Background Although studies show that a large majority of smokers initiate smoking while in early adulthood, poor efficacy of school smoking-prevention programs has been noted. With the explosive rise in internet use, the imperative need to use new forms of media for educational purposes has emerged more prominently than ever before. In this paper we briefly describe the design and testing of a...

This paper investigates the ways in which the expectations and beliefs of academic staff about computerbased learning impact the design of learning media and their integration into the student learning experience. Moreover, it aims to ascertain how these expectations and beliefs have to be negotiated in a collaborative process between academics, educational advisors and multimedia producers, so...

Computer games have a long history as entertainment media, but their use for educational or political communication is relatively recent. This paper explores the use of computer games as news media. Newsgames are computer games used to participate in the public sphere with the intention of explaining or commenting on current news. The paper provides a set of concepts for analyzing newsgames, ba...

The sharable and reusable multimedia learning objects are very important to avoid repeated efforts among users. LOM-like standards have been widely used to support resource managements and applications. This paper describes the differences between LOM-like standards and educational needs of multimedia learning objects. We classify multimedia learning object types based on educational features a...

The interactivity afforded to the learner by the computer based media is often fairly restricted. This may be by design choice but is often brought about by resource constraints. The new layered media forms give educational media developers an opportunity to provide richer forms of interactivity, and some of the issues related to changes in the way that interactive materials might be created ar...

The interactivity afforded to the learner by the computer based media is often fairly restricted. This may be by design choice but is often brought about by resource constraints. The new layered media forms give educational media developers an opportunity to provide richer forms of interactivity, and some of the issues related to changes in the way that interactive materials might be created ar...

As is now obvious, our traditional notions of document are breaking apart as the very idea of "office memo" or "textbook chapter" are shapeshifting under the influence of new technologies. Media exists in many forms, and are now as likely to be email, pointers to web sites, references to IRC channels, images in the body of the document, even sound annotations and entire video segments. In this ...

The interactivity afforded to the learner by the computer based media is often fairly restricted. This may be by design choice but is often brought about by resource constraints. The new layered media forms give educational media developers an opportunity to provide richer forms of interactivity, and some of the issues related to changes in the way that interactive materials might be created ar...

The interactivity afforded to the learner by the computer based media is often fairly restricted. This may be by design choice but is often brought about by resource constraints. The new layered media forms give educational media developers an opportunity to provide richer forms of interactivity, and some of the issues related to changes in the way that interactive materials might be created ar...