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Bo Pei; Ying Cheng; Alex Ambrose; Eva Dziadula; Wanli Xing; Jie Lu – Smart Learning Environments, 2024
The availability of large-scale learning data presents unprecedented opportunities for investigating student learning processes. However, it is challenging for instructors to fully make sense of this data and effectively support their teaching practices. This study introduces LearningViz, an interactive learning analytics dashboard to help…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Learning Management Systems, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Powel, Wayne; Gill, Chris – Educause Quarterly, 2003
Describes the Web site development practices of Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, and the content management systems that allow owners of information to control content while the university controls the look of the Web site. More than 150 content managers assume control of some portion of the Web site. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Managed Instruction, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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Collis, Betty; Moonen, Jef – Educational Media International, 2008
A major change has occurred in the way Web technology is being used in society. The change is grounded in user empowerment using Web 2.0 tools and processes. Students are already sophisticated users of these tools and processes, but outside of the mainstream instructional practices in higher education. In this reflection, the educational potential…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Internet
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McHenry, Hugh – AEDS Journal, 1980
Performance Learning (PL) is a new computer managed way of teaching precalculus college mathematics. Evidence suggests that students in PL classes had significantly higher course completion rates and achievement, and expressed fewer negative attitudes than students in the traditional lecture classes. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Managed Instruction, Higher Education, Mathematics
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Barrett, Edward; Paradis, James – Harvard Educational Review, 1988
The authors document an experimental writing course that uses electronic networks to create an online classroom for writing instruction. They describe a typical class meeting and discuss the challenges and results of teaching in this new environment. (JOW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Networks, Higher Education
Mashhadi, Azam; Deng, Zongyi; Chen, Ai Yen – 1998
As the use of distance education grows, the question arises as to whether there are inherent limitations to the use of such an approach, due to the fact that learning is culturally and experientially mediated. The effective implementation of digital learning environments involves recognizing that successful teaching and learning involves students…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Robertson, Lorraine J. – Medical Teacher, 2000
Discusses the efficiency of using lectures in medical education and explains a computer-based teaching system that aims to provide an active learning environment for adult learners. Explains the basics of the computerized audience response system and gives tips for designing similar presentation questions in PowerPoint. (YDS)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Education, Computer Managed Instruction, Higher Education
Heermann, Barry – 1988
The use of computers in higher education instruction is addressed from a pedagogical point of view and is intended as a guide to the integration of computers into instruction in ways that will fulfill the technology's promise and avoid its problems. After an introductory section on the promises and problems of computers, Part One ("Enriching…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software
Yeo, Shelley; Zadnik, Marjin – Australian Science Teachers' Journal, 2000
Describes the difficulties that high school and university students have in thinking about force, identifying forces, and drawing force diagrams. Finds that students using a computer tutoring program made limited progress in learning to construct free-body diagrams because of their alternative conceptions and faulty teaching methods. Offers…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Force, Foreign Countries
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Hake, Rosemary – Journal of Basic Writing, 1978
Recounts the rationale, development, construction, and design of an essay examination format that accounts for teacher differences and provides some objectivity in observation and measurement that is usually lacking in such writing examinations. Notes that one of the features of the format is computer readable scoring. (RL)
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, English Instruction, Essay Tests, Evaluation
Friedman, Edward A.; And Others – Science, Technology & Society, 1988
Describes a Lehigh University course on Galileo that enhances learning by offering novel, alternative approaches to the study and analysis of texts through the use of computers. Discusses the context of the course and summarizes a typical semester. Offers samples of the system and software. (MVL)
Descriptors: College English, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Haugh, Rita; And Others – Studies in Language Learning, 1981
A new curricular router created to be more flexible, more user-oriented, and use less computer memory was developed in 1979. Although initially called the "Indiana Routing System" (TIRS), it has been renamed the "Indiana Manager of PLATO-Assisted Curricula." This new router permits any mixture of the instructional strategies of…
Descriptors: College English, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Curriculum Design
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Podemski, Richard S. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1981
Helping teachers understand the relationship between the message of instructional content and the medium of instructional technology is a legitimate focus for colleges of education. Colleges of education can respond to the need for computer sophistication by creating survey courses on the uses of computers in education. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Science, Curriculum Development
Ray, Roger D.; Salomon, Michelle – Educational Technology, 1996
Reports on a 10-year investigation of the use of behavioral contingency management technology to improve low-performance students' skills, which was conducted across 17 offerings of a sophomore-level undergraduate course. Findings indicate that behavioral contracting technologies involve very little cost and produce highly effective results. (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, College Students, Computer Managed Instruction
Svenson, Raynold A. – Technological Horizons in Education, 1981
Outlines a study procedure for directors, administrators, and managers of large-scale training or education functions to determine if computer-based instruction is cost effective for their organization. Plan includes data gathering, alternatives, recommendations, and implementations. (DC)
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction
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