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Implications of multi-image for concept acquisition
This study explored a number of questions related to multi-image presentation of information and acquisition of a concept — in this case, classifying plants in the subphylum Pteropsida. Of particular interest ...
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Aptitude- versus content-treatment interactions
Interest in adapting instructional methodology to accommodate individual learner characteristics has been stimulated by the recent popularity of aptitude-by-treatment interaction research. While relevant to a ...
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The mediation of experience and educational technology: A philosophical analysis
This philosophical excursion into the foundations of educational technology begins by considering the nature of knowing and learning from the media, as well as stating the assumptions of the paper. The foundat...
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Analysis of task analysis procedures
For the new developer, deciding which task analysis procedures to use can be confusing. In this article, we describe the five functions comprising the task analysis process: inventorying, describing, selecting...
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Book reviews
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Using needs assessment data to design a graduate instructional development program
The role and function of corporate education and training is substantively different than that of public education. Therefore, the roles of corporate educators and trainers are different from the roles of publ...
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Book
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Chapter
Problems and Issues in Designing Hypertext/Hypermedia for Learning
The growth in interest in hypertext and hypermedia (hereafter referred to by the more generic term, hypermedia) in recent years has been staggering. Hypermedia systems are being used extensively in software en...
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Hypertext as instructional design
In this article, hypertext is compared with instructional design principles and processes. Contrary to initial perceptions, hypertext can be considered to be theoretically and operationally consistent with ins...
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Objectivism versus constructivism: Do we need a new philosophical paradigm?
Many scholars in the instructional systems field have addressed the paradigm shift in the field of learning psychology and its implications for instructional systems technology (IST). This article analyzes the...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Chapter and Conference Paper
What are Cognitive Tools?
Tools are extensions of human beings that partially differentiate humans from lower order species of animals. Other species of animals have discovered tools, but have been unable to conceive needs to construct...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adding Intelligence to Hypertext with Expert Systems and Adding Usability to Expert Systems with Hypertext
Hypertext refers to a non-sequential, non-linear method for organizing and displaying text. It was designed to enable the reader to access information from a text in ways that are most meaningful (Nelson, 1981...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing Hypertext for Learning
This paper describes hypertext, and its potential as a technology that can effectively facilitate learning.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Levels of Processing in Building Expert Systems
Expert systems are regarded by many as cognitive tools; they are content independent and generalisable applications that can elicit higher order mental processing from learners. This paper defines the function...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cognitive flexibility theory and its implications for designing CBI
In this chapter, I argue that cognitive flexibility theory implemented in hypertext provides an effective model for designing and develo** computer-based instruction to support advanced knowledge acquisition...
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Book
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Introduction
Education! A critical topic in virtually all the nations of the world. What do children need to know in a world where information is growing at such a tremendous rate? How do we help them become lifelong learn...
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Designing Learning Environments That Support Thinking: The Jasper Series as a Case Study
Most instructional design efforts involve a minimum of four components; namely, a specification of (a) the goals to be met, (b) materials to be used, (c) teaching strategies to be employed and (d) items and pr...
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Applications of hypertext: Technologies for higher education
THIS PAPER BEGINS with a description of our assumptions about meaningful learning in higher education and meaningful learning from hypertext. We then describe different classes of applications of hypertext to ...