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Moorefield-Lang, Heather – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
Makerspaces and accompanying technologies are exciting new services being offered in libraries. However, these come with their own challenges and successes. Training for maker learning locations continues to be difficult to obtain. Inservice librarians rely on peers in the field and online resources for their training. Most preservice librarians…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Librarians, Libraries, Library Education
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Maurino, Paula San Millan – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2007
This paper presents a study which involved researching student interaction and participation under the lens of Activity Theory and Social Computing. Activity Theory is a philosophical framework that integrates the objective, the sociocultural, and the ecological, while Social Computing describes any type of computing application in which software…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Comparative Analysis, Course Evaluation, Computer Mediated Communication
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Landsberger, Joe – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2006
This article presents an interview with Mark Ashwill, Director of the Institute of International Education-Vietnam in Ha Noi, Vietnam, a branch of the Institute of International Education (IIE). In this interview, Ashwill talks about his work as Director of the Institute of International Education-Vietnam, the role that communications technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrators, Interviews, International Educational Exchange