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Student response systems-also referred to as audience response systems, personal response systems, interactive learning systems and classroom communication systems-have been used in higher education for decades. Their design blossomed out of a need...

Existing educational software taxonomies typically categorize software by their near-endless potential uses in a variety of educational settings. This grouping leads to overly complicated and unusable classification systems. This article proposes a...

This article discusses a project that placed over ninety-seven percent of Mars' topography made available from NASA into an interactive 3D multi-user online learning environment beginning in 2003. In 2005 curriculum materials that were created to...

This paper examines data from the Course Interest Survey (CIS), which is based on Keller's ARCS Model of motivation, and measures a student's level of attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction. Two online groups (one treatment and one...

Abstract: This paper suggests that simple motivational email messages address some of the needs of online students by increasing motivation and academic performance, while decreasing dropout rates. Participants are students enrolled in six online...