Instructional Technologies: Cognitive Aspects of Online Programs

Paul Darbyshire (Victoria University of Technology, Australia)

Indexed In: SCOPUS

Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase

ISBN13: 9781591405658

EISBN13: 9781591402381

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-565-8

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Instructional Technologies: Cognitive Aspects of Online Programs provides insight into creating and utilizing successful online educational technologies and programs. Discussing the generalities of Web-based education and the specific technology applications and organizational support necessary to sustaining these programs, this important book is useful to scholars and students as they venture into this new educational arena.

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Paul Darbyshire is a Lecturer in the School of Information Systems at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. He lectures in Object-Oriented systems, C, Java programming, Internet Programming, and has research interests in the application of Java and Web technologies to the support of teaching, as well as the application of AI to multi-agent systems. His current research is in the use of Reinforcement Learning and multi-agent systems to simulate land combat as a complex adaptive system.

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