Technology to Enhance Learning: Use of a Web Site Platform in Traditional Classes and Distance Learning

Higher education students' perceptions on their barriers to critical thinking

“…As for the implications beyond the Turkish context, teaching critical thinking in schools is a major challenge (Berger & Topol, 2001; El Yazidi, 2023), especially in developing and underdeveloped countries. As the seeds of critical thinking were cultivated mainly in Europe (Wang, 2017), developed countries have made a considerable progress in developing and teaching critical thinking.…”

Improving hypermedia teaching resources – new designs for e-learning environments

“…And indeed, this type of resource has a number of important advantages in education. Moreover, and because the hypertext format allows various navigation options and allows the students to explore and analyse different perspectives within which to solve a particular problem (Jonassen, 1992), the students can then develop a critical understanding of the domain (Beasley and Smyth, 2004;Berger and Topol, 2001) and identify the most appropriate solution in each particular situation. In these environments, the students themselves can decide where, when and for how long they wish to study (Hill, 2000), as well as the order, depth and speed with which they will explore the contents, on the basis of their capabilities, skills and needs (Beasley and Smyth, 2004).…”

Distributed Platform for the Control of the Wifibot Robot Through Internet

“…Also, this system will allow the professor to take into account not only the final results obtained but also the work the student has actually carried out to evaluate the practices. Even, this system could make possible that several educative centres share their equipments and so, the expenses of establishment and maintenance of them (Berger and Topol, 2001). This paper presents a platform, developed so that the students can make use of the mobile robots available in the laboratory through Internet.…”