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Pence, Harry E. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2013
The Internet has disrupted or threatened to disrupt the traditional business models in many different areas, including publishing, record companies, retail sales, motion pictures, and advertising. One potential source of disruption for higher education is online learning, especially the recent focus on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Can…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Mass Instruction, Large Group Instruction
Laster, Stephen – Campus Technology, 2011
This is the third installment in a four-part series that follows the exploits of Gene, a well-established CIO of a sizable IT organization at a top-100 university. Gene has been working with his team to regain the trust of the campus through Project Rescue, a 30-day turnaround plan focused on demonstrating IT's value. Project Rescue has two…
Descriptors: Governance, Institutional Advancement, Program Administration, Information Technology
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Hicks, Stephanie Diamond – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2011
Technology has changed the way the world functions on a day-to-day basis, but what about education? Education has been directly affected by the increase of technology in the United States. This change has not been well accepted by some members of the educational community, thus leaving the realm of education behind in the technology era. This…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Classroom Techniques, Influence of Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Singletary, Kimberly Alecia – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
This article explores the role of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) in facilitating and encouraging a collaborative community of junior and senior scholars on issues of technology and humanistic learning. As a result of its emphasis on collaboration and discussion, HASTAC encourages a form of collective…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Intelligence, Cooperation
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Noble, Howard; Curtis, Daniel; Tang, Kang – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2009
The government of the United Kingdom has set a target to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 34 percent from 1990 levels by 2020. The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) will require all large public and private sector organizations across the U.K. to cut carbon emissions and report total CO2 emissions annually so that the data can be published in a…
Descriptors: Energy Conservation, Computers, Foreign Countries, Technological Advancement
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Underwood, Jean; Dillon, Gayle – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2011
The teaching profession's response to the inexorable march of new technology into education has been a focus of research for some 30 years. Linked with the impact of ICT on measurable performance outcomes, teacher attitudes to technology and the impact on pedagogic practice have been central to that research, a research that has often seen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Attitudes, Educational Research
Johnson, L.; Levine, A.; Smith, R.; Stone, S. – New Media Consortium, 2010
The annual "Horizon Report" describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project, a qualitative research project established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry on college and university campuses within the next five years. The…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Cooperation, Computers, Program Effectiveness
Austin, Kimberly; Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Puckett, Cassidy; Singleton, Judi – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2010
With the rise in the number of types of digital media and the time youth spend on these platforms, researchers theorize that interacting with digital media can provide significant motivation for youth to participate, create, and become active learners. The Consortium on Chicago School Research, with funding from the John D. and Catherine T.…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Adolescents, Public Libraries, Learning Motivation
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Murphy, Janet; Lebans, Robert – E-Learning, 2009
Providing just-in-time job-embedded professional learning using a technologically mediated model achieves professional growth goals and encourages teachers to build digital literacy competencies and incorporate new technologies in instructional approaches in the classroom. This article highlights the lessons learned from an award-winning…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Models
Academy for Educational Development, 2009
Technology has dramatically changed the world--now almost anyone can "move" at Internet-speed; people who were marginalized are able to find information on acquiring micro-loans to start businesses, and villages previously unconnected to the telecommunications grid now have affordable cell phone access. As technology becomes easier to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Sustainable Development, Health Services
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Enriquez, Judith Guevarra – E-Learning, 2009
"Impact" is possibly the most frequently evaluated construct associated with any kind of technological diffusion or adoption within educational settings. Seemingly endless research projects are funded to measure it and to validate the educational value we have become adept at inscribing into practically all novel technologies brought to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Educational History
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Aczel, J. C.; Hardy, P. – E-Learning, 2007
This article aims to explore the potential of certain future studies techniques to provide insight into the question of the impact of higher education information and communication technology (ICT) strategies on student learning. The approach is to consider three case studies of new universities in different countries, and to identify the main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Influence of Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Somekh, Bridget – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2004
This article suggests that it is time for sociologists to redirect their focus from critiques of policy makers' unrealistic visions for information and communication technologies (ICTs) to the more generic issues that consistently mobilise resistance to ICTs within schools and education systems. There is an extraordinary difference between young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Culture, Resistance to Change, School Organization