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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Topics: Teachers, Students

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

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...

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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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, ...

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

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

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

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...

Agent-Based Instructional Design Model for Cognitive Mapping

Lora Aroyo; Svetoslav Stoyanov; Piet Kommers

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 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

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

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

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

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

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

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)...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Access and Equity Issues in Distance Learning

Jack Fei Yang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4770–4772

Development of distance education across the world is influenced by economics, politics, technology, and societal issues, it is important for distance program designers to be aware that technology applications in distance education may provide...

Topics: Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Distance Education

Faculty and Students Go Wireless

Nancy Todd; Linda Kieffer

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2352–2353

Through a PT3 grant sponsored activity, education faculty were given an opportunity to explore learning to use Personal Desktop Assistants [PDAs] then incorporating class lessons addressing NETS for teachers using a classroom set of PDAs with...

Topics: Faculty, Classrooms

Best practices in elearning project management

Bev Pasian; Gary Woodill

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 289–291

Managing elearning projects is becoming more sophisticated and a competency for managing e-learning projects is developing within the elearning community known as elearning Project Management (ePM). To review and analyze the ePM practices, methods...

Topics: Community, eLearning

A Case Study of Pre-service Teachers Learning to Teach with Technology During Internship

Kathleen Nolan; David Friesen; Vi Maeers; Alec Couros

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2498–2500

The iTeacherEd project is a three-year action research process in a Faculty of Education at a Canadian University. The overall goal of the project is to develop a model for the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into the ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Integration, Teachers, Information Communication Technologies

Rock Art in Arkansas: Preserving & Sharing Cultural Legacies Through E-Environments

George Sabo; Ann Shortridge

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 330–331

Abstract: Arkansas possesses one of the richest concentrations of American Indian rock art in eastern North America, however little information about this unique, irreplaceable cultural heritage has been previously available to the public. Recently, ...

Topics: Fine Arts

The Nature of the Learner to Learner Interaction in an Authentic Online Learning Environment

Younghee Woo

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2984–2986

By exploring the process of the interactions that emerge from learners engaged in authentic activities, instructors and instructional designers may better understand the structure of effective online learning environments and derive implications for ...

Topics: Interaction

One Large Technology Leap for Pre-Service Teachers; One Small Step for Humankind

Jane Strickland Strickland; Shane Moulton; Albert Strickland

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2350–2351

The institution and progressive element of digital portfolios within pre-service teacher preparation is a major component for this College of Education. As an element within the admission process to teacher education, the portfolio serves as the...

Topics: Developmental Stages, Portfolios, Educational Technology, Integration, Teachers

What Do We Manage—And How Do We Assess It? Results of an Exploratory Study with Executives in Training and Other Content Development Disciplines

Saul Carliner

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 432–434

Provides results from a qualitative study that explores the portfolios (management responsibilities) and means of self-assessing effectiveness and productivity among corporate executives in these content development disciplines: training, technical...

Topics: Communication

The Use of Practical Case Studies in Information Systems Courses

Edward Hanssen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3135–3136

The purpose of this Roundtable Discussion is for participants to share their experiences in using practical case studies in teaching Information Systems courses. While most texts in the field provide rudimentary assignments and examples, very few...

Topics: Students