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Taylor, Cody – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2013
The following paper represents review of the literature examining the current research related to cognitive load theory and more specifically the negative aspects of the redundant on-screen text. The authors describe working and long-term memory and how both factor into human learning through the facilitation of knowledge transfer. Limited working…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Multimedia Materials, Short Term Memory
Bell, Bradford S.; Federman, Jessica E. – Future of Children, 2013
Over the past decade postsecondary education has been moving increasingly from the classroom to online. During the fall 2010 term 31 percent of U.S. college students took at least one online course. The primary reasons for the growth of e-learning in the nation's colleges and universities include the desire of those institutions to generate…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Pekerti, Andre A. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in education is now central to facilitating links between learners, resources and instructors. Regardless of whether it is used in distance education or "educational objects," ICT enables educators to package education opportunities in an increasing number of alternative ways so…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Technology Integration, Pictorial Stimuli
Kiefer, Cynthia – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This mixed methods study examines 126 community college students enrolled in developmental reading courses at a mid-sized Southwestern community college. These students participated in a survey-based study regarding their reading experiences and practices, social influence upon those practices, reading sponsorship, and reading self-efficacy. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Reading Programs
Yergeau, Melanie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
My dissertation examines the ways in which composition pedagogies have, both in theory and in practice, systematically worked to exclude individuals with disabilities. Persisting in composition studies is the ideological belief that traditional writing and intelligence are somehow inherently linked, that traditional literacy is central to defining…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Disabilities, Educational Theories
Campano, Gerald; Low, David – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
This response to Marni Binder reflects upon two examples of (im)migrant children's artwork and challenges the dominant notion that (im)migration experiences--and their subsequent portrayals--can be fit into neat slots. The authors position multimodal composing opportunities as affording children a vital instrument for deploying their full semiotic…
Descriptors: Migrant Children, Immigrants, Stereotypes, Multiple Literacies
Tomlinson, Michelle M. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2015
Two classrooms of diverse 5-year-old children were set the task of exploring ways of realising music invention through the semiotic import of composing resources. In both a rural and an inner-urban setting in Australia, children demonstrated syncretism in bilingual practices in communication. Visual multimodal analysis demonstrated how children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Rural Schools, Urban Schools
Andreou, Eleni; Vlachos, Filippos – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2013
The present study examined the link between learning styles and dyslexia in secondary school students, using the Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic (VAK) learning styles model. According to the VAK model, most people possess a dominant or preferred learning style, however some people have a mixed and evenly balanced blend of the three styles. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Cognitive Style, Learning Modalities
Rabbidge, Michael; Lorenzutti, Nico – English Teaching Forum, 2013
In East Asian nations such as Korea--where EFL is increasingly central to education policy--more and more workshops, seminars, and conferences focus on helping teachers incorporate extensive reading (ER) programs into their teaching contexts. There is a wide range of materials available for ER, including graded readers--novels and short stories…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Reading Instruction, Novels
Hochpöchler, Ulrike; Schnotz, Wolfgang; Rasch, Thorsten; Ullrich, Mark; Horz, Holger; McElvany, Nele; Baumert, Jürgen – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2013
When students read for learning, they frequently are required to integrate text and graphics information into coherent knowledge structures. The following study aimed at analyzing how students deal with texts and how they deal with graphics when they try to integrate the two sources of information. Furthermore, the study investigated differences…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Cope, Bill; Kalantzis, Mary – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2013
This article describes the thinking behind the development of "Scholar," a "social knowledge" technology developed as part of a series of research and development projects at the University of Illinois. Seven pedagogical openings are identified in this article, possibilities for the creation of innovative learning environments…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational Technology, Theory Practice Relationship, Electronic Learning
Samkange, Wellington; Muranda, Augustine Zano – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
There have been concerns about the teaching and learning modes in both conventional and Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institutions globally. Such concerns emanate from issues of quality and standards in education. In view of such concerns, the study examined the teaching and learning modes in Open and Distance Learning (ODL). These were…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Educational Quality, Educational Administration, Student Attitudes
Oviedo, Paula Outon; Gonzalez, Rebeca Abal – Online Submission, 2013
Dyslexia is a specific learning disability in reading and writing, which requires adequate early intervention to prevent future school failure. We describe the diagnostic assessment of a 7-year-old boy labelled "dyslexic", the evaluation of his family, social, medical, developmental, and academic status as a preliminary for the design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties
Deever, Walter Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2012
More than half of adults in the USA have quantitative literacy ratings at or below a basic level. This lack of literacy often becomes a barrier to employability. To overcome this barrier, adults are returning to college to improve their quantitative skills and complete an undergraduate education, often through an accelerated degree program. A…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Adult Learning, Nontraditional Students, Workshops
Schultz, Katherine; Coleman-King, Chonika – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2012
This article documents what happened when a teacher in an urban school shifted classroom practice through changing participation structures to incorporate digital technology and multiple modalities into a fifth grade literacy curriculum. This shift in teacher practice provided opportunities for immigrant students to become more visible in the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching