The recent world pandemic has highlighted the need for effective procedures to teach language in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) environments. Fully online and asynchronous classrooms are especially challenged when addressing learning to speak a foreign language toward greater communicative competence. Current CALL research is…

This book highlights the importance of design in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) by proposing data-driven design and assessment. It addresses data-driven design, which focuses on the processing of data and on improving design quality based on analysis results, in three main sections. The first section explains how to design…

A report from a study completed by American Institutes for Research (AIR), detailing the extent and type of computer use in U.S. public secondary schools. The second such study done by AIR, analysis of trends and estimates of future growth and directions are presented. (HB)

This paper reports on a ten-week course, taught twice since the 1972 fall quarter, at the University of California, Irvine, where the computer served extensively as a teaching device. The primary intent of the course was to use the computer not as a resource for learning but rather as a resources for learning about learning. (Author)

Teacher materials are provided for a computer-assisted English grammar curriculum for adult basic education students (1-8 grade level). They accompany a software program (diskette) that the student is able to use by himself/herself with the Apple IIc or Apple IIe computer with single or double drive and a monitor or a television with an R.F.…

Explains how a computer and a large-screen television can help journalism instructors teach editing and writing skills. (FL)

Rocket, a computer simulation program of a model rocket's flight performance written in BASIC to run on a Wang 220-B is detailed. The critical portion of the program is presented. (BT)

Article suggests several reasons for the successful use of computers to augment learning and offers some principles and procedures for catalyzing creativity in computer-related learning environments. (Author)

Two computer packages are described which augment laboratory experiments in which the effect of random variables on population processes can be explored. (MP)

Discusses the theoretical foundations, history, and advantages of educational simulations. Describes two computer simulation programs. (FL)

The Atari videogame "Battlezone" can be used as a valuable field exercise to teach college-level psychology students about the fundamental principles of man-machine interactions. (RM)

A description is given of a training program for bank tellers using computer-based instruction. The results of a pilot test are reported. (MP)

Describes a project in which elementary school students create a computer-generated time line of milestones in their lives, noting such an activity can give them a good start on writing autobiographies. (SM)

This book was designed to help administrators, teachers, staff, parents, governing boards, teacher educators, and students to decide what children need to learn about computers and information handling; how these new objectives fit into the curriculum in mathematics, science, language arts, and social studies; how to use computers in classrooms;…

Integrating computer-based learning tools into the curriculum has been slow, and the results of actual usage have been inconclusive; however, the potential for effective instruction should increase use by teachers and students. This ERIC Digest discusses three topics: (1) computer use in the classroom; (2) what is known about the effects of…