Way of the Wiki: The Zen of Social Computing

Vicki Williams; Barry Williams

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 1515–1518

Social computing is a term that encompasses all technologies that allow people, to communicate, emote online, make private thoughts public, interact, comment, critique, react, share, construct, and any number of other verbs. Society has taken their...

Continuous Instructional Improvement: Assess Your Way to Success

Vicki Williams; Barry Williams

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 458–461

Assessment is one of the most important steps in the Instructional Design process, but also one of the most frequently omitted. Beyond correcting errors in content and updating class schedules, assessment can help identify instructional as well as...

Supporting Critical Thinking: Web-Based Case Studies

Barry Williams; Vicki Williams

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 781–784

Case studies have long been used in print form to provide practice in dealing with situations in various fields. Case studies give learners an opportunity to gain experience with analysis, decision-making, and problem-solving without feeling that...

Building an Environment for Higher-Order Thinking: CMS as a Method of Encouraging Interactions

Vicki Williams; Barry Williams

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 3078–3080

Higher-order thinking skills (H.O.T.S.), according to Bloom, can be described as behaviors involving application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This presentation provides an inside view of how a course management system can be used to create ...

Topics: Evaluation, Learning Management Systems, Students

Path of Podcasting: The Zen of Social Computing, Continued

Vicki Williams; Barry Williams

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 1913–1915

Letting go is contrary to the nature of many teachers. It is as if they believe that no learning happens unless it is carefully orchestrated by themselves. Students, on the other hand, may learn more spontaneously. Vygotsky emphasized the idea that...

Web-Assisted Projects: Collaborative Learning in an Electronic Environment

Barry Williams; Vicki Williams

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2397–2399

Two graduate classes, from different academic programs, were brought together to work collaboratively on the design and development of a Web-Based Training project. The projects were problem-based and derived from students' workplace situations. The ...

Topics: Learning Management Systems, Instructional Design, Training

An implementation of vicarious learning environments in middle school classrooms

Scotty Craig; Arthur Graesser; Joshua Brittingham; Joah Williams; Trey Martindale; Gloria Williams; Renita Gray; Arlisha Darby; Barry Gholson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 1060–1064

Deep-level reasoning questions have been shown to be an effective way of improving learning in environments that are purely observational using randomized laboratory experiments. These types of environments have been referred to as vicarious...