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Najjar, Mehdi – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2008
Despite a growing development of virtual laboratories which use the advantages of multimedia and Internet for distance education, learning by means of such tutorial tools would be more effective if they were specifically tailored to each student needs. The virtual teaching process would be well adapted if an artificial tutor can identify the…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Virtual Classrooms, Prompting, Teaching Methods
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Garrett, Nina; Hart, Robert S. – Foreign Language Annals, 1987
Reviews DRILL 2.0, an Apple Macintosh courseware authoring system with several exercises that can be tailored for foreign language classes. Such aspects as student operation, instructor design, and disadvantages are considered. (CB).
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer Software Reviews
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Wilson, Linda J. – Childhood Education, 1998
Discusses how children's descriptions and evaluations of computer software are important ways to learn about how computers can be used in the learning process; describes how these evaluations can be an informal way of "child-testing" educational software. Offers examples of children's comments and suggests three Web sites that feature children's…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Reviews, Courseware