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Schairer, Karen – Hispania, 1996
Evaluates three commercial computer-based language translation programs' translation of a university social sciences telephone survey from English to Spanish. The three programs, "Spanish Scholar,""Spanish Assistant," and "Spanish Amigo," were rated as unacceptable in their quality of translations by native and near-native Spanish speakers. (nine…
Descriptors: Advertising, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software Evaluation, Hypothesis Testing
Allen, Denise – Teaching PreK-8, 1996
Explains that children have a better sense of environmental awareness and introduces the EarthCare Interactive software that is designed for preschoolers to fourth graders. Briefly describes how to navigate in EarthCare and describes four other software packages: "Job City Literature Connections,""Perfect Landing,""Classroom Occupation," and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Elementary Education, Environmental Education
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Baggott, Linda M.; Wright, Bruce – American Biology Teacher, 1996
Describes the pioneering development of flexible learning courseware in the teaching and learning of cell biology. Uses a novel optical-disk-based technology for the storage and retrieval of photographic images. Discusses new interactive technologies that are available to the teacher. Presents the results of a trial and evaluation of the PhotoCD…
Descriptors: Biology, Computer Software Evaluation, Courseware, Cytology
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de Jong, Menno; Lentz, Leo – Technical Communication Quarterly, 2001
Describes "Focus," a software tool for collecting reader comments more efficiently. Discusses the design and rationale of the software. Notes that results obtained using Focus were compared to the reader feedback collected under the plus-minus method. Concludes that Focus participants appeared to comment more from a reviewer's and less…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation, Higher Education
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Trigano, Philippe C.; Giacomini-Pacurar, Ecaterina – Higher Education in Europe, 2004
CEPIAH is a method and a proposal for a Web-based system to be used to assist teachers in designing multimedia documents and in evaluating their prototypes. The proposed tool integrates two modules: one for the Evaluation of Multimedia Pedagogical and Interactive software (EMPI), and the other, a method for designing pedagogical hypermedia…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Distance Education, Multimedia Materials, Material Development
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Elmholdt, Claus – Studies in Continuing Education, 2004
This article offers a critique of knowledge management. The critique is empirically based on the case study of a Danish software production company's (A-Soft) knowledge management strategy of implementing an information technology (IT) tool known as 'knowledge centre' (KC). The article argues: (1) the discourses on knowledge and learning informing…
Descriptors: Technological Advancement, Educational Technology, Information Technology, Knowledge Level
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Rasseneur-Coffinet, Dorothée; Smyrniou, Georgia; Tchounikine, Pierre – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2007
This article presents an approach and tools that can help learners appropriate a Web-based learning curriculum and become active participants in their learning. The approach is based on a detailed modeling of the curriculum and intends to equip the learners with different computer-based tools facilitating a multiple point of view perception of the…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Computer System Design, Courseware, Distance Education
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Whang, Michael – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2007
Measuring website success is critical not only to the web development process but also to demonstrate the value of library services to the institution. This article documents one library's approach to the measurement of website success. LibQUAL+[TM] results and strategic-planning documents indicated a need for a new type of measurement. The…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Metric System, Academic Libraries, International Organizations
Alston, Antoine J.; English, Chastity Warren – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2007
The purpose of this descriptive research study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Web-enhanced agricultural education pedagogy as perceived by students in a collegiate agricultural education program. Overall, respondents agreed there were many benefits to Web-enhanced courses and perceived all Web site components under study to be very useful.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Technological Literacy, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
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Cox, Richard – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2007
Determining the potential of educational information and communications technology for enhancing teaching and learning is the subject of a great deal of research activity. This paper argues that the technologies employed to enhance learning can also be exploited for the enhancement of research. Recorded learner-system interactions, dynamically…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Research Design, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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Alexander, Shirley; Golja, Tanja – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
Higher education institutions undertake a range of approaches to evaluating and making judgments about the quality of their e-learning provision. This paper begins by exploring benchmarking as one current strategy in common use in universities to identify and implement quality practices: from the use of checklists (for example, of best practices…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Teaching Methods, Student Experience, Educational Quality
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Gould, Douglas J.; Terrell, Mark A.; Fleming, Jo – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2008
This usability study evaluated users' perceptions of a multimedia prototype for a new e-learning tool: Anatomy of the Central Nervous System: A Multimedia Course. Usability testing is a collection of formative evaluation methods that inform the developmental design of e-learning tools to maximize user acceptance, satisfaction, and adoption.…
Descriptors: Expertise, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Formative Evaluation
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Huang, Chenn-Jung; Chen, Chun-Hua; Luo, Yun-Cheng; Chen, Hong-Xin; Chuang, Yi-Ta – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
Recently, a lot of open source e-learning platforms have been offered for free in the Internet. We thus incorporate the intelligent diagnosis and assessment tool into an open software e-learning platform developed for programming language courses, wherein the proposed learning diagnosis assessment tools based on text mining and machine learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Programming Languages, Experiments
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Lenne, Dominique; Abel, Marie-Helene; Trigano, Philippe; Leblanc, Adeline – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2008
In Technology Enhanced Learning Environments, self-regulated learning (SRL) partly relies on the features of the technological tools. The authors present two environments they designed in order to facilitate SRL: the first one (e-Dalgo) is a website dedicated to the learning of algorithms and computer programming. It is structured as a classical…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Technology Integration
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Cleary, Yvonne; Marcus-Quinn, Ann – International Journal on E-Learning, 2008
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are increasingly used by Higher Education Institutions to manage and enhance teaching and learning, and research. Discussion, chat, scheduling, and other collaboration tools make VLEs especially useful systems for designing and managing complex group projects. In the spring semester of 2006, students at the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Management, Case Studies, Instructional Design
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