TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION ON DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS

Mihai Bîzoi, Ana-Maria Suduc, Gabriel Gorghiu

2010

Abstract

Technological progress has allowed the emergence of new approaches to teaching. The virtual instruments development has led to lessons based on virtual experiments - applications that simulates real-life phenomenon and are specially designed for students use. Many virtual experiments can be obtained free of charge from the Internet, but their use in the classroom involves more than these tools availability. It involves the use of new teaching techniques and training materials. Through a European project, hundreds of teachers of sciences were trained to develop and implement virtual experiments in the classroom. This paper presents some of the expectations of teachers before the start of the training course and their opinion after the class implementation.

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Bîzoi M., Suduc A. and Gorghiu G. (2010). TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION ON DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS . In Proceedings of the Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: ICTEL, (INNOV 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-15-7, pages 133-136. DOI: 10.5220/0003034301330136


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ictel10,
author={Mihai Bîzoi and Ana-Maria Suduc and Gabriel Gorghiu},
title={TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION ON DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: ICTEL, (INNOV 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={133-136},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003034301330136},
isbn={978-989-8425-15-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT - Volume 1: ICTEL, (INNOV 2010)
TI - TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION ON DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS
SN - 978-989-8425-15-7
AU - Bîzoi M.
AU - Suduc A.
AU - Gorghiu G.
PY - 2010
SP - 133
EP - 136
DO - 10.5220/0003034301330136