Printed out related articles Article 1 Distance Learning: Principles for Effective Design, Delivery, and Evaluation Journal article by Cleborne D. Maddux; Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 75, 2004 Recent popular and professional literature is replete with news about explosive present and future gr... ->
Limitations Classroom learning and motivation are inherently embedded in a social context. Classrooms are composed of a teacher and individual students who are likely to be diverse in many ways (e.g., ethnicity, gender, ability, SES, skills of self-regulation, goals, interests, and special needs). I... ->
Key segments of the corporate sector, conservative interest groups, the National Governors Association (NGA), and the senior Bush administration drew both on the imagery of the age of information, and the problems inherent in a failing national school system to establish a major national policy init... ->
Initiatives for reforming schools are occurring across the nation. What motivational challenges do various educational reforms present? School reform in most states has focused on raising standards through mandatory proficiency tests, which students must pass at various grade levels. However, ra... ->
Anchored instruction has proved very successful in engaging students and getting them to solve problems more complex than their teachers thought possible. The basis of their success is student ownership of the problems. In the above depicted models, what is on-campus and what is off-campus in mo... ->
Theoretical framework One of the best-known and most effective innovations in instructional approach is anchored instruction. Based on Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism models, anchored instruction implants problems into complex and realistic scenarios called macro-contexts. As a reminder... ->
Abstract Until recently, constructing perfect learning environment implied involving a teacher often interacting with a single student. Separated by differences in education and vision of the learning system, the teacher and student engaged in a planned two-way exchange using print and electro... ->
