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Hay, Lyn; Pymm, Bob – Education for Information, 2011
Following a review of the online delivery of distance education programs within the School of Information Studies (SIS) program at Charles Sturt University, a team of academics worked with an external consultant to design a purpose built SIS Learning Centre in Second Life (SL), a 3D virtual world environment in which people (via their avatars) may…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Teaching Methods, Web 2.0 Technologies, Online Courses
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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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Conole, Grainne; Weller, Martin – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2008
The paper will argue that adopting a learning design methodology may provide a vehicle for enabling better design and reuse of Open Educational Resources (OERs). It will describe a learning design methodology, which is being developed and implemented at the Open University in the UK. The aim is to develop a "pick and mix" learning design…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Learning Activities, Course Evaluation, Focus Groups
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Chang, C-K.; Chen, Gwo-Dong – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1997
Analyzes the requirements for constructing collaborative learning activities in distance computer assisted learning (CAL) systems; shows why an active database can satisfy the requirements with a collaborative homework example; and proposes procedures for using an active database to construct collaborative learning activities in distance CAL…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer System Design, Databases, Design Requirements
Lehtonen, Miika – 2002
In contrast to traditional types of learning and teaching processes and learning media, such as printed material for Web and hypermedia learning resources, Web resources and Web-based activities are quite often unfortunately more or less separate parts of the planning process and curriculum documentation in an organization's traditional…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer System Design, Conventional Instruction, Curriculum Development
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Raymond, David; Kazuhide, Kanenishi; Matsuura, Kenji; Baudin, Veronique; Gayraud, Thierry; Yano, Yoneo; Diaz, Michel – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
Asynchronous web-based learning environments are not usually as interactive or adaptive compared to traditional classrooms. The use of synchronous communication tools may be a solution to recreating the link between students and professors. However, synchronous collaborative learning environments are often restricted to a set of communication…
Descriptors: Models, Learning Activities, Cooperation, Computer System Design
Svensson, Lars; Ekenstam, Tobias – 1998
One obvious reason that teachers hesitate to create Web sites for their distance courses is the lack of computer/technology skills. Other teachers who know how to create a well-structured course site are put off by the fact that it takes a lot of time to maintain it. Thus there is a risk that the course site will be ill-structured and poorly…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer System Design