Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education

Download or read book Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education written by Abbey, Beverly and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators are increasingly using web sites 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.