Digital multimedia offers key to educational reform

Don, Hardaway; Will, Richard P.

doi:10.1145/248448.248463

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“…The use of online materials, and their ability to be available to students any time, any place provides a novel opportunity for course instructors to appeal to all students no matter their learning style (Hardaway & Will, 1997). Carver, Howard, and Lane (1999) note that students learn through a variety of learning styles, each as different and unique as the students themselves.…”

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“…With the new abilities course instructors have to incorporate technology and online elements into course work, they also have the ability to present new and significant opportunities for students to improve their educational experience and environment (Hardaway & Will, 1997). Through the use of multimedia tools like RSS, instructors are providing students with access to classroom materials online that allows them to replay the overall classroom experience.…”

Section: Aiding Student Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This helps to extend the students' learning beyond the time spent within the classroom or laboratory setting with the instructors, furthering their knowledge and ability to comprehend what has been presented to them. These multimedia tools can also be of assistance by allowing students to catch up on assignments and missed work due to poor attendance or poor note taking (Hardaway & Will, 1997). Additionally, the linking ability embedded within RSS feeds allows a learner to quickly, in one click, navigate to the exact location being highlighted by the feed item -removing the need to navigate the entire website to find what one is looking for, which could be a hindrance to some learners.…”

Section: Aiding Student Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Really Simple Syndication (RSS): An Educational Approach

Glotzbach

Mohler

Radwan

2009

JIME

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Today's post-secondary students are technologically savvy and they expect faculty to use myriad web technologies for course delivery. This includes taking advantage of email, course web sites, and online learning communities. However, expectations now also include RSS, blogs, web-and pod-casting, extending the classroom experience to provide active learning materials anytime, anywhere, and in multiple modalities. This contribution outlines the novel use of RSS technology for a course announcement system at Purdue University. It begins by describing RSS technology and discussing the different possibilities for RSS within classroom. It also describes the specific RSS application for real-time course announcements, detailing its creation and implementation. Initial student feedback is also presented.

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Section: Aiding Student Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Aiding Student Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Aiding Student Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Really Simple Syndication (RSS): An Educational Approach

Glotzbach

Mohler

Radwan

2009

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Syndicated RSS Feeds for Course Information Distribution

Glotzbach

Radwan²

2008

JITE:Research

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Executive SummaryStudents in higher education today are technologically savvy and expect faculty to use myriad web technologies for course delivery. This includes taking advantage of email, course web sites, and online learning communities. However, expectations now also include RSS, blogs, web-, pod-, and vod-casting, extending the classroom experience to provide active learning materials anytime, anywhere, and in multiple modalities. This contribution outlines the novel use of RSS technology for a course announcement system at Purdue University that aids IT educators without expense or significant time consumption. It begins by describing RSS technology and discussing the different possibilities for RSS within the classroom. It also describes the specific RSS application for real-time course announcements, detailing its creation and implementation. The classroom chosen for this study was one that begins to mirror the real world with its many sources of information. T he addition of RSS feeds to the course website allowed the students to share information with their classmates, professor, and their real-world clients.Initial (n = 53) and secondary (n = 29) questionnaires were given to the students in order to evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of implementing RSS feeds in the classroom. In comparing the results students showed a significant increase in perceived knowledge (p-value = 0.0017) and proficiency (p-value < 0.0001) with RSS feeds and their potential to use this offered technology. T he researchers also found that, although only 55.2% of users indicated using a RSS feed for other sources, 65.5% indicated using the course RSS feed, suggesting students found value in the RSS technology applied in the classroom setting.Although there was evidence that students used the course RSS feed, the ttest comparing students' usage of RSS feeds between the initial and secondary questionnaires failed to yield a significant result. The researchers attribute this to a lack of a common method for all course announcements, ones made by Material published as part of this publication, either on-line or in print, is copyrighted by the Informing Science Institute. P ermission to make digital or paper copy of part or all of these works for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that the copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage AND that copies 1) bear this notice in full and 2) give the full citation on the first page. It is permissible to abstract these works so long as credit is given. To copy in all other cases or to republish or to post on a server or to redistribute to lists requires specific permission and payment of a fee. Contact Publisher@InformingScience.org to request redistribution permission. Syndicated RSS Feeds 164students, professors and related third parties, to be distributed to the student.This study found that including a RSS feed as part of the course created opportunities for further research into the effective use of RSS feeds in education. For IT ed...

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“…The rapid development of science and technology provides us a unique opportunity to vigorously promote the reform and development of English teaching. Digital multimedia tools offer a key to educational reform [1]. Multimedia can create the favorable conditions that help students become better and more autonomous learners.…”

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Using Multimedia to Create a Scientific English Teaching Model of Human-Computer Interaction

Zhang¹,

Zhang²

2013

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Electronics Engineering (ICCSEE 2013)

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Abstract-Multimedia Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI)has brought many changes to teacher-student interaction in the English class. CAI not only brightens up the classroom environment, but also stimulates students' interest in learning English. CAI is now used as a supplement to traditional teacher-directed instruction. However, there exist many problems in the process of applying multimedia to the teaching field. These problems are worthy of serious consideration and must be urgently resolved. This paper discusses how to use multimedia to create a scientific English teaching model of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to improve the quality of teaching and learning.

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Digital multimedia offers key to educational reform

Cited by 11 publications

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Really Simple Syndication (RSS): An Educational Approach

Really Simple Syndication (RSS): An Educational Approach

Syndicated RSS Feeds for Course Information Distribution

Using Multimedia to Create a Scientific English Teaching Model of Human-Computer Interaction

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