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The movement toward online teaching and learning in higher education will alter traditional forms of social networking within the university community. Although there is good evidence that the asynchronous messaging technologies most often used...

The institution-wide adoption of web-based learning technologies at the Technical University of British Columbia (TechBC) has led to a significant departure from traditional duties for faculty. This paper reports the study results of a task...

As differing evaluation instruments are adopted in learning object repositories serving specialized communities of users, what methods can be adopted for translating evaluative data across instruments in order to share this data among different...

As differing evaluation instruments are adopted in learning object repositories serving specialized communities of users, what methods can be adopted for translating evaluative data across instruments to allow this data to be shared among different...

A course delivery model is a framework promoting the scalable application of effective pedagogies and educational technologies. This paper describes how course delivery models were designed and implemented for the inaugural first year program at...

A dynamic concept map is an animated node-link image synchronized with an audio presentation. In an experiment on the learning effectiveness of dynamic concept maps, 116 undergraduate students heard an audio narration describing a theory covered in...

Learning technology designers often fail to consider the social and organizational contexts of their designs, a neglect that leads to gaps between products and user needs. An examination of current accessibility guidelines and the low level of...

To investigate self regulated learning (SRL) and factors that propel it, educational psychologists have developed self-report instruments measuring epistemological beliefs, goal orientation, motivation, and study strategies. However, without the...

When searching for learning objects, teachers, instructional designers and students prefer to use subject terms with which they are already familiar. This paper describes the form and function of a mapping ontology that was created to translate...

Concept maps are diagrams that show relationships among concepts. Despite their frequent use in instruction, little is known about how learners process the information in concept maps. The research reported here used eye-tracking equipment to...

This paper focuses on understanding how item analysis methods inform the design, validation, and adaptation of measures assessing metacognition, and integral component of successful self-regulation, by re-examining via IRT methods a common self...

An animated concept map is a presentation of a diagram in which nodes and links are sequentially added or modified. A 2 X 2 factorial design was used to compare animated and static versions of text and concept map presentations. 140 participants...

Concept maps are typically used to represent knowledge in a node-link format. Although decades of research have produced some understanding of the cognitive effects of using concept maps in individual learning, theories about their effects in...