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Anuradha Gopalakrishnan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Multilingual instruction takes many shapes and forms depending on the affordances and limitations of the context in which it is implemented. Because multilingual instruction is often context-specific, it has to be designed in collaboration with local stakeholders and developed through multiple implementations in the context. While the field of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German
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Hatsidimitris, George; Kalyuga, Slava – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2013
Learning with instructional animations may overstretch limited working memory resources due to intense processing demands associated with transient information. The authors investigated whether explicit instructional advice coupled with a task-specific learner control mechanism (such as a timeline scrollbar) could facilitate the successful…
Descriptors: Animation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Prior Learning, Learner Controlled Instruction
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Roberts, Stephanie; Conn, Cynthia; Lohr, Linda; Hunt, Erin; Duffy, Annmari – TechTrends, 2003
Presents a meta-model of instructional design (ID) that integrates content covered in instructional technology graduate programs and explores the impact of an instructional designer's perspective on designs. Discusses the theoretical background; instructional strategies; educational philosophies; paradigm shifts; behaviorist, constructivist, and…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Constructivism (Learning)
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Bailey, Chris; Zalfan, Mohd T.; Davis, Hugh C.; Fill, Karen; Conole, Grainne – Educational Technology & Society, 2006
Tools to support teachers and learning technologists in the creation of effective learning designs are currently in their infancy. This paper describes a metadata model, devised to assist in the conception and design of new learning activities, that has been developed, used and evaluated over a period of three years. The online tool that embodies…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Learning Activities
Reigeluth, Charles M. – 1981
Many basic skills are chains of cognitive operations. For teaching such skills, two questions have not been adequately investigated: (1) how the operations comprising the skill should be sequenced, and (2) the relationships among the operations that need to be taught. This investigation entailed four studies on different types and lengths of basic…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Lim-Quek, Muriel; And Others – 1985
This study tested the effects of two instructional sequences--principle-procedure and procedure-principle--on the application and transfer of learning. It was hypothesized that a principle-procedure sequence would result in better near-transfer and far-transfer and that students would prefer this sequence. The 38 freshmen enrolled in a business…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Education, Comparative Analysis, Hypothesis Testing
Gray, Susan H. – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1988
Discussion of control over sequence of instruction in computer-assisted instruction (CAI) focuses on a follow-up study that examined the effects of the breadth and depth of menus and the meaningfulness of menu category names on the learning and attitudes of college students. Posttests are described, and results are analyzed. (16 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Computer Assisted Instruction
Hanson, Lincoln F. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin lists materials available in the fall of 1963 to assist educators in their selections of programmed instruction materials, and updates the inaugural issue, "Programs '62." Since the 1962 edition provided a number of first analyses of programmed material available, some of the present statistical data have been related to last year's…
Descriptors: Educational History, Programmed Instructional Materials, Guides, Teaching Methods