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Download full textvan Dusen, Gerald C. – 2000
Public discourse on the pedagogical uses of information technology runs the gamut from utopian to apocalyptic. Two ideologies in particular have received much attention. The first, restructuralism, calls for radically restructuring postsecondary institutions from the ground up to respond effectively to social, demographic, and economic changes in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Costs, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Ely, Donald P. – 1993
This digest provides background information and sources that help in understanding the concept of educational technology. Specific answers are provided to the following 12 questions: (1) What is educational technology? (2) What are the roots of educational technology? (3) What is a good source of research findings? (4) What do educational…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Educational Technology, Higher Education, Information Sources
Ely, Donald P. – 1995
This digest provides background information and sources that help in understanding the concept of educational technology. Specific answers are provided to the following 12 questions: (1) What is educational technology? (2) What are the roots of educational technology? (3) What is a good source of research findings? (4) What do educational…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Educational Technology, Employment Opportunities, Higher Education
Morgan, Nancy A. – 1994
The Internet is a vast computer network that consists of smaller interconnected computer networks. As K-12 schools connect to the Internet, a new means of communication opens up to educators and students. This digest describes some sample services and resources available to the K-12 community via electronic mail. Information sources covered in…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Mail, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination
Schroeder, Eileen E. – 1991
Noting that the merging of various types of media with the computer has presented the field of education with a hybrid technology called interactive multimedia (also referred to as hypermedia), this digest begins by defining this technology as "the integration of text, audio, graphics, still image, and moving pictures into a single,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer System Design, Educational Technology, Futures (of Society)
Ely, Donald P. – 1997
This digest provides background information and sources that help in understanding the concept of educational technology. Specific answers are provided to the following 12 questions: (1) What is educational technology? (2) What are the roots of educational technology? (3) What is a good source of research findings? (4) What do educational…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Resources, Educational Technology, Employment Opportunities
Kerka, Sandra – 1989
The rapidly developing communications technologies (CT) have the potential to deliver education to more learners in more satisfactory ways. CT may overcome barriers to student participation in adult education, enable career educators to provide a higher level of career guidance to greater numbers, and facilitate currency in vocational preparation.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiovisual Communications, Career Education, Career Guidance
Driscoll, Marcy P. – 2002
This digest contains four sections that discuss the following broad principles that offer a framework to teachers for thinking about how technology can support their instruction: (1) learning occurs in context, including ways that technology can facilitate learning by providing real world contexts that engage learners in solving complex problems,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning
Romiszowski, Alexander – 1993
The print-based model of distance education through correspondence continues to be used, but is being supplemented and, in some cases, replaced, by other media. A second generation of distance education in the 1960s and 1970s was characterized by reliance on open broadcasting, supported by correspondence instruction and print materials. A third…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Distance Education
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2001
Distance education (DE) is increasingly seen as a powerful vehicle for delivering various types of education, including career and technical education (CTE). Fast-paced, pervasive changes in the economic, social, and technological foundations of education and educational delivery, including the increasing use of information and communications…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Communications, Community Colleges
