Journal of Interactive Learning Research
October 2006 Volume 17, Number 4
Editors
Richard E. Ferdig
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 5
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Robotic Technologies: When Parents Put Their Learning Ahead of their Child’s
Laura Beals & Marina Bers, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University, United States
New technologies are slowly making it into the early childhood classroom; however, many families expose their children to these technologies before they encounter them in the formal school setting.... More
pp. 341-366
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Examining Preservice Teachers’ Involvement in Online Science Education
Peter Hudson, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
In various western countries, preservice teachers are electing to learn how to teach primary science education though online coursework. Debate arises over the quality of online coursework to... More
pp. 367-385
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Exploring the Relationship Between Mediating Tools and Student Perception of Interdependence in a CSCL Environment
Yi-Mei Lin, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan; James Laffey, University of Missouri-Columbia, United States
This study investigated how different tools differentially mediate the way groups interact and how the differential tool use and interactivity influence interdependence in online collaborative... More
pp. 385-400
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The Technology/Inquiry Typology: Defining Instructional Technology
David Richard Moore, Ohio University, United States
Instructional Technology is an ill-defined field of study. This paper proposes a definition of Instructional Technology that embraces the artifactual nature of technology and its application in the... More
pp. 401-406
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Improving Performance Support Systems through Information Retrieval Evaluation
Steven Schatz, University of Hartford, United States
This study examines existent and new methods for evaluating the success of information retrieval systems. The theory underlying current methods is not robust enough to allow testing retrieval using... More
pp. 407-423