This research examined the effects of instructional set on Internet use by low-income adults during a 16-month longitudinal study. Participants (n = 117) received instructions that focused on either the Internet's communication tools or its information tools. Internet use was continuously and automatically recorded. Survey measures of computer and Internet experiences, affect and attitudes were...

This study carried out with the participation of 68 pre-service EFL teachers (PET) attending Turkish universities aims to investigate PETs’ perceptions as use online instructional tools (OIT). is a mixed-methods study; both quantitative and qualitative data have been collected. Data was gathered in academic year 2018-2019 through an questionnaire developed by researchers. The survey comprised t...

The American Association of School Librarians and researchers in the field have identified the instructional partner role as critical to the future of school librarianship. Educators of school librarians must help prepare preservice candidates to serve effectively in this role. This research report describes a content analysis study conducted in three sections of LS5443: Librarians as Instructi...

An integrated distributed learning environment (IDLE) is proposed based on two designing frameworks: learning activities and instructional strategies. The proposed IDLE consists of four components: (1) online courseware, (2) virtual classroom, (3) instructional management, and (4) tools. In addition to system components, the installation of two types of instructional personnel is also suggested...

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...

Background: One of the ways for effective communication between learners and instructional multimedia content in mobile learning systems is taking advantage of characters or pedagogical agents. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of the levels of realism in mobile-based pedagogical agents on health e-learning. Methods: The s...

Digital libraries populated with learning objects are becoming popular tools in the creation of instructional technologies. Many current efforts to create standard metadata structures that facilitate the discovery and instructional use of learning objects recommend a single, authoritative metadata record per version of the learning object. However, as we argue in this paper, a single metadata r...