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Download full textBishop, Mary Jean; Cates, Ward Mitchell – 2001
Recent technological advances now make possible the full integration of sound in instructional software. Sounds may gain and focus learner attention, reduce distracting stimuli, and make learning more engaging. In addition, they may help learners condense, elaborate upon, and organize details, highlighting interconnections among new pieces of…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Materials
Friend, Jamesine – 1985
Although computers have been used in education for 20 years in the United States and Europe, they have not been widely used in the less developed countries of the world because the initial investment and operational costs of computers have been too high. Should advances in hardware technology continue to reduce such costs, some educational…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, Courseware
Peer reviewedPritchard, Sarah M. – Feminist Teacher, 1988
Focuses on the use of computer services for research, policy, and teaching about women in all settings. Reviews developments in the following categories: large general databases, specialized databases, the work of the National Council for Research on Women, the use of automated library catalogs, microcomputers and software. Makes predictions…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Databases, Educational Trends
Anderson, Thor A. – Educational Technology, 2003
Explores why "learning" and "object" have been combined in the field of instructional technology. Examines why current definitions of these terms are lacking when looked at from a standards and interoperability point of view. Suggests a new definition with a rationale to satisfy needs of technologists for precise, practical…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Computer Uses in Education, Design Preferences, Educational Development
Peer reviewedLangston, M. Diane – Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 1986
Reviews the major types of computer aids to invention to reveal the paper-based design paradigm that characterizes them. Discusses implications of this "old paradigm" and suggests directions for developing new, uniquely electronic paradigms for future aids. (AEW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Savill-Smith, Carol; Kent, Phillip – 2003
The m-learning project is a 3-year, pan-European research and development study which aims to use portable technologies to provide learning experiences relating to literacy and numeracy skill development for young adults aged 16-24 who are outside full-time formal education settings, and to promote the development and achievement of lifelong…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cognitive Style, Computer Software Selection, Computer Uses in Education
Keegan, Desmond – 2002
The future of electronic learning was explored in an analysis that viewed the provision of learning at a distance as a continuum and traced the evolution from distance learning to electronic learning to mobile learning in Europe and elsewhere. Special attention was paid to the following topics: (1) the impact of the industrial revolution, the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, Courseware
