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This study investigated the use of asynchronous (mailing lists) and synchronous (chat sessions) Internet-based communication and its impact on teachers' attitude toward collaboration, activity completion rate and test performance. Although in this...

There has been great emphasis on utilizing the Internet and the World Wide Web as a teaching tool and instructional medium in teacher education programs across the country. This paper describes the elements of web-enhancements to teacher education...

Video has held a key position throughout the history of e-learning. From VHS-based courses to televised, over the air, cable and satellite broadcast instruction, video has served as the conduit if not the catalyst for what educators have come to...

This paper describes the design, development, and delivery processes of multimedia modules such as Macromedia Flash, Shockwave movies, and Quicktime movies. These modules were employed to teach a undergraduate plant biology class at a large...

As distance learning has grown in importance to learning, and as more face to face courses have acquired an online presence, accessibility of web based resources has become a major issue for people with disabilities. If in fact the World Wide Web is ...

Early digital divide studies focused on demographics and participant benefits, in an effort to identify the nature of the population on the other side of the divide, as well as to determine whether those lacking access to technology would actually...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the computing needs and practices of students at Arizona State University as a means of assisting the university in the decision to implement a one to one (l:1) computing model, in which every student is...

While multimedia-based training is prevalent in education, previous studies do not lead to a converged picture. This discrepancy might be due to the fact that multimedia programs implemented in various training programs are very diverse. A...

Coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, the US education system has to restructure the assessment model under severe resource constraints. This paper illustrates how open source tools, such as PHP and mySQL, can be utilized to construct an item...