Can one version of online learning materials benefit all students?

Computers have had a significant impact on teaching and learning in recent years. When used as cognitive tools, computers can enable students to develop higher levels of cognitive processing by displaying information as both text and graphics to facilitate retention and transfer (Kozma 1987). For ma...

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Main Author: Yeung, Alexandra
Other Authors: Placing, K
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/IISME/issue/view/515
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79951
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description Computers have had a significant impact on teaching and learning in recent years. When used as cognitive tools, computers can enable students to develop higher levels of cognitive processing by displaying information as both text and graphics to facilitate retention and transfer (Kozma 1987). For many students, chemistry is a subject that involves a novel set of terminology and symbology, and an array of abstract concepts and mental images not consistent with their observations and experiences of the world (Rusay 2003). Information and communications technology (ICT) offers the opportunity to help students develop understanding of these abstract concepts by illustrating them with multimedia simulations, thereby making them more concrete. ICT instruction can be reviewed multiple times, allowing the learner to control the pace of learning (Tissue, Earp and Yip 1996). Furthermore, students can access online pre-laboratory work at any time thereby allowing them flexibility whilst offering the university a cost effective means of delivery.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-799512021-01-04T04:11:13Z Can one version of online learning materials benefit all students? Yeung, Alexandra Placing, K Yes 1302 - Curriculum and Pedagogy 0399 - Other Chemical Sciences Computers have had a significant impact on teaching and learning in recent years. When used as cognitive tools, computers can enable students to develop higher levels of cognitive processing by displaying information as both text and graphics to facilitate retention and transfer (Kozma 1987). For many students, chemistry is a subject that involves a novel set of terminology and symbology, and an array of abstract concepts and mental images not consistent with their observations and experiences of the world (Rusay 2003). Information and communications technology (ICT) offers the opportunity to help students develop understanding of these abstract concepts by illustrating them with multimedia simulations, thereby making them more concrete. ICT instruction can be reviewed multiple times, allowing the learner to control the pace of learning (Tissue, Earp and Yip 1996). Furthermore, students can access online pre-laboratory work at any time thereby allowing them flexibility whilst offering the university a cost effective means of delivery. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79951 https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/IISME/issue/view/515 unknown
spellingShingle Yes
1302 - Curriculum and Pedagogy
0399 - Other Chemical Sciences
Yeung, Alexandra
Can one version of online learning materials benefit all students?
title Can one version of online learning materials benefit all students?
title_full Can one version of online learning materials benefit all students?
title_fullStr Can one version of online learning materials benefit all students?
title_full_unstemmed Can one version of online learning materials benefit all students?
title_short Can one version of online learning materials benefit all students?
title_sort can one version of online learning materials benefit all students?
topic Yes
1302 - Curriculum and Pedagogy
0399 - Other Chemical Sciences
url https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/IISME/issue/view/515
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79951