Instructions are central to many human skill acquisition processes e.g. like those used for pilot training (Dennis & Harry, 1998). Recent advances in computing technologies have expanded the scope of computer based instructional delivery especially where safety and cost may preclude the use of traditional training systems. The effectiveness of such CBT systems has been subjected to considerable...

The increase use of the Internet and Web-Based Instruction system in training and education has given direction to many researchers to evaluate its effectiveness on learner’s outcome. The effectiveness includes the increased knowledge level, performance, satisfaction and remembrance of the topics learnt. The study summarized in this research paper is undertaken to evaluate the the knowledge lev...

This study tested the hypothesis that classroom teaching behavior mediates the relation typically found between personality and college teaching effectiveness. Colleagues rated 37 full-time college instructors on 29 personality traits, and trained observers assessed the frequency with which the same instructors exhibited 95 specific classroom teaching behaviors. Instructional effectiveness was ...

Although explicit and implicit knowledge of language learners are essential to theoretical and pedagogical debates in second language acquisition (SLA), little research has addressed the effects of instructional interventions on the two knowledge types (R. Ellis, 2005).This study examined the relative effectiveness of explicit and implicit types of form-focused instruction (FFI) on the acquisit...

AUTHOR Moustafa, Brenda Martin TITLE Multisensory Approaches and Learning Styles Theory in the Elementary School: Summary of Reference Papers. PUB DATE 1999-00-00 NOTE 12p. PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Cognitive Style; Educational Theories; Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Instructional Effectiveness; *Multisensory Learning;...

Within its 20 years of development, the Community Inquiry (CoI) framework has become most widely used theoretical in e-learning. It is considered much distance education literature to be a robust collaborative-constructivist process model that uses three essential elements interpret educational experience: cognitive presence, teaching and social presence. Widespread use CoI resulted several cri...

______________________________________________________________ Ahmed Abdelraheem is an Assistant Professor and Askin Asan is an Associate Professors at Sultan Qaboos University. Please contact Drs. Abdelraheem at the College of Education in the Department of Instructional and Learning Technologies Alkhoud, Sultan Qaboos University P.O.Box: 32 P.S:123 Al-Khod, OMAN, E-mail: ahmed.tasmare@gmail....

the necessity and importance of teaching pragmatics has come to light by many researchers (e.g. rose & kasper, 2001). due to the consensus over the need to teach pragmatic competence, the main issue now centers on the question of how we should teach this competence in the most effective way. consistent with this line of research, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of d...