This paper addresses the use of e-materials in learning. Under pressure from the public, which is becoming increasingly conversant with IT, schools and also other non-formal types of learning are changing into e-classrooms and e-learning. Among parents and teachers, too, there is a widespread opinion that e-learning is more motivating and is more…

The Cornell Theory Center (CTC) began offering asynchronous distance learning over the Web in 1995, with its first offering of the Virtual Workshop. The Virtual Workshop is a Web-based set of modules used to provide distance education in high-performance computing. One technique that is currently being incorporated is the use of video clips. CTC…

Indicates that "ease of access to equipment makes no less important the need to plan how each session of machine-guided practice is to be integrated into the instructional sequence, and that improvisation can impede learning. (DS)

Recent advances in electronic media technology (hypertext and interactive video) are summarized. Classroom applications and implementation issues are considered, and it is argued that technology can play an important role in foreign language and literature classrooms. (Contains 41 references.) (Author/LB)

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) that support collaboration are one of the new technologies that have attracted great interest. VLEs are learning management software systems composed of computer-mediated communication software and online methods of delivering course material. This paper presents ELearn, a collaborative VLE for teaching…

This document is a resource guide for educators on using telecommunications in the classroom. The first chapter provides a brief history of telecommunications, describes what telecommunications is, and discusses its value in the classroom today. The second chapter discusses the parts of a telecommunications system and provides technical…

Describes an advanced programed course Deutsch sprechen -- Deutsch verstehen'' (Speak German -- Understand German) developed at Kiel University, West Germany. (RS)

This document contains the transcript of a 1986-1987 videotape of case studies at five institutions representing the broad range of postsecondary education: a research university (The University of Michigan), a comprehensive regional university (Eastern Michigan University), a community college (Washtenaw Community College), and two liberal arts…

A review discusses the background of the experimental electronic blackboard and its role as an audiovisual aid in instruction. Brief details of several systems are given: the Victor System, Electrowriter Remote Blackboard (VERB); Carbon County Wyoming Project; University of Tennessee Project; the Quebec Project in Canada; New York Institute of…

Suggestions are made for the use of the language laboratory in beginning, intermediate, and advanced college German classes. Tape selection, learning goals, integration of tapes with text, laboratory techniques, audiovisual materials, articulation, and the need for laboratory work on different levels are discussed. Certain materials are…

Presents a mechanism, the Secure e-Course eXchange (eCX) designed to protect learning material from unauthorized dissemination, and shows how this mechanism can be integrated in the operation model of online learning course providers. The design of eCX is flexible to fit two operating models, the Institutional Server Model and the Corporate Server…

This guide offers a comprehensive outline of computer assisted language learning (CALL) resources, tools, consultants, and graduate programs. Resources include companies, organizations, products, and support services for CALL; tools are the curriculum materials, both commercially and noncommercially available. Consultants listed are Computer…

Addresses the advantages and disadvantages of using the World Wide Web (WWW) as an electronic medium to transfer educational materials to students and teachers, reviews educational WWW projects created at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and discusses future trends of educational computing. A sidebar gives background information about the…

This monograph presents articles on interactive videodisc technology in language learning, ranging from the importance of a theoretical framework, the transition from theory to practice, getting started, design considerations, hypermedia, discovery environments, authoring software, workstation environments, and a look at the future of optical disc…

This collection of articles offers advice on concerns and decisions in planning or remodeling a language learning center, incorporation of satellite reception in the language lab, coping with different television standards and technologies in the language lab, testing language skills, and the role of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in language…