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Hagit Meishar-Tal – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
This paper critically analyzes the potential impact of ChatGPT, a creative artificial intelligence tool, on learning and teaching, focusing on its impact on using writing assignments as a means of assessing knowledge. The paper examines the challenges this tool presents to learners and teachers in various aspects, including writing as a means of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology, Barriers, Writing (Composition)
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Bruce Parsons; John H. Curry – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
This article investigates an artificial intelligence language model, ChatGPT, and its ability to complete graduate-level instructional design assignments. The approach subjected ChatGPT to a needs, task, and learner analysis for a 12th-grade media literacy module and benchmarked its performance by expert evaluation and measurements via grading…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Design
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Farmer, E. Christa; Catalano, Amy J.; Halpern, Adam J. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
In a Fall 2017 introductory course in Environmental Geology, homework assignments alternated between traditional textbook chapters in an electronic format and adaptive learning platform (ALP) modules on the Smart Sparrow (www.smartsparrow.com) platform to assess student preference for and satisfaction with either modality. Few studies have…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Textbooks, Electronic Publishing
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Machajewski, Szymon; Steffen, Alana; Romero Fuerte, Elizabeth; Rivera, Eleanor – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
Technology in Higher Education affects teaching and learning excellence while being a significant expense for universities. There is a need for evaluation of current instructional technology use when planning for renewal or adoption of a new learning management system (LMS). This study was conducted to understand the patterns of course tools used…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Educational Technology, Enrollment Trends, College Faculty
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Polk, Tracy; Johnston, Melissa P.; Evers, Stephanie – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that can be edited by users, is growing both in the number of content articles written as well as the number of registered users. Students rely on Wikipedia (Purcell et al., 2012) and Wikipedia, through tools, is enabling users to make better decisions regarding the information they find (Gray, 2013; Kyrios,…
Descriptors: Encyclopedias, Collaborative Writing, Electronic Publishing, Educational Technology
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Oliver, Kevin – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2007
In the emerging era of the "read-write" web, students can not only research and collect information from existing web resources, but also collaborate and create new information on the web in a surprising number of ways. Web 2.0 is an umbrella term for many individual tools that have been created with web collaboration, sharing, and/or new…
Descriptors: Assignments, Distance Education, Technology Integration, Educational Technology