World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia & World Conference on Educational Telecommunications, 1996
Jun 17, 1996
Editors
Patricia Carlson; Fillia Makedon
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 157
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Creating A Multimedia Interface To Teach Inexperienced Circuit Board Assembly Line Operators How To Correctly Assemble Circuit B
Interfaces combining natural language, speech and graphics take advantage of both the individual strengths of each communication mode and the fact that these modes can be employed in parallel. It... More
pp. 626-631
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A Flexible Multimedia Tutoring System for Medicine
Over a period of seven years, work has been in progress at Sheffield on the development of Tutoring Systems that present simulated case studies in medicine. The SIMPLE LINCTUS System was in routine... More
pp. 632-637
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A Practitioner-Validated List of Competencies Needed for Courseware Authoring
The purpose of this study was to develop a practitioner-validated list of competencies needed by educators to author multimedia courseware. A four round Delphi survey using electronic mail for all ... More
pp. 638-644
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Multimedia and Language Learning: A Study of Features that Support Off-screen Communication Practice
The purpose of this study is to examine features of multimedia materials that best support off- screen communication. Participants were twenty-one pairs of ESL students at the intermediate level.... More
pp. 645-649
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A Software Tool for Educational Research in Pictorial Communication
We present here a system developed to serve the needs of educational research on pictorial communication systems. Questions can be differently scheduled by the researcher, the presented material... More
pp. 650-656
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The Effect of On-Screen Instructor Gender and Expressivity Upon Adult Learning of Basic Skills from a Videotaped Lesson
This study determined the effects of on-screen instructor gender and expressivity upon learning. A 2 x 3 factorial design was used. The independent variables were instructor gender and expressivity... More
pp. 657-662
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Virtual Knowledge Park: A Cooperative Learning Environment in Cyberspace
The project reported here is aimed at building a Virtual Knowledge Park as a site in the Internet, fostering interdisciplinary learning of science, technology, and human culture. The development of... More
pp. 663-670
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Cal-farm: A Distance Learning CAL Project for Farm Investment Decision Makers
Strategic farm investment analysis is a meld of objectives, budget data, time horizons, selection criteria, etc.; a complex integration task even for formally trained practitioners. Isolated... More
pp. 671-676
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The Technology Rich Classroom Project: Where Learning Soars
The Technology Rich Classroom (TRC) Project integrates computers used as a tool for learning with other strategies to meet the needs of all learners. A central feature of TRC classrooms are their... More
pp. 677-681
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An Interactive Hypermedia Tutorial for Power Electronics Instruction
One approach to instruction based on a constructionist view of learning is to provide rich environments in which learners can actually construct their own knowledge. Using Kolb’s pedagogic model,... More
pp. 682-687
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The Design and Evolution of an Authoring Environment and its Applications
This paper describes a rationale behind the design and evolution of an authoring environment called NEAT, which has been developed and used at Acadia University since 1991. We begin by describing... More
pp. 688-693
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Authoring a Literary Hypermedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM using Hypermedia Modeling Technique
This paper presents the authoring process for a Literary Hypermedia Encyclopedia CD-ROM. The process follows a modeling and design technique for hypermedia applications called HMT (Hypermedia... More
pp. 694-699
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Linking Models to Data: Hypermodels for Science Education
pp. 700-471
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School Work: Learning and Leading in an Information Age
This paper records and analyses how one school, an inner suburban Australian school, is responding to a vision of school work as preparing children for an Information Age. The focus is on the... More
pp. 707-712
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FAST: A Research Paradigm for Educational Performance Support Systems
Factory Automation Support Technology (FAST) is a new project for Georgia Tech researchers. FAST uses special hardware and performance support software to improve the performance of users on work... More
pp. 713-717
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Knowledge Awareness: Bridging between Shared Knowledge and Collaboration in Sharlok
Sharlok (SHARing, Linking and lOoking-up Knowledge) has knowledge building and collaborative learning environment through sharing and looking up and linking learners' knowledge. This paper proposes... More
pp. 718-725
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The Western Australian Telecentres Network: Enhancing Equity and Access to Education in Rural Communities
This paper describes the activities and operations of the Western Australian Telecentres Network. The Telecentres are small enterprises in rural communities in Western Australia that contain a... More
pp. 726-731
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“Hypermedia and the transfer of self-directed learning”
The idea of self-directed learning has been one of the main intrests of the past few years. The possibility of increasing the level of self-directedness in learning by using technology-based... More
pp. 732-737
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Distributed Computing Network for Science and Math Education in Rural New Mexico
This paper describes the TOPS (Teacher Opportunities to Promote Science) and TOPS Mentor programs, which focus on telecommunications and science, math, and technology content. The backbone of these... More
pp. 738-742
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Developing the Virtual Campus Environment
A Virtual Campus Environment is under development based on an object-oriented model of the actors involved in the different processes of Computer Assisted Distance Learning. This paper describes... More
pp. 743-749