<rn theMay-June 1996 issue of this magazine, Reigeluth explored the question as to whether or not we need a new paradigm of ISO (I nstructional Systems Development). He discussed how fundamental changes in the suprasystems that ISO serves are creating conditions that require similarly fundamental changes in ISD. He then explored the implications of those broader changes for instructional theori...

This paper addresses the question if artifacts may be attributed some kind of agency. I take an activity-theoretical and instructional perspective, and argue that artifacts are used to guide actions. In other words, I claim that artifacts have instructional impact. In the introductory part of the paper is given an account of how three kinds of artifacts physical artifacts, linguistic representa...

YouTube is one of the most popular video-sharing websites on the Internet, allowing users to upload, view and share videos with other users all over the world. YouTube contains many different types of videos, from homemade sketches to instructional and educational tutorials, and therefore attracts a wide variety of users with different interests. The majority of YouTube visits are perfectly inn...

In this paper, we proposed a new cognitive modeling approach: Instructional Factors Analysis Model (IFM). It belongs to a class of Knowledge-Component-based cognitive models. More specifically, IFM is targeted for modeling student’s performance when multiple types of instructional interventions are involved and some of them may not generate a direct observation of students’ performance. We comp...

BACKGROUND An innovative, three-year training programme, the Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice (BCMP), for mid-level medical healthcare workers was started in 2009 by the Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria. AIM To measure the students' perceptions of the instructional quality of district hospitalbased training. SETTING Training of students took place at clinical learn...

Instructional design is a fundamental base for educational technologies as it lays the foundation to facilitate learning and teaching based on pedagogical underpinnings. However, most of the educational technologies today face two core challenges in this context: (i) lack of instructional design as a basis (ii) lack of support for a variety of instructional designs. In order to address these ch...

There are...some types of laptops, which have some special ways for use. Chromebooks can be given as an example of laptops that are produced for particular use—they are affordable and useful mobile devices, which are very suitable for classroom settings. Their main distinction from regular laptops is being cloud based. That is, it is dependent on the Internet connection thereby employs cloud se...

This paper implements an instructional system, called Internet Virtual Community (IVC for short), according to the instructional model of the Problem-Based Internet Assisted Learning System (PBIALS for short), a previous research result based on the Problem-Based Learning (PBL for short) Theory. In order to achieve the instructional model of the PBIALS, four phases are developed for the instruc...

Suicide is a major health problem and a leading cause of death throughout the world. A primary goal for suicide prevention is reforming health professional education in order to increase the competence of health professionals in assessing and managing suicide risk. Nursing leadership is involved in this reform, yet nurses frequently lack the competence to care for patients in suicidal crisis. A...