Encyclopedia of Educational Technology

Encyclopedia of Educational Technology

Table of contents
Cognition and Learning
* Active learning
* Anchored instruction
* Anchored learning
* Andragogy
* Applied Behavior Analysis
* Artificial intelligence in education
* Artificial neural networks
* Attention: getting it
* Attention: keeping it
* Attention theory
* Audio: Does it help?
* Autodidactic learning
* Automaticity: A learned advantage
* Automaticity: Skill building
* Bloom's learning domains
* Bloom's taxonomy
* Bloom's taxonomy revised
* Brain-based learning
* Brain hemispheres: fiction and fact
* Chunks: Superior memory of experts
* Cue summation in instructional multimedia
* Cooperative groups
* Cooperative learning
* Cognitive dissonance
* Cognitive load theory
* Cognitive style assessment
* Computer hardware as brain
* Digital natives in the classroom
* Discovery learning
* Early childhood computing
* Ecological psychology: Tools
* What is Educational Technology?
* Effective learning with movitation
* Emotion, memory, and stories
* Engagement in mathematics
* Flow and peak performance
* Flow: Optimal experience
* Gagne's nine events of instruction
* Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences
* Gender and technology
* Gestalt theory
* GIS and the K-12 Teacher
* Guilford's Structure of Intellect
* Hemispheric dominance
* How eLearning changes the classroom
* Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence theory
* Humor in instructional design
* Hypnopaedia: sleep-learning
* Information quantity and cognition
* Instructor provided notes
* Interactive whiteboards
* Intrinsic motivation for physical education
* Keller's ARCS Model-Attention
* Keller's ARCS Model-Confidence
* Keller's ARCS Model-Relevance
* Keller's ARCS Model-Satisfaction
* Knowledge systems design
* Learning and meditation
* Learning theory fundamentals
* Learning styles
* Long term memory
* Maslow's hierarchy of needs
* Memory model
* Metacognition
* Metacognition v2
* Mind as rhizome
* Multi-Channel learning
* Multimedia and the learning process
* Multimedia and multiple intelligences
* Multiple intelligences, Part 1
* Multiple intelligences, Part 2
* Music and learning
* Music enhances reasoning
* Music's contribution to academic success
* Overlearning
* Operant conditioning
* Piaget's developmental stages
* Piano lessons and spatial-temporal reasoning
* Postmodern instructional design
* Psychomotor taxonomy
* Reactive vs. active theory
* Sense and memory
* Sensory modalities for learning
* Short term memory
* Situated learning
* Sleep and learning
* Sleep and memory
* Social learning theory
* Stereotypes
* Subliminal learning
* Techniques for memory retention
* Technology supports learner-centered principles
* Transfer: a principle of learning
* Transfer of learning
* Understanding deaf education
* Using simulations to facilitate learning
* Visual perception: Gestalt laws
* Visual perception: illusions
* Working memory
* Vygotsky's Social Development Theory
* Vygotsky: Zone of proximal development

Analysis
* Authoring Instructional Materials (AIM)
* Conducting performance analysis
* Effective interviewing
* Finding solutions to performance problems
* Human performance technology
* ID in a cross-cultural context
* Performance analysis: an overview
* Quick solutions to performance problems
* Stakeholders in user-centered design
* Technology and analysis
* Training needs assessment
* Understanding goals
* Why performance analysis
Design
Data representation
* About mind maps: What and why
* Chosing the right graph
* Clear writing for international English readers
* Comparison graphs
* Graph labels
* Mindmap your way to success
* Misrepresentation of data
* Preparing presentations for educational use
eLearning
* Blogs in online college classes
* Choosing tools for real time virtual meetings
* Course design
* Creating social presence online
* Cultural implications for online learning
* Designing Web-based tutorials
* Distance education
* Distance education and learning style
* Distance learning essentials
* Emerging technologies
* Facilitating classes online
* Developing a professional community
* Distance education: The human dimension
* Instructor's role
* Intelligent tutoring systems
* I CARE instructional design system
* Lab design and learning
* Learner control: Is it for everyone?
* Learner control in web-based instruction
* Learner-interface interaction
* Mediating interpersonal interactivity
* Mobile learning
* Online interaction
* Online fair use
* Podcasting
* Preparing students to join the online learning community
* Rich active learning environments
* SCORM
* SCORM: What it is and how it is used
* Stages of online learning
* Synchronous and asynchronous technology
* Technology and collabortive environments
* Transactional distance
* Wikis
* Wikis: Working their way into the Web
Learning Strategies
* Accidental learning through computer games
* Blended learning
* Blended learning: choosing the right blend
* Component Display Theory
* Communicative language teaching
* Criterion-referenced instruction
* Digital game learning
* Digital games as learning environments
* Drafting instructional objectives
* E-coaching for fitness
* Elaboration as a learning tool
* Elaboration feedback
* Feedback and emerging technologies
* Feng Shui for the training room
* Functional context education
* Games and simulations
* Higher-level thinking
* Instructional technology in the third world
* Jigsaw cooperative groups
* Learning math with CBI
* Learning with stories
* Management games: Openers
* Mass collaboration: A means of self-organization
* Mnemonics
* Modeling, coaching, and scaffolding
* Motivating your learner
* Multimedia for adult literacy
* Multimedia in the EFL/ESL classroom
* Notetaking
* Online interactivity
* Process art as a learning tool
* Problem based learning
* Problem based learning 2
* Project based learning
* Real time feedback in programmed learning
* Simulations
* Simulation-based training
* Stories as an instructional tool
* Teaching concepts
* Technology for inclusion
* Training to fluency
* Web Survey Design
* Webquests
Message Design
* Animation in literacy development
* Audio presentations
* Attitude Change
* Captology
* Choosing appropriate media
* Cognitive dissonance
* Connecting with classroom Websites
* Designing hypertext links
* Design principles: Proximity and alignment
* Design principles: Repetition and contrast
* Designing web pages for blind readers
* Factual information: Display guidelines
* Gender differences
* Gestalt principles of design
* Graphic organizers
* Hypertext and hypermedia: An overview
* Information design
* Information mapping
* Interactive animation
* Instructional illustration
* Instructional design for the international market
* Levels of feedback
* Medium is not the only message
* Minimalism
* Mixed modalities work
* Modality principle
* Multimedia design controversies
* Multimedia presentations
* Pictures in education
* Redundancy principle
* Secondary classroom websites
* Seven attentional shifts in ID
* Sign, symbols and icons
* Stereotyping
* Symbols and the senses
* Text contrast
* Text design
* Text design for the elderly
* Three levels of hypermedia in education
* Types of information
* Typography
* Typography for instructional media
* Typography: What you should know
* User-centered design for hypertext
* Using graphics and animation in instruction
* Using words to strengthen pictures
* Visual Analogies
* Visual thinking tools
* Web page text design guidelines
* Write clearly
* Zoom
Learning Objects
* Creating learning objects
* Knowledge objects
* Object-oriented thinking
* Object models
* Microlearning
* Reusable learning objects
Using Color
* Choosing a color palette
* Choosing color schemes
* Color in education
* Color managment
* Contrast of color
* The importance of color contrast
* Principles of using color
* The psychology of color
* Setting the mood with color
* Why use color?
Video Learning
* Camera shots
* Family dynamics for television
* Formal features of television
* Formative research at the Children's Television Workshop
* Learning from television stereotypes
* Post television viewing behavior
* Scriptwriting for video
* Vodcasting
Visualization
* Choosing instructional metaphors
* Developing a visual concept
* Dual coding - images and illustrations
* Effectiveness of layout
* Effective picture composition
* The explicative role of illustrations
* Functional role of graphics
* Graphical integrity
* Grids for page layout
* Line in visual communication
* Page design principles
* Screen design
* Using still and moving images for instruction
* Visual perception
* Using animation
* Using imagery to teach concrete concepts
* Using pictures to increase comprehension
Navigation
* Graphical user interface
* HTML-based help
* Pedagogical agents
* User-centered interface design
* Using image maps
Development
Accessibility
* Access for multiple disabilities
* Accessible graphic navigation
* Adapting keyboards for multiple disabilities
* Assistive technology
* Designing for accessibility
* Web accessibility
* Web accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing
* Web accessibility for the hearing impaired
* Web accessibility for the visually impaired
* Web accessibility for older adults
Visual Design
* 3D basics 1
* 3D basics 2
* Character creation
* Dynamic graphics for text enhancement
* Fonts
* Tips for digital photography
Multimedia Development
* Audio - creating the right file
* Audio tutorial learning strategy
* Bitmap vs. vector graphics
* Computer testing and assessment
* Gifs or Jpgs
* Image resolution and file size
* Interactive buttons
* Interface design: setting a consistent style
* Interface style: 2D-3D
* Low-bandwidth movie delivery
* Medical education
* Storyboards
* Student created video
* Technology supports learner-centered principles
* Top ten web design blunders
* Using multimedia technology to teach Mexican-American deaf children
* Web development: identifying end users
* Web page design: 10 don'ts
* Web page design: creative uses of "web-safe" color
* Web page design: layout control
* Web page design: types of navigation
* Web page design: graphic resources for non-artists
* Web page design: GIF vs. JPEG
* Web page design: interactivity
* Web site navigation structures
Television Production
* Aesthetics: head room and nose room
* Audio for video
* Computer graphics for video
* Streaming video
* Three-point lighting
* Transitions in video editing
* To light or not to light
Tools
* Flow charting for instructional design
* Open source software
* Project management for instructional designers
* Understanding fair use
* Using style guides
* Wikis for project management
* Wizards
Training
* Electronic Performance Support Systems
* Job aids
* Job aids v2
* Job aids vs training
* Mentoring
Virtual reality
* Applications of virtual reality
* Cyberspace
* Desktop virtual reality
* Game theory
* Instructional simulations: an overview
* Technology and simulation-based learning
* Virtual reality
* Virtual reality and k12 education
* Virtual reality for the handicapped
* VRML 3D objects
Web-based training
* Netiquette
* Web fonts
Implementation
* Blogging techniques in the K12 classroom
* Blogs in education
* Concept maps for science
* Computer managed instructional systems
* Computers anxiety
* Computers in the K12 classroom
* Course management systems
* Creating a paperless classroom
* Creating a professional portfolio
* Differentiating the learning environment
* Engaged learning for at-risk students
* Ergonomics in the computer classroom
* Evaluating online resources
* Formative assessment
* Formative assessment and feedback
* Human resources management
* Improving literacy with technology
* Integrating technology with results
* Internet for mobile units
* Knowledge management
* Knowledge management: Success factors
* Learning management systems
* Measurement scales
* Media literacy
* Media presentations
* Mobile technology
* Newpapers as teaching tools
* Online community building
* Online learning environments
* Paperless classroom
* Review activities
* School technology integration
* Tablet PCs in the classroom
* Teaching procedures
* Technology and gender differences
* Technology gender gap
* Television in the classroom
* Training: Event or process (coaching)
* Understanding fair use
* Using classroom projection
* Virtual high schools
* Web-based training
Evaluation
* Authentic assessment
* Assessing student learning
* Assessment and simulation interactions
* Computer adaptive testing
* Creating a professional portfolio
* Critical components for Technology Plans
* Developing effective satisfaction surveys
* Editing strategies
* Kirkpatrick's 4 levels of evaluation
* Methods of inquiry
* Performance based assessment
* Return on investment--an evaluative framework
* Rubrics
* Security for online testing
* Standard deviation
* State standards vs. ISTE standards
* Student-led conferences
* Types of survey questions
* Usability testing