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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Beasley, Robert E.; Chuang, Yuangshan – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2006
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of American music, lyrics, vocabulary definitions, and song explanations during online music study on listening comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and lifestyle literacy in Taiwanese ESL learners. One-hundred-eight ESL learners from 2 large comprehensive universities in Taiwan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investigations, Definitions, Vocabulary Development
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Beasley, Robert E. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1999
Describes a model for developing interactive multimedia instructional applications called the instructional system development life cycle (ISDLC). Focuses on the pre-design analyses, including task/concept analysis, audience analysis, objectives analysis, constraints analysis, and cost/benefits analysis, that will ensure a pedagogically effective…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Content Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Objectives
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Beasley, Robert E. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1997
The choice of multimedia authoring systems influences the development and cost of multimedia projects. Provides a method of selecting authoring systems and organizes selection criteria into two classes for analysis: functional (authoring metaphor, interactivity, scripting language, testing paradigm, object orientation, multimedia component…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation