This paper aims to debunk the metaphysics of presence informing modernist pedagogical assumptions. Systematic instructional design, predicated on teleological and eschatological modern metaphysics, superordinates designers' goals at the expense of learners. Tracing structuralist pedagogical theory to Bobbitt (1997) and Tyler (1949), one can…

This paper reports the results of a two-part qualitative study into student strategies for learning in distance learning courses offered at Teachers College, Columbia University. Verbal Protocol Analyses was used to gather information on the cognitive strategies students used to solve problems encountered as they navigated through the site. A…

Regardless of all its shortcomings, the Internet is essential in student retention and learning for at-risk students, homebound students, placebound employees, and for assisting workers on and off the job to maintain and upgrade their skills. The search for integrating the Internet to provide ease of accessing information with strategies that…

Providers of online information with a high visual content face an uncompromising dilemma--how to achieve fast delivery while maintaining good picture quality. As storage space or bandwidth increases, the demands placed on it by the user are always two steps ahead. Since limited bandwidth for communicating images looks like it may remain a problem…

Although mental health services have been somewhat slow to embrace new technologies, recent advances necessitate a reassessment in the role of technology in counseling. Ways in which technology can be utilized in counseling services are covered in this paper. Previously, most mental health offices relied on computers for some particular aspect of…

This report provides information on the educational telecommunications market. Its articles cover a wide array of applications and issues, including online services, funding for the development of statewide telecommunications networks, education-related Internet projects and products. The trends detailed in the report, and the vendors and products…

This paper introduces instructional methods using the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). The purpose of this paper is to specifically demonstrate the effective application of the Internet in teaching biology. Specific strategies such as accessing information via the Internet, effective search assignments, rules for appropriate use of the…

For 3 years, the Diagnostic and Evaluative Procedures course of an education college was offered by electronic mail as well as by a more traditional "chalk and talk" approach, enabling a comparison of the two approaches. In the electronic setting, papers were submitted and questions asked and answered electronically. In the traditional class,…

The goal of a project was to design, test, and evaluate several computer programs that allow students in introductory literature and poetry courses to explore a poem in detail and, through a dialogue with the program, to develop their own interpretation of it. Computer programs were completed on poems by Robert Frost and W.H. Auden. Both programs…

This book is a practical Internet guide designed to help teachers and students at all levels and in all academic disciplines discover a selection of educational sites from around the world. More than 400 sites are described and organized by academic discipline, and these sites offer links to thousands of other educational sites on the Internet.…

This document is a reference collection of World Wide Web links to Web sites involving technology in education. Web resources are categorized into the following nine sections: (1) Publications/Journals/Articles; (2) Grants and Funding Resources; (3) Software/Hardware/Downloads and Demos; (4) Professional Development for Administrators and…

Qualitative inquiry is rich in personal interaction between participant and researcher. This research seeks to consider the issues related to conducting qualitative inquiries in online settings and the implications for using electronic means in interview and observation. Consideration needs to be given to the ramifications of online interview…

This book brings together a selection of articles published in "The American Journal of Distance Education" that are related to Web-based delivery of distance education. Articles include: "Performance and Perceptions of Distance Learners in Cyberspace" (Peter Navarro and Judy Shoemaker); "Distance Education for Dentists: Improving the Quality of…

This paper explores general issues surrounding the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database--its content, operations, and possible "futures." It addresses specific questions regarding restrictions on content and, in particular, the exclusion from the database of a range of non-print media; and the exclusion of the…

The focus of this paper is the Educational Resources Information Center's (ERIC's) products and information dissemination. Its purpose is to collect and review existing studies and analyze information: (1) about the effectiveness and appropriateness of the array of products ERIC now produces in meeting user demands and needs; (2) about the styles,…