Instructional materials

Developing effective hypermedia instructional materials

The use of hypermedia as an instructional medium is growing rapidly with developments and enhancements in instructional and computing technologies. Much of the popularity of the medium is derived from its capacity to convey large amounts of information to learners in structured and associated ways which promote student centred and independent learning. Recent developments in multimedia technolo...

Science Question Answering using Instructional Materials

We provide a solution for elementary science tests using instructional materials. We posit that there is a hidden structure that explains the correctness of an answer given the question and instructional materials and present a unified max-margin framework that learns to find these hidden structures (given a corpus of questionanswer pairs and instructional materials), and uses what it learns to...

Elementary schoolteachers' use of instructional materials on the web

Purpose – Studies have shown that schoolteachers are familiar with instructional materials on the web and integrate them into classroom teaching. In Taiwan, there are a number of online instructional materials, with the Learning Fueling Station being a leading web site. Using this popular site as an example, this study seeks to investigate how schoolteachers navigate online instructional materi...

Guidelines for Designing Evaluations of Web-Based Instructional Materials

This paper is an overview of central issues for effective evaluation of web-based instructional materials. It describes relevant issues from the perspectives of practitioners in the fields of computer science, educational psychology, and teacher education. In addition, it describes educator concerns, reviews relevant aspects of HCI, usability, and educational research, and provides an overview ...

Coding Systems and the Comprehension of Instructional Materials