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Direct linkRuecker, Stan; Homich, Eric; Sinclair, Stefan – Visible Language, 2005
This paper describes a prototype system that allows readers to view an electronic text in multiple simultaneous views, providing insight at several different levels of granularity, including a reading view. This prospect display is combined with a number of tools for manipulating the text, for example by highlighting sections of interest for a…
Descriptors: Novels, Scripts, Electronic Publishing, Users (Information)
Peer reviewedBenest, I. D. – Computers and Education, 1990
Discussion of computer-assisted learning (CAL) versus book learning focuses on software called a book emulator that was applied to CAL to reflect desirable attributes of learning from books. A project at the University of York that used the book emulator in an electronics course is described, and future possibilities are suggested. (12 references)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Electronics, Foreign Countries
Whalley, Peter – 1990
This paper examines some of the theoretical and practical problems associated with the use of hypertext as a medium for teaching, and explores the positive role that it may be able to play in teaching materials. Hypertext is conventionally described as non-linear, and this aspect of non-linearity is interpreted as endowing it with many attractive…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Foreign Countries, Hypermedia
Peer reviewedKerr, Stephen T. – Visible Language, 1986
Discusses the types of problems that arise when text is presented in electronic form: (1) surface design, which involves typography, layout, graphics and illustrations, and the quality of language; and (2) interface design, which is manifested on the levels of immediate surface of the text, internal structure, and external structure. (SKC)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Publishing
Download full textHorney, Mark; And Others – 1995
This paper describes Project LITERACY-HI, an ongoing 3-year federally funded study of the benefits of electronically enhanced text for mainstreamed students with hearing impairments. Preliminary information documents the ongoing difficulties with reading experienced by most students with hearing impairments. The project is creating electronic…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Hypermedia
Peer reviewedHiebert, Elfrieda H.; Pearson, P. David – Journal of Educational Research, 2000
Describes theoretical and practical problems facing the field of early reading, examining: readers and texts (reader processes, text difficulty, linguistic and cultural knowledge, and unique learners); home and school (home-school match, communities and reading, preschools as contexts for reading acquisition, and best practices); and policy and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Computer Assisted Instruction, Diversity (Student), Early Childhood Education
