International Journal of Instructional Media articles from June 2004

International Journal of Instructional Media archives from June 2004

Preparing future educational leaders: technology standards for school administrators.( Collaborative for Technology Standards for School Administrators )
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Professional organizations, academicians, departments of education and others concerned with the preparation of future school leaders have recognized that there are a variety of competencies and skills needed by those who will...

New York voices: focusing on aspiring New York City principals.(Thirteen/WNET comes up with educational series)
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION The New York Voices series emerged from Thirteen/WNET in the wake of the September 11, 2001 tragedy as a way to help New Yorkers regain positive outlooks and perspective by listening to fellow New Yorkers. The series...

Advantages and challenges of teaching in an electronic environment: the accommodate model.
June 22, 2004... BACKGROUND The explosion of technology as a tool for teaching and learning has provided many opportunities for educators to participate in web-enhanced and web-based electronic classrooms. Further, distributed learning has provided...

A review on usability evaluation methods for instructional multimedia: an analytical framework.
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION One common objective of instructional multimedia products is enhancement of learning. It follows that one of the primary tasks of the interface designer is the creation of a user-interface that is motivating, interactive,...

The king of all mediums: a field study of college students use of mediums for news.
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION The media plays an important role in our lives. It helps form beliefs, ideals, and structures our everyday lives. Further it influences the society economy, environment, education and gender and racial equality. As college...

The relative effectiveness of varied visual testing formats in retrieving information related to different educational objectives.
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Educators are constantly exploring strategies to improve learning and assessment.Tulving and Thomson (1973) have proposed the Encoding Specificity Principle (ESP) which contends that recognition memory is most effective when...

Strategies for designing on-line courseware.(instructional designers and educational professionals)
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Educational institutions may choose to make a course available via the Internet for various reasons including cost reduction, a potential increase in student enrollment, to remain competitive and "cutting edge" in the market,...

Using a computer-tracking system as an unobtrusive software data collection technique.(software evaluation process)
June 22, 2004... Computers have provided the opportunity to create interactive, multimedia applications that can be used for teaching personnel in both corporate and educational settings. These interactive applications are considered a valuable tool for...

Comparing school science explanations in books and computer-based formats: the role of images, image/text relations and hyperlinks.
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Many school age students (and older adults) enjoy popular science programs on the national public television and radio broadcasting service in Australia, the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). One of the most popular...

Are electronic books effective in teaching young children reading and comprehension?
June 22, 2004... Can we use technology to teach children the basics of literacy, to read and to write? Are electronic books valuable in teaching reading? What characteristics of electronic books are beneficial to reading programs? Whether electronic books,...

Considerations for developing constructivist Web-based learning.(World Wide Web )
June 22, 2004... INTRODUCTION Development of Web-based learning has started a revolution in instructional design that is providing new opportunities for education. Instructional design for educational purposes is the systematic design of teaching and...