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Proske, Antje; Narciss, Susanne; McNamara, Danielle S. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
Research on expert performance suggests that deliberate practice provides optimal opportunities for expertise development. This study examined whether the provision of computer-based scaffolding (CBS) guiding deliberate practice facilitates students' development of writing expertise. A CBS environment "escribo" was designed to externally…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response), Writing Research, Expertise
Gulbahar, Yasemin; Madran, R. Orcun – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
Research studies conducted in the area of e-learning and blended learning lead to the emergence of new concepts, which directly influence quality. Among these concepts, the ones taken into consideration for this research study are as follows: communication and collaboration, satisfaction, equity, and autonomy. The perceptions of students taking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, College Students, Student Attitudes
Hawkridge, David – 1989
This paper outlines and discusses four rationales for using computers in schools: (1) the social rationale, which states that it is necessary for children to become aware and unafraid of computers in order to prepare for life and work in an industrial society; (2) the vocational rationale, which states that children should learn computer…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Developing Nations
Oduaran, Akpovire B. – International Journal of Computers in Adult Education and Training, 1989
Computers can enhance the efficiency of adult education programs in developing nations through systems analysis, computer-managed instruction, and computer literacy as a tool for economic development. Obstacles include the high rate of illiteracy, costs of technology, lack of trained staff, lack of maintenance, and inadequacies in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Durance, Carl M.; Fenton, Shirley L. – Learning Tomorrow. Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council, 1986
"Waterloo MacJANET," a local area network developed by the University of Waterloo for the Apple Macintosh computer, provides an environment appropriate for developing students' computer-related skills, minimizing both the human and the computing resources needed to support such courses. The system also serves as an efficient distributor…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software, Computer System Design
Anderson, Jonathan – 1984
Educational applications of computing are reviewed, beginning with a brief introduction to microcomputers and microcomputer characteristics that might be important for school use. An examination of significant models in computer education outside Australia emphasizes projects in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, including the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction
Chen, Ai-Yen – 1988
This paper describes the computer education programs for teachers that have been implemented by the Singapore Institute for Education. After examination of computer education programs in advanced countries, it was determined that the program in Singapore should include the following features: applications-based learning across the curriculum;…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Foreign Countries
Hebenstreit, Jacques – 1984
Arguing that computers in education are necessary to prepare children to live in a future computerized society, this report examines the issues associated with computers in education in developing countries. The first of three parts provides a brief overview of how and why computers are used in education in developed countries; describes…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction
Hebenstreit, Jacques – 1986
This overview of the use of computers in education begins by tracing the history of the development of computer programs for instruction in three developed countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Significant research and programs, general trends, the current situation, plans, and problems in each of the countries are…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software
Forman, Denyse – 1981
A three-phase exploratory study was conducted to make available to British Columbia schools the best in microcomputer hardware, to assist project coordinators and teachers in the integration of microcomputer courseware into the established curriculum, and to evaluate the project. In the first phase, the Apple II Plus with 48K was selected for use,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction
Freer, David – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1986
A project at the University of Witwatersrand examined the implications of introducing a centrally controlled system of computer-based learning in which 13 university departments utilized PLATO to supplement teaching programs and encourage computer literacy. Department project descriptions and project evaluations (which reported positive student…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Departments
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1983
Reviewing the current status of educational computing, this report makes 48 specific future policy recommendations for schools in Alberta, Canada. The first section discusses educational computing in Alberta and the other Canadian provinces and in Minnesota, Texas, and Florida. The second section describes aspects of the educational delivery…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Educational Innovation
McLean, Robert S., Ed.; McLean, Ruth W., Ed. – University Education News, 1981
Some of the areas in which Ontario educators currently employ microcomputers in higher education are addressed in several articles, bibliographies, and book reviews. Various uses of computer-managed instruction and computer-assisted instruction (CAI) at Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology are outlined by Frank A. Ford. Microcomputer CAI…
Descriptors: Art, College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics
Ennals, Richard; Cotterell, Arthur – 1985
Research to develop a fifth generation of computers is underway in several countries. These computers, which will be distinguished by the ability to provide knowledge information processing and respond to natural language commands, will have a profound impact on the labor market and hence on further education. Rather than being a separate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy