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Najjar, Mehdi – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2008
Despite a growing development of virtual laboratories which use the advantages of multimedia and Internet for distance education, learning by means of such tutorial tools would be more effective if they were specifically tailored to each student needs. The virtual teaching process would be well adapted if an artificial tutor can identify the…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Virtual Classrooms, Prompting, Teaching Methods
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Reynolds, Thomas H.; Bonk, Curtis Jay – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1996
Discusses writing instruction and the use of educational computer programs; provides a theoretical framework that includes cognitive tool partnerships, learning theory, writing research, and the Vygotskian theory of mediated learning; and describes a prompting tool that used the macro language of IBM's WordPerfect with college and middle school…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Higher Education