Certain guiding principles ensure that information technology becomes a value-added investment: using well-designed management and operating processes and fact-based decision making; examining document core processes and business practices; rethinking and redesigning processes, policies, and practices before integrating them into a system; and…

Hypothesizes that augmenting print-based distance education courses for postsecondary students with other technologies enhances the effectiveness of student learning. Explores the use of videotape, television, one-and two-way audio/videoconferencing, and the Internet, and presents strategies for integrating these technologies. (Author/LRW)

Discussion of the integration of educational technology focuses on Internet integration in classrooms and its effect on students' learning and teacher-student relationships. Describes results of a study of Internet use among undergraduates, including positive and negative influences on student learning and the effects of Internet use on classroom…

Describes the prominent place of teacher training in the Duncanville (Texas) Independent School District's technology planning. Research based on teacher post-test and survey results overwhelmingly concludes that professional development for teachers is an essential ingredient for effectively integrating technology in instruction. (MLH)

Discusses the need for faculty training to integrate learning technologies into their classrooms and describes a collaborative three-year evaluation of the Inter-Institutional Faculty Summer Institute on Learning Technologies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Describes results of surveys and interviews and considers the impacts of…

Examines the process of implementing an educational technology innovation in a senior high school. Data was collected through participant observation, interviews, and artifact collection. While the implementation was unsuccessful, results underscore the notion that implementation is a complex process involving the organization, the people, and the…

Current rhetoric about the educational "impact" of new information and communication technologies (ICT) often masks the complex reality in which it is educators' decisions and practices with ICT that result in change and constitute the impact. In communities of interpretation, teachers and researchers can collaborate to construct knowledge of…

Discusses collaborative classroom projects and partnerships called collaboratories which emphasize interactive, problem-solving, student-centered technology-based learning environments. Offers example of projects that include schools, universities, and businesses, and discusses the need to go beyond integrating technology into the curriculum to…

The Roanoke Valley Governor's School (RVGS) in Virginia designed special spaces for mathematics, drawing directly from current national standards for secondary school mathematics. Tables show how recommendations for facility design were derived from the curriculum-focused standards and guidelines. A summary of the major design features and…

Reports on part of an ethnographic study of one facility associated with the New Media Centers' Consortium, focusing on the viewpoint of university administration. Suggests the facility was used as a tool for change. Argues for evaluating the role of technology in higher education and for developing an understanding of how its role is legitimized.…

The Library of Congress (LC) has increasingly created digital reproductions of visual materials to enhance access to its resources. This article describes selected aspects of LC's practical experience and current practices from digital capture through interactions with users, with an emphasis on the integration of access to pictorial images online…

Investigates the effect of selected personal, school, and district factors on K-3 teachers' confidence in their ability to implement computer-based instruction before and after an infusion of Information Technology (IT). Increased IT resources changed the strength and structure of teachers' confidence. The strongest predictors of confidence were…

Notes that many teachers today are envisioning novel ways of integrating the Internet into their daily lessons. Examines how these teachers, experienced with the Internet, integrate the technology into their daily lessons. Suggests their stories, including their successes and failures, can inform teacher education and staff development in powerful…

An Illinois school district's quest for magical answers to technology-integration woes inspired a homegrown potion. Planners advise others to begin the journey regardless of available resources, find supportive "munchkins" within the community, face and overcome obstacles, choose traveling companions wisely, fight off attacks together, and create…

Examines the relationships between first- (external) and second- (internal) order barriers to technology implementation by observing and interviewing several teachers within a single elementary school who had achieved varying levels of integration. Discusses strategies for technology staff development. (AEF)