International Journal of Instructional Media articles from March 2006

International Journal of Instructional Media archives from March 2006

Teachers, technology and training: future-point learning.
March 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Edward Cornish (2004) writes of the "Great Transformation" being visited upon societies throughout the world affecting nearly all members of the human community. There are technological, economic and social forces driving...

Students' take: after school programming for young people.(INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA INITIATIVES: Focusing on the Educational Resources Center at Thirteen/WNET, New York, New York )
March 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Thirteen/WNET offers a broad array of educational programming designed for young people and provides it in stimulating multimedia formats. With so many website options for young people to consider, Thirteen/WNET provides a...

Strategic use of digital learning resources in designing e-Lessons.
March 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Over the past few decades rapid technological development and innovations have created unprecedented impacts on our day-to-day activities. Educators around the world are experiencing the consequences of such impacts which are...

Instructional effects of three concept mapping strategies in facilitating student achievement.
March 22, 2006... LEARNING AND CONCEPT MAPPING Cognitive learning theory contends that learning is a potential chance resulting from information processing (Walker, 1996). Information processing is the theoretical framework for describing the mental events...

A constructivist approach to designing computer supported concept-mapping environment.
March 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION In the past two decades, there has been a proliferation of research activities on exploring the use of concept maps to support teaching and learning of various knowledge disciplines which range from science to language...

Effect of varied elaborated hypertext strategies in facilitating students' achievement of different learning objectives.
March 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Hypertext learning materials have been employed as major components for designing and implementing educational and training learning environments (Dillon & Gabbard, 1998). This fact can be validated by the increasing number of...

The influence of relational and proposition-specific processing on structural knowledge and traditional learning outcomes.
March 22, 2006... Traditional assessment approaches tend to be one-dimensional, intentionally focusing on discreet elements of knowledge, though sometimes in combination. An underlying assumption is that broader knowledge and application of that knowledge is...

Material difficulty and the effectiveness of multimedia in learning.
March 22, 2006... BACKGROUND LITERATURE Many reviews (e.g., Fletcher, 1989; Khalili & Shashaani, 1994; Kulik, Kulik, & Cohen, 1980; Kulik, Kulik, & Schwalb, 1986; Schmidt, Weinstein, Niemic, & Walberg, 1985) of numerous studies on the effects of multimedia...

Socrates and technology a new millennium conversation.
March 22, 2006... A time line plotting change in the world demonstrates that most technological changes have occurred in the 20th Century. In this century alone, we have moved from the horse and buggy to space travel; witnessed the invention of the gas engine,...

Assessment of teachers' perception of instructional media use in colleges of education in Southern Nigeria.
March 22, 2006... BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The beginning of the use of media for instructional purposes in Nigerian schools dates back to the era of the teacher training colleges during the Colonial Period. During this period, teacher trainees were...

The effects of classroom instructional strategies on science achievement of elementary-school students in Japan: findings from the third international mathematics and science study (TIMSS).
March 22, 2006... Several instructional design approaches have been developed to improve student learning in science. For instance, an electronic learning community (the Baltimore Learning Community) has been established to enhance middle school science through...

A comparison of the integration of instructional technology between American and Chinese high school teachers.
March 22, 2006... INTRODUCTION Along with the integration of more instructional technology in high school classrooms, the demand for higher technology skills on the part of the teachers is growing. Word professing and emails can no longer meet the needs of...