This article summarizes published research on vocabulary instruction involving students with learning disabilities. Nineteen vocabulary studies that comprised 27 investigations were located. Study interventions gleaned from the review included keyword or mnemonic approaches, cognitive strategy instruction (e.g., semantic features analysis), direct…

This paper describes a number of different types of training aids currently employed in online training: non-interactive audiovisual presentations; interactive computer-based aids; partially interactive aids based on recorded searches; print-based materials; and kits. The advantages and disadvantages of each type of aid are noted, and a table…

Discusses the use of computers for nine different tasks in biological education: information retrieval, data accumulation, data analysis, simulation and systems analysis, decision making, experimental control, course review, computer-managed instruction, and word processing. (PEB)

The 49 short (one- or two-page) conference papers presented here document concern for the use of hypermedia and multimedia technology in education. Discussion includes the use of multimedia technology in various subject areas, programming languages, electronic books, intelligent tutoring systems, distance education, knowledge representation,…

This document contains 102 one-page conference demonstrations/posters of individual research in the use of multimedia and hypermedia in education. Teaching and learning strategies and styles are addressed; multimedia applications for cooperative learning, problem solving and decision making are related. The uses of object-oriented modelling,…