acquisition” 3, what impact might a highereducation academic’s understanding of the term ‘curriculum’ have upon the process and activitiesthey undertake when designing and developing courses and programs of study?This paper reports on the initial findings of an on-going study whose aim is to tease apart thefactors that affect an individual academic’s engagement with curriculum design and development.So far, data has been collected from 22 academics involved in teaching computer science,software engineering, engineering, and information systems courses at three Australianuniversities. The constructivist grounded theory methodology proposed by Charmaz 4 wasselected for this project. Accordingly, data collection and analysis are being
collaborative manner that parallelsreal-life working conditions. Importantly, online labs can be also used in workplace settingswhere there is a pressing need to apply these systems to continually provide learningopportunities for workers who must adapt to rapidly changing conditions.Online laboratories is a subfield of the interdisciplinary field of Online Engineering. Onlinecan be defined as an i utilizing the areas of engineering, computing and telematics, wherespecific engineering activities like programming, design, control, observation, measuring,sensing, and maintenance are provided to both remote and local users in a live interactivesetting over a distributed, physically-dispersed network.Learning situations in laboratories can be highly
Paper ID #8380Invited Paper - Virtual Environment: A Tool for Developing Students’ Abili-ties to Apply Mathematics to Real-life ProblemsDr. Olga V Shipulina, Simon Fraser University EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING BACKGROUND SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, Canada, 2008 –present Faculty of Education Ph.D. (c) in Mathematics Education MOSCOW STATE AUTOMOBILE & ROAD TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Russia, 2004 Institute for Professional Development, Two year course in ”Engineering Education” TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY, Russia, 2000 Department of Mechanics and Mathematics Ph .D. in Ap- plied Mathematics (Russian equivalent) TEACHING