Broadening Established Theories of Multimedia Learning: An Extended Model of Multimedia Learning Design Based on Learning Object Technology

Thanasis Giouvanakis; Haido Samaras; Despina Bousiou; Konstantinos Tarabanis

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 507–514

A trend is currently being attempted in the multimedia learning technology field to examine the impact of certain additional and potentially significant parameters. Beginning with established theories of multimedia learning such as the Cognitive...

Topics: Multimedia, Cognition, Learning Objects, Developmental Stages

The Constructivist Perspective in Distance Learning Environments

Areti Valasidou; Dimitrios Sidiropoulos; Despina Makridou-Bousiou

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1932–1935

Distance educators need to use different techniques and methodologies than the ones in a traditional classroom, in order to deliver effective distance teaching. Many researchers have suggested that constructivist learning theories can be...

Topics: Distance Education

Adaptive web based learning and factors affecting student performance in economics

Dimitrios Sidiropoulos; Areti Valasidou; Despina Bousiou-Makridou

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4497–4501

The main aim of this paper is, to investigate the factors that contribute to student success, and provide new ideas on how these factors could be used to offer adaptive learning in economics in a web based environment. First, there is a description ...

Topics: Students

Infonomics: Designing an Open Virtual Environment for Economic Learning

Panayotis Tyrovouzis; Stavros Tsopoglou; Bousiou-Makridou Despina

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 2310–2315

This paper discusses the designing principles of Infonomics (www.eco.edunuke.net/index.php), an open virtual environment for the support of a Principles of Economics course. This virtual environment, uses an Open Source (OS) Content Management...

Topics: Virtual Environments

Designing Multimedia Learning Environments Using Learning Object Technology

Haido Samaras; Despina Bousiou; Thanasis Giouvanakis; Konstantinos Tarabanis

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3996–4004

This article proposes a model of multimedia learning and a methodology for designing and developing effective multimedia learning content based on this model. We have attempted to provide a model of interactive multimedia learning and to develop an...

Topics: Learning Objects, Multimedia

Towards a New Generation of Multimedia Learning Research

Haido Samaras; Thanasis Giouvanakis; Despina Bousiou; Konstantinos Tarabanis

AACE Journal Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 2006) pp. 3–30

** Invited as a paper from ED-MEDIA 2004 ** Empirical research regarding the impact of multimedia on learning can be traced back several decades before the large-scale invasion of multimedia learning resources (like Cd-ROM titles and Internet...

Topics: Cognition, education, Instructional Design, design, Educational Technology, Multimedia, Learning Styles, Educational multimedia, Interactive Multimedia Systems

Towards a New Generation of Research Regarding the Influence of Multimedia on Learning

Haido Samaras; Thanasis Giouvanakis; Despina Bousiou; Konstantinos Tarabanis

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4285–4292

Multimedia learning resources ranging from Cd-ROM titles to Internet applications have proliferated in the last three decades. At the same time empirical research has tried to provide evidence in favor of or against the effectiveness of educational...

Topics: Multimedia

Multiple Ways of Enriching a Web-based Learning Environment through Concept Maps

Thanasis Giouvanakis; Haido Samaras; Despina Bousiou; Konstantinos Tarabanis

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4212–4220

Recognizing the undisputable educational value of concept mapping, this article presents, evaluates and categorizes multiple ways of applying this significant educational activity. It then describes the logic behind the design of a system that...

Exploring the strengths and limitations of learning styles towards the design of an adaptive web-based instructional system

Thanasis Giouvanakis; Konstantinos Tarabanis; Despina Bousiou; Haido Samaras

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1707–1712

This presentation reports on our current and on-going R&D efforts towards the design and development of an instructional system that supports individual learning preferences through an adaptive web-based learning environment. The aim of the system...

Topics: Physical Environments, Instructional Materials, Learning Objects, Educational Technology, Virtual Environments