Discusses online text-based collaborative learning environments such as Multi-User Dimensions (MUDs) and Object-Oriented MUDs (MOOs) and describes a multimedia-enhanced, Web-based MOO (WOO) called SpaceALIVE! that was the subject of a pilot project with Singapore secondary school students. (Contains 15 references.) (LRW)

Responses were collected from 117 secondary school teachers in Singapore to determine what teachers perceive to be the disadvantages, major facilitators, and inhibitors of computer-assisted instruction. Immediate feedback to students and provision of alternative teaching techniques were found to be the major advantages; isolation and costs were…

Examines the impact of contextual factors on teachers' roles and teachers' roles in contributing to the effective use of computer-aided instruction in Singapore's secondary schools. A path modeling approach was adopted whereby factors during different stages of the teaching and learning are examined before the final outcome, the student's learning…

This study investigated the effects of incorporating concept mapping into computer assisted instruction with tenth grade students in Singapore. Discusses results of a chemistry achievement test that suggest that concept mapping accompanying a computer assisted tutorial program can enhance their learning, and considers future research. (Contains 30…

Discussion of effect sizes in computer-assisted learning research focuses on a study conducted in Singapore high school geography classes that used micro-PROLOG to determine the efficacy of computer-assisted learning. Topics include impact on achievement, student attitudes, and classroom environment. (53 references) (LRW)

A sample of 671 secondary school students in 24 classes in Singapore was involved in investigating the relative efficacy of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and traditional expository teaching, as well as the differential effectiveness of the two teaching methods for boys and girls. Achievement and attitude outcome criteria were used.…

This paper focuses teachers' images of their own computer-integrated teaching: the way the teaching process is structured by teachers' relationships with computer technology and how this relationship defines their work and their thoughts, voices, and experiences. It also examines how teachers themselves comprehend and convey their roles and thus…

Examines the development and validation of a new instrument that assesses student perceptions of gender equity, investigation, innovation, and resource adequacy in computer-assisted learning. A survey of 671 high school students in Singapore revealed that each scale displayed satisfactory validity and reliability. (65 references) (Author/AEF)

The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…