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McKenna, Kelly – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2018
This study investigated the online higher education learning space of a doctoral program offered at a distance. It explored the learning space, the stakeholders, utilization, and creators of the space. Developing a successful online classroom experience that incorporates an engaging environment and dynamic community setting conducive to learning…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Distance Education
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Smith, Kevin – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2018
Adaptive learning programs are frequently used in the K-8 mathematics classroom. These programs provide instruction to students at the appropriate level of difficulty by presenting content, providing feedback, and allowing students to master skills before progressing. The purpose of the study was to seek to interpret how preservice teachers'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Journals, Methods Courses
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Krutka, Daniel; Nowell, Shanedra; Whitlock, Annie McMahon – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2017
While social media use has become nearly ubiquitous, there have been few efforts to study how teacher educators prepare their students to responsibly use and teach about social media. This study analyzes 71 students' survey data, reflections, and class activities from education courses across three universities to better understand the successes…
Descriptors: Social Media, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Burriss, Kathleen G.; Snead, Donald – School Community Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study was to understand students' perspectives on the role of homework. Middle school students (N = 506) volunteered to complete open-ended surveys describing their perceptions regarding the effectiveness of homework. Qualitative analysis revealed that students identified several instructional and noninstructional reasons for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness, Homework
King, Laura; Jorgensen, Mary; Lussier, Alex; Fichten, Catherine; Havel, Alice; Amsel, Rhonda; Poldma, Tiiu; Budd, Jillian; Jorgensen, Shirley; Marcil, Evelyne; Nguyen, Mai Nhu; Chauvin, Alexandre; Asuncion, Jennison – Online Submission, 2017
Knowing that motivation is at the crux of learning, we examined students' motivation to engage--or not--in courses which include the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Although many college instructors use ICTs, there are no studies on the perspectives of professors identified as exemplary users of technology. This is why we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Student Attitudes
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Ulbig, Stacy G. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2016
Do individual-level student learning styles affect appreciation for and benefit from the use of classroom response system technology? This research investigates the benefit of in-class electronic classroom response systems ("classroom clickers"). With these systems, students answer questions posed to them in a PowerPoint presentation…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Cognitive Style
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Pullen, Darren; J-F; Swabey, Karen; Abadooz, M.; Sing, Termit Kaur Ranjit – Australian Educational Computing, 2015
Mobile technology coupled with Internet accessibility has increased not only how we communicate but also how we might engage in learning. The ubiquity of mobile technology, such as smart phones and tablet devices, makes it a valuable tool for accessing learning resources on the Internet. The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
Palisoc, Randolph P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative study applied the theory that reading skills are predictive of high school graduation to examine the impact that reading proficiency has on student success in online credit recovery programs for credit deficient students, many of whom struggle with reading. Since reading proficiency impacts academic achievement in general, this…
Descriptors: Repetition, Required Courses, High School Students, Reading Skills
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Batchelor, John – PRIMUS, 2015
This paper reports the results of a survey study of clicker use and mathematics anxiety among students enrolled in an undergraduate calculus course during the Fall 2013 semester. Students in two large lecture sections of calculus completed surveys at the beginning and end of the course. One class used clickers, whereas the other class was taught…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Handheld Devices
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Wong, Gary K. W. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
The adoption of educational technology in teaching depends on how well a teacher accepts it. This paper draws on a technology acceptance survey of pre-service primary mathematics teachers in Hong Kong to study the factors influencing their technology acceptance. This work adopted a mixed method approach, in which quantitative data were collected…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Preservice Teachers, Computer Attitudes
Benbow, Ross J.; Vivyan, Erika – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2016
Building from findings showing that undergraduate computer science continues to have the highest attrition rates proportionally for women within postsecondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines--a phenomenon that defies basic social equity goals in a high status field--this paper seeks to better understand how student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Computer Science Education, Comparative Analysis
Rikala, Jenni – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of Quick Response (QR) codes and mobile devices in the context of Finnish basic education. The feasibility was analyzed through a mobile learning framework, which includes the core characteristics of mobile learning. The study is part of a larger research where the aim is to develop a…
Descriptors: Coding, Feasibility Studies, Case Studies, Electronic Learning
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Rush, Penny – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2015
In 2013, the Student Centre at The University of Tasmania began researching the development of distance learning support. A survey was designed as part of this endeavour, which attracted 1002 responses. The survey's broad context focused on the primary drawbacks and benefits of distance education in general and sought to identify emergent themes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Benefits, Barriers
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Perry, David R.; Steck, Andy K. – Computers in the Schools, 2015
Teachers are increasingly integrating mobile digital technology into the classroom. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of incorporating iPads in a secondary-level geometry course on academic achievement, student engagement, self-efficacy, and meta-cognitive self-regulation. Students in the iPad-using classroom experienced lower…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Self Efficacy
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Schell, Robyn; Kaufman, David – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2009
The web has the potential to offer an environment that can support standardized medical education to students dispersed in time or place and, in the process, respond to reduced availability of patients for practice. This exploratory article describes how we evaluated critical thinking in an online collaborative Problem-based Learning (PBL)…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Problem Based Learning, Patients, Critical Thinking