Despite the contributions language centres across the globe have made to language education and higher education in general, few publications have a specific focus on research work produced by language centre faculty. The purpose of this reviewed, edited volume entitled "Tertiary Education Language Learning: A Collection of Research,"…

The theme of EUROCALL 2014 was "CALL Design: Principles and Practice," which attracted approximately 280 practitioners, researchers and students from computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and related disciplines of more than 40 different nationalities. Over 170 presentations were delivered on topics related to this overarching…

This volume is a supplement to "K-12 Resources on the Internet: An Instructional Guide" and is intended for teaching trainers that prepare Internet workshops in schools and libraries. It includes the following materials: guidelines on how to use this supplement together with the Instructional Guide in preparing a workshop; tips on how to use the…

This practitioner-oriented guide provides nontechnnical, straightforward advice on how to stay on top of technological changes and innovation and how to design, implement, and run a computer lab and/or computer-assisted classroom. It addresses the fundamental overhead of the educational infrastructure that is necessary for classroom technology to…

This book providing direction for the planning, designing, and writing of programs for computer assisted instruction (CAI) includes chapters on the role of computers in instruction, the BASIC programing language, flowcharting, terminal commands, displaying instruction, dialogues, learning theories, the process of instruction, and the planning of…

The purpose of this book is to assist pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers in selecting instructional strategies and media that will ensure that students achieve desired learning objectives and to illustrate how teachers can develop more effective curriculums by engaging in applied research. The first five chapters comprise Part 1, an overview…

This book is based on training sessions conducted by the author that focused on key issues in the design of self-instructional materials, including an awareness of the distinctive features of self-instructional materials, characteristics of the target audience, and coming to grips with the resources and constraints within which one must work.…

This book contains 18 chapters, written by different authors, on preparing for the future of multimedia computing (MMC). It is organized into four sections which focus on the following areas respectively: technology, applications and benefits, applications and development, and end users. The first section concerns the relationship between MMC…