Recency Effect on Problem Solving in Interactive Multimedia Learning

Robert Zheng; Bei Zhou

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 9, No. 2 (2006) pp. 107–118

This study investigated the impact of recency effect on multiple rule-based problem solving in an interactive multimedia environment. Forty-five college students were recruited and assigned to two groups: synchronized and unsynchronized interactive...

Alternate Reality Game for Emergency Response Training: A Review of Research

Zheng Zhou; Jack Shen-Kuen Chang; Jing Pan; David Whittinghill

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 27, No. 1 (January 2016) pp. 77–95

Invited from E-Learn 2014. Disasters are immense and shocking events which, in their wake, require the collective efforts of an entire community to achieve a successful recovery. Engaging and educating a broader swath of a given community well in...

Alternate Reality Game for Emergency Response Training: A Review of Research

Zheng Zhou; Jack Shen-Kuen Chang; Jing Pan; David Whittinghill

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 2145–2153

Disasters are immense and shocking events which, in their wake, require the collective efforts of an entire community to achieve a successful recovery. Engaging and educating a given community well in advance of a disaster contributes notably to...

Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

Exploration and Practice on Class Field in Information Engineering

Kun Zheng; Jing Zhou; Chang-Yong Yang; Guang-Min Sun

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 11, No. 6 (Jun 27, 2016) pp. 40–45

A lack of student knowledge practice is a problem under the influence of the concept of traditional teaching and traditional classroom. And the proportion of knowledge inheritance is far more than that of knowledge innovation. To improve students...

More Questions than Answers: Responding to the Reading and Mathematics Software Effectiveness Study

Kimberly M. Fitzer; Joseph R. Freidhoff; Anny Fritzen; Anne Heintz; Matthew J. Koehler; Punya Mishra; Jim Ratcliffe; Tianyi Zhang; Jinjie Zheng; Wenying Zhou

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 7, No. 2 (June 2007) pp. 1–6

There have been few large-scale empirical studies of the effectiveness of educational software in improving student learning, even though educational technology has become a ubiquitous tool for learning both in and out of the classroom. The recently ...

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Software, Professional Development, Middle School Education

Guest Editorial: More Questions than Answers: Responding to the Reading and Mathematics Software Effectiveness Study

Kimberly M. Fitzer; Joseph R. Freidhoff; Anny Fritzen; Matthew J. Koehler; Punya Mishra; Jim Ratcliffe; Tianyi Zhang; Jinjie Zheng; Wenying Zhou

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 7, No. 2 (June 2007)

There have been few large-scale empirical studies of the effectiveness of educational software in improving student learning, even though educational technology has become a ubiquitous tool for learning both in and out of the classroom. The recently ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Research Methods