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This presentation outlines a three-level model of faculty development: workshops, support mechanisms, and consultations, and dissemination.

Proposal: One of the reasons multimedia has been so successful in education is the dual coding aspect of information processing theory (Bagui, 1998). According to this theory, humans take in information from the environment through their sense...

Why not Virtual Reality?: The Barriers of Using Virtual Reality in Education Abstract: In the near future, distance education has the potential not only to more effectively deliver instruction than is done today, but also to bring people more...

Faculty development in the college of education has changed and evolved over the last several years. In the beginning, faculty received technical help from the technical support staff, but had little support at the curriculum integration level....

This paper addresses some of the effective practices and techniques that the Office of Educational Technology at University of Florida uses in helping faculty integrating technology into their teaching. This includes the practices and techniques...

This paper discusses the value of an online faculty support. It defines the necessary elements for successful online faculty training, and discusses training issues, challenges and solutions leading to greater faculty satisfaction and skills as well ...

Narrative and stories have gained attention in literature teaching many years because of their potential and value to provide human-sense learning, and it may help learners to participate more naturally and easily. Integration in narrative, story...

The paper is to develop a system that supports the teaching and learning of Chinese narrative poems, as well as provide a platform for conducting research into the cognition of Chinese symbolism. One objective of this system is to build a knowledge...

The purpose of this study was to: Examine and compare the effects of three different faculty development training methods on faculty performance and attitudes toward faculty development programs. The results of the study indicated that faculty...

Although there is a great concern on integrating technology in deaf students teaching and learning process, the actual use integration is still limited. Also, there are few empirical studies that deal with training deaf students on using computers....

The current direction for special needs education in Egypt is toward the inclusion of these students in regular classrooms. Virtual reality (VR) provides immersion, visualization, engagement and interactivity that can be an efficient learning tool...

This study examined the impact of varied animated pedagogical agent's level of transparency on reducing split attention and, therefore, increasing students' performance. The results of the experiment showed that using different opacities of animated ...