Recognition of students' facial expressions can be used to understand their level of attention. In a traditional classroom setting, teachers guide the classes and continuously monitor and engage the students to evaluate their understanding and progress. Given the current popularity of e-learning environments, it has become important to assess the…

Examines a hypermedia system built as the outcome of a proposal funded by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. The system allows students choice in content studied and also allows students to choose their own learning strategy. The system has attributes and features that are important in relation to curriculum issues and educational…

Maintains that the use of metacognitive learning strategies have been recurrent pedagogical tools for facilitating foreign language learning. Describes how new hypermedia and interactive video technology have broadened the scope of computer-assisted instruction. Calls for more research on this topic. (CFR)

This paper is a transcription from memory of a short talk that used overhead projector slides, with musical examples played on an Apple Macintosh computer and a Yamaha CX5 synthesizer. The slides appear in the text as reduced "icons" at the point where they would have been used in the talk. The paper concerns ways in which artificial intelligence…

This document contains 102 one-page conference demonstrations/posters of individual research in the use of multimedia and hypermedia in education. Teaching and learning strategies and styles are addressed; multimedia applications for cooperative learning, problem solving and decision making are related. The uses of object-oriented modelling,…

This collection of papers from an international conference on higher education teaching and learning includes: "Fostering Scientific Thinking with New Technologies: A Socio-Cognitive Approach" (Michel Aube); "The 'Classroom Flip': Using Web Course Management Tools to Become the Guide by the Side" (J. Wesley Baker);…