This paper describes the design of an adaptive user model and its implementation in an advanced Web-based Virtual University environment that encompasses combined and synchronized adaptation between educational material and well-known communication facilities. The Virtual University environment has been implemented to support a postgraduate…

Faced with a rapidly changing society, the need to develop versatile instructional materials to update the professional skills of experienced practitioners has become a major necessity. This paper outlines the framework of how the project called "Je peux vous aider? (Can I help you?)" was developed. It concerns the training of all the…

This book, on the process of becoming a library teacher at the postsecondary level, is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Library Instruction as Performance," is devoted to the presentation techniques that are the basis for good instruction. Chapters in this part cover performance anxiety, taming teaching terror, preparing oneself…

This publication describes 19 projects in Florida school districts supported by the 1998 Collaborative Curriculum Project. Grants were awarded to projects at the classroom or school level to address a significant problem or issue in the education of gifted students, support the redesign of instruction, and support collaboration among students,…

Students come into online courses with different technological competencies, learning styles, communication skills, motivations, and attitudes. Four types of interactions can be identified in distance education--learner-content, learner-instructor, learner-learner, and learner-interface. There are ten techniques instructors can implement to help…

This document was developed in response to the expressed need of physical science teachers for materials designed to facilitate and enhance the teaching of the 1999 North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Physical Science. The materials provide a guide to translating the goals and objectives of the Physical Science curriculum into good…

The inadequacy and/or lack of evaluation procedures in the development of instructional products has been well documented. To help remedy this situation, the authors discuss and analyze research and theory in the field of formative evaluation applied to instructional development. (Author)

An initial portion of this paper discussed instructional stages, the content of art learning, and a conception of the teaching-learning situation that interrelates instruction and evaluation. Author also described several classroom situations and indicated how evaluation might contribute to improved instruction. (Author/RK)

This study was designed to identify the preferences of elementary reading teachers for certain instructional patterns and procedures and to compare these preferences with those of a similar group of teachers in another geographic location. (Authors/JA)

A general discussion of the technological revolution in education, particularly higher education at CUNY. (HB)

Author states that "to the extent that behavioral objectives are derived from an analysis of relatively broad objectives, they can serve as valid criteria which enable our students to avoid trivia." (Author)

Holland College of Applied Arts and Technology in Prince Edward Island places great responsibility on students, instructors and professionals in the field to design, execute and evaluate its career training program. Success of the program depends upon instructors and students who will both assume responsibility for the student's progress. Success…

James Popham defended his behavioral objectives approach to educational planning and evaluation in a recent paper, but the author of this article attempted to illustrate that Popham's reasons for rejecting existing criticisms of behavioral goals are invalid. (Author/RK)

Author believes that years of focusing on hardware, while neglecting substance, have helped make technology a sophisticated afterthought to the learning process - and change is long overdue. (Author/HB)