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For the benefit of researchers new to custom programming, this article presents a discussion of the advantages of custom applications and an example of such a program with a description and explanation of some of the programming code used to create...

The effects of navigation tools in hypertext have been studied predominantly through performance measures such as speed, accuracy, number of pages accessed and recall of document elements. In contrast, the current study uses multidimensional scaling ...

This study explores the impact of different external and internal factors on incidental learning in a hypermedia search task. Students were asked to search out the answers to specific questions within a hypermedia document but were not instructed to ...

Measures of performance were collected from a sample of 169 students during an information search task through a hypermedia document. Comparisons were made between four groups given navigation tools that contained different spatial cues for...

Educational activities often require students to conduct hypermedia information tasks. The intent of these tasks is generally to find information pursuant to a learning objective. However, the task itself could be viewed as a learning opportunity...

Increasingly, older adults are using computers more frequently and for a wider variety of purposes. For example, older adults have shown an increased interest in continuing education (Mannheimer, 1995) which is delivered via technology more often...

Webquests and web searches are becoming popular teaching tools. During such tasks, students are exposed to a substantive amount of information, some of it relevant to a specific learning objective, some of it peripheral to that objective. Material...

For health science students, developing appropriate communication skills is important for success in the transition from educational settings to clinical settings. This paper is a description of a new project directed at the development of a virtual ...

This project investigated the relationships between game elements present during short-term game play and cognitive reasoning outcomes. After students completed pretest measures of cognitive reasoning, aggressiveness and computer experiences, they...

To address the need for interprofessional communications training for health science students, we developed and tested a virtual world (Second Life) for the delivery of a mock patient interview session. Health science students enrolled in an...

This presentation describes and showcases an undergraduate course that was designed to teach pre-service teachers to use game-building software in the classroom. The course advocates a constructionist approach to guide pre-service teachers in their...

Abstract: This experiment uses the quasi experimental time interval research design to investigate the experiences of ESL adult students learning vocabulary development specific to the International Practical Nurse Diploma program, at a college in...