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Golda Deborah Lawson-Cohen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive study was to learn how post-secondary instructors/faculty described their belief in, the factors that lead to, and how organizational training and support influenced their encouragement of learner use of an assistive technology known as text-to-speech software as part of their pedagogical practices at…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Computer Oriented Programs, Pronunciation, Postsecondary Education
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McCarron, Elizabeth; Frydenberg, Mark – Information Systems Education Journal, 2023
Students today are often assumed to be digitally literate and prepared for college, but that is not always the case. Introductory technology courses at the college level provide students with the technology and digital skills necessary for them to succeed in college. This study, conducted at a small New England "business school" that…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Technological Literacy, Educational Technology, Business Schools
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Albedaiwi, Sultan Abdulaziz – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
Writing is usually the last skill to be touched upon in language classrooms, and more so, in the EFL or ESL classroom. Even so, postponing or the tendency to avoid the writing task is a common hindrance created by the learners, but is definitely one that retards the learning of the skill. The current study aimed to examine the efficacy of working…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Collaborative Writing, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Tomczyk, Lukasz – Education Sciences, 2021
Digital competence is undoubtedly one of the key skills that teaching staff should possess. Currently, there are many theoretical frameworks and ways to measure skills and knowledge related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). This article is an attempt to show the real and declared level of digital skills among future…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Teacher Competencies, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers
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Johnson, William F.; Stellmack, Mark A.; Barthel, Abigail L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2019
Electronic feedback given via word-processing software (e.g., track changes in Microsoft Word) allows for a simple way to provide feedback to students during the drafting process. Research has mostly focused on student attitudes toward electronic feedback, with little investigation of how feedback format might affect the quality of instructor…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Educational Technology
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Lerma-Noriega, Claudia-A.; Flores-Palacios, María-L.; Rebolledo-Méndez, Genaro – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2020
InContext is a custom-designed mobile application for writing assignments intended for university students in journalism and research methodology courses. In these disciplines, it has been observed that there is a need for an educational and technological tool to guide the writing of text using preloaded templates in which students can input text…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Computer Software, Learning Strategies, Educational Technology
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Krause, Steven D.; Rice, Jeff – College Composition and Communication, 2013
In this Symposium focused on MOOCs, this journal carries forward a tradition of attending to the technologies associated with composing and the teaching of composing. In the May 1983 issue of "College Composition and Communication," for example, most of the articles focus on composing and include a mix of inquiries, from Jack Selzer's on the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Online Courses, Word Processing, Conferences (Gatherings)
Tualla, Larry Tech – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation reports on an action research study that sought to discover how a new WiFi, tablet computing device, the Apple iPad, affected, enhanced, and impacted student engagement in an English Honors course at Scottsdale Community College. The researcher was also the instructor in the two semester, first-year, college composition sequence…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Honors Curriculum, Educational Technology, Action Research
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Chapman, Betty F.; Gaytan, Jorge A. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 2009
Background: Business teacher educators prepare business teachers and workers to be successful in today's constantly changing technological environment. Therefore, business teacher educators must meet the challenge to be prepared technologically to educate their students for the workforce. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Business Education Teachers, Internet, Word Processing
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Brown, Kevin – College Quarterly, 2007
The trend in higher education these days is to speak of students' technological skills as if they are worlds different from those of individuals who actually teach them. Teachers are the dinosaurs who do not understand how to maneuver in this brave new world of technology, while students are the evolved birds who will live on into the future. Part…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Word Processing, Knowledge Level