Following previous studies reporting a beneficial effect for pre-task planning on learners' task performance, the present research takes into account the possible effects of directing learners' attention to meaning and form of language on their written production while they have one- and five-minute strategic planning time. The study randomly categorized 48 intermediate learners of English into...

This paper focus on the construction of general pedagogical guidelines for the design of Educational Digital Storytelling Environments (EDSE) based on a specific evaluation model, named the DS 'Pedagogical Evaluation Star'. DS 'Pedagogical Evaluation Star' is based on modern social and constructivist views of learning and is consisted of sixteen pedagogical dimensions, namely: collaborative lea...

Experimental memory research has traditionally focused on the individual, and viewed social influence as a source of error or inhibition. However, in everyday life, remembering is often a social activity, and theories from philosophy and psychology predict benefits of shared remembering. In a series of studies, both experimental and more qualitative, we attempted to bridge this gap by examining...

Metadata developments are common in standardization activities, not only for learning technology area but all over the areas of electronic information representation. However, development itself is not the final goal from practical point of view. Our research project is developing a metadata to represent, record and reuse collaborative learning (CL) activity. There are many alternatives and com...

OUTLINE 1. What is information revolution? 2. What are the advantages of information in electronic form? 3. What is hyper-text? 4. Where are Indian languages in the information revolution? 4.1 Digital content 4.2 Machine translation 4.3 Speech 4.4 Optical character recognition 4.5 Search and knowledge organization 4.6 Other applications 5. Relevant technologies 5.1 Basic research 6. Are compute...