Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education [Paperback]

Beverly Abbey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2000 | ISBN-10: 1878289594 | ISBN-13: 978-1878289599

Web sites are increasingly being used by educators in place of traditional content media and instructional approaches, such as texts and lectures. This new teaching philosophy has led to a myriad of questions concerning instructional design principles, learners' cognitive strategies, human-Internet interaction factors and instructional characteristics of Web media that transverse political, geographic and national boundaries.

Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education is a compendium of materials by noted researchers and practitioners that addresses national and international issues and implications of Web-based instruction and learning, offering suggestions and guidelines for analyzing and evaluating Web sites from cognitive and instructional design perspectives.

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The chapters on the impact of learning theories ... provide a useful insight into the psychological processes that underpin learning. -- First Monday, Issue 6

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: IGI Global (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878289594
• ISBN-13: 978-1878289599
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,502,612 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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64 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best I have read, August 5, 2000

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Jim Formosa - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education (Paperback)

As a faculty trainer and instructional designer, I have had the opportunity to read many volumes dealing with the instructional design process and Web-based courses. This volumn is simply the best I have read. There is not a single chapter that I did not get domething from. I will begin teaching a certificate program in Web-based course design and implementation in the Spring and this book will the text for the first course.

I have had the opportunity to critique several hundred Web-based courses over the last three years. The vast majority are flawed from an instructional desing standpoint. This book should be required reading for all persons designing Web-based courses as, if followed, the percentage of courses that are designed and implemented correctly would increase dramatically.

I cannot recommend this volume too highly. In addition to being well written, the references (many on the Web) are great.

Jim

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mostly for academia, very uneven, October 2, 2001

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Diann Barbee Thoma (Champaign, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education (Paperback)

Ostensibly, this book covers the subject of creating web-based educational courseware thoroughly; however, it is mostly geared towards university distance learning (including hypbrid uses), which I found of limited use to those in military or corporate training development. The basis of the information, where each chapter is written by a different author, ranges from tenets based on primary research, to those based on extrapolation from text and CBI research, to "common practice" and personal experience (but written as though the truth). Very little information is based on primary research for web-based instructional design (including interface issues), although each chapter has a long bibiography. Also, this is one of the worst-edited books I've read in a long time, though the first chapter is the killer. If you're new to the subject of distance learning and you're in K-12 or higher education, it may be useful to you. Else...is there "else"? I'm still searching.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mostly for academia, very uneven, October 2, 2001

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Diann Barbee Thoma (Champaign, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education (Paperback)

Ostensibly, this book covers the subject of creating web-based educational courseware thoroughly; however, it is mostly geared towards university distance learning (including hypbrid uses), which I found of limited use to those in military or corporate training development. The basis of the information, where each chapter is written by a different author, ranges from tenets based on primary research, to those based on extrapolation from text and CBI research, to "common practice" and personal experience (but written as though the truth). Very little information is based on primary research for web-based instructional design (including interface issues), although each chapter has a long bibiography. Also, this is one of the worst-edited books I've read in a long time, though the first chapter is the killer. If you're new to the subject of distance learning and you're in K-12 or higher education, it may be useful to you. Else...is there "else"? I'm still searching.