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Szabo, Sharon – Michigan Community College Journal: Research & Practice, 1998
Discusses TopClass, a Web-based tool and delivery system used for online courses, and its use at Schoolcraft College in Michigan. TopClass offers many benefits, including a self-contained management system, secured access, user-friendly instructions for coursework area creation, e-mail, bulletin boards, a secured testing mechanism and student…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware
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Narasimhan, V. Lakshmi; Zhao, Shuxin; Liang, Hailong; Zhang, Shuangyi – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2006
This paper presents an interactive educational environment for use over both "in situ" and distance-based modalities of teaching. Several technological issues relating to the design and development of the distributed virtual learning environment have also been raised. The PROVIDE framework proposed in this paper is a seamless distributed…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Online Systems
Graziadei, William D.; And Others – 1997
The State University of New York (SUNY) established the need among faculty for an Internet-based course/classroom management system (CMS) to provide the means to customize and manage the instructional process in teaching and learning and to integrate the content from a variety of sources including instructors both local and remote, students, and…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education
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Garcia, Penny Ann – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2002
The classroom teacher's comfort and familiarity with computers and software influences student-computer use in the classroom. Teachers remain mired in repetitive introduction of basic software mechanics and rarely progress with students to advanced concepts or complex applications. An Online Assistant (OLA) was developed to accompany the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Familiarity, Computer Uses in Education
Britain, Sandy; Liber, Oleg – 1999
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are learning management software systems that synthesize the functionality of computer-mediated communications software and online methods of delivering course materials. This report focuses on how to evaluate the properties, capabilities and orientation of different systems from an educational perspective, and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Selection, Computer Uses in Education
McKlin, Tom; Harmon, S. W.; Evans, William; Jones, M. G. – 2001
This first phase of a content analysis of online, asynchronous, educational discussions is designed to generate a method for automatically categorizing messages into cognitive categories using neural network software. This phase of research answers two questions regarding the method of automatically analyzing discussion messages: Can a neural…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Software Evaluation
Kesten, Philip R. – 1997
ERes, an electronic reserve system, allows faculty and staff to make documents available on the World Wide Web without requiring any technical skills. The system was developed at Santa Clara University (California). This paper provides an overview of ERes and includes: technical information; the user interface for entering and viewing documents;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
Phillips, Rob – 1997
Interactive multimedia (IMM) is a technology with the potential to change the way people learn, acquire information, and entertain themselves. This technology brings together a range of fields and requires the skills of professionals from those fields. This handbook offers practical advice on issues related to developing successful interactive…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation
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Meskill, Carla; Swan, Karen – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1998
Examines how software designed to complement resource-based approaches to reading and writing ("Kid's Space") fared in four elementary classrooms. Results of the pilot study indicate that given the right conditions, children write creatively in response to visual and auditory stimuli. Effective methods of integrating and valuing online work are…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Auditory Stimuli, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education