Immersive virtual worlds like Second Life offer many instructional affordances for enhancing learner’s experiences, especially in online classes. This paper will describe the implementation experiences of using the virtual environment in addition to the traditional learning management system to enrich the online learning experiences of students in an online graduate class. The benefits of using...

The Engine for Management of Adaptive Pedagogy (EMAP) is the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring’s (GIFT) first implementation of a domain-independent pedagogical manager. It establishes a framework within GIFT that adheres to sound instructional system design, while also providing tools and methods to create highly personalized and adaptive learning experiences. In this paper, we pr...

Background: Faculty who want to develop e‐learning materials face pedagogical challenges of transforming instruction for the online environment, especially as many have never experienced online learning themselves. They face technical challenges of learning new software and time challenges of not all being able to be in the same place at the same time to learn these new skills. The objective of...

This study describes the behavior management training and instructional practices of Nationally Certified Adapted Physical Education (CAPE) teachers. Participants who were currently teaching APE and were certified during the past 10 years were selected from the Adapted Physical Education National Standards (APENS) database. Eighty-nine APE teachers (67 females; 22 males) responded to the online...

Poor aircraft energy management can lead to unsafe and inefficient operations. Despite their impact on safety and economy, energy management skills are not adequately taught or evaluated in civilian pilot training. This paper 1) addresses the need for better energy management training, 2) provides a conceptual and pedagogical framework for later curriculum development, and 3) suggests key attri...

The practice of using technology to deliver coursework in higher education has seen a veritable explosion. While this use of technology has enabled educational institutions to expand learning experiences beyond the popular notion of “classroom”, it has also created several new problems related to the delivery of instruction. Of these problems, maintaining quality communication opportunities is ...

In this paper we discuss how ontology concepts can be beneficial for a flexible and semantic rich description of the authoring process and for the provision of authoring support of Intelligent Educational Systems (IES) with respect to three main authoring tasks: domain editing, course sequencing and resource management. We take a semantic perspective on the knowledge representation and explore ...

This paper represents a review of the second edition of Distance Education: A Systems View by Michael Moore and Greg Kearsley (Thomas/Wadsworth, 2005). This second edition reflects a view of current applications of distance education, based on the vantage of instructional systems design. The strengths of the book are reflected in the uniqueness of its consideration of online courses, in particu...