An Interactive Multimedia Instruction System: IMPRESSION for Multipoint Synchronous Online Classroom Environment

This chapter provides an overview of the use of adaptive training technology within the military domain. Throughout the chapter, we will discuss the use of intelligent tutoring, adaptive interactive multimedia instruction, and their combination to form closed-loop adaptive training. Frequently, the discussion of a particular approach will be illustrated with one or more case-studies. Moreover, we will explore impediments to widespread adoption of these interventions throughout the military, methods to overcome these impediments, and the migration of this technology into other domains. We will conclude by summarizing trends that are likely to characterize on-going development. Rather than providing a comprehensive review of technology-enhanced learning in the military, which is likely to be outdated before it is published, the author hopes that this illustrative review will open new avenues of thought for researchers, developers, and purchasers of these systems.

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How Classroom Environment and Student Engagement Affect Learning in Internet-based MBA Courses

Business Communication Quarterly ◽

10.1177/108056990006300402 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 63 (4) ◽

pp. 9-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 86

Author(s):

J.B. Arbaugh

Keyword(s):

Student Learning ◽

Classroom Environment ◽

Ease Of Use ◽

College Courses ◽

Perceived Ease Of Use ◽

Online Classroom ◽

Teaching Expertise ◽

Effective Learning ◽

Interactive Classroom ◽

Interesting Discussion

While the number of college courses being delivered via the Internet is increasing rapidly, our knowledge of what makes these courses effective learning experiences for students is still limited. Therefore, I conducted a study that examined the effects of technological, pedagogical, and student characteristics on student learn ing in Internet-based MBA courses. Of these characteristics, I found that only those reflecting instructor efforts to create an interactive classroom environment were significantly associated with student learning. Other characteristics such as the perceived ease of use of the course software package, the perceived flexibility of the online classroom environment, and the amount of time students spent logged onto the course Website were not significantly associated with student learning. These findings suggest that while some level of technological sophistication may be important, teaching expertise may be the primary criterion for teaching success in the online classroom environment. Therefore, instructors may need to spend more time developing and cultivating instructional skills such as simultaneously working with several smaller groups of students, developing interesting discussion questions, and fostering intimacy. To support this faculty development, business schools will likely need to make substantial infrastructural investments to ensure that their online course offerings are pedagogically and technologically conducive to student learning.

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Cats in the classroom: Online learning in hybrid space

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v10i9.1278 ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Michelle Kazmer

Keyword(s):

Learning Environment ◽

Classroom Environment ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Online Classroom ◽

Online Instructors ◽

Shared Learning ◽

Seamless Learning ◽

Local Environments ◽

Course Management Software ◽

Hybrid Space

Students and professors create a shared on–campus classroom environment through individual and collaborative contributions. Similar contributions go into the design of an online classroom. Online instructors build the learning environment to create a shared learning experience, and designers of course management software reinforce this consistency. Examining the online classroom as "hybrid space" — comprising physical and online space — reveals a more complex reality than a seamless learning environment. Students and instructors share a learning experience, but they also occupy local environments that influence their learning and indirectly influence the experience of everyone in the online class.

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