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Badilescu-Buga, Emil – Teaching English with Technology, 2012
Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) has been trialled and used by users from many countries around the globe, but despite the positive attitude towards its potential benefits to pedagogical processes its adoption in practice has been uneven, reflecting how difficult it is to make a new technology based concept an integral part of the…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Adoption (Ideas), Barriers, Literature Reviews
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Thurman, Richard A. – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1993
Examines implications from cognitive psychology which are important for the design of microcomputer-based instructional simulations. Topics addressed include cognitive structure, including schemata and mental models; cognitive and metacognitive strategies; automaticity of cognitive processes; and affect, or the motivational appeal. (Contains 86…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures
Thurman, Richard A.; Mattoon, Joseph S. – 1992
This paper discusses four areas in the psychology literature that have important implications for the instructional design of microcomputer-based simulations. The first one examined is cognitive structures, and the following suggestions for instructional design are offered: simulations should be appropriate for students' level of understanding;…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures, Computer Assisted Instruction