Web-Mediated Instructional Design
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2020) | Viewed by 5064
Special Issue Editor
Interests: human–computer interaction; information systems; instructional design; web-based learning; learning analytics; Rasch modelling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There can be no doubt that information and communications technology (ICT) tools offer courseware designers opportunities to enhance web-mediated learning environments. As a result, many courseware designers around the world are adopting such ICT courseware platform tools that emphasise the use of multimedia to enrich and fulfil online learning experiences. Nevertheless, the increasing awareness of the complexities surrounding the human computer interaction (HCI) presents a new dilemma to challenge the design and development of courseware content for these web-mediated learning systems. As tempting as they are, the adoption of these emerging ICT tools needs to be aligned with the appropriate e-pedagogical strategies to ensure the effectiveness of the expected learning outcomes. Papers in this Special Issue describe the diverse range of opinion on web-mediated instructional design. The range of opportunities is endless, involving, for instance:
- learning management systems that offer improved web-mediated teaching and learning to provide instructors and learners/trainees the opportunities of online discussions and digital resource sharing;
- real-time teaching performance assessment where integrated performance feedback relates to the web-mediated interactions. Online facilitators and learners/trainees can see their individual performance and academic achievements;
- high-quality digital courseware application sandbox environments that provide instructional material production to foster courseware creation skills;
- multifunctional web-mediated instructional tools that provide opportunities for collaborative professional development opportunities to facilitate multiple functions and services to enhance learner/trainee motivations for learning and academic achievement;
- online language and vocabulary exercises; and
- software enquiry systems that query legally valid software applications.
Assoc. Prof. Elspeth McKay
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ePedagogies
- Human–computer interaction (HCI)
- Instructional design
- Web-mediated courseware design
- Online learning
- Performance outcome measurement
- Information and communications technology (ICT)
- Instructional systems design
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