HIMAA members will be aware that the Education Services Division of HIMAA provides an important service to them and to the wider community in offering a suite of training courses in relevant areas. Currently, distance education courses are focused on clinical classification (including medical terminology as a preparatory step in coder training) for the Australian environment as well as certain ...

Distance education courses have been traditionally delivered via static print-based packages. However, advances in technology and greater use of multimedia in education have provided an opportunity for course designers to enrich students’ learning experiences by providing technology-based learning resources that comprise a range of multimedia and online components. Driving forces including peda...

One of the assertions of the Actor-Network Theory is that physical factors can be actors within a network of other factors which determine the development and use of technology. This paper documents the impact of climate, distance and demographics on the adoption of online courses at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. The qualitative study demonstrates that these physical factors di...

The CS0 course in the curriculum typically has the role of introducing students into basic concepts and terminology of computer science. Hence, it is used to form a base on which the subsequent programming courses can build on. However, much of the effort to build better methodologies for courses is spent on introductory programming courses instead of the earlier course. In this article we pres...

This paper will describe the EDUCATE project for end-user training in information access. EDUCATE is a CEC Libraries Programme Project which involves six members: Limerick University, Ireland (co-ordinator) and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, Imperial College and Plymouth University, United Kingdom and the University of Barcelona, S...

This study focused on the relationship between Kolb learning styles and the enduring time of online learning behaviors, the relationship between Kolb learning styles and learning outcomes and the relationship between learning outcomes and the enduring time of a variety of different online learning behaviors. Prior to the experiment, 104 students majoring in Educational Technology completed Kolb...