Knowledge Mapping

Authors Fisher, Wandersee and Wideman offer an insightful study on variations of knowledge mapping (relating to learning) titled; "Enhancing cognitive skills for meaningful understanding of domain specific knowledge."

IEEE Learning Technology Studies

IEEE publishes several learning studies in 2007 relating to eLearning and multimedia applications in the educational environment.

An Interactive Course on Instructional Methods for Future Faculty

This paper discusses how and why training graduate students for future careers as instructors of undergraduate level courses is an important and often neglected aspect of graduate school.

The New Literacies: Research on Reading Instruction with the Internet and Other Digital Technologies

This paper explores the nature of new literacies that build upon traditional reading and writing experiences and explains why these new literacies are central to our children's future. It suggests we must begin to include the literacies associated with the Internet in a broader definition of what it means to become literate.

Results Using Animated Speaking Characters (Avatars) from Testing.

Engaging Site Visitors, in an early 2005 report, displays test results using Animated Speaking Characters (Avatars)conducted by Web Marketing Today, March 9, 2005. While this data is somewhat outdated, it does show an early response to the use of animated characters that can be applied to eLearning courseware today.

Virtual Babyz: Believable Agents with Narrative Intelligence

This paper, by Andrew Stern, describes the interactive narrative experiences in Babyz, an interactive entertainment product for the PC currently in development at PF Magic / Mindscape in San Francisco. As you may conclude from reading this paper, when implementing Babyz it was found to expedient borrowing techniques from many different disciplines, including artificial intelligence, artificial life, videogames, improvisational acting, and traditional cartoon animation.