Identifies critical questions with respect to the evaluation process in the design, development and use of courseware. Argues that certain fundamental difficulties in quantifying and judging effectiveness and learning outcomes might lead one to abandon formal evaluation; awareness of those difficulties is important for developers and teachers…

Explains procedures for installing a CD-ROM local area network (LAN) using Novell NetWare as the network operating system and SCSI Express to support networking CD-ROMs, based on experiences at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater library. Topics discussed include planning, equipment selection, workstation configuration, installation, and…

Development and piloting of an interactive multimedia package, designed for incorporation into introductory accounting education at James Cook University (Australia) are described. The module includes four sessions, equivalent to one semester's curriculum. The materials were tested with students, faculty, and practitioners to determine their…

Points to scholarship that helped the authors think about the ideologies behind Writing Spaces, a Web-based site for computer-mediated communication that they constructed using Perl scripts. Argues that writing teachers can and should shape online spaces to facilitate their individual pedagogies rather than allowing commercial software to limit…

Examines Listserv, a package for distributing email to a group of subscribers for the purpose of discussion. Notes the popularity of listservs among teachers and scholars in computers and composition. Suggests few users are aware of constraints the software places on the rhetorical situation. Explains how a Listserv is configured, decisions list…

Computer Aided Learning of Mathematics (CALM) has been in use for some time in the Prep-Year Mathematics Program at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. Different kinds of software (both locally designed and imported) have been used in the quest of optimizing the recitation/problem session hour of the mathematics classes. This paper…

Although self-regulated learning is considered as a characteristic of individual students, the question may be raised as to whether a community of learners with its emphasis on inquiry learning in teams of students provides an appropriate environment to acquire and develop active and dynamic self-regulation strategies. Two cases of communities of…

This guide was developed as a "how to" training device for printing AppleWorks version 2.0 spreadsheet files using the Apple IIGS computer with two disk drives. Step-by-step instructions are provided for loading spreadsheet files; selecting the print option; printing entire files; and for printing specific rows, columns, or blocks of the…

This guide was developed as a "how to" training device for constructing spreadsheet files using AppleWorks version 2.0 and the Apple IIGS computer with two disk drives. Step-by-step instructions are provided for program loading, selecting the spreadsheet option, setting column widths, naming columns and fields, entering category…

A statement by Senator Orrin G. Hatch opened the hearing on The Computer Software Rental Amendments Act of 1988, a bill which would amend title 17, United States Code, the Copyright Act, to protect certain computer programs. The text of the bill is then presented, followed by the statements of four witnesses: (1) Dr. Alan C. Ashton, president,…

This guide was developed as a "how to" training device for printing spreadsheet files using AppleWorks on the Apple IIe computer with a Duodisk or two disk drives. Step-by-step instructions are provided for selecting the print option; printing entire files; and for printing specific rows, columns, or blocks of the file. For each step, a…

This guide was developed as a "how to" training device for constructing spreadsheet files using AppleWorks on the Apple IIe computer with a Duodisk or two disk drives. Step-by-step instructions are provided for program loading, selecting the spreadsheet option, setting column widths, naming columns and fields, justifying labels and…

Designed by the DEC Systems Research Center and the Olivetti Research Center, the programming language Modula-3 descends from Mesa, Modula-2, Cedar, and Module-2+, and resembles Object Pascal, Oberon, and Euclid. A notable feature of this language family is the use of modules to delineate the separation between the implementation and the use of…

In this brief guide, the use of microcomputer spreadsheet programs is discussed. Key characteristics are described, with examples of what these programs can do: calculations, recalculation, table lookup, data storage, logical decisions, and simple graphics. Advanced spreadsheet features are noted--consolidation, sort, and execute. Finally,…

A system to aid in the post-mortem debugging of assembler language programs written for the IBM System/360-370 series of computers is described in this master's thesis. A user's manual for the system, with descriptions of user requirements, Job Control Language (JCL) statements, and system output, comprises the first chapter. The program logic…