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Online Degree: Education at Walden University - 0 views

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    Master of science (M.S.) in Instructional Design an Technology.This program will teach you to apply theory, research, crativity, and problem-solving skills to a variety of technology applications in order to improve performance. You will also learn how to develop the analysis, design, and evaluation skills to assess, create, and manage training materials. These skills combined will offer you the ability to support technological advancemente and training in educational istitutions and corporate training classroom. Through your coursewoek, you will gain the experience needed to be efficient an effective using technology and multimedia tools.
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SMILE Management - 0 views

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    The Best Way to Create Online Tests - SMILE and CLEAR are both from Michigan State University, and allow teachers (and students) to easily create clozes, drag-and-drop exercises, and sequencing activities. They also allow you to use audio and video with the activities. This is an excellent site for making a variety of ESL/EFL-related assessments.
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College students' use of Kindle DX points to e-reader's role in academia - University o... - 3 views

  • “Most e-readers were designed for leisure reading – think romance novels on the beach,” said co-author Charlotte Lee, a UW assistant professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering. “We found that reading is just a small part of what students are doing. And when we realize how dynamic and complicated a process this is, it kind of redefines what it means to design an e-reader.”
  • The Kindle DX was more likely to replace students’ paper-based reading than their computer-based reading.
  • With paper, three quarters of students marked up texts as they read. This included highlighting key passages, underlining, drawing pictures and writing notes in margins.
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  • A drawback of the Kindle DX was the difficulty of switching between reading techniques, such as skimming an article’s illustrations or references just before reading the complete text. Students frequently made such switches as they read course material. The digital text also disrupted a technique called cognitive mapping, in which readers used physical cues such as the location on the page and the position in the book to go back and find a section of text or even to help retain and recall the information they had read.
  • “E-readers are not where they need to be in order to support academic reading,” Lee concludes. But asked when e-readers will reach that point, she predicts: “It’s going to be sooner than we think.”
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    This discusses the effect of e-readers on cognitive mapping and other reading techniques.
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