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FOR MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES CURRICULUM STUDY (BSCS) HAS BEEN PRODUCING HIGH QUALITY ORIGINAL ARTWORK AND PHOTOGRAPHS AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF ITS MANY EXEMPLAR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. THIS BIOLOGICAL VISUAL LIBRARY MOST LIKELY CONTAINS THE GREATEST COLLECTION OF BIOLOGICAL ARTWORK ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. ITS VALUE IS IN THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. LASER VIDEODISC TECHNOLOGY MAK ...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO EXAMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LIMITED TEACHER-AUTHORING USING INTERACTIVE LASER VIDEODISCS OPERATING WITH A MICROCOMPUTER TO TEACH EFL AT THE ENTRY LEVEL. THE APPLICATION WILL BE IN A PRE-EMPLOYMENT VOCATIONAL CONTEXT, SIMILAR TO JOB CLUB ENVIRONMENTS. TEACHER-AUTHORING IN PHASE I WILL BE LIMITED TO POST-TREATMENT, STUDENT ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS. PHASE I EQUIPMENT WILL ...

COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION (CAI) HAS YET TO KEEP ITS PROMISE. IT IS FREQUENTLY POORLY CONCEIVED, INADEQUATELY DEVELOPED, AND OFTEN IRRELEVANT TO REAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS. WORSE, MOST COURSEWARE FAILS TO UTILIZE RECENT ADVANCES IN COMPUTER SIMULATION AND MODELING, AND GRAPHIC TECHNOLOGIES AND THUS, REMAINS ROOTED IN THE PAST. GIVEN THEIR POSITION ON THE FRON LINES OF EDUCATION, TEACHERS ARE AN IDE ...