Reviews Cambodia's educational development, characterized by a series of successive crises since the country's independence from France in 1953. Examines various approaches of development discourse to the educational crisis, and suggests that previous analyses of Cambodia's educational development have failed to recognize the tensions generated by…

Reports current governmental initiatives and projects on the elementary/secondary school and university level to provide a brief overview on the state of educational technology in Germany. Discusses conferences and exhibitions concerning the use of media in education, and uses of the Internet and distance education. (AEF)

Media management, the administration of college and university audiovisual media programs, has gone through many changes, responding to new technologies, pedagogical theories, and organizational structure. Reviews the issues, common technologies, and pedagogical themes experienced by media centers in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Examines current…

Chapters in this section of "Educational Media and Technology Yearbook" examine important trends prominent in the landscape of the school library media profession in 2001. Themes include mandated educational reform; diversity in school library resources; communication through image-text juxtaposition in Web pages; and professional development and…

Provides a framework to categorize distance education planning issues into four distinct program stages and three decision areas. The framework brings to the surface and highlights numerous areas of uncertainty and potential disagreement among decision makers and provides an organizing backdrop to improve the distance education planning process.…

Creating meaningful learning opportunities for school leaders (principals, teachers, peer professionals, and community members) is a central goal of educational staff developers. Describes results of one prototype collaborative effort to design and use multimedia cases to invigorate school leaders' organizational thinking and learning. (Author/AEF)

States that the fundamental challenge to Arizona's Maricopa County Community College District is how to carry out an urban-based social agenda with scarce resources, unenthusiastic support from state-level policy shapers, and the district's own internal disagreement about mission and purpose. Discusses the programs developed by Maricopa to respond…

A paradigm shift has occurred in the learning-teaching process that includes new ways of pedagogical thinking, post-modern curricula, digital learning, changed social interactions, and linear and lateral thinking. These changes require reorganization of the educational system in general and distance education in particular. Changes in the system…

Focuses on the strategies and forces that facilitated or constrained one large urban school system's efforts to acquire all necessary elements of the technology infrastructure to achieve their educational goals. Provides recommendations on how any government--city or state--can use its resources to facilitate full and effective use of technology…

Reports on the 11th Annual E-Learning Conference and Expo (Washington, DC, April 17-20, 2001). Papers presented in panel sessions included (but were not limited to) these themes: transforming traditional courses into e-learning; cost and benefits analysis; instructional design; technical issues; health hazards of wireless technologies; developing…

Explores the problems and issues involved in doing comparative historical education research (CHER) in a single society, specifically Hong Kong. Focuses on primary and secondary sources concerning education in Hong Kong. Concludes with a discussion on the links to various theories and lessons from Hong Kong. (CMK)

Examines the historical development of the term "child centered" in the discourse of early schooling in the United States. Beginning with Friedrich Froebel, who was the founder of the kindergarten and focuses on the development of the kindergarten until the 1930s. Explores how the underlying meanings of child-centerdness changed. (CMK)

Reports findings from recent studies conducted on effectiveness of school information systems (SIS) and recommends strategies for well-structured evaluations that attend to key factors (relative to system implementation and use) that affect all schools-regardless of their size and organization. (Author/AEF)

This paper offers precise definitions of distance learning and distance education, and their interrelationship. First, a single definition of learning is proposed, and then the concept of learning is broken down into three subcategories: instruction, exploration, and serendipity. Each is defined and the concepts of distance learning and distance…

Discusses the development of the Montessori Farm School in Huntsburg, Ohio, summarizing prototype activities of the Erdkinder project and discussing psychological and pedagogical outcomes. Considers areas of struggle in how the school opened and includes diagrams for linking pedagogical and work experiences. Describes community transformations…