World Conference on Computers in Education VI: WCCE ’95 Liberating the Learner, Proceedings of the sixth IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education, 1995

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
IFIP Working Group 3.1: towards integration of computers into education....Pages 3-12
IFIP Working Group 3.2: the place of computing in higher education....Pages 13-21
IFIP Working Group 3.3: applications of computer related technology; are we making progress?....Pages 23-28
IFIP Working Group 3.4: training and education of information technology professionals....Pages 29-33
IFIP Working Group 3.5: using computers to support young learners....Pages 35-42
IFIP Working Group 3.6: distance learning, activities and plans for the future....Pages 43-49
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A two-phased development shell for learning environments: a design proposal....Pages 53-65
A combined knowledge and hypermedia system to attain educational objectives....Pages 67-74
Two-level learner modelling in the tutoring of declarative knowledge based problem solving....Pages 75-85
An application of fuzzy logic to student modelling....Pages 87-96
Knowledge transfer when learning a second programming language....Pages 97-106
A prototype design for an expert system to identify pupils’ misconceptions in science....Pages 107-118
Domain oriented modelling: a balance between simulation and programming....Pages 119-126
Expert design knowledge: a case study in dental education....Pages 127-136
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A rigorous framework for measuring development productivity and estimating the effort of multimedia courseware....Pages 139-149
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Attitudes towards using computers among Malaysian teacher education students....Pages 153-162
Computer education in developing countries: the Sudan case....Pages 163-171
Children’s potential for controlling their own learning while solving problems with an ‘idea organiser’....Pages 173-182
Computer based environmental studies in Lithuania....Pages 183-191
Uganda’s schools: do these need computers?....Pages 193-201
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A national strategy introducing educational computing in primary schools in Chile....Pages 203-212
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Cooperating school classes....Pages 215-223
Multimedia documents: towards a new paradigm for instructional technology....Pages 225-234
Enhancing traditional university science teaching using the World Wide Web....Pages 235-242
Categorizing distance learning systems: discovering successful ingredients....Pages 243-249
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The effects of age on gender stereotyping of computing....Pages 253-261
Attracting girls to information technology....Pages 263-270
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The use of direct manipulation in educational software design....Pages 273-282
Learning from experience: approaching the research of CD-ROM in schools....Pages 283-291
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What context for liberated computer assisted language learning?....Pages 295-303
Flexible assignment submission in distance learning....Pages 305-315
Computer based teaching and learning in statistics....Pages 317-325
The introduction of an information technology project: personal computing in the classroom....Pages 327-336
Computer mediated collaborative writing in higher education: enriched communication support using voice annotations....Pages 337-347
Hypermedia for open and flexible learning....Pages 349-361
Science education by way of the ‘ultimate electronic field trip’....Pages 363-373
Nonprogramming laboratory assignments for the introductory AI course using the FLAIR system....Pages 375-385
Quality learning through computer conferencing....Pages 387-394
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The ’social’ machine: the computer as a participant in social and cognitive interactions within the classroom....Pages 397-405
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Computers in secondary school: analysis of student attitudes....Pages 409-418
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Information technology capability—how does it develop?....Pages 419-427
GiPHouse, a professional student software house....Pages 429-439
Experiences in teaching team software design....Pages 441-451
Visual programming: an educational experience....Pages 453-465
Logic in first courses for computer science majors....Pages 467-477
Reflections of a computer scientist for teachers and teacher educators....Pages 479-486
Computer based environmental education as a mutual challenge....Pages 487-494
Computer science/informatics: the study of the Information World....Pages 495-503
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Future directions for research on information technology and educational management....Pages 507-516
Open architecture environment for control engineering education....Pages 517-530
Updating train-the-trainer activities: an action research study....Pages 531-541
Children and electronic media: the home-school connection....Pages 543-552
Introducing spatial information systems into schools: a curriculum project....Pages 553-563
The delivery of Information Technology capability in secondary schools in England and Wales....Pages 565-575
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Executive Information Systems in school management: a research perspective....Pages 579-588
Teaching and learning with telecommunications: issues for schools and professional development....Pages 589-599
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Why everyone should know how to program a computer....Pages 603-612
E-discourse in education....Pages 613-621
Breaking down the barriers: an architecture for developing and delivering resource based learning materials....Pages 623-634
Laptops which talk: liberating dyslexic learners....Pages 635-643
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Portability as a catalyst for cross-curricular Information Technology permeation....Pages 645-653
Can you balance the equation: effective implementation + school change = integrated technology tools?....Pages 655-665
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Computing and the understanding of text....Pages 669-677
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Computers and the primary curriculum: an action research case study....Pages 681-691
Technology and learning: computer mediated communication between deaf children....Pages 693-701
Community collaboration to develop active learning environments in school libraries through telecommunications....Pages 703-711
Bytes for Belfast: personal development for young people in disadvantaged areas through information technology....Pages 713-721
Starting learning with computer controlled models....Pages 723-732
Learner modelling by expert teachers: learner information space and the minimal learner model....Pages 733-742
Outback Oz: a study of one learner’s journey of liberation with the help of a portable computer....Pages 743-752
Designing software for cognitive change: StatPlay and understanding statistics....Pages 753-765
Contest-Kid: a competitive distributed social learning environment....Pages 767-776
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From concept to delivery: a new tool for courseware developers....Pages 779-789
What if pedagogues specified educational software?....Pages 791-803
Exploring mathematics with image processing....Pages 805-814
A systemic approach to courseware engineering....Pages 815-827
Experimental curriculum of informatics for 11 year old children....Pages 829-841
Learning mathematics with CAS....Pages 843-851
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Ten years of information technology policy in Norwegian education....Pages 855-862
Lessons from a decade of policies for stimulating computer use in the Netherlands....Pages 863-869
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Computers, telecommunications and Western culture....Pages 871-878
The impact of our questions on Information Technology policy and practice....Pages 879-884
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Hypermedia authoring in the classroom: but what is required to make it really creative?....Pages 887-897
STILE: the growth of a flexible, interdisciplinary resource base for open learning....Pages 899-906
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Findings from the Young Children’s Computer Inventory Project....Pages 909-920
Ethics: the neglected factor in computing education....Pages 921-928
Collaborative learning: teaching ethical theory in a computerized, case study format....Pages 929-937
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SIM-BEST: integrated tools for developing computer based educational simulation programs....Pages 941-951
Logic programming: a tool for development of educational systems....Pages 953-962
Computer simulated laboratory experiments and computer games: a designer’s analysis....Pages 963-973
Children and computer modelling: making worlds with WorldMaker....Pages 975-985
Hypermedia for mathematics: authoring courses with HMLE....Pages 987-997
Creating and using a computer debt simulation model for teaching the economics of developing countries....Pages 999-1009
Human-computer interface for educational software: an electronic communications software implementation....Pages 1011-1020
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Breaking with tradition in mathematics education: experiences of Turkish student teachers within a Logo-mathematics environment....Pages 1023-1031
Involving the school teacher in liberating the learner from traditional school culture....Pages 1033-1043
Technology preparation for preservice teachers: do they feel prepared for 21st century classrooms?....Pages 1045-1055
Computers and learning in primary schools: a case study in teacher development....Pages 1057-1067
Technology tools and the Curie Internet delivery system....Pages 1069-1078
Constructing staff development and educational change....Pages 1079-1087
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Preservice teacher education in Information Technology: a critical perspective....Pages 1089-1097
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Research and practice of CAI in Chinese basic education....Pages 1101-1109
Fostering mathematical thinking through gradual progression Computer Assisted Instruction....Pages 1111-1117
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Realizing a vision?....Pages 1121-1128
Back Matter....Pages 1129-1135