The University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC) was created in 1996 to facilitate distance delivery of programmes offered by UWI. Since 2002, UWIDEC has been incorporating the use of ICTs in the delivery ...

Computational simulation has played a relevant role in basics sciences as physics, also in applied sciences and engineering. Despite of the fact that the simulation topics might be relevant, most of them are not explicitly ...

This paper aims to verify the trajectory of the Undergraduate Course in Archival Science at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) for their production of scientific research, particularly as to what has been revealed ...

Understanding the scientific method fosters the development of critical thinking and logical analysis of information. Additionally, proposing and testing a hypothesis is applicable not only to science, but also to ordinary ...

In this review, the main characteristics of science teacher education in three countries in South America, namely Argentina, Chile and Colombia, are examined. Although reforms toward constructivist and inquiry-based teaching ...

OBJECTIVE: to identify, among the Academic Master's courses, run by Brazilian post-graduate nursing programs, analyzed in the three-yearly evaluation (2007-2009) of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education ...

Background: Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have undergone exponential growth over the past few years, offering free and worldwide access to high-quality education. We identified the characteristics of MOOCs in the ...

Traditionally, students learn about software testing during intermediate or advanced computing courses. However, it is widely advocated that testing should be addressed beginning in introductory programming courses. In ...