Web-Teaching: A Guide to Designing Interactive Teaching for the World Wide Web (Innovations in Science Education and Technology)

This book delves into a review of current research, active learning strategies, Web courseware, metacognition, strategies for Web discussions, promoting student self-regulation, building interactive Web pages, basic HTML coding, managing Web sites, using databases, automated testing, and security and legal issues. It helps readers pick and choose what aspects of the Web to employ to achieve the greatest student learning gains. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Research on Teaching; Web Issues. 3. Software for Managing Web-Courses. 4. Students and Web Use: Expectations. 5. Encouraging Discussion. 6. Web Multimedia Basics. 7. Interactive Strategies. 8. Multimedia Beyond Text. 9. Promotion of Self-Regulated Learning. 10. Creating and Managing Web Sites. 11. Course Supplements. 12. College and K-12 Courses. 13. Informal Education: Museums, Organizations. 14. Using Databases. 15. Automated Testing. 16. Advanced Interactivity. 17. Weblets, CD-ROMs, Intranets. 18. Security Issues. 19. Equity and Legal Issues. 20. Multimedia Classroom Lecturing. Glossary. URLs. Index.