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Toshack, Troy; Colmar, Susan – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2012
A small-scale evaluation of a psycho-educational program on cyberbullying with a group of Year 6 girls was implemented over six sessions, and was subsequently evaluated. Its content included knowledge of cyberbullying and its effects, and management and safety strategies for the participants and their peers. Increases in the girls' detailed…
Descriptors: Females, Safety, Program Effectiveness, Intervention
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Laxman, Kumar – Computers & Education, 2010
Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that is organized around the investigation and resolution of problems. Problems are neither uniform nor similar. Jonassen (1997, 2000) in his design theory of problem solving has categorized problems into two broad types--well-structured and ill-structured. He has also described a host of…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Investigations, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving
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Dieker, Lisa A.; Lane, Holly B.; Allsopp, David H.; O'Brien, Chris; Butler, Tyran Wright; Kyger, Maggie; Lovin, LouAnn; Fenty, Nicole S. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2009
A process was developed to create Web-based video models of effective instructional practices for use in teacher education settings. Three video models, created at three university sites, demonstrated exemplary implementation of specific, evidence-based strategies in reading, math, and science. Video models of strategies were field tested with…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Models
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Wang, Wei-Tsong; Wang, Chun-Chieh – Computers & Education, 2009
For years, web-based learning systems have been widely employed in both educational and non-educational institutions. Although web-based learning systems are emerging as a useful tool for facilitating teaching and learning activities, the number of users is not increasing as fast as expected. This study develops an integrated model of instructor…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Distance Education, Schools, Information Systems
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Foley, Jean Ann; McAllister, Gretchen – AACE Journal, 2005
Researchers and teacher educators have called for contextualizing the learning of pedagogy and content within the complex context of schools. This account provides an overview of a web-based simulation called Sim-School[C] that provides a realistic framework for students to contextualize curricular decisions, differentiate instruction and reflect…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Educators, Internet
Levin, David S.; Ben-Jacob, Marion G. – 1998
Trends in pedagogy and in technology are converging to make distance learning environments of the 21st century. Trends in pedagogy have encouraged the movement away from the learner as a passive recipient of information and toward a more active model of learning. Earlier generations of distance learning media and methods were ill-suited to the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning