With the advent of computer technology and educational software, hypermedia language learning materi-als made their way in foreign and second language classrooms. Today the role of hypermedia in improv-ing communication skills is by no means deniable. This research aimed at investigating the effect of hy-permedia on the oral performance as well as the motivation of Iranian EFL Learners. A pre...

The object-oriented modeling of interactive multimedia applications in the OMMMA approach is designed to enable multimedia software developers to create comprehensive analysis and design models of multimedia software. For development of highly usable multimedia applications, this approach must be embedded in a more holistic development process that takes a user-oriented perspective on multimedi...

Video stories are an effective way to teach complex subjects, but video is opaque to a computer program. To what extent must the content of such stories be represented? We present three issues in story indexing that affect the distinctions that must be drawn in story representation and illustrate these issues with examples from ORCA, a pedagogical case-retrieval system in the domain of organiza...

OBJECTIVE To develop a computer based learning (CBL) program in diabetes management for health care providers and academic staff MATERIAL AND METHOD A CBL program was developed using "Authorware Professional ver. 6. 0" software. Content validation, computer background survey and investigation of the usability of the program, was conducted as part of the production of this program. The involve...