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Computer Literacy Learning Emotions of ODL Teacher-Students
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Esterhuizen, Hendrik D.; Blignaut, A. Seugnet; Els, Christo J.; Ellis, Suria M. – Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2012
This paper addresses the affective human experiences in terms of the emotions of South African teacher-students while attaining computer competencies for teaching and learning, and for ODL. The full mixed method study investigated how computers contribute towards affective experiences of disadvantaged teacher-students. The purposive sample related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Attitudes
An Extended Cyberhunts Strategy: Learner Centred Learning-by-Design
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du Plessis, Andre; Webb, Paul – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The aim of this paper is to introduce to the education community to a newly developed "Learner Centred Learning-By-Designing Extended Cyberhunts" (LCLBDEC) strategy for teaching and learning in schools. The main focus of the strategy is to enable learners to become designers of an educational tool which assists them to learn during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Class Activities, Learning Strategies
Learning Management Systems: ICT Skills, Usability and Learnability
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Pretorius, Marco; van Biljon, Judy – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications of usability and learnability in learning management systems (LMS) by considering the experiences of information and communications technology (ICT) experts and non-experts in using the LMS of an open-distance university. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses task-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Electronic Learning, Video Technology
Digital Literacies in Two Low Socioeconomic Classrooms: Snapshots of Practice
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Henderson, Robyn; Honan, Eileen – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2008
The teaching of digital literacies is regarded as an important facet of literacy teaching in the 21st century. With many literacy tests continuing to indicate that students' levels of achievement tend to be differentiated along socioeconomic lines, it seems timely to consider the connections between home and school and how these play out in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Prior Learning, Teaching Methods, Family Environment
Improving Computer Skills of Socially Disadvantaged Adolescents: Same-Age versus Cross-Age Tutoring
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Vogelwiesche, Uta; Grob, Alexander; Winkler, Britta – Learning and Instruction, 2006
In a voluntary tutor-based training program, socially disadvantaged adolescents acquired basic computer skills. Two training groups were compared: one group was instructed by adolescents, the other by adults. Both groups achieved comparable results in a final test. The tutees' learning results did not differ with respect to their initial…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged, Computer Literacy, Tutoring
Computers for All Children: A Directory of Programs Fostering Equitable Access to Computers.
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Crist-Whitzel, Janet; And Others – 1985
One of three publications of the Research on Equitable Access to Technology (REAT) project, this directory lists 52 computer education programs in northern California, Nevada, and Utah that have successfully addressed the problem of providing computer access to groups of students who are far less likely than others to use computers, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Education, Adult Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
The Development of an Evaluation Instrument for Computer Programs with Application in Vocational Education. Final Report.
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis. Vocational-Technical Education Dept. – 1983
This project was conducted to develop and validate an evaluation instrument for computer programs with application in vocational education. The project consisted of six components: (1) review of existing evaluation models for educational computer software; (2) development of the evaluation instrument: (3) testing the evaluation instrument; (4)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Oriented Programs