On the basis of the existing traditional liberal arts, the new liberal arts reorganizes the subject curriculum, integrates modern information technology into philosophy, literature, linguistics, management and other courses, provides comprehensive interdisciplinary teaching for students, expands knowledge and innovates the way of thinking. Based on the background of new liberal arts, this paper focuses on the increasingly important trend of the application of virtual simulation experimental teac...

Teaching and Learning Technologies  Higher Education 

This paper explored the benefits of web-based information literacy programs for Open and Distance Education at tertiary institutions in Ghana. The purpose was to showcase the importance of developing a web-based information literacy program (WBILIP) for teaching and learning among distance education students and promoting Open and Distance Education at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS). This required a holistic perspective for in-depth findings, hence a qualitative method was a...

Educational Psychology  Education Administration  E-Learning and Knowledge Management  Distance and Open Education  Teaching and Learning Technologies  Educational Technology 

The current short report aims to share findings that have been revealed in a study which examined the effect of Storytelling frequency at home on the level of phonological awareness and empathy among 30 kindergarten children aged 4 - 6 years diagnosed with autism. Results were based on a quantitative methodology using two questionnaires that were given to the kindergarten teacher and to the parents. The findings have shown a significant correlation between the frequency of reading stories at hom...

Educational Psychology  Teaching and Learning Technologies 

The paper assessed the perceptions of teachers and students with regard to the effectiveness of the Business Management curriculum in Senior High School (SHS) in Ghana. The cross-sectional survey design was employed for the study where the views of 351 students and 30 teachers were sought concerning the potential of the current business management curriculum in preparing students to acquire employable skills. Students and teachers from ten (10) public senior high schools in the Kumasi Metropolis...

Education Administration  Teaching and Learning Technologies  Educational Technology  Higher Education 

In order to overcome the limitations in chemical practical teaching in colleges and universities, virtual simulation teaching is rapidly developed as a modern teaching measure combining theory and simulation practice, which can effectively solve the teaching limitations of chemical engineering practice in colleges and universities. In this paper, the development of virtual simulation practical teaching is reviewed, and the reform and practice of teaching mode and the shortcomings and improvement...

Teaching and Learning Technologies  Higher Education 

With the deepening of curriculum reform in Colleges and universities, the importance of curriculum education is becoming more and more prominent. “Speech and Eloquence” course is a practical course to cultivate talents with strong expression skills and qualities needed by contemporary society. Taking the ideological and political exploration of the course of “Speech and Eloquence” as an example, this paper integrates the ideological and political elements into each teaching unit, so as to provid...

Teaching and Learning Technologies 

In the new era, how to improve the teaching pragmaticality of ideological and political theory courses to better realize its role as the main position of ideological and political education has become the focus of teaching reform and innovation of ideological and political theory courses in recent years. In particular, how to use new technology and means to break the bottleneck of classroom teaching and broaden the platform of teaching resources has become the top priority of research. This pape...

Teaching and Learning Technologies  Educational Reform 

This study aims to compare the learning outcomes, gender differences and affective factors in the environments of blended and traditional learning and how to optimize the students’ engagement in blended learning. Around one thousand participants from one university were randomly selected to answer questions in questionnaires. It was found that 1) the pass rates under blended learning increased compared with traditional multimedia learning and the dropout rates under blended learning decreased co...

Teaching and Learning Technologies 

This paper analyzes the significance and role of strengthening the application of southwest minority intangible cultural heritage in animation, discusses the problems existing in the application of southwest minority intangible cultural heritage in animation teaching, and puts forward measures and methods to solve these problems, in order to better apply minority intangible cultural heritage to animation teaching and improve students’ creative ability.

Teaching and Learning Technologies 

As an important part of strengthening students’ comprehensive literacy education in university education, art education can guide students not only to master the basic technical skills of art, but also to pay attention to the cultivation of aesthetic concept and art innovation concept, and further promote the combination of students’ aesthetic quality education and art knowledge education. Art teachers need to fully combine the actual needs of students for art education content, speed up the adj...

Teaching and Learning Technologies  Art