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Education Week, 2013
This special report is the latest installment in an ongoing series about how online education is changing teaching and learning and the development of curricula. It was produced with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This paper contains the following articles: (1) Changing the Role of K-12…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Butler, Des – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
A traditional approach centred on weekly lectures, perhaps supported by tutorials, still predominates in modern legal education in Australia. This approach tends to focus on the transmission of knowledge about legal rules and doctrine to students, who adopt a largely passive role. Criticisms of the traditional approach have led to law schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multimedia Materials, Legal Education (Professions), Law Schools

Auld, Lawrence W. S.; Pantelidis, Veronica S. – TechTrends, 1994
Describes the Virtual Reality and Education Lab (VREL) established at East Carolina University to study the implications of virtual reality for elementary and secondary education. Highlights include virtual reality software evaluation; hardware evaluation; computer-based curriculum objectives which could use virtual reality; and keeping current…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Courseware, Curriculum Development

Smith-Gratto, Karen; Blackburn, Marcy A. – Computers in the Schools, 1997
Describes the "ABCD" model for integrating spreadsheets into elementary science instruction, which consists of four steps: analyzing the software and curriculum; brainstorming connections between parts of the software and the content areas; creating connections among the curriculum, the brainstorming information, and noncomputer classroom…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Class Activities, Computer Software Evaluation, Curriculum Development

Etter, Zana C. – Special Libraries, 1995
Changes in medical school curricula and teaching approach have led to an increased use in computer courseware and other technology. The traditional audiovisual library serving medical school students must redefine the role of the information provider to include helping students navigate networks; choosing and evaluating instructional materials;…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Centers, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Selection, Computer Uses in Education
Cianelli, Arlene – 1995
The Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council (GPLC) found an increasing need to provide computer-aided instruction (CAI) as a component of its curriculum, in particular to help staff and volunteers become computer literate. GPLC staff designed and taught two 12-week introductory computer courses for up to 20 (10 each) literacy staff and volunteers.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software Evaluation
Pittsburgh Univ., PA. School of Education. – 1988
A project developed computer software based upon Interstate Distributive Education Curriculum Consortium (IDECC) competency-based materials to produce a new curriculum management system for Pennsylvania secondary marketing education programs. During the project, an advisory committee composed of secondary marketing teachers, business people, and…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation
Ekhaml, Leticia; Brown, Cindy – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1993
Discusses ways to select and evaluate CD-ROM programs. Various evaluation and review sources are described, results of recent evaluations are related, curriculum ideas for using interactive electronic books in elementary school classes are suggested, sources for CD-ROM classroom activities are provided, and an example of a network CD-ROM exercise…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Selection, Curriculum Development

Wills, Sandra; McNaught, Carmel – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1996
Discussion of evaluation of computer-based learning (CBL) looks at six different approaches: use of quantitative data for assessment; student and staff attitudes and perceptions of computer use for learning; formative evaluation for CBL design; effectiveness of CBL in comparison to conventional instruction; evidence of whether CBL enables students…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation

Judson, Phoebe T. – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1991
Described is a weekly computer algebra laboratory course for Calculus I students during the 10-week spring semester, 1990, at Trinity University. Advice on the establishment and management of this type of laboratory including descriptions of student participation trends and student reactions is presented. (JJK)
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculus, College Mathematics, Computer Assisted Instruction
Maher, Elizabeth – 1991
A computer-literacy staff training program was designed to provide adult basic education (ABE) instructors and staff with basic computer skills. A curriculum using both Apple IIe computers and IBM personal computers was developed and software obtained. Eight instructors and nine administrative staff members of local literacy programs completed 10…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Computer Literacy
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1991
This report, the sixth in a series of six, describes the evaluative activities carried out during Phase II of the California Educational Technology Assessment Program, and evaluates the partnership program between the California Department of Education (CDE) and seven software publishers. It is noted that this program was formed in 1986 in order…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation, Courseware
Jenkins, Doug – MultiMedia Schools, 1996
High school physics offers opportunities to use problem solving and lab practices as well as cement skills in research, technical writing, and software applications. Describes and evaluates computer software enhancing the high school physics curriculum including spreadsheets for laboratory data, all-in-one simulators, projectile motion simulators,…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Computer Simulation, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education