Stepping into a modern day classroom, one will find that it is filled with a ubiquitous array of multimodal and digital resources, yet a majority of these revolutionary resources are likely not school issued, rather they were brought by the young people themselves. Digital mediums for communication, expression and multimodally engaging in one's…

Tony Bates is a world-known expert on distance education. He has published extensively on both traditional and contemporary distance learning practices. Besides teaching courses and delivering seminars in the area of distance education, he has also provided consultancy with a number of institutions around the world. These include both formal and…

A larger scale context for power teaching includes ideas from Duane Elgin, Lester Brown, Al Gore and many others. Collectively, they say the convergence of systems level global problems without national borders place before humankind a choice the species has never encountered in 195,000 years of life on "Spaceship Earth." In Elgin's…

At Adam Scott Collegiate and Vocational Institute (CVI) in Peterborough, Canada, the Learning Commons is the school's central place for introducing new technology to students and teachers. This includes collaborative projects with teachers to develop curriculum that uses new technologies. Over the last few years podcasting as well as other online…

Analyzes courses offered in various educational technology programs in terms of the focus of each on one of five organizational elements, and recommends an expansion of current curricula to include not only input, process, and product-oriented learning experiences, but also to include outcome related experiences. (MER)

Curriculum change in technology education can be facilitated if affective aspects of teacher concerns are considered. Informational, personal, and management concerns should be addressed for curriculum transition to be successful. (SK)

Focuses on the relationship between mathematics and mathematics education on the one hand, and human behavior, societal models, and power on the other. Suggests a new concept of curriculum organized in three strands: (1) literacy; (2) matheracy; and (3) technoracy. This new concept sees education and scholarship as pursuing a major, comprehensive…

Argues for more emphasis on the fabric which holds curriculum detail together and describes those conceptual tools which may help in redirecting thinking toward holistic approaches to instruction and teaching. Linkages between educational technology and learning theory help guide this quest. (Author/RAO)

Among curriculum theories such as social efficiency, social meliorism, and human development, social efficiency has predominated in technology education. Diversity, the global economy, and other trends signal a need to reconsider the theoretical bases of technology education curriculum. (SK)

Joyce VanTassel-Baska is the Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education and the Jody and Layton Smith Professor of Education at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. For the past 20 years, the Integrated Curriculum Model, based on research of what works with gifted learners, has been the foundation of curriculum…

It is argued that adult education and educational technology have the potential to catalyze the revitalization of general education, in which the curriculum is focused on the goals of developing the student's ability to solve problems, to make decisions, and to establish values. In support of this claim, it is noted that adult educators have…

It is noted, firstly, that instructional technology has had difficulty in finding its place in higher education, and secondly, that higher education is currently undergoing a transformation as it adapts to new social needs. This transformation is described as revealing itself in a resurgence of curriculum reform with emphasis on general education…

Indicates that business educators should take a leadership role in designing, implementing, and evaluating all aspects of information processing at all levels of business education. (JOW)

The strengths and weaknesses of the fields of curriculum development and instructional development are discussed in a father-and-son letter exchange. (MLF)

Describes the educational technologist's work in Open University course production in terms of the work's context and the potential roles and tasks that may be assumed, and concludes that the educational technologist must continually construct and reconstruct his/her own role according to a number of sets of criteria. (Author/CMV)