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Arnone, Marilyn P.; Small, Ruth V. – 1999
Designed for elementary or middle school teachers and library media specialists, this book provides educators with practical, easy-to-use ways of applying motivation assessment techniques when selecting World Wide Web sites for inclusion in their lessons and offers concrete examples of how to use Web evaluation with young learners. WebMAC…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Information Literacy
van Ouwerkerk, R. J.; Hoebe, M. N.; Oldersma, F. L.; Meijman, T. F.; van Oudenhoven-van der Zee, K. I. – 1999
The developments in information technology and multimedia give new opportunities to increase the efficiency and quality of skills education. This paper presents three applications developed in the Netherlands to enhance professional skills learning in different areas of psychology: (1) BioPsy, an application developed to teach and train the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Courseware, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
Jaipal, Kamini – 2001
For English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students learning academic content is complex. The purpose of this study is to explore and gain an understanding of ESL students' participation and learning in grade 11 biology classes in a secondary school in Vancouver, British Columbia. The paper reports on one aspect of the study--the mediational role of…
Descriptors: Biology, English for Science and Technology, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Brack, Verity; Stubley, Peter – 1999
The eLib (Electronic Libraries) Program in United Kingdom higher education began in the spring of 1995, as a result of the Follett Report (Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group, 1993) that emphasized the need for higher education libraries to be involved in the development of information and communication technologies. A "clump"…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cooperative Programs, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Spires, Michele S.; Jaeger, Janet – 2002
This paper surveys the literature on ways to use Web-based or Internet instruction more effectively and assesses some trends associated with the methods. Highlights include: changes in university demographics; elements of a process of planning and operating educational programs for adult students; major faculty issues that have to be addressed in…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Distance Education
New Mexico State Dept. of Education, Santa Fe. – 1995
An Educational Technology Institute (ETI) has been offered annually by the New Mexico State Department of Education cooperatively and collaboratively with numerous other groups since its inception in 1990. The 1995 ETI was developed to address implementation of New Mexico's 1994 Technology for Education Act. This act provides for funding…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Development, Long Range Planning
Texas State Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. Div. of Community and Technical Colleges. – 2002
This report aims to address concerns regarding the need for developmental education in mathematics in the higher education institutions in Texas. Fifty-three million dollars of the $93 million appropriated for developmental education in Texas in 2002 went to mathematics. About 40% of new students in two-year colleges and 20% of new students in…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Costs, Labor Force Development
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, Arlington, VA. – 2001
This report describes the work of the Charlotte Collaborative, a partnership between North Carolina's Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Johnson C. Smith University. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) chose CMS to develop a model for other school systems to use in…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Corporate Support, Educational Improvement, Educational Technology
Nachmias, R.; Mioduser, D.; Oren, A.; Ram, J. – 2001
Emergent-collaboration is the process by which group configurations and transactional patterns evolve among participants during the course of learning. This study focused on the integration of a Web shell for supporting emergent-collaboration activities in 6 graduate courses (115 students) in the Tel-Aviv University School of Education. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning, Distance Education
Ruberg, Laurie F. – 2001
Twenty-one schools from the United States and Singapore participated in this evaluation of a high-school biology multimedia CD-ROM called BioBLAST[R]. Results include a summary of teacher descriptions of their curriculum-based justifications for using this software as well as a compilation of program features that teachers describe as facilitating…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation
Stuckey, Bronwyn; Hedberg, John; Lockyer, Lori – 2001
This paper describes the early phases of an examination of the role played by Internet-based teacher professional development for K-12 teachers in the implementation of an innovation. The cases developed describe the effect of this professional development intervention on the teacher implementation of the knowledge construction tools in the…
Descriptors: Community, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software Development, Computer Uses in Education
Mungall, Dennis; Green, Cable; Skunza, Barbara – 2001
This paper contains summaries of three presentations that explore critical issues that must be addressed before launching a non-traditional online degree program. "Student Orientation" (Cable Green) provides a comprehensive student orientation, including an introduction to technological infrastructure, pedagogical issues, communication…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Doctoral Programs, Higher Education
Dodge, Lucy – 2001
This article outlines the development of basic computer literacy skills courses under the auspices of the Title III Grant awarded to San Jose City College (SJCC) of San Jose, California by the United States Department of Education (Grant no. PO31A980093, Strengthening Institutions, 1998-2003). The grant has been in effect for 3 years, and grant…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, College Curriculum, College Instruction, Community Colleges
Office of Inspector General (ED), Washington, DC. – 2002
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) works to assist the Department of Education in ensuring the integrity of its operations and improving its programs. During the 6 months this report covers, OIG issued 60 audit and inspection reports and memoranda, and closed 104 investigations. More specifically, OIG investigated purchase-card abuse and…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Kim, Myonghee – 2002
Historically, in the educational field, numerous efforts have been made to facilitate the complex process of second language (L2) reading comprehension. While computers are increasingly being used for instruction for L2 reading, there is not yet a solid understanding of how this technology can be effectively used in the area of L2 reading…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Research, Educational Technology
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