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Stephen Foster; Denise Whitelock; Simon Cross; Karen Kear – Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, 2022
"OpenEssayist" is an automated writing evaluation system (AWE) designed to provide immediate textual and graphical feedback to students to help them improve their academic writing. One of the graphical visualisations as part of "OpenEssayist," (named a 'rainbow diagram'), illustrates how well the key concepts within the writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Baruch, Alona Forkosh, Ed.; Tal, Hagit Meishar, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
The use of mobile technology for learning in organizations and the workplace is spreading widely with the development of infrastructure and devices that allow ubiquitous learning and training. Since learning, teaching, and training in a mobile-saturated environment is a developing field, implications for a combined overview of these topics may be…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Learning, Best Practices, Workplace Learning
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Ewing, James M. – Reading Teacher, 1988
Offers an overview of some reading and language arts computer projects in the United Kingdom, including language teaching and intelligent knowledge-based systems, assessment of written style by computer, and desktop publishing in the primary school. (ARH)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Expert Systems, Foreign Countries
Mills, Jon – Online Submission, 1996
Writing, essentially a social act, is concerned with cognition and is allied to context. Most writing takes the form of dialogue and it is out of dialogic processes that language acquisition takes place. Writers and readers convene in the cognitive and social space that is at the heart of a discourse community. The social aspects of writing are…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Discourse Communities, Classroom Techniques, Writing Instruction
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Dunsmuir, Sandra; Clifford, Vivienne – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2003
This paper outlines issues around learning to write and considers the range of difficulties children may experience. The role of Information and Communications Technology in facilitating writing development is considered. Software applications that can be used to support aspects of the writing process and target teaching are outlined. Criteria for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Communications, Educational Psychology, Childrens Writing
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Holmes, Glyn, Ed.; And Others – Computers and the Humanities, 1984
Thirteen articles that discuss use of computer assisted instruction (CAI) in humanities education specifically cover CAI use in philosophy, musicianship training, rhetoric, foreign language, English as a second language, and writing instruction; CAI authoring systems; videodisc technology; educational history; computer simulations; videodisc…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software
Mahlamaki-Kultanen, Seija; Kallio, Leena – 2000
Research was conducted to develop learning environments based on CD-ROM and printed material specifically for vocational secondary students with reading and writing difficulties. Parties to the action research were Austria, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Finland. Finnish partners concentrated on learning environments that would diversify and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cognitive Mapping, Computer Assisted Instruction, Developed Nations