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Using Second Life to Teach about Marketing in Second Life
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Halvorson, Wade; Ewing, Mike; Windisch, Lydia – Journal of Marketing Education, 2011
There are compelling reasons for educators to consider incorporating virtual worlds (VWs) in their marketing curriculum. That said, the ways in which VWs can be implemented into the teaching curriculum are many and varied. This article reports on two studies in which notionally similar graduate classes are taught about marketing in Second Life…
Descriptors: Marketing, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation
Designing Effective Learning Environments for Continuing Education.
Hardre, Pat – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2001
Discusses how to design effective learning environments for continuing education that maximize learning, transfer of training, and motivation. Focuses on the process of changing traditional continuing education from lecture-based, on-site instruction to Web-based instruction and considers challenges of distance education. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Distance Education, Educational Environment, Instructional Design
Learning Environments for Studying Argumentation: Learning Effects of E-Mail and Face-to-Face Study.
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Marttunen, Miika; Laurinen, Leena – 1999
In a teaching experiment, 16 face-to-face and 11 e-mail Finnish university students engaged in an argumentation course. The 19 students of the control group did not study argumentation. The course involved two lectures, exercises with argumentative texts, and face-to-face or e-mail seminar discussions based on these texts. The topics of the texts…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Debate, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Distance Education
Restructuring Preservice Teacher Instructional Media Courses.
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Robinson, Carole S.; Brewer, Sally; Erickson, David – 1999
This paper describes the University of Montana's efforts in migrating an undergraduate instructional media course from a traditional stand-and-deliver model to a World Wide Web-based electronic classroom. The rationale is presented, including the background for the decision making move and a description of similarities and differences of both…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Conventional Instruction, Educational Environment
Proceedings of Selected Research and Development Presentations at the Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology and Sponsored by the Research and Theory Division (14th, Washington, D.C., February 5-9, 1992).
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Simonson, Michael R., Ed.; Jurasek, Karen A., Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1992
The papers in this collection of 71 individual papers and 3 symposiums represent some of the most current thinking in educational communications and technology. For the first time, a selected number of development papers sponsored by the Division for Instructional Development are included. Topics discussed include the effects of various conditions…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
Examining How Middle School Students Use Problem-Based Learning Software.
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Williams, Douglas C.; Hemstreet, Susan; Liu, Min; Smith, Vickie Dunlevy – 1998
This study investigated the use of tools and design features as employed in a problem-based learning (PBL) environment and their effectiveness on seventh grade students' learning of science concepts. Specifically, the study examined: (1) the effect of the computer-supported PBL environment on the achievement of middle school students; (2) the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Educational Environment