Using Hypermedia and Multimedia to Promote Project-Based Learning of At-Risk High School Students

The Virtual Education Academy: A Novel Approach to Engaging At-Risk Students

“…Successful alternative educational programs have indicated that students benefit from atypical instructional delivery systems, interpersonal support and relationship building, goal-setting, alternative assessment, relevancy, and control over their own learning (Carr and Jitendra 2000;Everett, Chadwell, and McChesney 2002;Rich 2005;Sheridan 2000;Martinson 2003;Legum and Hoare 2004).…”

Facilitating Creative Media Production through the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: A Case Study with Vulnerable Young People

“…Many vulnerable young people appeared to have a low self-image, so they had very little belief in their skills and not much courage to try to create something fine. However, after they received some positive feedback and were pleased with their own work, there appeared a significant increase in their motivation to engage with media tasks and to publish their media content (Broderick 2014;Carr and Jitendra 2000). Consequently, it was discovered that the vulnerable youth should be challenged to excel themselves in creative work.…”

“…The advancement of self-knowledge and consequently, ability to lean on their strengths, increased their chances to excel themselves and thus to gain self-confidence. (Black, Walsch, and Taylor 2011;Carr and Jitendra 2000. ) In the strengthening of self-confidence, all positive feedback on their competence and identity, such as verbal comments from peers, were important as well.…”

Project-Based Learning in Online Postgraduate Education

“…Learning through hypermedia or multimedia and using authentic tasks requires learners to see the "relevance of the knowledge and skill to their lives, and the leverage it provides in problems they see as important" (Cunningham, 1991 cited by Carr & Jitendra, 2000).…”

“…A study that was conducted by (Carr & Jitendra, 2000) has shown that the most obvious outcomes of PBL were that each student demonstrated expertise on a specific topic. This supplemented students' development of a sense of accomplishment and pride, along with increases in self-growth (e.g., confidence, self-esteem, and responsibility), learning engagement increased, and students acquired empathy for others.…”