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The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of various external orienting tasks on learning, learner attitudes, and en-route behaviors in the use of an educational hypertext system. Thirty-one sophomore students enrolled in three honors...

The presenter will discuss and demonstrate the current state of eBook technology. More importantly, he will share experiences with using eBook technology within the framework of existing college courses. Characteristics of this new technology, both...

WebCT serves three distinct groups: student, lecturer and institution. However, a problem arises when the institution, in terms of its administration, fails to see beneath the surface of the innovative application. If for example, it views the...

This paper is a report on the findings of a study conducted with a hypertext learning system used in a sophomore history class. The participants were given an orienting task (browsing, searching, connecting) to guide their use of the system. The...

Abstract: In April 2005 it was announced by the institution that it would be joining a consortium of Scottish universities to provide online degrees for Chinese students. At first sight this seems to be a means by which the institution's problems...

Abstract: This presentation will provide information for instructing preservice teachers to produce, capture, edit, and use digital video in their day-to-day teaching activities. The focus is on practical uses of video and simple techniques to make...

Funded by a technology grant from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, this ongoing research project is now being used as a tool to conjoin university classrooms distributed across multiple states. The combination of blended, cooperative, and...

Implementing information technology into education is one of the world wide trends for students, teachers and administrators (Bitter & Pierson, 2005). In addition, a web-based multimedia platform provided by the school to fulfill the consideration...

A multimedia lesson presenting concurrent on-screen text, still graphics or animations, and narration is a typical setting in redundancy research. Concise redundancy design (CR) is the revision of the on-screen text into a concise form which is...