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Suzhen Duan; Marisa Exter; Qing Li – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
Preservice teachers' beliefs regarding technology integration significantly influence their future teaching practices. This qualitative study examines the beliefs and intentions of 51 preservice teachers within the context of technology integration in their envisioned teaching scenarios. Thematic analysis identified three primary themes. Firstly,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Technology Integration
Kormos, Erik; Julio, Liliana; Morgan, Adam – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
The creation of an engaging online learning environment where students feel a sense of belonging is a challenge for all educators. With the rise of online courses, discussion forums are commonly used to connect students with course content, peers, and instructors. However, these discussions are often text-based in nature. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology
Rice, Margaret L.; Beavers, Bernadette; McNeill, Laura; Benson, Angela – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain in-depth understanding of students' experiences in a cohort-based hybrid instructional technology Ph.D. program at a Research 1 University. Participants were 14 current and former students in the Instructional Technology Ph.D. program from the 2016 through 2020 cohorts. Participants completed an…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Doctoral Students
Duan, Suzhen; Exter, Marisa; Newby, Timothy – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
Preservice teachers' attitudes towards technology integration influence their motivation for and future behavior in teaching, but effective interventions to modify attitudes towards technology integration are scarce in teacher education programs. This quasi-experimental study redesigned and integrated one of the most widely used positive…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
Ari, Fatih; Vasconcelos, Lucas; Tang, Hengtao; Grant, Michael M.; Arslan-Ari, Ismahan; Moore, Alison L. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
The purpose of this paper was to explore the experiences of doctoral students in an Ed.D. program in Learning Design and Technologies at the University of South Carolina. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from 35 students after their degree completion. Overall, the students were satisfied with the quality and the value of the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Online Courses, Doctoral Students, Instructional Design
DiGiacomo, Daniela Kruel; Greenhalgh, Spencer; Barriage, Sarah – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
ClassDojo is a classroom communication and behavior management app intended to "bring every family into [the] classroom" (www.classdojo.com). The features of the platform include a points system to facilitate classroom management, instant teacher-parent communication (on the individual or class level), and student portfolios (among…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Principals, Classroom Techniques
Padilla Rodriguez, Brenda Cecilia – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the world turned to online tools as a means of ensuring continued access to education, highlighting possibilities for innovation, particularly in contexts like Mexico, where the use of edtech was not previously prevalent. When educational institutions reopened their physical campuses, many schools and universities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Educational Innovation, COVID-19
José Alexis Alonso-Sánchez; Juan L. Núñez Alonso; Elisa Santana-Monagas – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
Teachers are generally focused on optimizing the teaching-learning process and fostering high levels of student engagement, participation, and motivation. To address this challenge, this work presents a gamification experience implemented to teach content related to family involvement and educational programs in two courses--one at master's degree…
Descriptors: Gamification, Masters Programs, Undergraduate Study, College Students
Liu, Yan; Xie, Ying; Sun, Tianlinzi; Lv, Jinjiao – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Academic mentoring is an essential part of doctoral student education and each program has a different mentoring system for its doctoral students. For this article, the researchers surveyed five key doctoral programs in the field of Educational Technology in China. The findings describe shared characteristics of their mentoring systems from the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Doctoral Programs, Educational Technology, Doctoral Students
Snelson, Chareen; Hsu, Yu-Chang – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
360-degree video (or 360° video) is recorded in an omnidirectional form so that viewers can look in any direction while the video plays. Interest in the application of 360° video has been emerging along with the advancement of lower cost technologies and increase in online video content. Little is known about trends in the emerging research for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Video Technology, Computer Simulation, Educational Trends
West, Richard E. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
Despite the emphasis on open educational resources in our field, there are surprisingly few examples of open textbooks in our field, as well as in graduate education generally, despite the findings from research that these books can be affordable, high quality, and advantageous to students and faculty. In this article I describe one process for…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Shared Resources and Services, Electronic Publishing, Design
Siko, Jason Paul; Barbour, Michael Kristopher – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
Similar to previous iterations, this action research study examined student perceptions of K-12 online learning as part of an action research project working to improve a graduate course on using internet-based instruction in the classroom. Additionally, since the data were collected prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, additional analysis of the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study, Internet
Ma, Shanshan; Knezek, Gerald; Spector, J. Michael – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate university students' perceptions of social media as a learning resource (SM-LR) in China and the USA in terms of their attitudes, perceived usefulness and behavioral intentions. An instrument used for this study was adapted from a prior validated survey based on the Technology Acceptance Model. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Social Media
Besser, Erin D.; Newby, Timothy J. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
In academic settings where digital badges are taking over conventional task formats, educators are faced with the challenge of how to deliver and assess content and skills within badges. Imposing a mastery learning approach, where feedback is key, to a digital badge system may be a potential solution to using digital badges within higher…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Information Storage, Evaluation Methods
Farmer, E. Christa; Catalano, Amy J.; Halpern, Adam J. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
In a Fall 2017 introductory course in Environmental Geology, homework assignments alternated between traditional textbook chapters in an electronic format and adaptive learning platform (ALP) modules on the Smart Sparrow (www.smartsparrow.com) platform to assess student preference for and satisfaction with either modality. Few studies have…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preferences, Textbooks, Electronic Publishing