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The Influence of Prior Knowledge and Viewing Repertoire on Learning from Video
Jelle de Boer; Piet A. M. Kommers; Bert de Brock; Jos Tolboom
Education and Information Technologies Vol. 21, No. 5 (2016) pp. 1135–1151
Video is increasingly used as an instructional tool. It is therefore becoming more important to improve learning of students from video. We investigated whether student learning effects are influenced through an instruction about other viewing...
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Selected Aspects and Conditions of the Use of Robots in STEM Education for Young Learners as Viewed by Teachers and Students
Eugenia Smyrnova-Trybulska; Nataliia Morze; Piet Kommers; Wojciech Zuziak; Mariia Gladun
Interactive Technology and Smart Education Vol. 14, No. 4 (2017) pp. 296–312
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss issues related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. It is emphasized that the need to prepare students with twenty-first-century skills through STEM-related teaching is strong,...
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Preface Special Issue: The Connected Learning Space Guest Editors Introduction
Madhumita Bhattacharya; Piet Kommers
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2007) pp. 7–9
This special issue focuses on the co-evolution of learning paradigms in the resonance of WWW-based learning support systems of the recent decade. Most striking is the rather autonomous trend towards information management for learning: the beauty of ...
Topics: Networking Technologies, Instructional Design, eLearning, Human Computer Interaction, Navigation
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Building Meaning: Experts and Novices in On-line Learning
Julia Shaw; Nicola Martinez; Fabio Chacon
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1501–1505
Teachers in a domain teach to the level of their ability: novices can teach students to be novices: experts can teach student to be experts. This paper explores aspects of on-line learning that both scaffold novice instructors to teach to a higher...
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Online GBS (Goal-based Scenario) Training Programs
Sunjoo Hong
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4633–4638
The purpose of this presentation is to introduce a set of web-based training programs following Goal-Based Scenario (GBS) design model. A program has a storyline showing processes that people follow when they do their projects in real world. A story ...
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From Post-mortem Daguerreotypes to Post-modern Deconstructions: Students Make Documents Reveal
Ken Golden
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 696–700
This is an ongoing project, which comes out of my Imaging class (the study of the software: Photoshop). My class is structured as lecture/demonstration and studio time. This project, document, has been introduced at approximately the eighth week. ...
Topics: Software
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Intelligent Systems/Tools In Training and Lifelong Learning
Piet Kommers; Riichiro Mizzoguchi
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 11, No. 3 (2000) pp. 259–264
Learning is an active process clearly distinguished from simply being taught. Active involvement in learning helps learners build knowledge in their heads, which is one of the key issues advocated by constructivists. However, learners still need...
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Special Issue Preface Concept Mapping
Piet Kommers
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 8, No. 3 (1997) pp. 281–287
A rather drastic attempt to benefit from computers in our schools is to see them as prostheses for thinking, reasoning, estimating, experimenting, and learning. Most intriguing in these attempts is that we are confronted with new views on the...
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Preface: Distributed Cognition and Educational Practice
Ilias Karasavvidis; Piet Kommers; Neli Stoyanova
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 13, No. 1 (2002) pp. 5–9
Traditionally, cognition has been treated as residing in the head, as being a property of the individual mind. To a large extent, current psychological and educational practice is founded upon this conception of cognition. Nevertheless, in recent...
Topics: Cognition, Social Sciences
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An Agent-Oriented Approach for Ideational Support in Learning—Integration and Impact
Lora Aroyo; Svetoslav Stoyanov; Piet Kommers
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 10, No. 3 (1999) pp. 389–400
This paper provides results from research work done in respect to the application of agent technology within educational settings. It focuses on problem solving, information handling issues and idea generation. It is based on two research system...
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SMILE Maker: A Web-Based Tool for Problem Solving
Lora Aroyo; Piet Kommers; Svetoslav Stoyanov; Ivan Kurtev
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 1006–1011
This paper focuses on the purposes, theoretical model and functionality of the SMILE Maker - a web-based problem-solving tool. From instructional design point of view, an attempt to established a balance between constructivism/ instructivism,...
Topics: Instructional Design, Interaction
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Utilising the educational resource development process to scaffold the professional development of university teachers
Helen Carter Helen
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2644–2645
To facilitate learning in a virtual environment, we need to make available good quality, effective and flexible educational resources. To produce good quality, effective and flexible educational resources we need a highly trained educational...
Topics: Virtual Environments
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Spam, Con Men, Degree Mills - The Other Side of Distance Learning
Hendrik Speck
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4874–4875
Paste the required Abstract here; 150-1000 characters. The abstract can only be a single paragraph. This means you should not hit the "return" or "enter" key when putting in your abstract. An Abstract also will be required in your Proceedings Paper, ...
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Interactive Instructional Design Using Director : A Multimedia Software
Kumuda Gururao
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1234–1236
Using the Director a highly Interactive Instructional Design has been designed for Cyclotron which is a particle accelerator. The main concept Cyclotron has been divided into various sub concepts like Description, Derivation, Advantages and...
Topics: Software, Interaction, Instructional Design
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International collaboration in the development of Interactive Learning Objects in the Building discipline
Geoff Hodgson; Willy Sher; Helen Carter; Hamish Dobbs
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 224–225
Loughborough University (UK) and the University of Newcastle (Australia) are collaborating in the preparation of Interactive Learning Objects (ILOs) for students in their 'construction management' and 'quantity surveying' undergraduate programs....
Topics: Collaboration, Learning Objects
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What makes online learning a success: profiling successful online learners?
Ramesh Sharma
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) p. 655
This paper discusses such skills which an online or a distance learning student may possess, different cognitive/meta-cognitive learning strategies, and sources of motivation in relation to online computer programmes offered by Indira Gandhi...
Topics: Cognition, Programming
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In Defense of the Online "Lecture"
Saul Carliner
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) p. 2769
The lecture is the traditional means of transferring content in learning programs. The lecture takes a variety of forms in e-learning programs. In live virtual classes, the lecture often takes the form of an instructor narrating a presentation of...
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Concept Mapping as a Medium of Shared Cognition in Computer-Supported Collaborative Problem Solving
Neli Stoyanova; Piet Kommers
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 13, No. 1 (2002) pp. 111–133
This article presents an experimental study aimed at investigating the learning effectiveness of concept mapping for computer-supported collaborative problem solving. The main assumption underlying this research is that shared cognition is...
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An Online Marketing Guide for Educational Institutions
Hendrik Speck
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1512–1513
The paper presents an empirical survey of the technologies, skills and resources required to create a successful viral marketing and institutional strategy for educational institutions within a competitive network concentric environment. The paper...
Topics: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Networking Technologies
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SCIENGLAB - an educational virtual laboratory
Carmen Ciubotariu; Philip Daum
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) p. 638
SCIENGLAB is an internet based educational site of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. It comprises study cases for design projects of the fourth year students and a remotely...
Topics: Computers, Engineering, Students
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Building a Training Simulation in Runtime Revolution – (HyperCard on Steroids!)
Terry Schumacher
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) p. 3499
At an Ed-Media 2004 session the question was asked, 'Where are our HyperCards for the 21st century?' Runtime Revolution is a development environment that authors & delivers on Mac, Windows, Linux & Unix. Its HyperCard similarities include the card...
Topics: Learning Objects
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A View Inside An Online Alternative Teacher Certification Program: "Can Learning Styles Be Self-Assessed?"
Evelyn R. Brown
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) p. 3027
This article presents anecdotal accounts of an online alternative teacher certification preparation program course for post-baccalaureate in-service school personnel seeking initial teaching credentials. The Blackboard platform is used for the...
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Special Issue Preface - Intelligent Agents for Educational Computer-Aided Systems
Piet Kommers; Lora Aroyo
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 10, No. 3 (1999) pp. 235–242
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Agent-Based Instructional Design Model for Cognitive Mapping
Lora Aroyo; Svetoslav Stoyanov; Piet Kommers
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 482–487
This article is purposed to present an intelligent agent-based instructional design model on the subject of cognitive mapping strategy. It is a further conceptualisation of the rational behind the existing SMILE-Maker tool. SMILE-Maker is a...
Topics: eLearning
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Dynamic Web Delivery of Media
Jonathan Leamon; Jianjun Wang
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4288–4289
Digital Resource Management systems allow for the discovery and retrieval of multimedia objects, but for video and audio objects of extended duration, this isn't sufficient. Williams College has designed and implemented a system that allows for...
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Enterprise OpenSource eLearning and Online Communities with .LRN
Alfred Essa
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3666–3668
There is increasing recognition that the evolution of eLearning systems and educational technology tools must provide new and varied forms of collaboration. Open-source software offers one route to explore for such choices. .LRN is an open-source...
Topics: Software, Educational Technology, Learning Management Systems
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CAMS (A Community/Course Online System designed with YOU in mind)
Brian Mackie
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3976–3977
There are many online class management systems available, most are not participant(student) centric. We have developed a course management system that emphasizes the student and their needs, simplicity of use, modularity, expandability and allowing ...
Topics: Students
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Developing computer games in critical thinking assessment
Yu-ling Lu; Shu-hua Cheng; Chi-jui Lien
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3237–3239
In the daily life, people make decisions based on what we believe. Critical thinking is a comprehensive set of procedures that help us make appropriate decisions. Critical thinking is an ability that we believe to be important in students' science...
Topics: Students, Science, Games, Assessment
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Demonstration of a game-like simulation of a complex biological system, the immune system, designed to help learners integrate fragmentary knowledge
Brian Kahn
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) p. 3156
Software which allows learners to integrate fragmentary knowledge has a powerful role in education. This is especially true in science and medicine, where complex models of systems and processes are taught to students, but invariably leave many...
Topics: Students
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Using Flash and XML for Rapid Production of Personalized Materials
Britt Carr; Gail Johnson
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 172–173
This project was undertaken to introduce new faculty to the technology resources available at Miami University. Using Flash MX 2004 and XML, it was possible to combine all the commonalities faculty have with specific personal data on a single CD....
Topics: Faculty
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Enhancing an electronic portfolio with field observations: A field assessment tool for internships
Adam Finkelstein; Mariette Xenopoulos
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3669–3670
In this presentation we will demonstrate the addition of an evaluation tool to an electronic portfolio that tracks the progress of students in the medical sciences with both self and team evaluations. The tool provides both qualitative and...
Topics: Evaluation
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Interaction Strategies and Experience Design: Guidelines for Technology-Mediated Learning
Ellen Wagner
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4118–4119
This paper builds upon research describing the construct of interaction in learning, with particular attention paid to designs for technological mediation learning. It suggests that interaction strategies, regardless of their theoretical bases, can...
Topics: Instructional Design, Interaction
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Discover. Apply. Succeed. An Innovative Career and Technology High School
Theron T Brown
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 162–163
During the conference poster session, the authors will present an in-depth, colorful descriptive overview of a rich, technology-infused, innovative high school utilizing an alternative setting to prepare students for careers, certifications, and...
Topics: Educational Technology, Schools, Computer Sciences, Students
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Remedial Instruction for Japanese Language Less Successful StudentsXthrough Strategies of On-Line Reinforcement
Shan-Long Chen; Chih-Hsiu Wu; Chi-Man Chiu
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2775–2776
This is an ongoing research. The prpose of this study is to build a free Web-based, computer-oriented, multimedia remedial instruction for Japanese learners and to examine the on-line reinforcement effectiveness of improving Japanese language low...
Topics: Social Sciences, Languages, Social Studies
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Enhancing the Integration of Technology as it intersects with Literacy in Teacher Candidates Fieldwork Sites
Catherine Kurkjian
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2472–2473
Teacher educators have an important, but challenging charge to help pave the way to help prepare learners to not only to read and write, but also to become effective multimedia readers and writers. There is a scarcity of technologically-rich field...
Topics: Teachers
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Implementing Interactive Self –Paced Learning Resources for Teaching Procedural Law
Stuart Fletcher; Mark Nolan; Simon Bronitt; Jenny Edwards
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 185–186
In Semester 1 2004, the instructors for the undergraduate course Criminal Law and Procedure at The Australian National University (ANU) designed and delivered an interactive self-paced learning module on criminal procedure ("CrimPro"). This module...
Topics: Students
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Going Online? Professional Development for Teachers in Inclusive Settings
Katia Gonzalez; Paul Acquaro
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2628–2629
The purpose of this study is to examine some of the challenges in developing and implementing an online professional development workshop for teachers working in inclusive settings.An online workshop on sexuality education and mental retardation and ...
Topics: Educational Technology, Professional Development, Teachers, Inclusive Education
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Modeling the Concept of Dynamic Market Activity in Ba-Gua Shan Community: Using IOOI Framework
MeiChung Lin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4298–4301
Abstract: We design this prototyping courseware to visualize the concept of dynamic market activity contextually in Ba-Gua Shan community across our two campuses. Conceptual modeling is built upon the framework of IOOI (Inside-Out- Outside VIn)...
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Audience response systems for large enrollement undergraduate classes – does it make a difference?
Jacques Morin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1155–1156
The use of audience response systems in classroom is a relatively new phenomenon in university classrooms. While many such systems have been employed in the business setting and large gatherings for many years, it' application in a classroom setting ...
Topics: Students, Classrooms
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Instructional Design for High School Students: Making complex content accessible
Joanne Bentley
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4556–4557
This is a demonstration of an online, introductory course for high schools students interested in Instructional Design. The project was developed primarily for students who are constrained by location in their ability to access concurrent...
Topics: Schools, Multimedia, Instructional Design, Students
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Accessibility of a graduate school website for users with disabilities: developing guidelines for user testing
Bernadette Sibuma; David Boxer; Paul Acquaro; Guillermo Creus
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1178–1179
In this paper, we reviewed a usability evaluation of a leading graduate school homepage in order to adapt the design and format for users with disabilities. Teachers College, Columbia University, redesigned its website during the 2003-2004 academic...
Topics: Students, Accessibility, Evaluation
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Jurimatic: How to get the law faculty online?
Eddy Demeersseman; Isabelle Demortier; Piet Desmet; Bernard Tilleman; Bert Wylin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3493–3499
The "Jurimatic" project is aimed at (1) getting the law faculty online and (2) improving and activating the existing learning environment of the introductory course to law at the Law Faculty and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. This has ...
Topics: Faculty, Computer Sciences, Social Sciences
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Taking ePORTFOLIO to the Next Level: Integrating eTUTOR to Support Writing
Karen Bonsignore
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 160–161
This presentation will demonstrate the integration of eTUTOR into our ePORTFOLIO project. Sample student ePORTFOLIOS and eTUTOR writing submissions will be demonstrated, as well as best practices and challenges encountered in the integration of the ...
Topics: Integration
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PICU: A virtual problem-based situated learning environment for medical residents
Adam Finkelstein; Farhan Bhanji; Laura Winer; Ron Gottesman
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) p. 3871
We developed a problem-based situated learning environment (a Shockwave application delivered via WebCT) for post-graduate medical residents to circumvent the problems of their frequent inability to participate in structured learning opportunities....
Topics: Instructional Design, Learning Objects, Virtual Environments
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Socio and Sexual Development of Students with Disabilities: An Online Workshop
Katia Gonzalez; Paul Acquaro
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2630–2631
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of an online workshop on sexuality education and mental retardation on the knowledge,attitudes,and self-efficacy beliefs of general and special education teachers working in inclusive settings.
Topics: Inclusive Education, Teachers
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Finding Appropriate Publication Outlets for Technology Use in Education
Marwin Britto
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4457–4458
As increasing numbers of higher education faculty use technology in their teaching, research and service activities and write about these experiences, it becomes increasingly important but often challenging for them to find an appropriate...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Development of Edutainment Games with Flash MX
Dongho Kim
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4739–4743
The new millennium has brought change in every field, including education. Edutainment is something fun and educational. This paper describes and discusses learning activities in a class which intends to teach instructional applications of...
Topics: Preservice Teacher Education, Teachers, Elementary Education
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Educational Media Research Best Practices
Gary Boyd; Johanes Strobel; Robert Bernard
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3535–3537
Given the serious weakness of so much research in the field; the purpose of this panel is to exhibit and discuss best practices in the five types of research most appropriately applicable to educational media improvement. The types chosen are:...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Increasing technical self-sufficiency among online instructors in a mid-size university with limited support resources
Elaine Terrell; Rebecca Martindale
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2720–2721
The exponential growth of online courses have led to the need for instructional and technical support personnel to aid faculty in developing technical skills to improve self-sufficiency in the online environment. This study utilizes a variety of...
Topics: Instructional Materials, Faculty
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Development of Support Software to Create Lesson Preview Teaching Materials with Music
Toshihiko Takeuchi
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4400–4403
It is important in e-learning education to develop multimedia teaching materials that capture the learners f attention. This study proposes the concept of entertaining teaching material, which shows learners the outline of an upcoming lesson by...
Topics: Software, Educational Technology