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Global education emphasizes not only in international mobility but also in social justice. Therefore, this paper investigated the teachers’ perspectives on curriculum development for disadvantage students learning. The purposes of the study are to ...

Disorientation problems influence student learning. To address this issue, this study uses an integrative approach to investigate the causes and consequences of disorientation problems so that a complete understanding can be obtained. Unlike...

This idea of integrating moral education to digital gaming platform had been discussed since digital and online approaches were used in teaching. Online interactive instruction was one of moral teaching forms to assist moral instruction. However,...

Interactivity is an important factor in web-based instruction. However, there is insufficient design information or references for system designers. Most studies in WBI explore the issue of interactivity from the point of view of instructors or...

The main purpose of the paper is to know how visual elements that manifest personality affect the attitudes of web users. The effects of similar or dissimilar to the interface that people interact with are investigated. We manipulate visual elements,...

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of single versus multiple metaphors in computer expert and novice users' change of mental models as well as information search performance. Related issues, such as mental models, differences...

This paper provides a content analysis of studies in technology-based learning (TBL) that were published in five Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) journals (i.e. "the British Journal of Educational Technology, Computers & Education, Educational...

The better effects of metaphors in learning have been proved in the past studies. Learners naturally invoke metaphors in learning new concepts because metaphors stimulate learners to generate models of the domain to be learned. However, little...

The flexible nature of hypermedia allows it to be tailored to an individual's needs. Despite the many degrees of navigational freedom, however, users of hypermedia often find difficulty locating information, feel disoriented, or even become "lost in ...

Metaphors are used enormously in designing websites to facilitate multiple user tasks for years. Nevertheless, there is limited research examining metaphor's effects in facilitating user tasks. There is disagreement regarding using single or...

Individual characteristics in virtual environments have stimulated considerable interests. An understanding of various cognitive style learners as they respond to different information representation approaches may provide practical information for...

Web-based instruction (WBI) has been applied in both academic and practitioner fields for the past few years with the advanced invention of communication technology and has become a trend for learning. For the past five years, many design guidelines ...

Notification system (NS) is a system which provides extra information when users are performing their tasks. In the past, the researches of notification systems always emphasize the objective factors (e.g., performance promotion) but rarely the...

With the rapid development of digital technology, the virtual agent has been applied in various computing scenarios to interact with users. More lifelike interface agents have been designed and applied in many fields. The findings of social...

In Taiwan’s foreign language instruction, contextualized vocabulary learning has been receiving increasing attention. This study aims to create a task-based virtual language learning environment to assist students in their lexical development. The...

In this modern and technologically dependent society, people seek to improve human performance, get higher productivity and increase user satisfaction with technologies. In Chinese society, Chinese Idiom learning plays an important role in...

Disorientation problems influence student learning. To address this issue, this study uses an integrative approach to investigate the causes and consequences of disorientation problems so that a complete understanding can be obtained. Unlike...

Discusses navigation in instructional hypertext programs and describes two preliminary studies that investigated concrete versus abstract representations for backward navigation. Topics include representation and hypermedia sign systems; and...

Behaviorism was the dominant epistemology in education approximately 20 years ago, while constructivism has most recently been the dominant epistemology in the field. In this paper, differences between the assumptions of behaviorism and...