There is very little, if any, individualized attention, especially for those few students who may exhibit tendencies of grasping concepts on a different pace than other learners. The WISE-IV provides a compromise between the two approaches. The WISE-IV supports several different teaching methods. Due to the fact that the course material is presented through pre-recorded video, the instructor may use any teaching methodology deemed necessary because it will be captured on video. The CD-ROM provides a medium for video storage and playback that does not suffer from poor performance due to bandwidth limitations.
Learners can remain off-line until a question arises.
Individual instructors may choose to use images and other forms of multimedia from the web in testing, but it is not necessary. This allows the learner to always find navigation within the side menu bar. The major mapping feature of the WISE-IV, occurs between the virtual instruction, created with the video and headphones, and live instruction in a real classroom. The video along with the headphones create a virtual classroom environment that maps onto a real classroom environment. The affordances will be further explained in a later paper, once the interface has been fully implemented.