Introduction to Information Technology | IT | Computer-Aided Education

World-wide access to information and people

Reference materials for teaching

Information for development

The Internet is rapidly becoming an intergral part of education. Electronic resources accessible through the Internet include articles on how electronic media can be used for teaching and learning, courses, and sites that help in developing interactive educational materials.

Articles

Cyber course size: Pedagogy and politics, by J.V. Boettcher

Designing interactivities for Internet learning, by D. Mesher

Science, scholarship, and Internet publishing, by A.K. Keller

Electronic textbooks: From paper to pixels, by S. Epstein

Articles on designing distance teaching and learning materials

Instructional design bibliography

Examples of Courses on Internet

The World-Wide Lecture Hall, a collection of internet courses

The hypertextbook for biology, an online textbook for biology produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Distance Learning Clearing House, learning via internet

Reference Materials

SyllabusWeb, the electronic version of Syllabus: Technology for Education, a magazine devoted to new teching tecnologies

Information & Technology Services (ITS), University of Idaho

Toolbook, authoring systems by Asymetrix

Director, authoring systems by Macromedia

Publishers Toolbox, a software source for digital artists and designers



	... the use of information technology for science education
Home Advisory Introduction Courses on Internet Interactive learning In-class presentations Research Contact professor Articles The New Frontier The Multimedia Classroom Further information Testing Internet features Internet Resources	Introduction Recent advances in information technology (IT) provide educators with unique opportunities to fundamentally shape education of the future. If used intelligently, the new computer technology will usher in revolutionary changes in education—the way we teach and learn—at all levels: kindergarten to high school, and university to life-long learning. The emergent components of computer-aided education (CAE) including multimedia presentations, interactive digital books, and the internet, are often developed separately to be used as individual approaches in CAE without a cohesive and comprehensive strategy. The key to effective CAE in the future lies in an integration of these three technologies to form a unified approach to education. An integrated approach will give students of ecology and science a comprehensive learning environment that includes in-class, independent, and extended learning. I have developed extensive computer-aided, multimedia, instructional modules to teach my courses in introductory general ecology physiological plant ecology, and restoration ecology. The use of computer-aided education, including interactive multimedia lessons and modules for independent learning, provides students with a enhanced in-class lectures and the opportunity to extend learning beyond the classroom. Each course has an companion course on internet from which students can access course materials and information at their convenience. Further enhancements to the courses on internet will soon extend the student’s opportunities for learning beyond the classroom.