This paper reports the findings of a study conducted on a foreign language course at a large mid-west university in the USA. In the study a web-based tool which supports both linear and non-linear learning environments was designed and developed for this course. The aim of this study was to find out students’ preferences pertaining to the learning environment and to address the factors affectin...

Introduction According to The National Education Association Research Division (1994), student acquisition of higher order thinking skills is of national critical concern. Increasingly, educational leaders are recognizing that the learning process is of critical importance and understanding the way individuals learn is the key to improving the educational system. There is substantial research w...

We present a software tool that can help music tutors and students organize and search their musical digital library in an efficient way. Our system is based on fuzzy cmeans clustering and automatically organizes a collection of music files according to musical surface characteristics (e.g., zero crossings, short-time energy, etc.) and tempo. The system is complemented with semantic metadata, w...

Seventeen graduate students in two classes worked on a web-based programmed instruction tutoring system as the first technical exercise in a Java programming course. The system taught a simple Java applet to display a text string in a browser window on the world wide web. Students completed tests of near transfer and far transfer before and after using the tutor and again after a lecture on the...

The concept of web-based learning and the use of the Internet in teaching and learning have received increasing attention over the recent years. It is postulated that one of the main problems with e-learning environments is their lack of personalisation (Cristea, 2003; Rumetshofer & Wöß, 2003; Ayersman & Minden, 1995). The concept of extending the learning object metadata to cater for psycholog...

THISARTICLE DESCRIBES HOW LIBRARIANS AT THE UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library adapted to changes in the Medical School’s curriculum, developed new ways to support the school’s instructional goals, and provided information literacy instruction. Encouraged by the school’s growing awareness of, and reliance upon, computerized information to support the educational process, librarians worke...

A new approach to adaptive web-based instruction is outlined and advocated, which is based on models and principles that allow the course material to organize itself. This is particularly useful when course material originating from multiple authors is to be combined into a coherent whole.

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Tim Bottorff is Head Librarian in the Universal Orlando Foundation Library at the University of Central Florida (Rosen College campus); e-mail: [email protected]. Andrew Todd is Reference Librarian, Regional Campus Libraries at the University of Central Florida (BCC/UCF Joint Use Library); e-mail: [email protected]. © Tim Bottorff and Andrew Todd Statistical reporting of library instru...

To better understand tacit knowledge underlying experienced Web-Based Instruction designers’ performance, this study utilized Heuristic Task Analysis, a method developed for eliciting, analyzing, and representing expertise in complex cognitive tasks. Three experts, representing three post-secondary institutions offering online programs, were selected for interviews based on the following criter...