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Webquests: Improving Military Training Through Constructivism And The Web, Brian Patrick Lafferty
Webquests: Improving Military Training Through Constructivism And The Web, Brian Patrick Lafferty
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project was for members of the United States Marine Corps to leverage the benefits of inquiry based learning in the form of WebQuests. By creating and implementing WebQuests to meet training needs at the small unit level, non commissioned officers can take advantage of the resources of the World Wide Web in a timely and effective manner. To this end, a course of computer-based training was designed, developed, tested, implemented, and evaluated using the ADDIE instructional design model.
An Online Community Helping Left-Handed Right Brained Students Succeed, Amber Elizabeth Hladik
An Online Community Helping Left-Handed Right Brained Students Succeed, Amber Elizabeth Hladik
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project is to develop a website that helps left handed students, their parents, and teachers to help left-handers, whether they are left-or-right-brain dominant, succeed. This website will be a tool to get to know their children and students better. The project consists of a paper and a website to educate about left-handed people.
Project Think: Transforming History Into New Knowledge, Susan Heather Young
Project Think: Transforming History Into New Knowledge, Susan Heather Young
Theses Digitization Project
Project THINK was designed as a classroom project that combined the use of instructional multimedia technology, linked to the California History/Social Science standards, which engaged gifted middle school students in the design of these standards-based video materials.
Standardization In The Development And Delivery Methods Of Technology Workshops, Sherwin Anthony Smith
Standardization In The Development And Delivery Methods Of Technology Workshops, Sherwin Anthony Smith
Theses Digitization Project
Trainers have long relied on visual content to make their training more effective. As the use of computer-based delivery has become an accepted method of distributing training and instructional materials, a system of standardizing the development and delivery of training workshops was worthy of considerable attention. The study concludes that while many of the older studies do not directly address the use of computer-based presentation applications, a development process can be achieved to streamline the creation of instructional content while maintaining consistency and quality in the content created.
Creating A Content Management System To Support K-12 Teachers Implementing A Web Enhanced Classroom, Marc Thomas Drescher
Creating A Content Management System To Support K-12 Teachers Implementing A Web Enhanced Classroom, Marc Thomas Drescher
Theses Digitization Project
Using instructional design methodology, this project identified the features of an effective classroom website and incorporated them into the design of a Course Management System (CMS) for K-12 teachers. The purpose of this CMS is to deliver online information to students and parents while meeting the needs of K-12 teachers.
Facilitating An Online Community Among Community College Peer Tutor Trainees, Matthew Robert Ruzicka
Facilitating An Online Community Among Community College Peer Tutor Trainees, Matthew Robert Ruzicka
Theses Digitization Project
The project presents a web-based component for a tutor training program at College of the Desert, Palm Desert, California. The application is designed to be responsive and adaptable to the tutor's needs. It also addresses the logistic and pedagogical problems that plague many community college tutor trainers and helps to mitigate this through an online instructional system that facilitates communication among the tutors so that learning can occur in a situated context.