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Elsie N. Solis; Nirmla G. Flores – CATESOL Journal, 2023
The purpose of this study is to empower preservice teachers (PSTs) to leverage relevant technology-based practices and be equipped with various tools and strategies appropriate for English Language Learners (ELLs) in PreK-12 grade settings. Now, more than ever, teacher candidates need to be prepared to understand the challenges faced by ELLs and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Blended Learning, Distance Education
Harris, Camille A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
There has been much discussion over which environment most effectively provides optimum support and motivates student learning. It was discovered through the review of research literature that traditional face-to-face, a combination of face-to-face and online (blended), and solely online learning each provides a learning environment that appeals…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Motivation, Active Learning, Student Projects
Edwards, Virginia B., Ed. – Education Week, 2016
The 2016 edition of "Education Week's" long-­running "Technology Counts" report combines in-depth reporting and insight from an original national survey to reveal teachers' confidence levels in ed tech, how teachers approach integrating technology into the classroom, and decision-making behind tech products. Contents include:…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Teacher Surveys
Freeland, Julia; Hernandez, Alex – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2014
What software tools do school systems actually want? Demand-side analyses typically reflect the loudest voices in the market that companies are eager to please--in the case of education technology, the largest urban districts with the largest technology budgets. But half of the nation's 48 million public school students attend approximately 3,700…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Public Schools
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Fernandes, Kathy; Christie, Brett; Bayard, Jean-Pierre; Kennedy, Leslie – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
In 2013, with a 30% state budget cut after the Great Recession, many of the 450,000 California State University (CSU) students across the 23-campus system were unable to enroll in courses they needed to move closer to graduation; there was a lack of available course sections. In addition to a reduced number of seats available for students, 30% to…
Descriptors: State Universities, Educational Innovation, College Faculty, Instructional Design
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Headden, Susan – Education Next, 2013
The Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High School, a charter school on L.A.'s east side, uses a hybrid model that combines online and traditional instruction and offers students three different ways to learn. In the months since it adopted the rotational model, known as Blended Learning for Alliance School Transformation, or BLAST, Tennenbaum…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Blended Learning, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education
Schorr, Jonathan; McGriff, Deborah – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
"Hybrid schools" are schools that combine "face-to-face" education in a specific place with online instruction. In this article, the authors describe school models which offer a vision for what deeply integrated technology can mean for children's education, for the way schools are structured, and for the promise of greater…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Blended Learning, Conventional Instruction
Barrett, Sharon Kebschull; Ableidinger, Joe – Public Impact, 2013
When Rocketship Education, a pioneering, rapidly expanding charter school network, looked at its results, it could have rested on its laurels. With seven schools in California together ranking as the top public school system for low-income elementary students, Rocketship had proof that its blended-learning model--combining online learning with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Charter Schools, Educational Innovation, Blended Learning
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Reynolds, Rebecca; Chiu, Ming Ming – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
This paper explored informal (after-school) and formal (elective course in-school) learning contexts as contributors to middle-school student attitudinal changes in a guided discovery-based and blended e-learning program in which students designed web games and used social media and information resources for a full school year. Formality of the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, After School Programs, Attitude Change, Discovery Learning
Maddox, Pamela Rena – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Every educator's quest is to help students learn in the environment that will allow them to obtain and retain the information presented to them. In the new age of technology, more students are able to choose the environment in which they learn. This study is a quantitative comparative study of the academic performance between online and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, English Instruction, Language Arts
Nellie Mae Education Foundation, 2015
While many of the concepts and approaches that comprise student-centered learning have deep roots in learning theory, the cognitive sciences, and youth and child development, empirical research on student-centered learning's impact in K-12 classrooms remains limited. This report offers highlights from three studies commissioned by Nellie Mae,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Vance, Lash Keith – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2012
The critical literature abounds with examples of possible educational uses of Web 2.0 technology in which students become active participants in the production of knowledge through blogging, social networking, creation of podcasts, and other forms of constructivist education. At the same time, teachers, whom the data indicate are somewhat…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Freshmen, College Instruction, Online Surveys
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers of the 13th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2016), October 28-30, 2016, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by the University of Mannheim, Germany, and endorsed by the…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Technological Advancement
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Chung, Gregory K. W. K.; Shel, Tammy; Kaiser, William J. – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2006
We examined a novel formative assessment and instructional approach with 89 students in three electrical engineering classes in special computer-based discussion sections. The technique involved students individually solving circuit problems online, with their real-time responses observed by the instructor. While exploratory, survey and…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Formative Evaluation, Engineering, Engineering Education