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Credit Recovery Hits the Mainstream
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Carr, Sarah – Education Next, 2014
In communities including New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Chicago, educators are creating alternative schools for struggling students that employ online credit-recovery programs as a core portion, or all, of their curriculum. The growth in online learning generally, including blended learning, has fueled the proliferation of computer-based credit…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Communities in Transition: Technology as a Tool for Change.
Crichton, Susan; Kinsel, Ellen – Education Canada, 2000
A rural British Columbia K-12 school facing closure due to declining population implemented intentional learning, student-directed learning, and learning groups as core units for developing communities of learners. A computer-managed learning system and online scheduling enables delivery of a full range of courses despite decreases in teaching…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Managed Instruction, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Case Study Findings on the Implementation of Microcomputers in Special Education.
Hanley, Tom V. – 1987
A 1983 study examined the use of microcomputers in special education in 12 school districts. As a follow-up to that study, 3 years later, case studies were developed of 27 programs, including elementary/secondary school programs and educational or training centers for handicapped persons. Hypotheses of the research were organized into six major…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction
Using Microcomputers in the Social Studies Classroom.
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Abelson, Robert B., Ed. – 1983
The purpose of this book is to help teachers feel at ease with microcomputers so that they will begin to think of computers as tools that they themselves might use. There are four chapters. The first chapter provides basic information to help a user understand the computer. Discussed are how the computer is put together and how it works. To help…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction
Computer Literacy Development. A Project Report.
Kapp, Ann B.; Knickerbocker, Addie H. – 1983
The Computer Literacy Development Project in Research and Training in Vocational Education was a multi-phased project designed to determine the feasibility of changing the attitudes of vocational educators toward the use of computers, to identify the classroom and administrative applications of microcomputers, to determine the applications of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction
Distance Learning 2001: Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning (17th, Madison, Wisconsin, August 8-10, 2001).
Wisconsin Univ. System, Madison. – 2001
This document contains 82 papers and 6 workshop presentations from a conference on distance teaching and learning. The following are among the papers included: "Examples and Tools for Building Web-Based Learning Experiences" (Steven A. Ackerman, Thomas Whittaker); "Online Testing in Distance Education" (Tricia Ahern);…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accounting, Adult Educators, Adult Students