Would adding instructional elements to minimalist-based instruction increase the rate and retention of learning? Logically, it might be expected that providing learners with additional instructional aids would result in increased learning. Conversely, I found that the additional instructional features actually distracted the learner from the critical instruction, but not significantly. Furtherm...

Instructional Design for Distance Learning. Distance In fact, museum education is based on constructivist learning theory. Museums Constructivism, instructional design, and technology: implications for transforming distance education. The second principle of constructivist design theory is active learning. In an active learning With distance education in Tam, M. (2000). Constructivism, instruct...

Starting from some basic characteristics of instructional video and TV steps in production and organization will be described in detail. Then the scope is extended to discuss more general design concepts in instructional filming. As video sequences frequently form part of multimedia instructional software the respective production and design concepts gain importance in software development as w...

Development of effective learning environments in an efficient manner is the goal of instructional development. The process of instructional development in highly complex learning situations requires that instructional technologists be competent in three basic core knowledge areas. This article defines the competency requirements for instructional technologists. Competency in the areas of educa...

Title of Dissertation: THE EFFECT OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONSULTATION TEAMS ON TEACHERS’ REPORTED INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES Lauren Tracy Kaiser, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation Directed by: Professor Sylvia Rosenfield, School Psychology Program A primary goal of Instructional Consultation Teams (IC Teams; Rosenfield & Gravois, 1996) is that students’ problems will be prevented or resolved throu...

background and objectives: active presence of hospitals on the internet is becoming a hallmark of hospitals’ commitment to quality healthcare services delivery. for insightful planning towards a strong internet-based information delivery and communication, there is a need for continuous monitoring of hospital website’s status. built on this need, this paper provides, for the first time, a ranki...

Teaching experience exerts a remarkable influence on instruction quality. The present study explores the role teaching experience plays in EFL university instructors’ self-assessment (SA) accuracy and its congruence with students’ assessment of it. Furthermore, it delves into the instructors’ perceptions of how their SA of instructional effectiveness is altered as they obtain experience in thei...

Adaptive learning systems attempt to adapt learning content to suit the needs of the learners using the system. Most adaptive techniques, however, are constrained by the pedagogical preference of the author of the system and are always constrained to the system they were developed for and the domain content. This thesis presents a novel method for content adaptation. A personal profile is descr...