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Creating an Instrument for Evaluating Critical Thinking Apps for College Students
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Chen, Teresa; Hsu, Hui-Mei; Stamm, Sheila Wright; Yeh, Ronnie – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
The purpose of this study was to identify salient features for a critical thinking app and create an instrument to facilitate the app evaluation and selection process. Two questions guided the study: (1) What distinguishes critical thinking instructional apps from others? and (2) What design principles are essential to develop a critical thinking…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Critical Thinking
Numbers, Pictures, and Politics: Teaching Research Methods through Data Visualizations
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Rom, Mark Carl – Journal of Political Science Education, 2015
Data visualization is the term used to describe the methods and technologies used to allow the exploration and communication of quantitative information graphically. Data visualization is a rapidly growing and evolving discipline, and visualizations are widely used to cover politics. Yet, while popular and scholarly publications widely use…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Research Methodology, Statistical Data, Visualization
Integrating Mobile Robotics and Vision with Undergraduate Computer Science
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Cielniak, G.; Bellotto, N.; Duckett, T. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2013
This paper describes the integration of robotics education into an undergraduate Computer Science curriculum. The proposed approach delivers mobile robotics as well as covering the closely related field of Computer Vision and is directly linked to the research conducted at the authors' institution. The paper describes the most relevant details of…
Descriptors: Robotics, Computer Science Education, College Curriculum, Integrated Curriculum
Electronic Portfolios Tell a Personal Story.
Tuttle, Harry Grover – MultiMedia Schools, 1997
Describes electronic portfolios and explains their use to relate student work to educational standards, demonstrate wider dimensions of learning, and interconnections with hyperlinks. Other topics include selecting an electronic portfolio program, including lists of vendors; components of electronic portfolios; portfolio management; and hardware…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Computer Selection, Computer Software Selection, Electronic Text
Desktop Videoconferencing: The Promise and Problems of Delivery of Web-based Training.
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Unruh, Don L. – Internet and Higher Education, 2000
Investigates the current state of desktop videoconferencing by exploring the criteria for effective Web-based delivery and communication requirements for effective videoconferencing. Highlights include providing effective training, including team training, group problem solving, and learner performance assessments; communication infrastructure;…
Descriptors: Computer Selection, Computer Software Selection, Evaluation Criteria, Futures (of Society)
Quick Starts.
Wayman, Martine; And Others – Instructor, 1995
Five short articles and sidebars present elementary classroom tips, a Westward Movement simulation, technology in the classroom, parental involvement, student assessment, celebrating National Book Week, celebrating Geography Awareness Week, writing contests, antiviolence programs, map making, selecting software, monthly celebrations, a mathematics…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Selection