This study aims to assess the impact of hypermedia designing as a cognitive tool on knowledge acquisition and retention in comparison to traditional instruction. A pretest-posttest control group design was used. The study included 48 second-year preservice computer teachers who enrolled in “Instructional Technology and Material Preparation” course at one of the universities in Turkey. The subje...

INTRODUCTION If education is inherently a process that involves human interaction with the deliberate purpose of promoting the social values, norms, and mores, of a given society, then we can state that the knowledge a society chooses to convey says something about the culture of that society. In this way, we can conceive of education as being a process that is fundamentally sociocultural in na...

Nursing students' predispositions toward technology may be a factor affecting their use of technology in educational and clinical settings. A national survey was conducted to collect attitudinal measures toward technology and data on technology instruction to assist educators with developing information technology curricula. Outcomes indicate an overall positive attitude toward technology; howe...

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This multiple case study investigated pedagogical decisions in encountering challenges pre-service teachers’ integrated-skills instruction and the underlying factors influencing their different responses to during overseas Chinese teaching practice programme. Two cohorts (n=8) of teachers were involved this when they participated programme for 15 weeks at seven K-12 schools North Central Thaila...

This paper investigates a pervasive phenomenon in video-mediated interaction (VMI), namely, simultaneous start-ups, which happen when two speakers produce turn beginning overlap. Based on the theoretical and methodological tenets of conversation analysis interactional linguistics, present study offers multimodal sequential account how start-ups are oriented to solved context English as an addit...

In the development of distance learning, advances in cognitive science merge with new technology to deliver instruction worldwide. However, one major difficulty in evaluating the efficacy of these tools is determining which elements of instruction truly lead to observed changes in student performance. The purpose of this paper is to briefly review current use of various research methods for eva...

With the enhancement of information-based society, information technology has exceeded the single phase of computer technology training, developed and become information literacy education that satisfies demand of informationbased society. ASP.NET technology, enjoying features such as easiness to understand, and high efficiency of development, just adapts to the trend, and plays a crucial role ...