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The Roles of Extrinsic Factors in a Community of Inquiry Model of E-Learning
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Lee, Richard; Faulkner, Margaret – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
Despite its proliferation in higher learning institutions, e-learning has been criticised as being nothing more than trivial online conversations, or a mere means of delivering class materials electronically. If e-learning is to address such criticisms and become an effective pedagogical platform, educators need to identify elements critical to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Models, Inquiry, Educational Principles
The National Educational Technology Plan Doesn't Live up to Its Call for Revolutionary Transformation
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Rose, Raymond M. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
The National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) calls for the revolutionary transformation of the American educational system. The plan correctly points to the decisions of the late 1800s that still direct educational policy today, and correctly calls the school change efforts evolutionary tinkering. The author, a pioneer in online education…
Descriptors: Technology Planning, Educational Change, Educational Technology, Models
Media Literacy Pedagogy: Critical and New/Twenty-First-Century Literacies Instruction
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Westbrook, Nalova – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
This article offers a conceptualization of media literacy pedagogy in light of National Education Technology Plan efforts, which name teaching as one of five essential areas to build an education system that can increase as well as sustain the United States' economic growth and prosperity in the global economy. In particular, two distinct…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Technology Planning, Models, Global Approach