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…

For the thirty-ninth time, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes.…

Discusses the potential of compressed video, addresses its constraints, and presents teaching and learning strategies using this technology. Highlights include the technological revolution, site logistics and learning activities, facilitation and management, communication and interpersonal factors, learner involvement, equipment, and written…

Hypotheses about the potential educational benefits of interactive video systems (IVS) are described. IVS, if properly designed and applied, has the potential to increase learning, encourage student-initiated learning, and provide a context for what has been learned. A call for research is made. (JL)

Presents data indicating that learning can be enhanced when information is presented that illustrates how science information can be used to solve problems. The experiments showed positive results through use of video-based macro-contexts. (ML)

Explains how videodiscs operate and why they should be an integral part of the training community colleges provide. Describes the technology of videodiscs as superior to videotapes because of durability and random access capabilities. Discusses model instructional approaches, and reviews an educational interactive videodisc system. (PAA)

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…

Trends in pedagogy and in technology are converging to make distance learning environments of the 21st century. Trends in pedagogy have encouraged the movement away from the learner as a passive recipient of information and toward a more active model of learning. Earlier generations of distance learning media and methods were ill-suited to the…

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);…