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Dalbello, Marija – Library Quarterly, 2005
Institutional processes associated with technological innovation in the library context and the key transformative event, the completion of the National Digital Library Program (NDLP) at the Library of Congress (1995-2000), are discussed in this article and the accompanying article, Part I. Interviews with seven key participants of the program…
Descriptors: Library Services, Technological Advancement, Innovation, Influence of Technology
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Naidu, Som; Cunnington, David – AACE Journal, 2004
This paper describes a research project that seeks to explore the experience of faculty with technology-enhanced teaching and learning. A particular focus of this investigation is on how the use of information and communications technology is influencing teaching practices and students' approaches to learning at the University of Melbourne. This…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Faculty, Teaching Experience, Distance Education
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Downes, Stephen – College Quarterly, 2004
The evolution of a new technology passes through two distinct stages. In the first stage, the technology may be seen as a new way of doing an old thing. In the second stage, however, the new technology went beyond the mere replication of an earlier technology. In the field of learning, a very similar evolution is taking place. The introduction of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Classrooms, Electronic Learning, Influence of Technology
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Harvey, Virginia Smith; Carlson, Janet F. – School Psychology Review, 2003
School psychologists have an ethical imperative to determine the ways computers can facilitate practice because of the potential to improve effectiveness and efficiency. At the same time, psychologists have a parallel imperative to consider carefully ethical and professional practice implications. The aspects of computers that render them most…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Responsibility, Ethics, Values
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Gnanamuthu, J. Samuel; Krishnakumar, R. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2009
There are indications that the new technologies could have radical implications for conventional teaching and learning processes. It notes that, in reconfiguring how teachers and learners gain access to knowledge and information, the new technologies challenge conventional conceptions of both teaching and learning materials, and teaching and…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Teaching Methods, Global Approach, Teacher Education
Myers, David Gershom – University of Chicago Press, 2006
When Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: "What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?" That anecdote, with which D. G. Myers begins "The Elephants Teach", perfectly frames the issues this book tackles. Myers explores more than a century of debate over how writing should…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Creative Writing, Poetry, Educational History
Xavier, Patrick – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
There is a clear need, in view of significant competitive, technological and service changes taking place in the telecommunications sector, to review universal service obligations, their coverage, how they are financed and who is responsible for providing them. In many OECD countries, a primary longer term issue is how to provide universal service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Industry, Financial Support
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Hansen, Cory Cooper – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2006
A marked difference in the quality of reading lesson plans after early childhood education students were required to use the Unit Builder feature in a web-based productivity tool (TaskStream) prompted the design of a study to measure significant changes. A rubric was created that meshed the qualities of effective teachers of literacy and the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Lesson Plans, Early Childhood Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Winkelman, Paul – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006
The development of an engineering curriculum assumes a body of knowledge that students, as future engineers, will need to know. Students acquire this body of knowledge through lectures, laboratories, projects and assignments and other means. The question then arises, how does one select the content and processes that are appropriate for the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Curriculum, Selection, Ethics
Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Morrison, Timothy, Ed.; Martin, Linda, Ed.; Boggs, Merry, Ed.; Raine, I. LaVerne, Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2010
For its 53rd annual meeting, the Association of Educators and Researchers met in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Marriott Charlotte City Center. This year's conference theme was "Building Literacy Communities", which was also used as the title for this year's Yearbook, Volume 32. This organization has long been the home of some of the nation's…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Influence of Technology, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
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Lawless, Naomi; Allan, John – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2004
On-line collaboration is becoming increasingly common in education and with organisations. It is believed that this can in itself cause stress for collaborators. We believe that in some ways stress can be designed out of on line collaborative exercises through management of the on-line working processes. This paper investigates methods of reducing…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning, Stress Management, Stress Variables
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Cain, Tim – British Journal of Music Education, 2004
In this short article I present a case for developing a new theory of music education, arguing that advances in music technology have undermined some of the most basic conceptual frameworks we currently possess. I describe some problems that might make the development of a new theory difficult and suggest some ways in which they might be overcome.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Curriculum Development, Technological Advancement, Influence of Technology
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Turman, Paul D. – Communication Teacher, 2005
The use of new and advanced technologies has a significant potential to impact the way students communicate in a number of contexts and settings. Many students will find themselves in both academic and career situations where computer-mediated communication (CMC) group interaction will be necessary. As a result, it is important to integrate…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Group Dynamics, Norms, Decision Making
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Benson, Angela D. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2004
In 2003, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), recognizing the need for a standard definition of distance education, issued a monograph that posed a definition of distance education as "institution-based, formal education where the learning group is separated and where interactive telecommunications systems are used…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Definitions, Technology Uses in Education, Influence of Technology
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Shin, Nary – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2004
The author's purpose in this study was to test 4 hypotheses that proposed different paths for the influences of children's television viewing on their academic achievement. Data were drawn from the 1997 Child Development Supplement (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The population for this study included 1,203 children between the…
Descriptors: Children, Television Viewing, Academic Achievement, Hypothesis Testing
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