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** Invited as a paper from ED-MEDIA 2004 ** In business and commerce, the concept of marketing myopia has been a useful tool to predict, analyze and explain the rise and fall of businesses. In this article, we question whether the concept can...

The study outlined in this paper was part of a larger study that examined the use of interactive multimedia in motivating and engaging adult learners. This paper describes the use of the multimedia microworld to explore and promote the use of self-...

This paper describes the design, development and evaluation of a website designed to ameliorate many of the problems encountered by beginning teachers. The site allows new teachers, and preservice teachers on school practice, to communicate with...

This article reports on a project that explored the incidental learning achieved through the implementation of a Web-based learning setting. In particular, the study explored the capacity of the environment to develop the generic skills of the...

Self-Regulation has long been seen as a desirable but difficult to achieve instructional aim. This is particularly true of on-line learning, where users have limited instructional support and where attrition rates tend to be greater than in face...

Developing generic skills for students in higher education institutions has become a priority issue. Higher education institutions are experiencing continual pressure from government, industry, funding bodies and students, to place greater emphasis...

With the continued advances in information and communication technology comes the interconnectivity of education institutions, businesses and industries. Either by default or association, the traditional education system will need to change and...

Web-based course support systems are essential for supporting online teaching and learning environments. They provide tools to enroll learners, to deliver the course materials to the learners, and to administer and manage the learning. All of these...

As part of an ongoing study into distributed learning environments, this paper examines the effects of concept mapping software when used as a collaborative learning tool. Preliminary findings are explored in relation to pre-service teachers'...

This paper discusses the notion of community as an outcome of working within an online environment. In particular the paper explores the concept of users' development of a sense of community as an outcome of working within an online environment...

This paper describes the design of an instrument to help identify teachers' level of ICT uptake. The instrument takes the form of a typology matrix comprising four stages in ICT uptake across a continuum describing teachers' levels of dependence....

This project aims to produce generic/reusable learning design resources to assist academics to create high quality, flexible learning experiences for students. This is to be achieved by: identifying high quality learning designs used in higher...

Much of the conventional development of Web-based learning environments stems from design strategies that are based on providing delivery of the course content. Contemporary courseware delivery systems encourage teachers to see the design of online ...

Learning management systems such as WebCT and Blackboard are rapidly becoming the principal systems behind institutions' moves to technology-based learning settings. In settings where lecturers have had no or limited exposure to ICT as a teaching...

This paper describes the design and development of TruVision, an online learning environment designed to enable blind and vision impaired students to develop skills and expertise in elementary and advanced information processing strategies to enable ...

I have come, over the years, in spite of all the reform agendas, to believe that the best we can do in teacher preparation programs, through a variety of courses and clinical experiences in intentionally selected schools, is to help academically...

In the past, the concept of marketing myopia has been a useful tool to predict, analyze and explain the rise and fall of businesses. In this paper, we question whether the concept can be used to predict the ultimate downfall of online learning in...

This paper reports and investigation into factors that impact on community development among learners engaging in online learning where the principles of collaborative learning are considered key instructional strategies. This investigation sought...

Increasingly, teamwork is considered an essential part of the syllabus in higher education to help promote deep and meaningful learning as well as graduate skills such as communication and collaboration. However, in many cases students are unhappy...

This paper describes the design the Dynamic Interactive Visualisation Tool in Teaching C (DIVTIC), using multimedia and visual imagery to provide learners with a step-by-step representation of program execution in the C language as a means of...