Appel, Christine; Borges, Federico(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2012-03-22)
[EN] The development of oral skills poses a challenge in language teaching whether this takes place face-to-face, through distance education or in blended learning contexts. Two main problems arise: first of all students ...
[EN] Lecturing has been prevailing in higher education. This teaching and learning model hinders the understanding of fundamental concepts in practical courses. The cooperative learning allows an improvement in the student’s ...
Kalogerou, Victoria(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-04-10)
[EN] The global financial crisis, the implosion of the local economy in Cyprus as well as European and global trends pertaining to the modernization of Higher Education, have urged educational administrators, departments ...
[EN] The European Union (EC-JRC, 2010), has stressed that higher education must change and adapt to economic and social needs, that institutional change is essential to educational innovation, and that information and ...
Aristeidou, Maria; Cross, Simon(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-07-26)
[EN] Higher education institutions are increasingly concerned about the impact of the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic on students and learning activities. Yet, we know little about the effect of this disruption, ...
Perez Vidal, Carlos; Garcia, Nicolas; Cervera, Enric; Gracia Calandin, Luis Ignacio; Sabater Navarro, José María(Manchester University Press, 2011)
[EN] Visual servoing uses the visual information provided by cameras to control the movement of a robotic system. This paper presents an international on-line course aimed at BSc, MSc and PhD students in this subject. The ...
[EN] Most of the literature on mobile language learning is located in classroom contexts, and often concerns the use of resources developed by teachers or researchers. However, we also need to understand learner initiated ...