Due to the ever increasing demands for highly skilled workforce in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the government has focused on promoting vocational education for inculcating technical and professional skills in the young Emiratis. Currently, the UAE provides a lot of educational services to its young citizens from kindergarten to higher…

This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such as policy-making, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology are locally adopted, adapted, initiated, and implemented in Vietnam and Cambodia. The region is responding to a large number of significant challenges, including…

Higher education institutions have taken to redesigning high-enrollment, introductory courses to improve student learning outcomes, student success, and degree completion. This paper presents findings from the assessment of course redesign by focusing on the case of developmental math at a large community college. The college adopted…

The integration of technology into modern classrooms has enhanced learning opportunities for students. With increased access to educational content, students gain a better understanding of the concepts being taught. "Flipped Instruction: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice" is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly…

hapTEL, an interdisciplinary project funded by two UK research councils from 2007 to 2011, involves a large interdisciplinary team (with undergraduate and post-graduate student participants) which has been developing and evaluating a virtual learning system within an HE healthcare education setting, working on three overlapping strands. Strand 1…

This article reports on an m-learning research agenda instituted at our university in order to explore how mobile technology can enhance active, experiential learning. Details of the implementation and results of four areas of m-learning are presented: mobile supported fieldwork, fostering interactivity in large lectures with mobile technology,…

New developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) to support learning have brought about increasing interest by both academic and non-academic institutions in e-learning. These developments in ICT are principally multimedia and the Internet with its World Wide Web. Interest in ICT supported learning is also fuelled by the…

This paper discusses in general terms when computer based instructional simulation (CBIS) is appropriate and suggests how to construct a good instructional simulation. The role that documentation plays is particularly stressed, as is determining that CBIS is the proper instructional method. (Author/IRT)

A survey of 306 undergraduate and graduate students, focus groups, and lecturers' reports evaluated a Web-enabled distributed learning system. The system was popular with students, flexible, self-paced, and empowering; technical support difficulties generated frustration. There was less interaction than desired and a lack of instant feedback and…

Results of demonstrations of two computing systems, differing in configuration and educational services, are analyzed in terms of student achievement and attrition for the PLATO system, and student performance in TICCIT. The two studies were conducted by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). (RAO)

Additional information presented in support of PLATO responds to the findings of an ETS study of the system in community colleges, which is described in the preceding article in this issue. (RAO)

The findings of the ETS study of TICCIT in community colleges, which is described in a previous article in this issue, are compared with the results of a series of studies on the system conducted at the Brigham Young University. (RAO)

Presents observations about the long-range computer plans from three journalism schools, noting varied objectives, the most frequently chosen hardware, and the scarcity of software specific to journalism and mass communications instruction. (HTH)

TICCIT has been a prominent feature of the instructional environment of the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College since 1974, and its presence has pervaded all the operations of the campus, both instructional and administrative. Positive and negative impacts have been recorded by two evaluations. (Author)

Presents behavioral objectives for accounting students and an outcomes assessment plan with five steps: (1) identification and definition of student competencies; (2) selection of valid instruments; (3) integration of assessment and instruction; (4) determination of levels of assessment; and (5) attribution of improvements to the program. (SK)