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Virtual Reality as a Tool in the Education
Author: Piovesan, Sandra Dutra
Date: 2012-10-00
Type: Reports - Research
Subjects: Computer Simulation,Computer Software,Development,Educational Objectives,College Students,Evaluation Methods,Automation,Grammar,Technology Uses in Education,Higher Education,Programming

The virtual reality is being more and more used in the education, enabling the student to find out, to explore and to build his own knowledge. This paper presents an Educational Software for presence or distance education, for subjects of Formal Language, where the student can manipulate virtually the target that must be explored, analyzed and studied. With a simple interface, with easy comprehension and using, this paper presents an educational software where the student manipulates the objects that will be studied in 3D, getting easier the study of concepts and theories about Automatons, Regular Expressions and Minimization of Automatons interacting directly with the object in 3D. To the design of the automatons, the software uses tolls in 3D, as the Blender and the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) and to the publishing of a page on the internet it is integrated the Program Language PHP (Hypertext Pre Processor). The results reached with the use of the developed software show the attributes that make the ideal Virtual Reality for situations of research and learning taking the discipline as a reference of the classroom to the computer labs and making more interesting to the student, making the learning easy. [For the complete proceedings, "Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012)," see ED542606.]
Professional Development: Then and Now
Author: Bolt, Susan
Date: 2012-10-00
Type: Reports - Evaluative
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Faculty Development,Informal Education,Online Courses,Communities of Practice,Time Management,Teaching (Occupation)

Technological developments have altered pedagogies in classroom teaching but approaches to teacher professional development have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to describe an evolving learning process that spans the last decade and draws from three different investigations into professional development. The author compares and contrasts the key findings from two independent studies on teacher professional development. One study was situated in a face-to-face action research context and the other in an online environment. The conclusions drawn about the nature of effective professional development in these independent studies show that whether in online or face-to-face contexts educational developers need to consider similar elements. A review of the literature indicated that further research was required to enhance the development, implementation and evaluation of online professional development opportunities to meet the in-time learning needs of teachers in sustainable ways. The author concludes by summing up the advantages and disadvantages of moving towards online teacher professional development and considers possible applications. (Contains 1 table.) [For the complete proceedings, &quot;Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012),&quot; see ED542606.]
Collaborative Quiz Game Developed with Epik
Author: Sampaio, Bruno
Date: 2012-10-00
Type: Reports - Descriptive
Subjects: Educational Games,Tests,Scores,Teamwork,Interaction,Competition,Cooperation,Integrated Learning Systems

Games are currently being used by an increasing number of people, of different ages and in different contexts. Usually, they provide fun ways of interaction, collaboration, and competition among players. These aspects may be very important in an educational context, since many research studies confirm that games have many positive effects on students when used as learning activities. Therefore, we present in this paper a Collaborative Quiz game concept, which promotes collaboration between students and motivates them for learning. This game will be created using a graphical development environment currently under development, denominated Epik. (Contains 1 figure.) [Support for this paper was provided by the FCT/MCTES, Pest-OE/EEI/UI0527/2011 Centro de Informatica e Tecnologias da Informacao (CITI/FCT/UNL) 2011-2012. For the complete proceedings, "Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012)," see ED542606.]
The Education Bill of 1906 for England and Wales as it Past in the House of Commons. Bulletin, 1906, No. 1. Whole Number 360
Author: Smith, Anna Tolman
Date: 1907-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Public Education,Popular Education,Educational Legislation,Educational Policy,Educational History,Educational Change,Educational Administration,School Districts,Religion,Income,Educational Finance,Elementary Education,Higher Education,Biblical Literature

This bulletin is prepared in accordance with the provisions of the act provided May 28, 1896, authorizing the publication by the Bureau of Education of a bulletin &quot;as to the condition of higher education, technical and industrial education, facts as to compulsory attendance in the schools, and such other educational topics in the several States of the Union and in foreign countries as may be deemed of value to the educational interest of the States.&quot; This paper relates to the new English education bill, which had past the House of Commons and had gone to second reading in the House of Lords before the beginning of the present recess of Parliament. The introductory portion shows the relation of this bill to the historical development of public education in England and Wales. The passages carefully selected from the debate in Parliament and from other public utterances, show the nature of the changes which the bill would introduce by showing the attitude of the different parties and of well-known leaders toward those changes. Finally, the full text of the bill is given as it left the Commons, together with the text of the more important provisions of the net of 1902, now in force, which are necessary to a full understanding of the new measure. An index is included. Individual sections contain footnotes. (Contains 2 tables.) [Best copy available has been provided.]
German Views of American Education, with Particular Reference to Industrial Development. Bulletin, 1906, No. 2. Whole Number 361
Author: Hailmann, William N.
Date: 1907-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: College School Cooperation,Educational Attitudes,Foreign Countries,Industrialization,Industrial Education,Exhibits,Kindergarten,Art Education,Technical Education,Vocational Education,Apprenticeships,Elementary Schools,Middle Schools,Universities

The history and purpose of the Reiseberichte uber Nordamerika (Reports of an inspection tour in North America), of which this bulletin presents a partial synopsis, will best appear in the following statements from the preface of the Reiseberichte. The Prussian House of Deputies, on the 4th of June, 1902, requested the Prussian Government to institute a number of measures for the promotion of the smaller industries. In compliance with this request, the minister of commerce and industry in the year 1903 sent commissioners to southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and England to gather data of interest and value for Prussian conditions. In the year 1904 it was decided, on occasion of the St. Louis Exposition, to extend these studies to the United States and to appoint a suitable commission for this purpose. After a short stay in New York they entered upon their studies in St. Louis. Here the extensive and rich Educational Department of the Exposition afforded a most favorable opportunity to gain a comprehensive view of the school conditions of the United States; here also the further plans of the journey were determined upon. In the preparation of this bulletin, the chief purpose has been to present the impressions of the commissioners as baldly as possible, and only in so far as they touch upon matters of education in their bearing upon industrial development, in order to afford an opportunity to see ourselves in this work as others see us who know how to look and what to look for. An index is included. Individual sections contain footnotes. [Collated from the reports of the Royal Prussian Industrial Commission of 1904. Best copy available has been provided.]
State School Systems: Legislation and Judicial Decisions Relating to Public Education, October 1, 1904 to October 1, 1906. Bulletin, 1906, No. 3. Whole Number 363. Revised
Author: Elliott, Edward C.
Date: 1907-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Public Education,State Schools,Educational Legislation,State Legislation,Educational Improvement,Educational Administration,Court Litigation,Teacher Education,Professional Education,Higher Education,Educational Finance,Instructional Materials,Discipline,Educational Objectives,Delinquency,Attendance

This bulletin, entitled &quot;State School Systems: Legislation and Judicial Decisions relating to Public Education, October 1, 1904 to October 1, 1906,&quot; was prepared by Professor Edward C. Elliot, of the University of Wisconsin. It is intended to serve a special purpose. The legislatures of forty states will convene on or soon after the 1st day of January, 1907. In the most of these states bills will undoubtedly be introduced looking to improvements in the several state systems of education. It frequently happens that the framers and promoters of such bills and members of the legislature who are called to vote upon them, are desirous of acquainting themselves with precedents set in the recent school legislation of other states and may in fact derive many valuable suggestions from such legislation. It is hoped that the publication here offered will in large measure meet this need and will accordingly prove directly serviceable in the spread of improvements in the educational systems. While serving this special and immediate purpose it is hoped that it may prove useful in various other ways. A digest of the school laws of the several states was published by the Bureau of Education as Chapter IV of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1904. Professor Elliott's report brings that publication down to the present date, with a carefully compiled and classified list of all of the recent educational enactments. Indexes of subjects and States are included. [Best copy available has been provided.]
The Continuation School in the United States. Bulletin, 1907, No. 1. Whole Number 367
Author: Jones, Arthur J.
Date: 1907-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Adult Education,Foreign Countries,Educational Needs,Agencies,Institutional Characteristics,Program Descriptions,Educational Objectives,Continuing Education,Professional Continuing Education,Attendance,Dropouts,Statistical Analysis,Statistical Distributions,Educational Methods,Teaching Methods,Educational Practices,Comparative Analysis,Comparative Education,Adoption (Ideas),Continuation Students,Nontraditional Education,Educational Development,Profiles

The term &quot;continuation school,&quot; while commonly used in England for some time has not been generally employed in this country and may need some further explanation. As use in this bulletin, it refers to any type of school which offers to people while they are at work opportunity for further education and training. It thus presupposes educational training of some kind and continues but does not necessarily repeat the work of the regular school. it is supplementary to the work of the regular school in the sense that is additional to it. This work was undertaken at the suggestion of Dean James E. Russell, of Teachers College, Columbia University, after a preliminary study of the German Fortbildungsschulen had been made. So little systematic work has been done in this direction in the United States that it seemed well worth while to make a study of the situation as it is here, and a comparison of the means employed in Germany, England, and the United States. So far the only important attempt to make such a study is that of the Massachusetts Commission on Industrial and Technical Education. This report is admirable, but can not take the place of a definite study of local conditions even in Massachusetts, and much less in other places. the following study an attempt has been made: (1) To show the need of continuation schools; (2) To describe the agencies employed in Germany and England to meet a similar situation; (3) To describe representative types of continuation school in the United States; and (4) To show the place of the continuation school in country's educational system and the general purpose of such a school in a democracy. Bibliography and index are included. (Contains 21 tables and 15 diagrams.) [Best copy available has been provided.]
Agricultural Education Including Nature Study and School Gardens. Bulletin, 1907, No. 2. Whole Number 368
Author: Jewell, James Ralph
Date: 1908-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Agricultural Education,Agricultural Colleges,Foreign Countries,Surveys,Gardening,Elementary Secondary Education,Environmental Education,Bibliographies,Observation

This monograph was originally prepared as a thesis for the degree of doctor of philosophy at Clark University, and in its original form was accepted by the faculty of that institution in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree. It presents an unusually comprehensive survey of the provisions for agricultural education and for instruction in closely related lines in various parts of the world, but with especial reference to our own country. This bulletin contains the following chapters: (1) Nature study; (2) School gardens; (3) Elementary agricultural education; (4) Secondary agricultural education; (5) Agricultural colleges; and (6) Practical advantages of agricultural education. An index and a bibliography are included. Appended are: (1) Form for nature observations employed in the schools of Nova Scotia; and (2) The Irish system of agricultural education. Individual sections contain footnotes. [Best copy available has been provided.]
The Auxiliary Schools of Germany: Six Lectures by B. Maennel. Bulletin, 1907, No. 3. Whole Number 376
Author: Maennel, B.
Date: 1907-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Nongraded Instructional Grouping,Foreign Countries,Educational Change,Child Welfare,Parent Participation,Special Needs Students,School Districts,Educational History,Special Schools,Special Education,Discipline,Health Conditions,Student Characteristics,School Buildings,Classification,Admission (School),Teaching Methods

This bulletin contains a translation of a recent account of the auxiliary schools of Germany. The problem of proper provision for exceptional children and especially for backward children in greater city systems of schools has long been recognized as one of great importance. It has to do not only with the welfare of the children immediately concerned, but with that of all other children in the same schools for the necessity of devoting extraordinary care and attention to a few backward members of the class not infrequently prevents the teacher from giving due care and attention to the larger number of normally endowed members. For both reasons, the city school authorities within the past few years have devoted much attention to ungraded classes and other special provision for these exceptional children. It is believed that an account of a parallel movement in Germany, where it has had a longer history and has reached a more advanced organization will be of use to those who are furthering this movement in America. The lectures of Doctor Maennel here presented in free translation, together with his bibliographies, constitute the best account which Commissioner Elmer Ellsworth Brown has yet seen of this phase of German education and as such he believes the publication will be widely useful in this country. Bibliography and index are included. [The lectures contained in this paper were translated by Fletcher Bascom Dresslar. Best copy available has been provided.]
The Elimination of Pupils from School. Bulletin, 1907, No. 4. Whole Number 379
Author: Thorndike, Edward L.
Date: 1908-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Attendance Patterns,Academic Persistence,Student Attrition,Elementary School Students,High School Students,Age Differences,Instructional Program Divisions,Gender Differences,African American Students,School Segregation,College Students,Urban Areas

The rapid dwindling of classes in the upper grades of U.S. grammar and high schools has been often noted, and many suggestions as to the improvement of the system of education have been emphasized by reference to this tendency. It is clear that after all that has been done, the attendance of pupils, particularly in the elementary schools, is still in an unsatisfactory condition, and this condition becomes more unsatisfactory in the later years of the school course. In order, however, that any safe conclusions can be based upon these facts of current observation, it is necessary that the facts should be more exactly determined and more carefully analyzed. Some important studies have been made in this field within the past ten to fifteen years that have tended to show the danger of unqualified and sweeping statements with reference to the withdrawal of pupils from school, and to show also the difficulty of ascertaining the exact condition of school attendance with the statistical methods and materials available. This document carries this inquiry much further than previous studies. Proceeding by well-defined methods of modern statistical investigation, it shows clearly the necessary limits of the exact knowledge of the subject, but points out also the conclusions which may be drawn from such records as are obtainable. This document is presented in five sections, as follows: (1) Elimination by grades (the amount of elimination, the variability among cities, and the course of elimination); (2) Elimination by ages (the amount of elimination, the variability among cities, and the course of elimination); (3) Special reports (elimination with respect to sex, elimination in schools for colored children, and elimination in colleges); (4) Data on elimination by grades (the original school grade populations, the reliability of the data as representative of the general tendencies of the cities, the process of estimating actual elimination from the facts of grade populations, and additional data); and (5) Elimination by age (the original data of age populations, the reliability of age data from a few years as representative of the general tendencies of cities, the process of estimating actual elimination from the facts of school-age populations, and the variability among cities with respect to elimination by age. An index is also provided. (Contains 19 tables, 9 figures, and 11 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]
On the Training of Persons to Teach Agriculture in the Public Schools. Bulletin, 1908, No. 1. Whole Number 380
Author: Bailey, Liberty Hyde
Date: 1908-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Popular Education,Agricultural Education,Agricultural Colleges,State Government,Teacher Education,Public Schools,Elementary Schools,High Schools,Special Schools,Teacher Education Programs,Summer Programs,Lecture Method,Distance Education,Itinerant Teachers,State Schools

The most significant contemporaneous movement in education is the effort to adapt the work of schools directly to the lives of the pupils. It is the expression of the effort to make the school training applicable. The normal activities of the child are to be directed and trained in such a way that real education will result therefrom. Education will grow out of the child's experience; rather than be imposed on him. If this is to be the motive of popular education, then agricultural and industrial subjects will be made more and more a means of school work. It is therefore a question of the first importance how to organize these subjects into an educational harmony. The agricultural subjects are specially difficult of organization, because they, are so many and so diverse and so unlike in different regions. The character and success of the teaching of these subjects lie immediately with the teacher; there have been no institutions consciously to train teachers for such work; therefore it is not strange that many educators should consider the training of persons to teach agricultural subjects to be one of the most important educational questions. With the recent liberal endowments provided by the two Morrill Acts and the Nelson amendment, along with State government appropriations, the &quot;land-grant colleges&quot; have been able to give a greater impetus to agricultural education and have helped to form the rising demand for a wide extension of such education in high schools, normal schools, and schools of elementary grade. Fearing that the demand for the teaching of agricultural subjects may outrun the supply of properly qualified teachers, the Nelson amendment provided that &quot;said colleges may use a portion of this money for providing courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the elements of agriculture and the mechanic arts.&quot; This bulletin is presented in three parts, as follows: (1) Part I: The nature of the problem; (2) Part II: The means of training the teachers; and (3) Part III: The general outlook--The significance of normal work in the colleges of agriculture. An index is also included. (Contains 2 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]
List of Publications of the United States Bureau of Education, 1867-1907. Bulletin, 1908, No. 2. Whole Number 385
Author: Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
Date: 1908-00-00
Type: Historical Materials
Subjects: Bibliographies,Government Publications,Library Materials,Annual Reports,Position Papers,Information Sources,Indexes,Transcripts (Written Records),Federal Government

This bulletin presents a list of publications of the United States Bureau of Education for the years 1867 to 1907, prepared under the direction of the present librarian of the Bureau. This list is intended to make the publications of the Bureau better known and to facilitate their use. It should be of service to librarians and to students of special educational problems. This publication will undoubtedly further distribution and use of the documents referred to, and will answer many if the special inquiries which come from time to time to this Office. The bulletin is divided into five sections: (1) Annual statements of the Commissioner; (2) Annual reports; (3) Circulars of information; (4) Bulletin; and (5) Miscellaneous publications. An index is included. [Best copy available has been provided.]