Proposes how to utilize a virtual environment to enhance learning and teaching activities in formal higher education. Predicts that future higher education will still require a campus equipped with information technologies to be used to improve student participation, provide asynchronous learning support, conduct field-based learning, and handle…

Describes radio applications for education and summarizes radio activities for elementary and secondary school classrooms. Discusses teaching the history of radio communications; AM-FM radio; international shortwave broadcasts; NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) weather service broadcasts; scanner radios; and amateur radios.…

Suggests areas to improve technology-based education for the 21st century. Discusses training in colleges and universities, training through staff development, restructuring with technology, allowing time for extending teachers' knowledge base, and obstacles to technology training. (AEF)

Examines current demographics of Web usage and the challenges they reveal. Provides guidance for creating World Wide Web content for international audiences. Addresses what can be achieved by making the Web a truly international medium. Concludes that a consensus has not yet been reached on a global graphic language. (PA)

The Chesapeake (Virginia) Public Schools developed a strategic school-improvement plan with 178 recommendations representing certain goals: school safety, standards, effectiveness, efficiency, staff training, technology integration, community involvement, and facilities. The implementation process consisted of assigning responsibilities,…

Discussion of technology integration in teaching and teacher education focuses on policy and curriculum reform as they relate to information technology use for teacher education, based on experiences in Cyprus public schools. Discusses the need for shifts in pedagogical approaches and reforms in preservice teacher education and inservice…

Explores 149 elementary school teachers' personal experiences with instructional computing and the role of computers they would like to see in classroom instruction. Teachers' responses to a survey questionnaire revealed significant differences and positive correlation between teachers' present computer training, level of comfort, and computer…

Provides one perspective on the design elements incorporated into the Pennsylvania State University World Campus Educational Technology Integration Certification courses and a brief overview of the authors' experiences facilitating these courses, including their opinions about theoretical and practical implications of different instructional…

Outlines fruitful areas of information and instructional technology (IIT) in education research: pedagogy of online environments; simulation, visualization, and modeling; mind-tools or cognitive tools; assessment tools; wireless computing; tools for learning communities; tools for project work and authentic tasks; integration of media, tools, and…

Suggests a set of cumulative standards for assessing the use of nonprint media and electronic technologies in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. Discusses technology integration across the curriculum; standards for technology integration; and the development of nonprint literacy performance standards. (Contains 15 references.)…

Researchers spent four months observing and interviewing students in French and Spanish language classrooms. Several themes emerged from the data which characterize the phenomenon of learner interaction in technology-enhanced language learning environments. This article presents a more contextualized picture of the implementation of technology in…

A faculty member in teacher development presents her perspectives of technology use, requirements, and students' problems. Five students in her Introduction to Education class give their viewpoints of technology use in their classes and discuss their perspective as future teachers. Problems of technology in the classroom are identified, followed…

Proposes a number of factors by which the cost of technology in education can be properly justified. Based on a study of technology cost effectiveness with participants of a statewide initiative introducing Interactive Distance Learning (IDL). Describes indicators that represent 12 ways educators in Ohio using IDL for student learning feel the…

Identifies key challenges for community colleges concerning faculty and professional staff: preparing and attracting qualified faculty, implementing the teaching and learning paradigm, helping faculty make use of current technology, and improving the status and morale of professional staff. Proposes several potential solutions for each challenge.…

Considers ways to include schools' food service departments in technology planning. Discusses school food service software applications, considerations and challenges of automating food service operations, and business-to-business Internet solutions. (EV)