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Guerrieri, Bruno – 1999
This paper reviews an approach for finding optimal solutions to the traveling salesman problem, a well-known problem in combinational optimization, and describes implementing the approach using the MAPLE computer algebra system. The method employed in this approach to the problem is similar to the way ant colonies manage to establish shortest…
Descriptors: Calculus, College Curriculum, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
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Hsu, Ying-Shao; Thomas, Rex A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2002
Investigates the effects of selected characteristics of a web-aided instructional simulation on students' conceptual change, problem solving, and transfer abilities. Conducts a two-pronged research study with (n=117) students enrolled in a beginning meteorology course at Iowa State University. Compares three groups--with-log group, without-log…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Concept Formation, Higher Education, Learning Activities
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Jensen, Murray; Moore, Randy; Hatch, Jay – American Biology Teacher, 2002
Presents three science activities for the first week of class that use the cooperative learning approach and computers. Requires students to create a web page to introduce group members. (YDS)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Dissection, Educational Technology
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Barreto, Humberto – Journal of Economic Education, 2001
Describes a Web site that makes use of the Comparative Statics Wizard add-in feature for Microsoft Excel. Enables students to focus on economic problems involving optimality, rate of change, and equilibrium solutions. (JEH)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Economics, Economics Education, Educational Strategies
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Parslow, Graham – Biochemical Education, 1997
Summarizes points made by various commentators about the pitfalls of Web teaching. Critiques the integration of computer-assisted instruction into the larger curriculum, the quality of World Wide Web resources for teaching biochemistry, and the assessment of computer-assisted instructional components. (DDR)
Descriptors: Biochemistry, College Curriculum, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
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Crampton, Jeremy W. – Journal of Geography, 1999
Discusses the utility of web-based materials in the curriculum and describes the goals, content, and outcomes of the Bosnian Virtual Fieldtrip. Explains how the field trip relates to general issues of Web usage by situating geographic principles into a real-life situation. Addresses the implications of using web-based materials. (CMK)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Concepts, Geography Instruction
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Horwitz, Paul; Christie, Mary Ann – Journal of Education, 1999
Describes the hypermodel approach to designing science education software. Hypermodels combine stored or web-based multimedia materials with a manipulable model of the subject domain. Hypermodels are scriptable, and are powerful tools for creating various activities or web-labs that challenge students to solve puzzles, then monitor and react to…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Stoyanov, Svetoslav; Aroyo, Lora; Kommers, Piet; Kurtev, Ivan – 1999
This paper focuses on the purposes, theoretical model, and functionality of the SMILE (Solution Mapping Intelligent Learning Environment) Maker--a World Wide Web-based problem-solving tool. From an instructional design point of view, an attempt to establish a balance between constructivism/instructivism, content-treatment…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Computer Uses in Education, Concept Mapping, Constructivism (Learning)
Wang, Minjuan; Laffey, Jim; Wangemann, Paul; Harris, Carl; Tupper, Tom – 2000
The Internet-Based Shared Environment for Expeditions (iExpeditions) is both a development effort of the Center for Technology Innovations in Education, University of Missouri, Columbia, and a research project conducted in partnership with Motorola, Inc. and a researcher at Brigham Young University (Utah). The project seeks to develop and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment
Schlatter, Mark D. – 1999
The benefits of high-level mathematics packages such as Matlab include both a computer algebra system and the ability to provide students with concrete visual examples. This paper discusses how both capabilities of Matlab were used in a multivariate calculus class. Graphical user interfaces which display three-dimensional surfaces, contour plots,…
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculus, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Walters, Joseph M. – 1997
Network Science projects are endeavors in which a number of classrooms conduct the same scientific experiment and pool their data using World Wide Web technology. This paper reviews selected findings from research on these projects and describes the recent Web applications that were developed in response to these findings. Findings indicated that…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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Oliver, Kevin; Hannafin, Michael J. – Journal of Educational Research, 2000
Investigated middle school students' computer tool use in managing and manipulating Internet-based hypermedia resources, hypothesizing that tools would let students process hypermedia resources at higher levels to solve complex, open-ended questions. Tools alone did not help students manage hypermedia information for solving these problems.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning), Critical Thinking, Hypermedia
Warner, David – 2003
This paper discusses comparisons of student comments and analysis of comments from a face-to-face course with Web-enhancements, a video-based, hybrid course with Web-enhancements and a Web-based course. In order to provide student problem-solving participants both individual and personal experiences (and attitudes) concerning the use of course…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware
Milbury, Peter; Silva, Brett – MultiMedia Schools, 1998
Describes a teaching unit composed of two Web-based activities which draw upon authentic, primary sources available on the Library of Congress American Memory Web site (http://memory.loc.gov). Discusses the problem-based learning framework, the "prompt," links to selected information sources, and testing the unit. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking, Educational Resources, Information Literacy
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Hannafin, Michael J.; Hill, Janette R.; Land, Susan M. – Contemporary Education, 1997
Summarizes recent developments in student-centered open-ended learning environments, which provide electronic tools and resources for students to use in addressing authentic situated problems and to support students' thinking and problem-solving processes. Also analyzes issues in design and utilization and presents implications for teaching,…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
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