The term "web-based training" (WBT) is emerging to distinguish the use of the World Wide Web as a training and education tool from other applications. In 1996, about $100 million of the $7 billion spent on training in the United States was spent on WBT. According to estimates, the amount spent on WBT will increase more than 20-fold in 5 years. In…

Teaching in the cyberspace classroom requires moving beyond old models of pedagogy into new practices that are more facilitative. It involves much more than simply taking old models of pedagogy and transferring them to a different medium. Unlike the face-to-face classroom, in online distance education, attention needs to be paid to the development…

This paper discusses how a university designed, developed, and delivered a feature-rich Web-based course for undergraduate plant biology. In the design stage, the focus centered around curriculum design, content development, and media acquisition. Instructors, including faculty and graduate assistants of plant biology, served as content experts,…

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the interactive ability of Web-based instruction. The first part of the paper analyzes interaction and instructional theories. Discussion includes Bruner's three-form theory; Gagne conditions of learning; Merrill instructional transaction theory; and Spiro cognitive flexibility theory. The second part of the…

Lulea University of Technology (Sweden) has, for the last few years, deployed an Internet-based learning environment, mStar, to distribute courses to students independent of time and geographic distance. The mStar environment gives remotely attending students possibilities equal to traditionally attending students to take an active part in a…

This paper describes a distributed approach toward designing an Intelligent Tutoring System for the World Wide Web (WWW) at the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest (Romania). This approach was implemented in the EDIT Learning Environment and is defined by the following features: a WWW dedicated architecture, a distributed way of…

This paper addresses the question of how to qualify a knowledge building dialogue in Web-based collaborative learning. It investigates the idea of qualifying the dialogue through grading requirements and through providing students with meta-awareness around their dialogue. The paper investigates and analyzes the changes in quality of student…

The first goal of this study was to examine the impact of nine World Wide Web-based learning modules on learning as measured on both online module quizzes and in-class exams. The modules were designed to support fundamental concepts in entry-level college mathematics courses. The second and third goals of this study were to determine the learner…

This presentation focuses on the development of an online, graduate course entitled "Marriage and Family Therapy." This course was a traditional, face-to-face class, offered by an urban university. The professor who teaches the course worked with three graduate students during the Fall 2000 semester to design and develop the online…

This document contains the following papers on instructional design from the SITE (Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education) 2002 conference: "Faculty Guidelines for the Video Development Process" (Ronald J. Abate and Kathleen Benghiat); "Evolution of an Online Graduate Course in Educational Multimedia" (Peter Albion); "PT3…

This paper discusses trends in instructional technology and distance education (ITDE). The most notable trends are the lack of funding and resources for technology training, the lack of administrative support for ITDE issues, and faculty who are reluctant to adopt technology and distance learning. This paper identifies seven emerging trends as…

With the rapid development of computer technology in recent years, distance education, and especially computer-mediated communication (CMC), has expanded very quickly. The application of computer technology in education presents many unanswered questions, including issues related to impression formation and impression management in…

This paper describes the experiences of three university instructors facilitating computer-mediated communication among three teacher training courses at Indiana University, Bloomington and Northwest campuses, and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The project utilized AltaVista Forum (now SiteScape Forum), a World Wide…

This paper reports on a study that examined students' self-reported enjoyment level as an indication of student success. A total of 169 subjects who were learning totally via the Internet were chosen from master's students in the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas. The following questions were addressed:…

This paper describes the design, implementation, and application of interactive World Wide Web-based learning, based on several business courses taught at Bronx Community College/The City University of New York. The first section summarizes ways the Web was used, including managing the dissemination of course materials, instructor/student…