Compares the final-exam scores in honors physics at a South Florida high school during 3 consecutive 4-year periods from 1991-2002. Finds that class mean exam scores decreased when the school switched from 7-period day to 4 by 4 block (4 92-minute periods per day), but increased when the block schedule was enhanced with web-assisted instruction.…

Comparison of agriculture courses delivered synchronously via interactive television (20 students) and asynchronously via the Web (22 students) showed similar achievement of core distance education competencies: adult learning, technology knowledge, instructional design, communication skills, graphic design, administration) regardless of delivery…

Provides suggestions and examples for self-training on use of the Web. Focuses on three questions about guidance, motivation and Web training: (1) "Is this class right for me?"; (2) "Now that I'm here, what do I do?"; (3) "What motivates me now and keeps me coming back later?" (AEF)

Suggests that training on the Web, or e-learning, falls short of its promises. Offers an agenda for improvement: (1) stop pretending that reading is training; (2) increase bandwidth; (3) adopt interoperability standards; and (4) conduct internal and external evaluations of web-based training. (JOW)

Discusses how the Internet not only changes the way training can be delivered, it changes the way companies decide who gets trained to do what. Looks at what Web-based training has done for a number of companies and discusses pitfalls and roadblocks. (JOW)

Electronic learning can demonstrate its value to an organization in terms of raw numbers. Assessment and skill-gap analysis tools provide useful performance improvement evidence. (JOW)

Examines Ivan Illich's ideas for replacing institutionalized schooling with community-driven opportunity webs that would enable learners to be in control of their own learning and that would allow teachers to offer their services in an entrepreneurial fashion. Considers how the World Wide Web has created opportunities for those ideas. (Author/LRW)

Discusses interactivity in Web-based learning and provides a framework of interaction attributes that can be used to select strategies and tactics to facilitate interaction on the Web. Topics include interaction with content; social interaction; instructor-centered approach; student-centered approach; collaboration; conversation; intrapersonal…

Discussion of constructivism in learning focuses on a working constructivist framework for electronic learning that balances the individual and social perspectives. Presents two models of electronic learning: the first uses a traditional approach that focuses on the best use of media, and the second focuses on personalization and relationships.…

Discusses electronic learning efforts and problems in implementing computers in schools. Defines and describes an electronic educational system model that was developed to assist the designers of different electronic learning settings to plan and successfully implement a specific learning situation, with the focus on the individual requirements of…

Responses from 204 Dutch employees trained via web-based applications indicated that, if the goal is to increase collaborative work, training should take place in a collaborative environment. Organizational culture change and a supportive infrastructure are required. (Contains 20 references.) (SK)

To involve learners in any form of distance instruction, we ask them to cope with multiple environments. In web-based instruction (WBI), there is the technology environment and the learning environment. Learners must cope with these environments apart from the instructor and most technical support. To make the instruction available at any time and…

This paper argues that Internet-based instruction should not be only perceived as a cognitive tool or a metacognitive tool; rather, it can be perceived and used as an epistemological tool. When the Internet is used as an epistemological tool for instruction, learners are encouraged to evaluate the merits of information and knowledge acquired from…

This investigation presents a DFPN (Dynamic Fuzzy Petri Net) model to increase the flexibility of the tutoring agent's behaviour and thus provide a learning content structure for a lecture course. The tutoring agent is a software assistant for a single user, who may be an expert in an e-Learning course. Based on each learner's behaviour, the…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of self-regulated learning strategies on learners' perception of motivation within web-based instruction. In this study, self-regulated learning strategies, which were intended to assist students to self-observe and self-evaluate their effectiveness, were incorporated into a one-semester…