Technology and Education for Career Heights (Project TECH) was designed to help Temporary Assistance to Needy Families participants enhance their literacy through distance learning as a means to ...promote job retention and career advancement. The evaluative research presented in this report was intended to gather information from the participants of Project TECH about their experience with distance learning training curriculum. The report describes Project TECH and what happens when participants who are low-income workers are given a computer, basic training software, Internet access, and training coupled with instruction form a instructor who met with them face to face weekly and provided daily online coaching and instruction. It highlights participants' experience with online instruction and the use of computers in their homes, and it concludes with lessons learned from the project. The information is useful for those wanting to design and develop a distance learning program to increase adult literacy for families that needs to comply with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families work requirements and other demands.
SubstanceAbusePrevention.org, a virtual Community, is a 3.5-year project initially funded by the US Department of Commerce, Technology Opportunity Program. Its purpose was "to determine what proven ...components of substance abuse prevention in 'real' communities can be effectively transferred into 'virtual' communities." Teens in drug treatment helped university researchers translate resiliency-based prevention practices into a Web site that would appeal to their peers. The 24 strategies tested fall in the categories of prevention exercises, games, multimedia, and information. This article describes the development process along with the lessons learned and future directions. The information is useful for those wanting to design and develop interactive Websites that address human service problems.
This paper is based on previous works on eLearning Web Authoring System for Educators; making the eLearning web authoring system more comprehensive and powerful. It is the first open source on ...authoring system which introduces XML as the backend database system for storing question sheets made by educators and answers made by students. Furthermore, it provides a virtual area - allowing educators and learners to broadcast and attend the lectures over the Internet respectively - and enables educators and learners to communicate with each others via online and offline message passing. Since Educators may not be proficient in developing such kind of eLearning system for generating eLearning materials in web page format for students to use, this paper will give an overview of this system and demonstrate how the above features can be accomplished.
This paper aims to present the development and implementation of a dynamic web authoring system for eLearning, a new type of web authoring system, designed for educational purpose. This system is ...mainly assisting the educators for creation of online exercises that enables close user interaction and supports frequent change of its content. Combination of the strength of Internet–availability and flexibility–and its nature–a worldwide information provider and a medium communication–achieves creation of such web authoring system. The online exercises are dynamically created by following simple instructions provided by this system. The simple usage of the system benefits educators who are not familiar with creation of web learning materials but wish to create them with complicated functions. Furthermore, the learners can take the advantages of doing the online exercises.
We have developed a laboratory course that demonstrates how evolution can be taught as a participatory, investigative science at the undergraduate college or advanced secondary high school level. The ...course emphasizes the applied importance of evolution to areas such as medicine and agriculture. Because many instructors face budgetary or other constraints, we have developed labs that can be run with minimal resources and a wide range of possible materials. To provide access to these materials, we have created a website aimed at instructors of evolutionary biology (http://www.evolutionkills.org OR http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/evolutionlabs). Included on the website are detailed descriptions of the course materials, a database of other articles describing laboratory and field exercises in evolution, and links to other sources of information pertinent to the teaching of evolution. We believe that this website provides a much needed resource for instructors of evolution and encourages inquiry-based learning approaches to the study of evolutionary biology at the undergraduate level. (Contains 2 figures.)
With the rapid development of information technology, online learning has become an important way to acquire knowledge for college students. Learners can learn without time and space restriction by ...network. This interactive learning environment can be conducive to stimulate interest of learners and enhance learning effect. Interactive English platform is a distance education platform aiming to serve English instruction and self-learning for students, which plays advantages of network and reflects interactive, open, practical principles. The platform can assemble a lot of teaching resources for students in order to acquire appropriate information and perform independent learning.
