The present study is aimed at examining instructional paradigms of virtual education in Pakistan. The population of the study consisted of learners from Master of Business Administration (MBA) Program at Virtual University (VU) of Pakistan. The researcher adopted convenient sampling technique and collected data from 600 learners through five-point (Likert scale) questionnaire. He analyzed data ...

This paper describes a failure alert system and a methodology for content reuse in a new instructional design system called InterMediActor (IMA). IMA provides an environment for instructional content design, production and reuse, and for students’ evaluation based in content specification through a hierarchical structure of competences. The student assessment process and information extraction ...

Driven by requests from Internet-savvy students, a large number of universities and educational institutions have started to design, develop and use information and communication technology to create, share and disseminate instructional material. Commercial tools, such as Blackboard and WebCT, are available to offer basic course management functionalities. However, most of these tools are hinde...

Nowadays, the e-learning industry is focused on producing and managing digital learning contents. There are several examples of learning objects, content packages or metadata proposed by different organizations such as IMS, IEEE or ADL. However, little attention has been paid to the specification and management of instructional processes, teaching strategies and learning activities. These issue...

The book is loosely structured around the ADDIE (Analyse, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate) instructional design process. Relevant articles that include business world case studies, learning theories, systems theory, and management theories and practices in a variety of commercial environments illustrate the steps within the process. The book concludes with a section entitled New Methodo...

background: above all methods effective learning results from decent training, acquired in the proper environment and encouraging creative methods. computer-assisted training by educational software is considered a fundamental measure to improve medical and dentistry education systems. this study aims to design and assess fixed dental prostheses via 2 multimedia instructional contents at the gu...

Utilizing the resources of the web in educational practices has made instructional processes more efficient and interesting and has made the learning process on the other hand much easier and attractive. With the web, English language teachers now have the option of engaging learners in online (web-based) instructions in addition to the use of conventional classroom instructions or alternativel...

Title of Dissertation: THE EFFECT OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONSULTATION TEAMS ON TEACHERS’ REPORTED INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES Lauren Tracy Kaiser, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation Directed by: Professor Sylvia Rosenfield, School Psychology Program A primary goal of Instructional Consultation Teams (IC Teams; Rosenfield & Gravois, 1996) is that students’ problems will be prevented or resolved throu...