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Download full textValle, Rodrigo del; Duffy, Thomas M. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
Interest in online education has grown rapidly over the past and will continue to grow. An increasing number of universities are offering online learning (OL) opportunities. Teacher professional development is part of this trend as well. Numerous recent studies of online teacher professional development environments have been published. Most…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Web Based Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Online Courses
Matross, Ronald P. – 1993
In response to conflicting centralization and decentralization pressures, the University of Minnesota institutional research office responded with a "virtual enterprising"--a group of organizationally distinct units acting as if they were a single unit. The four elements in this organizational approach were: (1) "soft control"…
Descriptors: Centralization, College Outcomes Assessment, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation
Peer reviewedHallows, Karen; Becker, William – International Journal of Social Education, 1994
Presents a summary of research findings related to factors involved in effective economics instruction and student achievement. Finds that student academic ability and teachers training in economics are the two most important variables of students' economic knowledge. (CFR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Design, Economics
Peer reviewedBlaye, Agnes; And Others – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1992
Reviews research on interactive computer learning. Examines the extent to which learner-computer interaction and learner-learner interaction can interfere with or support one another. Finds that viewing collaborative learning as joint negotiation of a common problem helps to define optimal characteristics of educational software. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
Peer reviewedGriffin, Peg; And Others – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1992
Reports on a study of 12 U.S. and Russian elementary students working with a mathematics computer software program. Finds that students working together learned the program's concepts faster. Discusses implications of the findings and the significance of sociohistorical frameworks on cognitive processes. (CFR)
Descriptors: Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Computer Software
Direct linkBorman, Kathryn M., Ed.; Cahill, Spencer E., Ed.; Cotner, Bridget A., Ed. – Praeger, 2007
Written by an interdisciplinary group of experts in education, psychology, sociology, and other fields, this landmark handbook provides a thorough examination of U.S. secondary education from the private academies of Colonial America to the comprehensive high schools and alternative schools of today. This accessible compendium is a treasure trove…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Civil Rights, Educational History, Private Education
Borman, Kathryn M., Ed.; Cahill, Spencer E., Ed.; Cotner, Bridget A., Ed. – Praeger, 2007
Written by an interdisciplinary group of experts in education, psychology, sociology, and other fields, this landmark handbook provides a thorough examination of U.S. secondary education from the private academies of Colonial America to the comprehensive high schools and alternative schools of today. This accessible compendium is a treasure trove…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Teacher Certification, Student Rights, Teacher Shortage
