This compilation of readings in educational media and research makes accessible published and unpublished documents relevant to designers and users of educational media. Volume I is divided into two parts, "Basic Foundations" and "Media Characteristics.""Basic Foundations" refers to that upon which a science of instructional media design and…

Flexible Learning in an Information Society uses a flexible learning framework to explain the best ways of creating a meaningful learning environment. This framework consists of eight factors--institutional, management, technological, pedagogical, ethical, interface design, resource support, and evaluation--and a systematic understanding of these…

Methods, their rationale, and exercises for Open University tutors are presented. The book is divided into two parts, the first concerning practical issues of how to actually teach students to learn and the second dealing with theoretical issues and the rationale for the teaching methods described in Part I. Part I, "A Student-Centered…

Interview data on the learning experiences and techniques of 90 Swedish teenagers and adults were further analyzed to explore changes in views on learning reported by the subjects themselves, and differences between subjects with respect to age (range 15-73) and formal education (range 6-17 years). Some subjects equated knowledge with discrete…

This study tested the hypothesis that regular communication students are oriented to more symbols and their meanings than are developmental communication students and thus have more ways to receive information. One-hundred students (50 regular and 50 developmental) at Central Piedmont Community College were given the 220-item Cognitive Style…

An experiment tested the assumption that differences in learning to learn (LTL) are to a large extent explained by differences in what groups of different socioeconomic status (SES) have learned about ways to learn a task. A 6-problem concept attainment task not dependent on verbalization was used. Subjects were 108 elementary school Caucasian…

When stimuli differed on two dimensions (size and shape), either of which furnished enough information for a correct response, eight educable retarded adults were faster to discriminate than when stimuli differed only on dimension. (Author)

The possible application of ideas to control test scoring is discussed. (Author)

A short, general paper on how computers can enhance the learning process. (HB)

Compared were the performances on a visual-motor task of 130 8-to 30-year-old retarded persons with separate etiologies but similar intelligence levels (in five categories ranging from IQ 30-91). (Author/CL)

The possible application of ideas to control test scoring is discussed. (Author)

Discusses the variables in 3 sections: variables associated with the character of the instructional process, variables associated with the participants in the instructional process, and variables related to the environment of the instructional process. (Author/PG)

Criticizes weaknesses in the Gagne research model for checking the validity of learning hierarchies, and proposes a new model which is designed to overcome these weaknesses. (JR)

Research supported in part by a grant from the University Research Board, University of Illinois, and in part by Grant OEG-1-070028-5239 from the U.S. Office of Education, Bureau of Research.