Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reading: Assessment, Comprehension and Teaching; Contents; Preface; Quality Metrics for Multimedia Reading: Assessment, Comprehension and Teaching; Abstract; Introduction; Quality Attributes; Blended Learning; Traditional Educational and Blended Learning; The Importance of Contents in Educational Multimedia Systems; Education: Social Change and New Technologies; Human and Contextual Factors in University Education; Learning Process and Role of Mass Media Communication; Ipod's: Myths and Reality in Learning Process; Podcasting: The Panacea Problems for Reading and Writing?
  • Quality Heuristic Evaluation in Educational Multimedia SystemsHeuristic Evaluation; Electronic Books: A Heuristic Analysis; Vademecum for the Access to Electronic Text; Techniques of the Heuristic Evaluation for the Access to the Electronic Text: Guidelines and Questionnaire; Questionnaire; Accessibility and Education; Dyadic for Communicability in the Education Process; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Assessing the Importance of Feedback to Teacher and Student Improvement in an Innovative Caribbean Reading Project; Abstract; Purpose; The Carribean CETT Reading Project.
  • Importance of Feedback to Teachers and StudentsThe Focus of the Investigation; The Sample; The Data Collection Instruments; Data Collection Procedures; Data Analysis; Conclusion from the Findings; References; Appendix 1.; Biological Literacy as an Imperative of Present Time; Abstract; Introduction; History of Views on Biosphere-Society Interaction; Biological and Environmental Issues of the Modern Society; Implications of Biological Illiteracy and the Quality of Administrative Decisions; Biological Literacy and Education for Sustanable Development of the Society.
  • Issues of Secondary Biological EducationTeacher Training Issues; Integrative Biology and the Project for Biological Literacy Development; Conclusion; References; Remedying Shortcomings of Lecture-Based Physics Instruction through Pen-Based Wireless Computing and DyKnow Software; Abstract; Introduction; Lecture as a Method
  • A Closer Look into Effectiveness; To Lecture or Not
  • The (Re)Solution; Implementing Effective Teaching Strategies
  • Technology as a Lever?; Efficiency of Pen-Based Technology and Interactive Software in Teaching
  • Does it Work?; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References.
  • Early Literacy Development: The Role of Storytelling, Joint Reading, and Symbolic PlayAbstract; Introduction; Early Literacy; Language Development and Early Literacy in Various Preschool Activities; Family Environment as Support for Early Literacy Development; Conclusion; References; Challenges in Dyslexia Research; Abstract; What is Dyslexia?; Four Different Approaches to Dyslexia; Models of Reading and Writing Development; Methods in Dyslexia Research; Hypothesising Dyslexia?; References; Developmental Dyslexia: A Conceptual and Measurement Quandary; Abstract.