Many academic institutions are moving toward data base management and information retrieval system software to process regularly scheduled reports of information from large, multifaceted, student and faculty data bases. While customized reporting is typically available, oftentimes, personnel that produce reports operate in an overload status and…

This paper describes the Environmental Challenges Project which will culminate in the production of a CD-ROM for use in environmental education in secondary schools. Disk contents include case studies of environmental problems and programs to facilitate learners' discussion of the issues raised. The constructivist pedagogy that informs the project…

Technology tools are critical to the restructuring of teaching and learning. This report describes the level of access and degree of use of technology in New York State public schools, and is based on the most current information available. It provides a point of reference for New York relative to the information presented in the Office of…

Since 1991, Arizona Western College has provided interactive television (ITV) college courses to other sites within and outside of Yuma County (Arizona). This method of course delivery reaches students at distant sites not large enough to support a class and also allows teachers at several sites to offer courses to a larger student pool. It makes…

The Web-based Catalyst Initiative was created at the University of Washington (UW) to support innovation in teaching through technology. The approach utilizes participatory design techniques in the development of next generation technologies in order to scale beyond early to second wave adopters. Catalyst is the product of a support strategy that…

Learning and information management in technology rich environments is a nonlinear process that teachers cannot pretend to control. The University of Central Florida's (UCF) teaching and information management strategies build on metaphors and models borrowed from Dynamical Systems and Complexity Theories to help teachers and others understand…

Evaluating the effects of technology use provokes the same evaluation challenges as does any other program intervention. The issues addressed in this paper are based on experience in evaluating the achievement effects of specific technology implementations. Five previous studies of technology use and student achievement are identified in a table,…

The TACCOL project (Technology Advancing A Continuous Community of Learners) at Clarion University of Pennsylvania involves a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education and Human Services. The purpose of TACCOL is to infuse technology into teacher preparation by integrating technology with an…

This paper reviews pedagogical principles surrounding learning styles that have continued to attract educators, particularly those in English as a Second Language (ESL) to Integrative Learning Systems (ILS) as a learning medium. The paper first examines the rationale for using technology in education. It briefly defines Computer-Assisted Language…

This paper describes an online course on curriculum development and implementation in early childhood education offered to preservice teachers at Philadelphia's Temple University. The paper describes designing the curriculum of the online course, hardware and software requirements, development of an online teaching strategy, implementation, and…

The different approaches for solving problems and learning mathematics with technology are invaluable. This paper describes how to determine the variables of the ordinary annuity equation with a spreadsheet. Examples of future value of annuity, sinking fund annuity, the number of periods necessary for periodic payments plus interest to accumulate…

When developing curriculum materials for new contexts, designers feed forward work from similar projects. This customization process must attend to various influences to determine how features from previous efforts will be emphasized and combined. This paper discusses resources and ideas that influenced the design of the RiverWeb Water Quality…

This article describes Web-based portfolio systems, examining what is known about implementing Web-based student portfolios. The first two sections address the culture and ideologies needed for successful implementation, discussing faculty role in the portfolio process and broadening the definition from a portfolio of student artifacts to a…

In 1996, the Virtual University (VU) started as an online learning project at the University of Hagen (Germany) with a few courses and a small number of users. Today the VU has grown into a large learning platform with a student community of more than 10,000 and more than 200 learning events online. This paper describes some of the experiences…

This paper describes the concept and implementation of a collaborative learning platform for school education over the Internet. The authors called this platform the "eTrip System," because they applied it to a school field study. Using information technologies, it supports the whole learning flow for a field trip: pre-trip learning;…