International Journal of Instructional Media articles from September 2001

International Journal of Instructional Media archives from September 2001

Teachers, technology and training: the UPS School-to-Career partnership: innovative approaches to workforce development.(United Parcel Service)
September 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION School-to-career initiatives continue to win praise and support from government officials, business leaders, foundations, school districts, workforce development professionals, youth advocates and the general public. There is...

Instructional media initiatives: focusing on the Educational Resources Center at Thirteen/WNET, New York, New York: instructional television: using the best of Thirteen/WNET.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION Thirteen/WNET has a proud history of supporting classroom instruction. Instructional television programs have been used to strengthen teaching and learning, broaden horizons and reinforce curricular goals. When used...

The golden age of Bond: creation of Cold War popular hero (1962-1965) part II.(James Bond)
September 22, 2001... In 1961, when Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman first collaborated to transform the series of James Bond novels into feature-length cinematic productions, there was little indication that their efforts would ultimately spawn one of the most...

Multiple intelligence and the design of web-based instruction.
September 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION With the current shift towards more distance-based education and training (including Web-based instruction), instructional designers must work to achieve their instructional goals using a broad variety of instructional...

Albatross III: a www-based course support system.
September 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION Over the last few years, the spread of computer networks has taken place at incredible speed, and they are now widely used in many areas: electronic commerce, online search engines, electronic newspapers, distance learning,...

Developing a taxonomy of interaction strategies for two-way interactive distance education television.
September 22, 2001... The fundamental vehicle of the learning process, at its most basic, is communication. A critical component of communication is interaction between the learner and the source of information. Teachers often play an influential role in how...

Online course development: summative reflections.
September 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION During Spring semester 2000, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, offered a graduate course in Instructional Design (ID). Like many other universities around the world, many new courses, including this...

Identifying the needs of adult women in distance learning programs.
September 22, 2001... Women return to college for a number of reasons including career advancement, higher wages or personal fulfillment (2). Research on returning adult female students, however, has shown that many of these women face significant barriers that...

Learning through video-based narratives within the cultural zone of proximal development.
September 22, 2001... LEARNING THROUGH VIDEO-BASED NARRATIVES WITHIN THE CULTURAL ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT In this paper, we examine instructional tools along the Vygotskian perspective of Zone of Proximal Development (or ZPD). Basically the ZPD is the...

Instructional support across the curriculum: the multi-academic learning lab.
September 22, 2001... There has always been a need to provide some type of instructional support for college students as they pursue their individual educational programs. For many years libraries were the only support component found on most college campuses....

The effect of time-on-task when using job aids as an instructional strategy.
September 22, 2001... INTRODUCTION Traditionally, job aids have been used to facilitate recall after the learner has been exposed to instruction and/or training (Silber, 1990). Rossett (1991) has indicated that job aids not only provide information and prompt...