...Chen‐Chung Liu; Shih‐Hsun Fan Chiang; Chih‐Yueh Chou; Sherry Y. Chen Purpose Exploratory learning is regarded as an important ability for developing knowledge from open environments. During the exploration, learners not only need to acquire new information based on their current interests...

... and cognitive style, and the impact that they have on user multimedia perception. Previous research has investigated how people learn and whether cognitive style affects information assimilation (IA) and user preference when using multimedia (Ghinea and Chen, 2003, 2006 ; Grimley, 2007 ; Mitchell et al...

... be contacted at: yanboru@pollux.usc.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Worldwide web Electronic commerce Classification Learning Forms are widely used on e‐commerce web sites, providing their customers with a way to interact with the web sites. We examined 500 web pages on 100 e...

...Deborah Cronau Edited by Andrew   Eynon for the Colleges of Further and Higher   Education Group . Guidelines for Colleges: Recommendations for Learning Resources (7th ed.) . London : Facet Publishing   2005 . 96 pp. , ISBN: 185604551X   £19.95 soft cover © Emerald...

... percent in comparison to related systems. The dynamic‐category expansion technique also achieves satisfying results for adding new categories into the system as required. Our work relates to text learning and document classification. Text learning techniques are used to extract key information from...

...Chiann‐Ru Song Students’ branching behaviours and how these behaviours relate to learner variables, such as prior knowledge, and demographic variables, were examined. Fourteen subjects were asked to learn a hypermedia instructional director system, MAPLE (Multimedia Authoring and Production...

...Chiann‐Ru Song In this article, the branching structure of hypermedia is addressed for the purpose of accommodating individual learning differences. Learning from the learner’s perspective is discussed. Future research directions in hypermedia learning are suggested. As may be expected...

...Ilan Alon; Nancy Cannon The paper discusses a unique Internet‐based learning forum, Globalview.org ( www.globalview. org ), which involves the construction of international business plans for real companies seeking internationalisation. The purpose of global cases is to link student teams...

...Thomas R. Kochtanek; Karen K. Hein The introduction of Web‐based course instruction into an existing degree programme offers the opportunity to re‐examine models supporting learning and the transfer of knowledge among students enrolled in such courses. By removing the barriers of time and place...