Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education

Educators are increasingly using web sites in place of traditional content media and instructional approaches such as texts and lectures. This new teaching philosophy has led to a myriad of questions concerning instructional design principles learners'' cognitive strategies human-Internet interaction factors and instructional characteristics of Web media that transverse political geographic and national boundaries. Instructional and Cognitive Impacts of Web-Based Education is a compendium of materials by noted researchers and practitioners that addresses national and international issues and implications of Web-based instruction and learning offering suggestions and guidelines for analyzing and evaluating Web sites from cognitive and instructional design perspectives.