Seven Challenges for East/West Distance Educational Development

Jack Fei Yang; Chao-Ming Lin; Hsun-Cheng Lin

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 5318–5321

As different societies have different economics, technologies, politics, culture and educational policies, there are number of challenges to global distance educational development. This paper focuses on differences between the East and West...

Topics: Culture, Educational Technology, Distance Education, Administration

Murder in Academe—The Case for Mentoring in Doctoral Advising

Larry Bright; Nick Chao-Ming Lin; Hsun-Cheng Lin

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) p. 2282

Empowering others through relationships and knowledge exchanged online and live is an educational dream. Yet, constraints of time, technologies, and mores that separate the roles of teachers and students can "murder?relationships. Technologies can...

Topics: Educational Technology

A Research of Employing Cognitive Load Theory in Science Education via Web-Pages

Yuan-Cheng Lin; Ming-Hsun Shen; Chia-Ju Liu

International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design Vol. 4, No. 2 (April 2014) pp. 19–34

This study adopted Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) to investigate the influences of multimedia presentations on achievements of science learning and the correlations between eye-movement models under distinct multimedia combinations and learner...

Issues in Future Distance Educational Research

Jack Fei Yang; Chao-Ming Lin; Hsun-Cheng Lin,; Ching-Mei Hsiao

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4876–4880

There is an important need in providing media comparison research in order to adopt the most appropriate media for distance learning, however, beyond the media comparison studies?future researchers should avoid focusing only on a media comparison...

Topics: Learning Outcomes, Race, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Distance Education

Learning and diagnosis of individual and class conceptual perspectives: an intelligent systems approach using clustering techniques

Shein-Yung Cheng; Chia-Sheng Lin; Hsien-Hsun Chen; Jia-Sheng Heh

Computers & Education Vol. 44, No. 3 (April 2005) pp. 257–283

In a classroom, a teacher attempts to convey his or her knowledge to the students, and thus it is important for the teacher to obtain formative feedback about how well students are understanding the new material. By gaining insight into the students'...

Language: English

Is Learning More Influenced by Media or Instruction? East and West Issues

Jack Fei Yang; Larry K. Bright; Nick Chao-Ming Lin; Robert Hsun-Cheng Lin; Ching-Mei Hsiao

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1095–1099

Both instruction methods and types of distance media may influence learning. This paper explores differences between East and West distance-learning environments and implications for distance education media uses. Cultural traditions affect...

Topics: Distance Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Outcomes

Will Media Ever Influence Learning? Global Perspectives

Jack Fei Yang; Larry K. Bright; Nick Chao-Ming Lin; Rober Hsun-Cheng Lin; Ching-Mei Hsiao

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1176–1180

The impact of media on instructional outcomes continues to be debated. The cost for new distance-system development and training is a major challenge for institutions in developing countries that want to be competitive in the global society. To...

Topics: Learning Objects, Learning Outcomes