Location
Daytona Beach, Florida
Description
The faculty of the Extended Campus of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University are pleased to present these papers from the College's Third Annual Symposium on Teaching Effectiveness. ·This symposium is conducted annually to share information and stimulate interest in research about teaching more effectively. The papers presented herein are the product ·of faculty members from throughout the extensive network of teaching sites in the United States and Europe.
This symposium and the next several will focus on various aspects of the utilization of technology to improve the effectiveness of the learning process. We hope that this will give the faculty the opportunity to explore, experiment with, and evaluate different technologies and methods for their employment in improvin~ all aspects of the learning process.
The development of the personal computer coupled with high speed data transmission has opened vast new opportunities for improving the effectiveness of the learning process. This combination has been widely touted as the greatest boon to education since the invention of the printing press. Yet we find ourselves, after some five centuries of experience with print technology, still looking for optimum methods for presenting printed material for a particular learning situation.
Introduction
Daytona Beach, Florida
The faculty of the Extended Campus of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University are pleased to present these papers from the College's Third Annual Symposium on Teaching Effectiveness. ·This symposium is conducted annually to share information and stimulate interest in research about teaching more effectively. The papers presented herein are the product ·of faculty members from throughout the extensive network of teaching sites in the United States and Europe.
This symposium and the next several will focus on various aspects of the utilization of technology to improve the effectiveness of the learning process. We hope that this will give the faculty the opportunity to explore, experiment with, and evaluate different technologies and methods for their employment in improvin~ all aspects of the learning process.
The development of the personal computer coupled with high speed data transmission has opened vast new opportunities for improving the effectiveness of the learning process. This combination has been widely touted as the greatest boon to education since the invention of the printing press. Yet we find ourselves, after some five centuries of experience with print technology, still looking for optimum methods for presenting printed material for a particular learning situation.