lundi 1er janvier 2018 par Orest Cap, Odarka S. Trosky, Barbara Wynes, Robin Cutts
This article describes how audio-visual materials were selected and used for a group of thirty unemployed young adults, ranging in ages (17-21), attending an integrated literacy-mechanical skills program. This program consisted of an initial two months of class activities followed by (...)
lundi 1er janvier 2018 par June R. Landsburg, Clair Anita Fellman
This case study on the development and presentation of a university course on a public television channel demonstrates some of the significant differences between a classroom course and a broadcast television course. The interaction between Simon Fraser University and British Columbia's (...)
lundi 1er janvier 2018 par Mariela Tovar, Nicholas Barker
Educational evaluators in general have traditionally recognized the need to incorporate data from potential users in designing evaluation studies. In the field of courseware evaluation, however, there has been a great deal of emphasis placed on expert judgment as a source of data for evaluating (…)
lundi 1er janvier 2018 par Laura R. Winer, Richard F. Schmid
The present study maintains that consistently effective leaming materials can best be generated if the prescriptions instructional designers use are founded on learning theory. It is also considered critical that cognitive processes central to the task demands and strategies employed to address (…)
This article deals with the management of instructional development projects for computer-based training (CBT), and is primarily aimed at project managers working with a team of instructional developers for a corporate client. Two issues are discussed: a) estimating the size of a CBT project, (...)
Dans un article intitulé « Pourquoi la manipulation d’objets peut-elle aider à l’apprentissage de concepts mathématiques? », Lafay répond aux deux questions suivantes : « La manipulation d’objets est-elle efficace pour l’apprentissage de concepts mathématiques? » et « Pourquoi la manipulation (…)
Le professeur Ed Hughes, directeur du Département de musique de l’Université Sussex, en Angleterre, a observé que cette problématique se posait au sein de l’orchestre scolaire de son enfant. Pour la comprendre, il s’est donc joint à des collègues ayant une expertise en psychologie et en (…)