This handbook introduces some fundamental ideas on designing, implementing, and facilitating a distance learning course. It offers specific strategies for topics ranging from choosing delivery technologies to encouraging collaboration among scattered distance-learning students to testing and other evaluation methodologies. The book is broken down…

The purpose of this study was to test the principle of modality by using audio to deliver verbal information when that information is designed to support non-verbal information such as animations in a computer-based lesson. This was done by comparing the effect of two types of audio support mechanisms- a simple support mechanism consisting of…

While thousands of students and instructors in developed countries are using the Internet and computer assisted technologies to teach language skills, literature or target culture, in some developing countries use of technology in instruction is not yet known, due to insufficient numbers of PC's, lack of internet connectivity, lack of trained…

Discusses the use of the METRO-APEX program to provide a simulated real world'' experience of managing air quality in urban regions. Concludes that the students involved are strengthened in business and natural, applied, and political sciences and given a proper insight into the professional behavior. (CC)

Discusses the use of a computer program to describe chemical reactions by the concepts of reaction coordinate and energy profile. Indicates that representation of a collision encounter by a trajectory on the energy surface leads to a precise explanation, rather than schematic, in the teaching chemical kinetics. (CC)

Project supported by the Volkswagen Foundation. (VM)

Discusses the uses of the computer and how it can enhance teaching productivity. (RK)

Discusses experience of using Dorsett M-86 audio-visual response teaching machines to teach basic statistics courses. Recommends further research in the design of the optimal mix of various teaching methods for a block of instruction. (CC)

Reviews the implications which the advent of the computer has for mathematics education in instruction, learning, and curriculum. The activities described are either representative of those occurring at present or very shortly to be realized. (PR)