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Assessing effective online instruction sites.
Abstract
Using student evaluators and a random sample of on-line instructional sites, we assess the usefulness of on-line instructional sites for learning. Theorists' theories of learning and criteria used in constructing useful sites play a vital role in the development of effective sites.
Introduction
Societal changes have strongly impacted instruction and technology throughout the United States, hence, the transformation of our nation's schools into a Web model via Web instruction (Meyer, 2003). Twenty-first century education offers many alternatives ways of teaching thru home schooling, classroom online instruction, Web based instruction, ...
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