This paper overviews an open educational resource (OER) project aimed at developing digital literacies and open educational practice within a Faculty of Education. The project, titled The Open Page, modelled and enacted three core digital learning principles--"produsage," presence, and authentic audiences--for a broad audience of faculty…

Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems provide personalized educational content to learners. However most of them do not support the functionality of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and the reusability of their courses is hard work. On the other hand some LMS support SCORM specifications but do not provide adaptive features. This article…

In the targeted school in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, teachers focus on differentiating instruction with technology-based software. Differentiated instruction is the chosen teaching strategy over direct instruction because students and teachers alike prefer to work in cooperative groups while using technology in the classroom.…

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is the principal association representing the technology leadership in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This is SETDA's ninth annual report on select educational technology activities. This year's report includes…

Research findings in recent years provide compelling evidence of the importance of encouraging student control over the learning process as a whole. The socially based tools and technologies of the Web 2.0 movement are capable of supporting informal conversation, reflexive dialogue and collaborative content generation, enabling access to a wide…

The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA)--the principal association representing the technology leadership in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs--presents its eighth annual report on select, national, educational technology activities. This…

The development of an economics course that uses Apple computers and videodisc players is described. The course was chosen because it is one that is frequently eliminated when school budgets are tightened and enrollments drop, and it was felt that the new technology could offer a solution. (MP)

The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative was undertaken to make education, training, and lifelong learning accessible at any time, anywhere. It has developed specifications and techniques that are being adopted globally by governments, businesses, and schools. Although ADL currently focuses on government and business applications, it has…

Miami-Dade Community College has developed a computer-based instructional management system called Response System with Variable Prescriptions (RSVP) that is faculty programmed and can cater to any mode of instruction. Uses include prescriptive reading instruction, mathematics instruction, speech instruction, feedback on composition errors, and…

Describes changing methods in engineering instruction including efforts to: (1) increase opportunities for continuing education, (2) make instruction at all levels more responsive to the needs and abilities of individual students, and (3) educate engineers about the social consequences of their work. (Author/GS)

Outlines the nature, purposes, and advantages of modular instruction. Summarizes the techniques of preparing modules found to be useful during a workshop of Canadian professors. (AL)

Research carried out at the Department of Educational and Psychological Research at Malmo (Sweden) dealing with major subject-oriented projects is described in this report. Included are discussions of projects on individualized mathematics teaching, instructional methods in German, studies of factors that affect concept formation and learning,…

A progress report describes the design and demonstration of the computer-based Instructional Management Systems (IMS) for the period March 1, 1967, through February 29, 1968. The rationale and design considerations of IMS, development of its system components, functioning of the components during the first field trial, and data collected during…

To ascertain the degree to which educational media was being utilized in vocational-technical training, a study was conducted involving a review of related literature and a reporting of four instructional approaches. Examination of literature yielded some generalizable findings: (1) Teaching of manipulation activity fy film, television, and…