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Evaluation of Learning Technology

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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 23:57:40 +1300
From: Kinshuk <kinshuk@mailandnews.com>

Dear colleagues

The October issue (Vol. 3, Issue 4) of Educational Technology & Society, (ISSN 1436-4522) peer-reviewed online journal, is now available in HTML and PDF format. It constitutes a special issue on "Evaluation of Learning Technology" (guest editor: Martin Oliver).

It is freely accessible at:
<http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/vol_4_2000/v_4_2000.html>

The PDF version also contains page numbers for citation purposes.

The content list of the October issue is enclosed below.

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Educational Technology & Society (ISSN 1436-4522)
(Peer-reviewed journal of IFETS and IEEE Learning Technology Task Force)

Contents
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** Formal discussion summaries
Enhancing Social Interaction in Computer-Mediated Distance Education
Moderator and Summarizer: Brent Muirhead

Information Technology and schools: the principal's role
Moderator: Des Wilmore Summarizer: Muhammad Betz

** Conference Announcements
IWALT2000 - International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies,
December 4-6, 2000, Palmerston North, New Zealand

ICALT2000 - International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies,
August 6-8, 2001, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

** Special issue articles
Theme: Evaluation of Learning Technology
Guest Editor: Martin Oliver

An introduction to the Evaluation of Learning Technology
Martin Oliver

Mapping the Territory: issues in evaluating large-scale learning technology initiatives
Charles Anderson, Kate Day, Jeff Haywood, Ray Land and Hamish Macleod

Peering Through a Glass Darkly: Integrative evaluation of an on-line course
Josie Taylor, Mark Woodman, Tamara Sumner and Canan Tosunoglu Blake

An evaluation model for supporting higher education lecturers in the integration of new learning technologies
Gordon Joyes

A multi-institutional evaluation of Intelligent Tutoring Tools in Numeric Disciplines
Kinshuk, Ashok Patel and David Russell

Avoiding holes in holistic evaluation
Malcolm Shaw and Suzanne Corazzi

Classroom Conundrums: The Use of a Participant Design Methodology
Bridget Cooper and Paul Brna

Evaluating information and communication technologies for learning
Eileen Scanlon, Ann Jones, Jane Barnard, Julie Thompson and Judith Calder

A Large-scale 'local' evaluation of students' learning experiences using virtual learning environments
Julie Ann Richardson and Anthony Turner

Towards a New Cost-Aware Evaluation Framework
Charlotte Ash

W3LS: Evaluation framework for World Wide Web learning
Jan van der Veen, Wim de Boer and Maarten van de Ven

** Full length articles
Student Modelling in an Intelligent Tutoring System for the Passive Voice of English Language
Maria Virvou, Dimitris Maras and Victoria Tsiriga

The Learning Tutor: A Web based Authoring System to Support Distance Tutoring
Maria Chiara Pettenati, Omar Abou Khaled, Christine Vanoirbeek and Dino Giuli

An empirical appraisal of the effectiveness of adaptive interfaces for instructional systems
John Eklund and Ken Sinclair

** Website reviews
Science Explained
Reviewer: Simon Heppenstall


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