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José Alexis Alonso-Sánchez; Juan L. Núñez Alonso; Elisa Santana-Monagas – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
Teachers are generally focused on optimizing the teaching-learning process and fostering high levels of student engagement, participation, and motivation. To address this challenge, this work presents a gamification experience implemented to teach content related to family involvement and educational programs in two courses--one at master's degree…
Descriptors: Gamification, Masters Programs, Undergraduate Study, College Students
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Herron, Josh; Wolfe, Kathryn A. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
Colleges and schools of education serve K12 educators very well in many areas and there are instructional design programs housed in traditional academic units that produce high-caliber scholars and researchers that impact our field. However, this article suggests that partnerships between university innovation hubs and K12 schools fill a gap of…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Educational Innovation, Programming
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Delmas, Peggy M. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
A sense of belonging to a learning community has been identified as one of the factors contributing to greater student satisfaction and persistence in online education programs. Using the community of inquiry framework as a theoretical guide, the purpose of this study was to explore the role of VoiceThread, a web-based platform that facilitates…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Information Storage, Information Management
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Kleinsasser, Robert; Hong, Yi-Chun – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
This paper describes the challenges of designing and implementing online group work. We are responsible for a seven-and-a-half week's online literacy and bi-literacy graduate course in a Bilingual/English as a Second Language (BLE/ESL) Master of Arts program. One of the tasks includes online literacy circle exchanges where students are encouraged…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Graduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Dixon, Michael; Beveridge, Pamela; Farrior, Charlotte; Williams, Beth Ann; Sugar, William; Brown, Abbie – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2012
Four graduate students were tasked with creating a real-world solution to a problem faced by the instructional technology masters program in which they were participating. While taking an online course in multimedia instructional product development, part of East Carolina University's Masters of Science in Instructional Technology degree program,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Masters Programs, Online Courses, Graduate Students
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Cowan, John E. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2012
Between 2000 and 2009, 243 students in 11 cohort groups participated in the Internet-Based Masters in Educational Technology (iMet) Program. iMet is a hybrid masters program in education with an emphasis in educational technology. Students in the program work collaboratively in a problem-based approach to the integration of technology into…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Masters Programs, Educational Technology, Educational Strategies
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Bruce, Linda; Gresh, Kathy; Vanchiswaran, Rohini; Werapitiya, Deepthi – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2007
This article discusses the part-time/Internet-based Master of Public Health (MPH) program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was the first school of public health in the United States to offer a Master of Public Health program via the Internet. The JHSPH MPH Program…
Descriptors: Public Health, Internet, Masters Programs, Part Time Students
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Johnson, Jenny K. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2006
This report of degree curricula in the field of Educational Communications and Technology reflects the influence and significant changes in the field since 1995. The most obvious influence on curricula is that of the computer, which is comparable to the impact of educational television some 50 years ago. Now, the computer is basic to distance…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Educational Technology, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs