93 Multimedia technologies (such as Flash and QuickTime) have been widely used in online product presentation and promotion to portray products in a dynamic way. The continuous visual stimuli and associated sound effects provide vivid and interesting product presentations; hence, they engage online customers in examining products. Meanwhile, recent research has indicated that online shoppers wa...

We have designed an academic advising online system to advise college students using natural language conversations. The system embeds knowledge of current and future teaching schedules, degree requirements, course prerequisites and various administrative procedures. While this information can be found by searching several university websites and catalogs, students continually ask human advisor...

We study the following online problem. We have n “experts” that, at each time step t = 1, . . . , T , suggest a strategy about what to do at that time (for example, they might be advising on what technology to use, on what investments to make, they might make predictions on whether something is going to happen, thus requiring certain actions, and so on). Based on the quality of the advice that ...

The Design and Trial of a Learning Environment Based on Model Construction Approach to Instruction Aimed at Improving Concept Learning and Modeling Practices   M. Maaleki* H. FarDaanesh, Ph.D.** E. Talaa’ee, Ph.D.*** J. Haatami, Ph.D.****   Model construction is an integrated approach aimed at a better understanding and acquisition of scientific/epistemological concepts and skills. To tr...

We discuss a collection of commonly-accepted goals for future education in the field of ordinary differential equations, especially as involves the uses of technology in the classroom. We single out several of these as particularly in need of further emphasis, and discuss methods for improvement. Specifically, we introduce the ODEToolkit, a free, online differential equations solver designed sp...

Sustainable online education is characterized by its ability to persist when extraordinary internal or external funding stops. Unfortunately, it seems to be a rare phenomenon. In most cases online education is sustainable when it generates an economic surplus or reduces costs. (Page 27) Today's students often have full-time jobs and families to take care of and many are reluctant to participate...

Understanding the role of student demographics in the online learning environment can assist institutions to make decisions regarding online programs. These decisions go beyond the initial question of whether to invest in online programs or whether to increase or decrease online course availability. This article discusses the relationship between student demographics and success in online learn...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to develop and evaluate a complementary cyber education program for a required pathophysiology class for nursing students. METHODS The cyber education program comprised electronic bulletin boards, correspondence material storage, an announcement section, a report submission section, reference sites, and statistics on learning rates. Twelve online lectures co...

We are again very happy to expand the boundaries of scholarship related academic advising. As you may know, NACADA Review seeks amplify new voices, showcase a variety methodologies, and embrace different epistemologies; all in service our goal broaden understanding advising as practice field study.The articles that make up this issue an excellent example many lenses we can use better “see” its ...