Modeling Audio-Based Virtual Environments for Children with Visual Disabilities

Jaime Sánchez; Nelson Baloian

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1652–1659

Diverse studies have pointed out the relevance of model-based educational software. This idea has not been implemented fully when developing software for children with visual disabilities. We introduce AudioVida, a virtual environment for children...

Topics: Software, Children, Navigation, Virtual Environments

Augmenting Whiteboard Interaction in the Classroom

Henning Breuer; Nelson Baloian

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1214–1221

Interactive whiteboards in the classroom are usually used as presentation media with annotating features - combining slide presentation with graphic chalkboard functionality. Pedagogic and situational limitations of this approach need further...

Topics: Classrooms, Software, Interaction

Implementing Authentic Activities for supporting learning through remote monitoring of earthquakes

Nelson Baloian; Henning Breuer; Mitsuji Matsumoto

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 2250–2257

. The discovery or re-construction of scientific explanations and understanding based on experience is a complex process, for which school learning often uses shortcuts. Based on the example of analyzing real seismic measurements, we propose a...

Topics: Science, Collaboration

A methodology for developing audio-based interactive environments for learners with visual disabilities

Jaime Sánchez; Nelson Baloian; Héctor Flores

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 540–545

Educational software has been criticized for not using explicit models to generalize and replicate good practices. Actually almost every educational program has a model, but most of them remain implicit. In this paper we propose a methodology for...

Topics: Multimedia, Software, Children

Learning about Earthquakes: Getting Serious about Authenticity in Computer-Supported Learning

Nelson Baloian; Jose A. Pino; Jens Hardings

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 19, No. 3 (2011) pp. 285–302

The discovery or re-construction of scientific explanations and understanding based on experience is a complex process, for which school learning often uses shortcuts. On the basis of the example of analyzing real seismic measurements, we propose a...

A Model for Courseware Development (MCD)

David Fuller; Sergio Ochoa; Nelson Baloian

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2320–2323

Today's educational requirements have forced the traditional institutions to introduce technology in the education and modify the teaching-learning process in order to maintain curricula updated and cope with the constant changes. Although this is a ...

Topics: Computers, Educational Technology, Computer Sciences

Implementing Teaching Strategies in the Classroom

Nelson baloian; Wolfram Luther; Heinz Ulrich Hoppe; Olivier Motelet

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3797–3802

In this paper we propose a method and its implementation for structuring multimedia-based teaching-learning material. A new lesson manager tool generates lesson graphs following a pre-selected teaching strategy. These lesson graphs are then used for ...

Topics: Navigation, Teaching Methods

Dealing with the Students' Attention Problem in Computer Supported Face-to-Face Lecturing

Nelson Baloian; Jose A. Pino; H Ulrich Hoppe

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 11, No. 2 (2008) pp. 192–205

This paper addresses issues of using computer technology to support in-classroom teaching and learning regarding one of the most frequent problems in such scenarios: the students' attention. First, it presents the distraction and focus of attention...