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Martin, Marie; Noakes, Michaela – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
As technology continues to flatten the world and as Web 2.0 changes the way knowledge is created and shared, tertiary education institutions are turning increasingly to e-learning to extend access to students globally as well as to improve the quality of their learning experience. Learning Management Systems (LMS) currently dominate the delivery…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Management Systems, Foreign Countries
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Barone, Diane – Research in the Schools, 2012
This article focuses on young children's use of Web 2.0 and social media. A background is provided about the use of Web 2.0 and social media among young children. Strengths and concerns are discussed as well as home and school use of Web 2.0 and social media. Exemplary websites are shared. The article concludes with potential changes in the…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Young Children, School Involvement, Mass Media Use
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Bielefeldt, Talbot – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2012
Correlational analysis of two years of classroom observation indicates relationships between technology use and various classroom characteristics, including teacher roles and instructional strategies. Three observers used the ISTE Classroom Observation Tool (ICOT) to record 144 observations of classrooms participating in a variety of educational…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Programs, Standards, Interrater Reliability
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Pluye, Pierre; Grad, Roland; Granikov, Vera; Theriault, Guylene; Fremont, Pierre; Burnand, Bernard; Mercer, Jay; Marlow, Bernard; Arroll, Bruce; Luconi, Francesca; Legare, France; Labrecque, Michel; Ladouceur, Roger; Bouthillier, France; Sridhar, Soumya Bindiganavile; Moscovici, Jonathan – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2012
Introduction: Systematic literature reviews provide best evidence, but are underused by clinicians. Thus, integrating Cochrane reviews into continuing medical education (CME) is challenging. We designed a pilot CME program where summaries of Cochrane reviews ("Courriels Cochrane") were disseminated by e-mail. Program participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Medical Education, Physicians
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Liu, Alan – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
The scholarly field of the digital humanities has recently expanded and integrated its fundamental concepts, historical coverage, relationship to social experience, scale of projects, and range of interpretive approaches. All this brings the overall field (including the related area of new media studies) to a tipping point where it has the…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Humanities, Intellectual Disciplines, Definitions
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Shogren, Karrie A.; Palmer, Susan B.; Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Williams-Diehm, Kendra; Little, Todd D. – Remedial and Special Education, 2012
Promoting self-determination has been identified as best practice in special education and transition services and as a means to promote goal attainment and access to the general education curriculum for students with disabilities. There have been, however, limited evaluations of the effects of interventions to promote self-determination on…
Descriptors: General Education, High School Students, Success, Models
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Trew, Jennifer L.; Nelsen, Jacqueline L. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
Audience response systems (ARS) are effective tools for improving learning outcomes and student engagement in large undergraduate classes. However, if students do not accept ARS and do not find them to be useful, ARS may be less effective. Predicting and improving student perceptions of ARS may help to ensure positive outcomes. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes, Prediction
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Cuhadar, Cem – Computers & Education, 2012
The current study investigated the relationship between problematic Internet use and social interaction anxiety among pre-service teachers. Participants were 1235 students attending teacher training programs at a Turkish state university. The "Problematic Internet Use Scale" and "Social Interaction Anxiety Scale" were used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Measures (Individuals), Interaction
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Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Anne T.; Brush, Thomas A.; Strycker, Jesse; Gronseth, Susie; Roman, Tiffany; Abaci, Serdar; vanLeusen, Peter; Shin, Sungwon; Easterling, Wylie; Plucker, Jonathan – Computers & Education, 2012
Researchers have called for renewed efforts in exploring both what knowledge should be taught in preservice teacher education programs with regard to technology, and how to best prepare teachers to effectively use that knowledge to support teaching and learning. This study compared the importance of technology topics from teacher educators and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators, Thinking Skills
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Carnoy, Martin; Rabling, Brenda Jarillo; Castano-Munoz, Jonatan; Montoliu, Josep Maria Duart; Sancho-Vinuesa, Teresa – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
A highly touted feature of the so-called global "revolution" in higher education is the trend to use information technology to reach a broader clientele. Although there is evidence that students may be learning the material in on-line courses as well as in traditional face-to-face universities, how well students learn content is not the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Open Universities, Distance Education, Persistence
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Ali, Liaqat; Hatala, Marek; Gasevic, Dragan; Jovanovic, Jelena – Computers & Education, 2012
LOCO-Analyst is a learning analytics tool we developed to provide educators with feedback on students learning activities and performance. Evaluation of the first version of the tool led to the enhancement of the tool's data visualization, user interface, and supported feedback types. The second evaluation of the improved tool allowed us to see…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Software, Program Descriptions, Student Evaluation
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Zhan, Wei; Goulart, Ana; Morgan, Joseph A.; Porter, Jay R. – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2011
This paper discusses the details of the curricular development effort with a focus on the vertical and horizontal integration of laboratory curricula and course projects within the Electronic Engineering Technology (EET) program at Texas A&M University. Both software and hardware aspects are addressed. A common set of software tools are…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Curriculum Development, Vertical Organization, Organization
Sandifer, Stephanie D. – Eye on Education, 2011
Maximize the effectiveness of your professional activities through the use of wikis, and raise student achievement in turn! With strategies from online educator and technology expert Stephanie Sandifer, this book provides how-to advice on the way in which wikis result in a more efficient use of time, better communication, and increased adult…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Adult Learning, Educational Change, School Administration
Morris, Jill – ProQuest LLC, 2011
As the culmination of a two-year long Internet ethnographic study of three separate sites, I use examples of women and minorities fighting against discrimination online to explore the power structures inherent to networks and how these might affect classroom practice. I will show how our ordinary assumptions in rhetoric and composition as well as…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Females, Ethnography, Internet
Cameron, Andrea H.; Bush, Michael H. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The newness of the iPad device creates a phenomenon unique and unstudied in the academic environment. By merging the innovations of electronic text, e-reader, and multi-modal functionality, the iPad tablet device can act as an e-reader providing digital course materials as well as a range of other supplementary academic applications. This…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Pilot Projects, Focus Groups, Student Participation
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