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Chung, Jaesam; Reigeluth, Charles M. – Educational Technology, 1992
Discussion of learner control in instructional management describes six learner control methods: (1) content control; (2) sequence control; (3) pace control; (4) display or strategy control; (5) internal processing control; and (6) advisor strategies. Relevant literature, both theoretical and empirical, is reviewed, and learner control and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Hypermedia, Instructional Design
Peer reviewedTolhurst, Denise; Debus, Raymond L. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2002
Describes a study of Australian secondary school students that identified the conditions and individual characteristics that would best support learners' acceptance of control within hypermedia, based on evidence from the learner control literature. Investigated effects of prior domain knowledge, learning activity structure, ability, and attitudes…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Foreign Countries
Download full textLand, Susan M.; Hannafin, Michael J. – 1998
This paper critically analyzes problems and issues related to learning with open, technology-based environments. Theoretical assumptions that underlie learning in this type of environment are clarified in the first section. The second section addresses imitations in adaptive capabilities of technology, including: the learner relies upon feedback…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Constructivism (Learning)
Schnackenberg, Heidi L.; Hilliard, Ann W. – 1998
This paper examines research studies of learner control in computer-based instruction (CBI) from 1987-1997. The review evaluates predictions and conclusions from previous literature reviews, in light of current research, and discusses the implications of recent findings for instructional development. Findings suggest that the positions that…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Ability
Jans, Veronique – 1998
This paper reports on research to study the benefit of a punctual self-directed learning experience with a hypermedia in the appropriation of a foreign language. Twenty-eight educational sciences students took a 55 item pretest on English notions. The students then engaged in a self-directed learning session using the CD-ROM, "L'anglais…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Confidence Testing
Sandhu, Kiran – 2000
The focus of this practitioner brief is: What happens when students identify the skill areas they feel need the most work and then are given class time, resources, and strategies to work in these areas? This learning strategy was tried by one teacher of adult English as a Second Language (ESL) because the students in his class were either too far…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques
