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This study aims to evaluate the effect of employing infographics in higher education, specifically with regard to students’ interactions and their perception of the meaning of transferred information. This evaluation was presented through lectures at Applied Sciences Private University in Jordan and two other selected colleges (one scientific and the other humanistic) to compare the two variables applied in this study. To achieve this object infographic materials were developed by researcher and guided by (ASSURE) instructional model to present the lectures to the two experimental groups by infographic method through two selected courses from Information Technology College and Business College. Meanwhile, two control groups were taking the same courses in deferent class by conventional method. In addition, the total of participants was (138 students) and that includes all students of the experimental and control groups. Furthermore, a post-test questionnaire was involved to experimental groups to measure their interaction and perception after presenting lectures by infographic materials. The findings of this study show that infographics have a positive and strong impact on students’ interaction and perception. Furthermore, a comparison shows that the students of the scientific and humanistic colleges had different effect of interaction. However, infographics have a similar effect on perception in both colleges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this research is to examine the behaviours of the high school teachers of Curriculum Laboratory Schools about the systematical usage of instructional technologies. The research was done in the frame of general research model and the data were collected by means of survey. The population of the research consists of 4127 teachers working in 61 schools within the scope of Curriculum Laboratory Schools. The sample consists of 1705 teachers working at 34 high schools determined by random method from 61 high schools. The data collected by the survey were analyzed by descriptive statistics (frequency (f), percentage (%)) and chi-square (X²) technique via SPSS for Windows package program. At the end of the analyzes, it is determined that women, the ones who have a university degree, the ones who had education in educational technologies, the ones who have 10-30 students in their classroom and the ones who have been working in Anatolian High Schools and Anatolian Teacher High Schools benefit from instructional technologies compared to other teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]