Microblogging tools such as Twitter show potential to enrich classroom experience and benefit student learning. Research shows that instructional guidance is particularly necessary in computer-assisted learning environments, but no research has been done to study the effects of instructional guidance in microblogging-based learning. Using a multiple-case study design, the researcher examined st...

Training and instruction (T&I) is increasingly based on advanced learning tools such as e-learning, simulators and virtual environments. In order to utilise these tools in an effective way, a first set of global requirements for T&I programs should be specified in order to identify appropriate needs and effective instructional methods. General Morphological Analysis (GMA) is a non-quantified mo...

When a teacher designs an instruction plan for information education, it is necessary to include not only the target goal of the unit but also other related goals determined by types of teaching tools and teaching materials. The purpose of this study is to support the teacher of information education in the process of designing the instruction plan. First, we propose a process for instructional...

There are many methods and techniques for delivering instruction through the Web. Academic and industrial courses can be enhanced with Web-based links, or the courses can be delivered completely via the Web. Instructional content can be delivered through e-mail "correspondence-type" courses, via Web pages written in HTML, or with very complex interactions developed with Java, JavaScript, Shockw...

One such educational research problem is the process of creating learning objects (LOs). Learning objects (LOs) have become valuable teaching and learning tools in a variety of instructional contexts (Bratina, 2002, Boyle, 2003, Wang, 2008). Creation of LOs involves multiple interactions between stakeholders from various domains such as the subject matter, instructional design, visual communica...

The Internet opens a new generation of distance education ( fourth generation ), introducing sophisticated delivery tools and creating a paradigm shift with profound implications on the design of distance education courses. In order to accommodate this medium, novel curriculum design and learning models may be appropriate. In this paper, there are several instructional design models presented a...

A goal of IT education is to enable students to acquire the ability of using information in order to live in a modern information-oriented society. Such meta-ability cannot be learned in the traditional Japanese instructional way of knowledge being transmitted by teachers. When a teacher designs a lesson plan for IT education, it is necessary to include not only the target goal of the unit but ...

The rapid development internet-based technology along with the availability of user-friendly video capture and editing tools expanded the use of instructional video modules from fully online courses (e.g. Gosmire, Morrison, & Osdel, 2009), to blended courses (Sloan Consortium, 2007, Twigg, 2003), and to more recent enhanced live active learning strategies such as flipped or inversed classroom (...

There has been tremendous growth in Web-based instruction over the past few years. Because the user group of Web-based instruction includes learners from heterogeneous backgrounds, individual differences become an important issue in the development of Web-based instructional programs. Among a variety of individual differences, cognitive style is a particularly important characteristic. This stu...

Although Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) have been shown to be effective in a number of domains, they are still rarely found outside the laboratory. We propose that to be truly effective, authoring environments for ITSs must be based on a psychologically plausible account of teaching. In this paper, we describe how the REDEEM tools exploit the existing psychological research to identify cru...