Commercial computer games contain "physics engine" components, responsible for providing realistic interactions among game objects. The question naturally arises of whether these engines can be used to develop educational materials for high school and university physics education. To answer this question, the author's group recently conducted a…

Program animation systems have not been as widely adopted by computer science educators as we might expect from the firm belief that they can help in enhancing computer science education. One of the most notable obstacles to their adoption is the considerable effort that the production of program animations represents for the instructor. We…

This article describes an approach to developing student reading materials that support middle school learners in a project-based, inquiry curriculum for grades 6 through 8. Reading materials are designed to encourage sense making beyond the classroom, as students read and write about science as it takes place in a classroom and as it occurs in…

This article features several educators whose classroom, school, and district-wide projects offered this year's most inventive and successful examples of bringing technology-based learning to K-12 students. A middle school teacher used grant money to fund a weekly student news broadcast. A technology director created video booths to reveal to…

This paper reports a corpus-based lexical study of the most frequently used medical academic vocabulary in medical research articles (RAs). A Medical Academic Word List (MAWL), a word list of the most frequently used medical academic words in medical RAs, was compiled from a corpus containing 1 093 011 running words of medical RAs from online…

In many cases advanced instructional products, such as computer-based training, e-learning programs, simulations, and simulators are not designed by experienced instructional designers, but by novices: subject matter experts, teachers, instructors, or inexperienced designers. The literature indicates that these novices do not always have the…

Gives information for producing 35mm slides and for constructing a copy stand for the production of close-up photographs. (GS)

A reference guide which was designed to assist course developers in the selection, development and testing of instructional "software" materials. (Author)

A discussion on the emphasis of quantity of instructional materials and the lack of development standards. (HB)

A profile of what instructional developers do, their education, reading habits, age, and philosophical stance is drawn from responses to a questionnaire sent to members of the Division of Instructional Development of AECT. (Author)

Article offers a critical look at the current research base supporting the use of research models. (Author)

How a teacher and students wrote their own textbook. (HB)

A discussion of how educators have neglected to consider the creative aspects of producing instructional media. (HB)

A reference guide which was designed to assist course developers in the selection, development and testing of instructional "software" materials. (Author)