Chi-Syan Lin; Li-Hung Lin; Hsueh-Yu Chen; Jung-Tsan Ma; Ren Chang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 1255–1260

As China plays a more influential role in the global politics and economy, Chinese is likely to become an international lingua franca in the near future. Although the importance of learning Chinese seems to be well aware of, learning it is...

Reducing Novice Programmers’ Cognitive Load and Improving Learning Efficiency by Using Gap-Filled Programming Practice System

Yu-Jen Lo; Chiung-Chen Lin; Lily Hou; Jane-Dong Wu; Yu-Chi Feng; Te-Chin Chu; Greg Lee

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 2221–2226

One of the main challenges for novice programmers is to learn the statement, syntax, logical thinking and program design in a short time. Students usually experience a heavy cognitive load when learning to program. The limitation of teaching hours...

Topics: pedagogical issues, Teaching/Learning Strategies, Evaluation of Impact