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Sin Wang Chong, Editor; Hayo Reinders, Editor – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2024
This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such as policy-making, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology are locally adopted, adapted, and initiated and implemented in the four nations of the United Kingdom: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. By looking at the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Development, Educational Technology, Policy Formation
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Shippee, Micah; Keengwe, Jared – Education and Information Technologies, 2014
In the age of our mobile learning, an impending onus is placed on educational institutions to embrace this technological innovation that is widely accepted, used, and available globally. The clear societal value of mobile technology as a productivity tool for engagement, creation, and collaboration has generated a new need for education to revisit…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Handheld Devices
Norris, Cathie; Soloway, Elliot; Tan, Chun Ming; Looi, Chee-Kit; Wong, Lung Hsiang – Educational Technology, 2013
Increasingly, "research" is not being conducted in a separate group in an organization; rather, it is being integrated into the fabric of the organization. Google recently described such an integrated, "hybrid" model of software research that is characterized by cycles of short duration and small-scope activity that is ongoing…
Descriptors: Models, Design Preferences, Design, Educational Technology
Adams Becker, S.; Freeman, A.; Giesinger Hall, C.; Cummins, M.; Yuhnke, B. – New Media Consortium, 2016
What is on the five-year horizon for K-12 schools worldwide? Which trends and technologies will drive educational change? What are the challenges that we consider as solvable or difficult to overcome, and how can we strategize effective solutions? These questions and similar inquiries regarding technology adoption and transforming teaching and…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Trends, Educational Change
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Owusu-Ansah, Angela; Neill, Patti; Haralson, Michele K. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2011
In the twenty-first century, despite the expanded opportunities technology affords in student-access to higher education, most institutions of higher education are hesitant to offer technology-based distance education (TBDE). The prohibiting factors include cost, accessibility, faculty concerns, state mandates, academic administrative actions, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Barriers
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Shadiev, Rustam; Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Chen, Nian-Shing; Huang, Yueh-Min – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
This paper reviewed literature from 1999 to 2014 inclusively on how Speech-to-Text Recognition (STR) technology has been applied to enhance learning. The first aim of this review is to understand how STR technology has been used to support learning over the past fifteen years, and the second is to analyze all research evidence to understand how…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Character Recognition, Literature Reviews, Technology Uses in Education
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Sahin, Idris – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
The school improvement came into question that schools meet the educational needs has been made to make it more effective, changing in parallel globalization. The purpose of school improvement is to rise levels of student achievement and school environment to increase participation. In this context, the basic aim of this study was to determine the…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Improvement, Improvement Programs
Smaldino, Sharon E.; Lowther, Deborah L.; Russell, James D. – Educational Technology, 2011
This article describes how a textbook has traced 30 years of evolution in instructional technology. One of the book's key continuing features is the ASSURE Model. To connect technology to learning, the Classroom Link was developed. As standards were formulated for teachers and students, they were included in the textbook. Other evolutionary…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Mosicheva, I. A.; Shestak, V. P.; Sokolova, M. V.; Zastrozhnova, E. M. – Russian Education and Society, 2011
Improving the Russian economy depends in part on having well-educated and energetic personnel, and this is being hindered by universities in which there is an aging professoriate and students enrolled in specialties that are not in demand by employers. Higher education is expected not only to conduct programs of specialist training in order to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
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Redecker, Christine; Johannessen, Oystein – European Journal of Education, 2013
This article discusses how Information and Communication Technologies can support 21st century assessment strategies and what needs to be done to ensure that technological advances support and foster pedagogical innovation. Based on an extensive review of the literature, it provides an overview of current ICT-enabled assessment practices, with a…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Alternative Assessment, Technology Uses in Education, Evaluation Methods
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Korr, Jeremy; Derwin, Ellen Baker; Greene, Kimberly; Sokoloff, William – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2012
While many institutions deliver some classes in blended format, Brandman University transitioned all of its face-to-face classes to blended delivery, using a model tailored to the needs of adult learners. This article provides research supporting the ways that blended learning principles align with key principles of andragogy. The article provides…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Andragogy, Adult Learning, Delivery Systems
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Hong, Kian-Sam; Songan, Peter – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
As in the developed nations, developing countries in the Southeast Asian region increasingly are recognising the important role higher education plays in enhancing the human resources of a nation for promoting its development in a world of depleting natural resources. Advances and pervasiveness of ICT in the society mean that higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Technology Uses in Education
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Olusola, Akande Joshua; Alaba, Sofowora Olaniyi – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
The main thrust of this paper is to discuss the development of open and distance education in Nigeria and the major manifestations of the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education in open and distance learning. This study further discusses the importance and use of ICTs in open and distance learning in making education…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Global Approach, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
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Bhanji, Zahra – Comparative Education Review, 2012
The purpose of this article is to explore Microsoft Corporation as a new international actor shaping educational reforms and practices. This study examines how the implementation of Microsoft's global Partners in Learning (PiL) program varied and was mediated by national politics and national institutional practices in two different contexts,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Educational Policy
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Bennett, Leslie A. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2008
Virtual environments (VEs) are growing in popularity among educators and have unique potential for online learning. This paper describes the unique characteristics of VEs that make them an effective venue for online learning due to increased environmental presence. Unique characteristics of VEs include nature of visual stimuli, control of the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Virtual Classrooms, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
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