ABSTRACT
This chapter begins the practical section of the book. Chapter 1 laid the foundations for an underlying philosophy of what academic education is trying to do. Chapters 2 to 4 used our knowledge of how students learn to establish a principled approach to the selection and design of media-based methods. This formed the basis of a Conversational Framework for the learning process, developed at the beginning of Part II as a basis for analysing the main technology-based educational media. Chapters 5 to 9 used existing examples and studies of each medium to clarify their respective capabilities, and to establish the extent to which each supports the essential activities involved in the learning process.
