DARWIN HAS COME BACK TO THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS: AN EDUCATIONAL JOURNEL TO DISCOVER BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION

Abstract:

Over the past three decades, the use of ICT played a key role in the teaching and learning processes, redefining strategies, concepts and training paradigms (Frydrychova, 2013), throughout the educational systems in the world. Universities started to exploit the potentials of new technologies, offering “virtual courses” in Second Life, on line courses by video-lessons followed by millions of students (as happened for the Artificial Life course, at the MIT), virtual tutors interacting from all over the world. Teachers and students have created strong learning / teaching communities, with a dramatic improvement of the students achievements (Boulos et al., 2007; Zhu et al., 2007; Brown et al., 2008, Chaua et al., 2013), both from cognitive and practical points of view. In this paper, we present an advanced virtual environment in which both learners and teachers are actively engaged in the process of skills development …

Año de publicación:

2014

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