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Teaching Tip: Implementing Scrum Wholesale in the Classroom
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Baham, Corey – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2019
As the most widely used agile software development method, Scrum has become a mainstay in many organizations that develop software. Despite Scrum's popularity, several studies examine Scrum implementations that include some parts of the methodology and exclude others. This paper describes how Scrum has been incorporated into the classroom…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Classroom Techniques, Student Projects, Self Efficacy
An Innovative App for Analysis of Invented Spellings in an Interactive Learning Environment
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Wang, Ling – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2020
Invented spellings refer to incorrect attempts to spell words while writing, which are important indicators of children's development of phonemic awareness. Making Words is a popular activity to teach phonics and spelling, in which students manipulate letters in sequence to construct target words and then sort them into rhyming patterns. This…
Descriptors: Invented Spelling, Computer Software, Phonemic Awareness, Teaching Methods
Transitions in Classroom Technology: Instructor Implementation of Classroom Management Software
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Ackerman, David; Chung, Christina; Sun, Jerry Chih-Yuan – Journal of Education for Business, 2014
The authors look at how business instructor needs are fulfilled by classroom management software (CMS), such as Moodle, and why instructors are sometimes slow to implement it. Instructors at different universities provided both qualitative and quantitative responses regarding their use of CMS. The results indicate that the top needs fulfilled by…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Integrated Learning Systems
College Textbook Reading Assignments and Class Time Activity
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Aagaard, Lola; Conner, Timothy W., II; Skidmore, Ronald L. – Online Submission, 2010
It has been reported (Lei, Barlett, Gorney, & Herschbach, 2010; Sikorski et al., 2002) that only a minority of college students actually read the course textbook or other assigned readings in preparation for examinations. Suggested strategies to remedy this situation include quizzes (Ruscio, 2001; Ryan, 2006), study worksheets (Aagaard &…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Textbooks, Assignments, Electronic Publishing
A Checklist for Evaluating Content-Based Hypertext Computer Software.
Tolhurst, Denise – Educational Technology, 1992
Discusses issues involved in the evaluation of hypertext computer software, including implementation considerations, documentation and packaging, control of instruction by learners, navigation aids for readers, linking mechanisms in hypertext applications, and curriculum development and classroom management considerations. A checklist summarizing…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classroom Techniques, Computer Software Evaluation, Curriculum Development
Improving the Consistency in Which Teachers of Grades Fourth through Sixth Use Microcomputers To Assist Instruction.
Vitchoff, Lorraine G. – 1988
Primarily designed to increase the use of the microcomputer in the classroom as a supplement to instruction, this practicum also provided training for teachers in grades 4 through 6 and their principal in a setting which was intended to be functional and nonthreatening to the participants. The 10 participating teachers were given a…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Check Lists, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction
Evaluation in the Classroom.
Becnel, Shirley – 1991
Six classroom research-based instructional projects funded under Chapter 2 are described, and their outcomes are summarized. The projects each used computer hardware and software in the classroom setting. The projects and their salient points include: (1) the Science Technology Project, in which 48 teachers and 2,847 students in 18 schools used…
Descriptors: Algebra, Classroom Techniques, Compensatory Education, Computer Software Evaluation