My Research Agenda

The following are of interest to me, though I currently may not be conducting research in these areas. Still, I try to compile as many resources as possible.
Other Interests
Table of Contents

Screen Design
A critical factor in the success an individual's interactions with technology, whether the technology is a computer screen or a toaster, is the design of its interface. My interest is in the screen interface design of web-based instruction.

Screen Design Principles

Gillespie, J. (1998). Web design for designers. [Online]. Available: http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdtame.htm#webruler

Lynch, P. & Horton, S. (1997). Web style manual, 2nd ed. Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media. [Online]. Available: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

Lynch, P. & Horton, S. (1997). Web style manual, 2nd ed. Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media. [Online]. Available: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/pages/safe_area.html

Color in Screen Design

http://www.usask.ca/education/coursework/skaalid/page/scrndsgn/color.htm#4
Bonnie Skaalid's site

Wright, P., Mosser-Wooley, D. & Wooley, B. (2001). Techniques & Tools for Using Color In Computer Interface Design. ACM Crossroads [online]. Available: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-3/color.html

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/
University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interface Lab - Cool examples of cutting-edge designs

http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/
Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~amulet/papers/uihistory.tr.html
Myers, B.A. (1998). A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology. ACM interactions, 5(2), pp. 44-54.

Web-based Instruction
The web offers many practical advantages to learners and designers as well as several challenges. Instructional strategies attempt to leverage those advantages while minimizing the disadvantages in an effort to facilitate learning on the web.

e-Learning Overview
Wall Street Journal: The Hope ... and the Reality

e-Learning Value Chains

http://nowhereroad.com/gallery/index.html
Lloyd Rieber's site

http://www.elearningmag.com/issues/jan01/justintime.htm
eLearning Magazine: Just in case to just in time

http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905356515&rel=true
IDC research: Corporate elearning market to skyrocket

http://ide.ed.psu.edu/insys581/backlash.htm
Our Biggest Challenge: Proving the Power of Technologies in Educational Settings by Dr. Kyle L. Peck

http://www.oneanthem.com/
Provides links for return on investment and project management

http://store.yahoo.com/brandon-hall/whitpaponcha.html
Interesting article from Brandon Hall's site called: Change Management and e-Learning

http://www.destinationcrm.com/km/dcrm_km_article.asp?id=641&ed=1%2F1%2F01
Knowledge Management Magazine: Survey Tracks Trends in E-Learning

http://www.cio.com/archive/011501/grade.html
CIO Magazine: eLearning: Does it make the grade?

Instructional Design for WBI

http://www.trainingsupersite.com/publications/archive/training/2000/004/004cv.htm
Attack on ISD, Zemke & Gordon

http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwitr/docs/interact/index.html
Interactivity: A forgotten art? - Article by Rod Sims

http://www.idc.com/
IDC claims to be the world's leading provider of technology intelligence, industry analysis, market data, and strategic and tactical guidance to builders, providers and users of information technology.

Artificial Intelligence

http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/ai_top.html
Resource site for people interested in artificial intelligence

Tutorials

http://projects.allencomm.com/fcovey/final/start.html
Sample web-based tutorial for Franklin Covey developed by Allen Communication - temporary link

Simulations

http://www.macromedia.com/solutions/executive/learning/examples/cases/
Macromedia Site

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/intro.html
Dissecting the Frog

Goal Based Scenarios

http://www.ils.nwu.edu/~e_for_e/
Roger Schank's online book re: Goal Based Scenarios (see samples)

http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/ctrs/ltc/Research/jasper_theory.html
Explanation of Jasper Goal Based Scenarios (see samples)

http://www.cognitivearts.com/html/case.htm
Cognitive Arts case studies - this company was founded by Roger Schank and utilizes his goal-based principles.

Cognitive Flexibility Hypertext

http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/spiro.html
Cognitive Flexibility Theory by R. Spiro, P. Feltovitch & R. Coulson

http://phoenix.sce.fct.unl.pt/simposio/Rand_Spiro.htm
Cognitive Flexibility, Constructivism, and Hypertext: Random Access Instruction for Advanced Knowledge Acquisition in Ill-Structured Domains by Rand J. Spiro & Paul J. Feltovich.

http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/articles/ConceptMaps/
Concept Maps as Hypermedia Components by Brian R. Gaines and Mildred L. G. Shaw

http://www.ems.psu.edu/Wolf/AIFF/WolfTop.html
Example: Reintroduction of the wolf

http://www.higherweb.com/projects/cfh/
Example: Sexual harassment course developed by Doug Harvey D.Ed. - example of Cognitive Flexibility Hypertext (To login, simply enter your name)

http://www.lampstras.k12.pa.us/hschool/media_center/socialstudies/law/Sniffer/PAS/home.html
Social studies course assignment - example of Cognitive Flexibility Hypertext

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/~elmurphy/emurphy/hyper.html
Resource site for CFH

Reusable Learning Objects

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/10/wwtraining/elearning/
Cisco RLO Report

http://reusability.org/read/
Online version of The Instructional Use of Learning Objects, a new book by Dave Wiley that tries to go beyond the technological hype and connect learning objects to instruction and learning.

http://www.syllabus.com/fall2001/proceedings2.asp?proceeding_code=96
Contains links to learning object samples developed in Macromedia Flash

http://www.coe.usu.edu/it/id2/ddctoc.htm
M. David Merrill on Instructional Design. Link to most, if not all, of Merrill's works.

http://www.informationweek.com/827/xml.htm
Article by Martin Marshall - Case for XML to replace HTML

Knowledge Management

None available at this time

Performance Improvement

None available at this time