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Tammi Monty – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Today, seven out of 10 Americans use social media to communicate with one another, follow news stories, learn, and for pleasure. The problem is social media is underutilized by university faculty as a communication and curriculum tool for adult learners. There is a gap in the literature focusing on the university-level use of social media for…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Technology Uses in Education
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Ayubu Ismail Ngao; Guoyuan Sang – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2024
Purpose: Despite the positive impact of professional learning communities (PLCs) in improving teaching practices, many teachers still struggle to effectively integrate information and communication technologies (ICTs) into their teaching and learning. Drawing from human capital theory and spillover effects, this paper examines how teachers PLCs…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Information Technology, Communications, Computer Mediated Communication
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Uzorka, Afam; Ajiji, Yakubu; Osigwe, Menwo Ukechi; Ben, Idoli Nwachukwu – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2021
To integrate technology in teaching and learning, the need arises to investigate the teaching needs of educators making the transition from a traditional to technology mediated environment. This qualitative study selected a convenience sample of 120 faculty and administrators. Using an interview guide, interviewers met with 100 participants. Data…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Needs, Faculty Development
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Tracey, Monica W.; Kacin, Sara E. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2014
The following design case illustrates the approach a group of advanced graduate online-design students, two design coaches, and an instructor used to design an online instructional intervention as a service-learning project for parents interested in improving their parenting skills with their pre-teens. This design case is distinctive in that it…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Graduate Students, Parent Education, Instructional Design
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2018
For the forty-first time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains twenty-seven…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Migrant Education, Adult Education
Association Supporting Computer Users in Education, 2018
The Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) is a group of people interested in small college computing issues. It is a blend of people from all over the country who use computers in their teaching, academic support, and administrative support functions. Begun in 1968 as the College and University Eleven-Thirty Users' Group…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Conferences (Gatherings), College Students, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Chen, Li-Ling – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2012
With the growing needs to address the challenges that new teachers face and the popularity of social networking technology, this study explores how to increase the effectives of teaching through the use of such technology, and how the technology may serve to promote collaboration and open new resources of support in public education. In this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Definitions, Barriers
Thompson, Robin; Kitchie, Laurie; Gagnon, Robert – Corwin, 2011
What if your professional learning community was available 24 hours a day, every day of the year? Would you like to have a place to share lesson plans, student work, a new curriculum, and to provide a discussion forum for all stakeholders? You can, even with only a basic understanding of technology. The authors explain how they created an online…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Core Curriculum, Educational Technology, Communities of Practice
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Sweeny, Sheelah M. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
Writing, for adolescents who live in an age of digital communication, has taken on new importance and plays a prominent role in the way they socialize, share information, and structure communication. New literacies expand the literacy realm by considering the skills needed to function using media other than the printed page. Internet resources can…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Literacy Education, Internet, Writing Instruction
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Gradel, Kathleen; Edson, Alden J. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2011
This article is based on the premise that face-to-face training can be augmented with cloud-based technology tools, to potentially extend viable training supports as higher education staff and faculty implement new content/skills in their jobs and classrooms. There are significant benefits to harnessing cloud-based tools that can facilitate both…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Faculty Development, Staff Development, Workshops
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Juuti, Kalle; Lavonen, Jari; Aksela, Maija; Meisalo, Veijo – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2009
This paper analyses the use of various communication channels in science teachers' professional development project aiming to develop versatile uses for ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in science teaching. A teacher network was created specifically for this project, and the researchers facilitated three forms of communication…
Descriptors: Interaction, Science Teachers, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Sims, Roderick – Distance Education, 2008
In the broad context of adult and higher education, this article argues that to allow the "e" of e-learning to disappear would be to lose the opportunity to grasp the enabling and emergent properties of digital networked technology. Through examining cycles of educational technology, current trends in e-learning research, the practices and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Adult Education, Higher Education, Educational Trends
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Gu, X.; Zhang, B.; Lin, X.; Song, X. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2009
This paper describes and assesses the development of an online solution for the experiential support of distance learning by teachers. Three hundred and forty-eight randomly selected K-12 teachers participated in this pilot study using the online learning environment designed in this research. Teachers' products, surveys, and interviews were…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Distance Education, Online Courses, Experiential Learning
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Koo, Ah-Choo – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
This paper investigates factors affecting the perceived readiness for online collaborative learning (OCL) of a sample of 86 mathematics teachers from 12 secondary schools. Descriptive analysis, factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structure equation modeling were used to analyze the data. A moderately fit model was generated and able…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Case Studies
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Walker, Steve; Creanor, Linda – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
In this paper, we go beyond what have been described as "mechanistic" accounts of e-learning to explore the complexity of relationships between people and technology as encountered in cases of networked learning. We introduce from the social informatics literature the concept of sociotechnical interaction networks which focus on the…
Descriptors: Labor Education, Interaction, Unions, Information Science
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