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Dusenberry, Lisa; Hutter, Liz; Robinson, Joy – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2015
This article establishes traits of adaptable communicators in the 21st century, explains why adaptability should be a goal of technical communication educators, and shows how multimodal pedagogy supports adaptability. Three examples of scalable, multimodal assignments (infographics, research interviews, and software demonstrations) that evidence…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Technical Writing, Learning Modalities, Teaching Methods
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Cerratto-Pargman, Teresa; Jarvela, Sanna M.; Milrad, Marcelo – Internet and Higher Education, 2012
The latest developments of information and communication technologies (ICT) and its large penetration in different sectors of our society pose new challenges and demands in the field of education. This special issue entitled "Designing Nordic technology-enhanced learning (TEL)", presents and discusses how researchers in the Nordic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Literacy, Technology Uses in Education, Learning Modalities
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Westby, Carol – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
The technological and social/cultural demands of the 21st century are reshaping communication requirements. Students not only need to be able to communicate effectively in oral and written language, but they also need to communicate effectively in multimodal ways--they need to become skilled in multiliteracies. This article explains the two…
Descriptors: Written Language, Oral Language, Language Impairments, Communication Skills
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Miller, Suzanne M. – English Education, 2007
Suzanne Miller examines the meaning of shifting notions of literacy for English education, drawing on her work in a long-term digital video composing project and in an ELA teacher education class to look at teachers' engagements with this newly accessible multimodal literacy practice. She argues that English teachers need support for new kinds of…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Educational Change, Information Technology, Learning Modalities
Sarsar, Nasreddine – Online Submission, 2008
The technological advance that has dominated various aspects of our daily life has led to the emergence of new literacies. This created a need for reconceptualizing the old notion of literacy which was restricted to the ability of reading and writing. It has been stated forward by many scholars that we now require a richer and more diversified…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Information Technology, Learning Modalities
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2011
Gifted students have unique educational needs. Although gifted students are as varied as other students in terms of their learning styles and preferences, all gifted learners have exhibited unusual performance or potential and they have distinctive characteristics, shared by most of these students, which require effective responses from educators.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Talent, Academically Gifted, Information Technology
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Oblinger, Diana – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005
A number of factors are prompting higher education's interest in learning spaces: the need to renovate existing space or accommodate additional students, pedagogical advances, a better understanding of learners, and, in some cases, curricular reform. Moving from classrooms to learning spaces involves a conceptual shift as well as a commitment to…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Learning Modalities, Information Technology, Higher Education
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Narasimhan, V. Lakshmi; Zhao, Shuxin; Liang, Hailong; Zhang, Shuangyi – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2006
This paper presents an interactive educational environment for use over both "in situ" and distance-based modalities of teaching. Several technological issues relating to the design and development of the distributed virtual learning environment have also been raised. The PROVIDE framework proposed in this paper is a seamless distributed…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Online Systems