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Yeh, Hsin-Te; Cheng, Yi-Chia – Computers & Education, 2010
This study investigated whether the instruction of visual design principles had an influence on pre-service teachers' perception and analysis (interpretation) of visual materials. In addition, the relationships between pre-service teachers' visual intelligence and their perception and analysis (interpretation) of visual materials were also…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Visual Literacy, Data Analysis, Preservice Teachers
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Tee, Meng Yew; Lee, Shuh Shing – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Recent studies on technology have shifted from the emphasis on technology skills alone to integrating pedagogy and content with technology--what Mishra and Koehler (2005) call technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). Deeper understanding on how TPACK can be cultivated is needed. This design-based research explored how an improvised,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Graduate Study
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Yan, Hanbing; Xiao, Yumin; Wang, Qiyun – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
Modern Educational Technology is a common course in many normal universities in China. The Modern Educational Technology Center (METC) of East China Normal University (ECNU) decided to improve the course for pre-service teachers at the end of 2010. The enhanced course has some additional features, such as emphasising knowledge and skills transfer,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses
Correia, Ana-Paula; Yusop, Farrah Dina; Wilson, Jay R.; Schwier, Richard A. – Online Submission, 2010
This paper compares how two universities, Iowa State University and the University of Saskatchewan, exploit a service-learning and authentic learning approach to instructional design. Both programs emphasize student engagement and responsibility, as well as projects that have social significance. At the same time, the courses offered by the two…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
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Lambert, Judy; Gong, Yi – Computers in the Schools, 2010
This study investigated major course changes in 11 sections of a stand-alone educational technology course redesigned around 21st century skill sets as opposed to technical skill development. Conducted in the fall of 2007 and spring 2008 with a random sample of 100 pre-service teachers, independent and paired sample t tests and correlational…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Educational Technology, Skill Development, Education Courses
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Lambert, Judy; Gong, Yi; Cuper, Pru – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2008
Research on the impact of technology integration in colleges of education is often conflicting and rarely evaluated well. It therefore remains unclear which strategies are most effective for integrating technology in a teacher preparation program and how those strategies should be delivered over time. To better understand the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Models, Urban Universities, Data Analysis, Education Courses
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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
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Teo, Yiong Hwee; Webster, Len – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2008
This article discusses a study which was designed to explore how online scaffolding can be incorporated to support knowledge acquisition in asynchronous discussion. A group of Singapore preservice teachers engaged in collaborative critiquing of videos before they embarked on their video projects to illustrate what constitutes good and bad video…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries
Holland, James G.; And Others – 1974
A course was designed to teach the use of learning principles in the development of teaching materials reflecting the best in the present state of the "theory of instruction." Based on Keller's Personalized Instruction System, the course aimed to establish in students a working knowledge of behavioral principles, the ability to…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Organization
Aronin, Gene – 1992
This paper describes an innovative training program offered at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Participants in the program include the university computer education students; the administration, teachers, and students of the participating elementary and secondary schools; and the Curriculum and Instruction and Media Services…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Course Content, Education Courses, Educational Technology
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Gabel, Dorothy L.; Boone, William J. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 1993
Describes the Quality Elementary Science Teaching (QUEST) program developed at Indiana University to improve the quality of science education by preparing prospective elementary school teachers more effectively. Highlights include uses of technology in science and education courses and results of surveys that measured students' computer attitudes…
Descriptors: College Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes, Course Content
Askov, Eunice; Simpson, Mary – 2001
The possibility of creating an appropriate online learning environment for distance adult students was examined in a study of 22 Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) students' attitudes regarding the online version of a course offered as part of Penn State's masters of education program. The students completed surveys before, during, and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer Uses in Education