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Wilder, Hilary – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2012
In 2006, the author worked on a pre-service education course in instructional media and revised it to include ICTs and technology integration, as part of a national program to infuse ICTs throughout Namibia's educational system. The course was to be implemented in 2008 at all four Colleges of Education in Namibia responsible for the Basic…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Media
Bohan, Chara Haeussler, Ed.; Many, Joyce E., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Clinical Teacher Education focuses on how to build a school-university partnership network for clinical teacher education in urban school systems serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The labor intensive nature of professional development school work has resulted in research institutions being slow to fully adopt a clinical…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Professional Development Schools, Action Research
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Johnson, E. Marcia; Cowie, Bronwen; De Lange, Willem; Falloon, Garry; Hight, Craig; Khoo, Elaine – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
In response to recent social, economic, and pedagogical challenges to tertiary-level teaching and learning, universities are increasingly investigating and adopting e-learning as a way to engage and motivate students. This paper reports on the first year of a two-year (2009-2010) qualitative multiple case study research project in New Zealand.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Adoption (Ideas), Program Implementation
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Lisowski, Linda R.; Lisowski, Joseph A.; Nicolia, Sherry – Computers in the Schools, 2007
In our pilot effort to integrate technology meaningfully into the three strands of pre-service teacher education (core courses, education courses, and K-12 field experiences), Links to the Future, a PT3 project in a small, private college, prioritized the issue of educational equity. This paper describes the first efforts of three faculty members…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses, Equal Education, Pilot Projects
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Desjean-Perrotta, Blanche – Childhood Education, 2006
Teaching, to a large degree, depends on more than just technical skills. The demands of classroom teaching require interpersonal skills and dispositions that are often ignored when determining a preservice teacher's fitness to teach. This article provides an example of how one university addresses the challenge of evaluating students' skills and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses, Program Implementation, Interpersonal Competence
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Thompson, Ann; And Others – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 1995
Describes a three-year teacher education program created by the College of Education at Iowa State University designed to make technology an integral part of the teaching and learning environment. Discusses the program's steps and components, including the use of computer-related technology courses, field experiences, and educational computing…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Education Courses, Educational Environment, Higher Education
Seagren, Al; Watwood, Britt – 1996
Distance education may have a greater impact on the nature of higher education than any innovation since the invention of the printing press. In "virtual classrooms," students and faculty do not have to meet at the same time, collaborative learning is facilitated, and the specialized communication provided by computers can sometimes be…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Design
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Newhouse, C. Paul; Williams, P. John; Pearson, Jennifer – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
Mobile computing devices are increasingly finding a place in universities, putting the pressure on teacher education to consider how best to incorporate the use of these technologies. At the same time there is pressure from the requirement for teacher education students to develop skills and experience in using digital technologies to support…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Winter, Jeffrey S.; Austin, Anna – 1993
The purposes of this paper were to understand the responses of veteran teachers to a series of inservice workshops designed to increase their knowledge of multicultural issues and to draw implications for the preservice training of teachers. A literature review provided a framework for discussing: (1) the background of multicultural education; (2)…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Education Courses, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Bloch, Deborah P.; McGarraghy, John – 1992
Development and implementation of an interdisciplinary elementary and early childhood teacher education program at Baruch College (New York) was characterized by many internal and external tensions and pressures. One of the important factors which had to be considered was the ethnic diversity of both the college's and the city's student…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Education Courses
Bush, Betty – 1994
Six communication instructors redesigned the curriculum of two courses to make integration part of teacher training both in course content and in the way trainees were taught and prepared. Having conducted a literature search, the six teachers developed a language arts interdisciplinary team to plan, pilot, and implement a new integrated approach.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Education Courses, Elementary Education, Higher Education
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Keaster, Ric – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005
Distance education has been one of the hottest and most controversial topics in higher education circles for approximately the past 10 years. It has been viewed at once as the panacea for educating the world and that which, through its inherent depersonalization of the academic process, will destroy higher education "as we know it." This article…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Educational Change, Department Heads, Leadership Effectiveness
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Bof, Alvana Maria – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004
Proformacao is a distance teacher certification course aimed at providing training to 27,000 uncertified teachers in 15 Brazilian states. This innovative program organizes human and technical resources for delivering distance education in a cost-effective manner. Different from other institutional systems--which typically employ their own…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Information Systems, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology