Describes some learning tools that are being used in college classrooms to accommodate various learning styles. They include amplification systems, video systems, and whiteboards. (EV)

Students completed the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory. Results suggest that small numbers of poorly attaining learners using dissonant study methods occur in a variety of educational settings. These learners are distinct from those lowly attaining ones who unreservedly use surface methods of studying and have low academic aspirations. (EV)

Explored theoretically incongruent learning patterns among subgroups of students. Students completed the Inventory of Learning Styles in the first and third trimesters. Learning patterns in the third trimester were far more dissonant than in the first trimester. (EV)

This study tried to take into account problems related to researching learning dissonance by applying qualitative research methods and carefully considering the criteria by which coherence or dissonance are diagnosed. Found very clear differences among students' study orchestrations in terms of coherence and dissonance; the orchestrations varied…

Most research indicating dissonant forms of student learning engagement, leading to problems in the achievement of learning outcomes, is with undergraduates. Action research at Anglia Polytechnic University involving questionnaires, focus groups, and supervisory dialogues, conducted with Israeli and British postgraduate students between 1998 and…

Discusses characteristics of well-structured content as it relates to the design of instructional technology resources. Topics include online course design; online learning; principles of designing for learning; multimedia learning resources; knowledge structures; digital learning resources; and differences in digital content. (LRW)

Shows how the phenomenon of instability in the solution of a system of linear equations can be analyzed both algebraically and geometrically. (KHR)

Presents some strategies for successfully implementing tasks that engage students at high cognitive levels. (YDS)

Discusses various ways in which context may be interpreted to enhance learning and performance; illustrates domains of learning using a hockey team as an example; and suggests implications for learning, performance, and instructional design. Highlights include an ecological systems model; and examples of individual development, team learning, and…

A cross-sectional study compared 83 entering and 39 exiting master of business administration students (either on-campus, distance, or executive cohort). All groups reported significantly higher scores upon exit for 7 of 12 learning skills. Distance students reported significantly higher scores than on-campus students on technology, quantitative,…

Presents and discusses examples that illustrate the nature and scope of elementary and middle school students' reasoning when they are faced with tasks that involve making inferences and predictions from data. Shows that the range in thinking is not so much dependent on age as on the experiences students have in data exploration. (KHR)

Identified pedagogical strategies that helped preservice secondary teachers improve their reflective thinking via journal writing during the first semester of a year-long professional program. Case studies of four preservice teachers found that no single pedagogical strategy was best, and students responded differently to different strategies.…

Explains how students self-regulate while reading, describing students' personal beliefs of self-efficacy, task value, and motivation and how these beliefs influence their self- regulated reading; discussing the processes of self-regulated reading (goal setting; selection, use, and monitoring of reading strategies; and self-evaluation); and…

Examines how the asynchronous learning network (ALN) forum causes a rethinking of conventional teaching and learning practices and impacts the traditional student-instructor role in college-level courses. Suggests a model for understanding how students progress through the ALN and presents strategies for online instructors to use to increase…

Outlines what should be done before and during the analysis and design stages of the ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) instructional systems design/development (ISD) process to increase the alignment of electronic learning (e-learning) content with performance. Provides an example with a system for developing…