This study provides a unique insight into the perspectives of English as a foreign language (EFL) students using computer technology to learn English within their native culture. This study presents qualitative, naturalistic understandings as to the issues students introspective…
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The rapid growth of the Internet has had a great effect on education and students' University life. The purpose of this descriptive and baseline study, which was conducted through a mail survey, was to describe and identify Internet use by students at the South Valley University…
This research project examines how humans are depicted in computer-based representations, with particular attention to the representation of cultural difference. Hypermedia environments from a range of sources are analyzed as sites of meaning making, including two websites built…
A This dissertation analyzes the experiences of high school students participating in an on-line character-playing simulation of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (“AIC”). In AIC, high school students in classrooms around the world play the characters of leaders of nations involved in t…
There is no question that technology skills will be essential in ever-increasing portions of the labor market of the twenty-first century. Consequently, colleges and universities would be doing a major disservice to their students if they failed to provide appropriate opportunit…
The method of mentoring by electronic mail is a new approach that is gaining widespread acceptance. The benefits of e-mail mentoring offer advantages not found in other traditional mentoring programs. Mentoring can play a major part in the development and decision making of youn…
The purpose of the study was to contribute to a better understanding of teaching strategies in interactive video distance learning classrooms. The study attempted to identify distance education teaching strategies that produce, foster, and enhance interactivity (motivation and p…
The chronological development of an Internet/Intranet Geographic Information System teaching module is presented from the inception of the concept through the deployment of the on-line course. In addition, the intent and philosophical considerations are depicted in a sequential …
The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to examine the kinds of strategies that ESL learners used when dealing with CALL exercises, the types of CALL exercises and the subject areas that are perceived to be helpful to learners, and (2) to determine what differences, if any, e…
This five-month case study investigated three kindergarten children's writing with computers. The focal children were raised in families from Taiwan, Arabia, and Nigeria. Taking a socio-cognitive view, the researcher examined the impacts of using two different computer software …
Problem. The first problem involved developing a smoking prevention invention that incorporates both a multimedia CD-ROM and print-based lesson plans for 7th and 8th grade adolescents. The second problem involved the evaluation of its efficacy on students' knowledge, attitudes, …
This field study explores the effects of computer-mediated Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) on a decision-making process within the men and women's division of a sexually segregated private high school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. At the time of the study, the school is develo…
Constructivist teaching has become a dominant theme in educational literature in response to the positivist model of education that is prevalent in schools. It is generally acknowledged that in order for K-12 education to become more constructivist there must be a qualitative ch…
How can teachers foster learning environments that promote creative thinking and problem solving skills in students? What types of methods, instructions, interactions, communications, and climate do these teachers need so they may promote creative thinking in students? Moreover,…
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of learning styles and hypermedia's organizational structures on learning in a Web-based instructional environment. A secondary purpose of this study was to determine the implications of these variables on the de…
Virtual classes which aim to allow remote teaching and learning with there multimedia interaction in collaborative mode produce an important volume of audio/video transmission and impose a challenge on the network because of the delays and the losses caused by congestion. To sol…
This action research study was focused on how two middle school science teachers at the American International School in Israel (AIS-1) addressed strategies to develop projects in which their students could learn at a distance but not from a distance. The idea was not to develop…
All Arabian Gulf countries have considered using educational software programs to improve the quality of the teaching and the learning process. The dilemma they face is that most of the software generally available to schools in that region is imported from England or the United…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the current situation in Cyprus elementary classrooms regarding computer technology integration. The study examined how Cypriot elementary teachers use computers, and the factors that influence computer integration in their classroom prac…