Academic attention to educational podcasts has grown significantly in recent years. However, to date, the concept of genres in podcasting is yet to gain scholarly attention. By examining genres emergent from a corpus of educational podcasts available online, this paper introduces the value of genre analysis to educational podcast research. It…

The paper explores a shift in education from educational systems requiring student adaptation to educational recommendation systems adapting to students' individual needs. The paper discusses the concept of adaptation as addressed in educational research and draws on the system theory of Heinz von Foerster to shed light on how the educational…

In this paper, we propose a visual saliency algorithm for automatically finding the topic transition points in an educational video. First, we propose a method for assigning a saliency score to each word extracted from an educational video. We design several mid-level features that are indicative of visual saliency. The optimal feature combination…

Instructional designers must design and develop online learning environments that present the content in a way that learners will find important and useful. Faculty and novice designers are being tasked to design and develop online learning environments without having the necessary knowledge or experience in instructional design in order to select…

The goal of the paper is to present possible use of EPE videos in different phases of a learning and teaching process. The paper is based on an evaluation of EPE (easy production educational) videos. The evaluation framework used in this study, divides the teaching and learning process into four main phases: 1) The preparation phase, 2) The…

This paper reviews the need for and possibilities of developing an adequate and universal classification and coding system for educational media. (Editor)

A description of the second phase of a project which attempted to gather task statements and related data about people who were involved in instructional media. (AK)

The article contends that any film engenders some sort of affective response, whether or not the affect is the film's major intent. In short, to "see" a film is to have some sort of affective response, and one may or may not learn something cognitively as well. (Author/HB)

Paper deals with the question of classifying media in the context of teaching and learning processes. (Author)

Current trends in cataloging nonprint materials and the new Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) cataloging standards are discussed. The bulk of this paper is composed of suggestions for cataloging nonprint material by organizing data into prescribed areas, each of which contains one or more elements of information. (DS)

A discussion of an experiment to determine if any relationships could be detected between college students' attitudes, demographic characteristics, and grades. (Author)

Author suggests a number of strategies for constructing a taxonomy that would take into account media, individual differences, and behaviors. (Author/HB)

Experiments are reported in which the effect of providing cueing systems on the amount learned by readers was investigated. (Author)

Developed to help people in gathering, compiling, and interpreting data relating to the application of technology to instruction, this handbook provides assistance in the form of standardized terms and definitions and a structure showing the interrelationships of those terms. The handbook is organized to lead logically from an overall definition…