Game Selection Method for Game-Based History Learning

Games that are used in research on game-based learning and serious games that are used for education are usually exclusive, making it difficult for teachers to attempt new methods in education. According to the data published in 2009 by the European Schoolnet (EUN), a network of European Ministries of Education, most of the problems that teachers face when using games in class are related to game selection. Based on the aforementioned data, this study presents a set of criteria for selecting games in order to solve the inconvenience experienced by teachers. The games, which are used as teaching materials for game-based learning, have been replaced with commercial games that are easily purchased, rather than serious games that are difficult to obtain the licensing. Based on the criteria, two games were selected in this study and the classes were conducted at the educational site. Compared to the group trained with textbooks, it has been confirmed that the effect of game-based learning was sufficient. In addition, five out of ten problems that teachers face were resolved.

University of Manitoba GISHub

This review provides an outline of the solution the University of Manitoba Libraries has implemented to integrate their ESRI Educational Site License. In looking at the tools available the project came to encompass the following:1. Semi-automated management and integration of UM ESRI site license using campus authentication methods2. Discovery and access point for proprietary and open researcher data3. Secure local environment for active-use geospatial datasets using ArcGIS EnterpriseThe following discusses the software specifics, use cases, and lessons learned in a Canadian academic library context.

Be Careful, if You Learn Geography for 8th Grade with „Ucha.se“

The article analyses the content of the video lessons and corresponding to them test items in Geography and Economics for 8 th grade, available for a fee, on the educational site "Ucha.se". The studied curriculum is related to the introduction of basic concepts and explanations of key processes studied by geology, geophysics, astronomy, geochemistry, geomorphology, meteorology, climatology, hydrology, biology and other sciences. There are serious lapses in the scientific reliability and correctness of the given statements in almost all lessons. Examples of factual errors, incorrectly asked questions, inaccurate images and pseudo-scientific simplifications are pointed.

WEBSITE OF EDUCATIONAL CLUSTER AS A TOOL OF OPENNESS AND PUBLICITY OF HIS ACTIVITIES

Educational clusters, combining pedagogical universities, schools and business, provide an entirely new scientific and educational space of practice-oriented professional training of future teachers and schoolchildren based on modern cloud and distance technologies. Despite the successful functioning, their activity is still not reflected in the net and is practically inaccessible to the general public. The article substantiates the need to develop an information and educational site for the educational cluster «school - teacher training University – business» to position it on the Internet in order to attract public attention, to ensure information transparency and transparency of its activities. Its structure, composition and content of information materials published on its pages are given, the requirements for content are described.

CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATIONAL AND METHODOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ INDEPENDENT STUDY

Based on the analysis of scientific and methodological sources, the article looks at the state of informational and methodological support of students’ independent study. The authors conclude that insufficient attention is being currently paid in Ukraine to the implementation of informational and methodological support of students’ independent study using cloud technologies. It has been determined that independent work as the dominant component of the students’ educational activity in the framework of joining the European educational space requires a new approach to its construction, covering the whole set of innovative aspects. The general problem of education is the reduction of the number of classroom hours and transfer of a significant amount of study material to independent study. Such a situation requires further scientific analysis and the development of specific recommendations in order to improve the independent learning activities. On the basis of the content analysis of scientific articles on the professional training of university students, the directions of improving informational and methodological support of students’ independent study were singled out on the example of the discipline “Modern Information Technologies”. Studies have been conducted among the students regarding their readiness to use the informational and methodological support of independent study and it is determined that it is advisable to use Google cloud services and an educational site with educational materials for independent work. In the article the approaches to introduction of informational and methodological support of students’ independent study are theoretically grounded and a model of informational and methodological support of independent study of university students is developed. Informational and methodological support of students’ independent study is based on the integration of two classifications of independent work (in terms of the type of learning tasks and of educational and cognitive activity) that will be performed in the complex way and will facilitate the formation of university students’ ability to organize and plan and the ability to work independently. For the discipline “Modern Information Technologies” an Internet resource is developed in the form of a site that contains the necessary information for performing independent work. Separately, an electronic calendar for the organization of independent student learning was developed. The integration of calendar elements into the educational site has been carried out in order to ensure the functioning of the informational and methodological support of students’ independent study. The methodological principles of informational and methodological support of students’ independent study were developed, namely the use of cloud service Google Calendar in the course “Modern Information Technologies”.

METHODOLOGY OF COMPUTER-ORIENTED TEACHING OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS TO THE STUDENTS OF A HIGHER TECHNICAL SCHOOL

The article proves that effective training of students of the higher technical school in differential equations can be achieved through the development and implementation of a computer-oriented practical training methodology. The methods, forms, and tools of training are described. The use of an educational site and the educational book «Computer-oriented practical exercises on differential equations» is proposed to contribute to the formation of students' abilities to work with ICT, which allow them to develop skills for creating mathematical models, apply procedures for solving differential equations and their systems, and involve software for analyzing and solving certain models. The goals of training were specified, the use of computer-oriented organizational methods and forms of training were proposed when describing the methodology. Implementation of the methodology involves using the developed system of tasks (mathematical, practical, professionally oriented), which promote conscious use of knowledge and skills to apply differential models in students’ future professional activities. The results of the experimental verification of the developed methodology of computer-oriented practical training in differential equations are presented. Indicators of the evaluation of the effectiveness of implementing the developed methodology in the learning process were: levels of mastering certain academic skills by students, levels of forming students’ skills in mathematical modelling and skills necessary for professional activities of future specialists, in particular, their abilities to use information and communication technologies.

PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM: MUSEUMS AND AGING: NOVEL NETWORK OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT OPTIMAL AGING

Museums represent an evolving and under-recognized network of opportunity for examining aging while supporting optimal aging across the lifespan. Museums bind communities together in a civic body by “…identifying its highest values, its proudest memories, and its truest truths.”(Duncan, 1991). They represent a secular ritual of the modern state in which the spiritual heritage of the nation is offered as a public reinforcement of political values. Art museums are also sites which enable individuals to achieve liminal experience - to move beyond the psychic constraints of mundane existence, step out of time, and attain new, larger perspectives. The interaction and potential synergies between museums and aging have been insufficiently explored in gerontological scholarship, with the existing emphasis largely focussing on facilitating access to older people and those with age-related health conditions. This symposium reflects and magnifies the networking of GSA with a major art museum through an Educational Site Visit during GSA 2019 to the Blanton Art Museum. It proposes to review museums and ageing in a broader context, exploring the context within which aging is represented in the discourse of heritage and museums, museums networking to provide a repository of late-life creativity, networks of older people as a key resource and client group for museums, life-course and inter-generational engagement with museums. Finally, the insights that the ageing of art works provide for curating the longevity dividend through developing scholarly networks between gerontologists and curators.

Wave-Particle-Collisional Planetary-Black-Hole Formation

This Letter was inspired by the Exoplanet section of an Astrophysics course conducted by the Australian National University on the educational site edX – specifically, a video presented by Dr. Paul Francis and Nobel Physics Laureate Brian Schmidt which asks, Why don't asteroids fuse together to form planets? From this starting point is developed a hypothesis explaining planetary, and black hole, formation not in terms of collisions but as a function of geometry that traces its roots to Einstein’s paper "Do gravitational fields play an essential role in the structure of elementary particles?" The geometry embraces the mass and quantum spin of particles of matter, the Higgs boson, plus the bosons of the weak and strong nuclear forces.

The potential of university libraries for building information competence

The authors examine the libraries role in building information competence of university students and the faculty. The academic libraries’ resources, their educational function of building information competence of the future professionals are discussed. Traditional teaching methods are analyzed, e. g. lectures, demonstrations, training workshops, consultations, printed and interactive instructive and methodological materials. Based on the reported statistical data, the authors conclude on the need to use every teaching method in the future. The libraries’ web-sites are examined as an educational site comprising teaching aids and materials. Interaction with social media is analyzed; the authors argue that the libraries should attract students, the faculty, and other university professionals via the social media. The experience obtained within the grant educational project “Publish right! (The role of the academic libraries in increasing publication activities of the university’s academic staff)” is discussed. Also the experience of the South Ural State University Scientific Library in building information competence related to various information activities of the faculty, students, and professional staff, is examined.

Design of Net-learning Systems Based on Experiential Learning

The theory of experiential learning is briefly reviewed and a model of the learning process is presented. The paper then discusses and characterizes a virtual learning environment and its relationship to experiential learning and learning styles. An approach for designing virtual learning environments is presented taking into account the technology for learning. A prototype for a virtual learning environment designed and built by the author and known as LeProf is then discussed along with its application in the design of an educational site for learning electrical circuits.