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It is well known from all the research done by cognitive scientists and by leaders in the constructivist movement that students learn best by actively engaging in the learning process. Our own observations in classrooms, labs, clinical settings, and the workplace tell us the same thing.

The Web: Design for Active Learning. This is an excellent site from the University of Alberta that provides a wealth of material including cognitive strategies for web design, teaching architectures for web design, and six conceptual designs for educational web sites, including links to good examples of each.
http://webxtc.extension.ualberta.ca/resources/resource_detail.cfm?
Resource_Name=The%20Web:%20Design%20for%20Active%20
Learning&File_Type_ID=5&sectionid=2&subsectionid=1

How People Make Sense of an Online Learning Environment.
Good pointers from the University of Central Queensland.
http://learning.cqu.edu.au/lt_resources/write_web.htm

Online vrs Paper Reading: What's the Difference? Many thanks to Gail Allan, Learning and Teaching Services, for this article in the January 31, 2005, edition of our Learning and Teaching Newsletter.
http://elearning/lts_newsletter/features/feature_jan05.htm

How Users Read on the Web. Good, practical points about writing for the web from Jakob Nielson, an industry authority. Thanks to Louisa Lambregts, LTS, for this link.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html

Design Tip: Writing for the Web by Larisa Thomason, Senior Web Analyst, NetMechanic, Inc., shows how to make simplicity rule in your educational web site. Thanks again to Louisa Lambregts, LTS, for this link.
http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol4/design_no10.htm

More Design Tips can be found in the Applying Technology to Teaching section of this web site.

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