... provided a scaffolded environment for them before independent engagement with the blog occurred. Technology Curriculum development Educational innovation Multimedia Communities Teaching methods In the initial teacher education (ITE) division at the University of Northampton academics...

...Bernard Scott; Chunyu Cong Purpose This paper aims to report on evaluation studies of principles of course design for interactive multimedia learning materials. Design/methodology/approach At the Defence Academy of the UK, Cranfield University has worked with military colleagues to produce...

...Jennifer Nicholson; Darren B. Nicholson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report student and faculty perceptions from an introductory management information systems course that uses multimedia, specifically streaming video, as a vehicle for teaching students skills in Microsoft Excel...

...Mai Neo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of a web‐based constructivist learning environment, which was developed based on a course given to students in the Faculty of Creative Multimedia (FCM) on student learning. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, a web‐based...

... quality, as well as finding the correlations between audio and video in multimedia applications. The results presented in this paper show the strong interaction dependency between audio and video. It was justified that video has a unique benefit on multimedia quality for its psychological effects...

...Chris Evans; Jing Ping Fan Lifelong learning has come to involve a variety of learning experiences. These include conventional campus teaching, workplace open learning, modular flexible learning programmes, correspondence‐based distance learning courses, and most recently Web or multimedia‐based...

.... This paper focuses on improving information management and communication based on the new generation of multimedia computer packages within an academic institutional environment. It is therefore argued that a management information system designed for Moi University needs to reflect the organizational...

... with network‐layer QoS capabilities in mind (IPv6, 1998), it is unlikely to completely replace IPv4 in the foreseeable future (Durand, 2001). If a student requests for a lecture play‐out, one of two scenarios can happen. If “live” lecture play‐out is requested, then the multimedia server will take the raw...

...Johannes C. Cronje; T.‐H. Joubert This is a follow‐up study of a multimedia program developed as a student project by high school pupils. The initial study sought to determine what learners would gain from constructing multimedia programs for their peers. “Multimax” is a multimeter skills fixation...

...). © MCB UP Limited 2001 Distance learning Internet Multimedia Teaching methods For the purposes of this paper, technology‐enhanced learning environments refer to those educational settings where some element of instructional technology is being used to support the interaction...

... of a prototype is presented showing how this technology can be used in an online learning environment. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Teaching methods Databases Computer languages Distance learning Multimedia Internet Most online learning environments consist of a series of hyperlinked HTML pages...

... contexts are very important in their own right, this paper will focus on the environmental contexts. Education Multimedia Learning Modelling The addition of multimedia objects such as sound clips, pictures and animations to the traditional text‐based learning environments (LE) can...

.... Student survey results, published in Campus‐Wide Information Systems, indicated that a majority of students owned or planned to purchase a personal computer in the next year; preferred computer‐supported teaching that included the Internet and multimedia classroom technologies; and believed...

...Cleo Sgouropoulou; Anastasios Koutoumano; Emmanuel Skordalakis WebOrama is a Web‐based system that provides a platform for creating, managing, and sharing representations of practice in the form of asynchronous multimedia annotations. It has been used within the “SHARP” project for the support...

... a personal computer in the next year. Eighty‐five per cent prefer computer‐supported teaching that includes the Internet and multimedia classroom technologies. Sixty‐five per cent of students believe that computer‐based technology in the classroom is very important regarding future competitiveness in the job...

... at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel launched a three‐year pilot project to use multimedia and distance learning tools to improve classroom teaching. There are initial signs of success for this unique project that knits together powerful new multimedia infrastructure, WWW course sites, and electronic...

.... The literature on multimedia indicates that the use of the integrated media approach facilitates more interaction and user control of the application than individual media. Multimedia combines several media such as text, sound, graphics, video and animation for simultaneous delivery through a computer or other...

...Dolf Steyn Not enough attention has been given to the psychological and educational value of student participation. Provides an overview and some answers derived from a project on guided design and development of interactive multimedia learning environments. Shows the relevant trends in modern...

... students lose interest and routine procedures are followed with minimal learning. The authors have developed a set of multimedia modules meant to enhance, not replace, the technical laboratory experience. The modules are akin to well‐conceived laboratory manuals applying multimedia tools, such as digital...

... calculation can also be set. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Computers Education Internet Learning Multimedia Research Teachers The primary mission of all instructors, at all levels, in all disciplines, is to help students learn. The vast majority of instructors teach in a manner which...