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David Gibson
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David Gibson
simSchool
I'm interested in designing games & simulations for teacher education and in examining how the data created by highly interactive digital media can be assessed.
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Network-Based Assessment in Education: A symposium on emerging technologies and methods
David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 72–75
If assessment is most effective when it reflects learning as "multidimensional, integrated, and revealed in performance over time," (Walvoord & Anderson, 1998) then what do networks, new media and new methodologies have to offer us in the way of...
Topics: Assessment, Integration, Instructional Design, Learning Objects
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Make It a Two-Way connection: A Response to “Connecting Informal and Formal Learning Experiences in the Age of Participatory Media”
David Gibson
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 8, No. 4 (December 2008) pp. 305–309
The recent editorial “Connecting Informal and Formal Learning Experiences in the Age of Participatory Media” (Bull, Thompson, Searson, Garofalo, Park, Young, & Lee 2008) points out that social media exemplified in Web sites such as YouTube, Facebook ...
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Elements of Network-Based Assessment
David Gibson
Computers in the Schools Vol. 23, No. 3 (Feb 16, 2007) pp. 131–150
Elements of network-based assessment systems are envisioned based on recent advances in knowledge and practice in learning theory, assessment design and delivery, and semantic web interoperability. The architecture takes advantage of the meditating...
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Assessing Deeper Learning in Open Online Learning Communities
David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 459–465
This paper describes a framework for assessing deeper learning in open learning communities based on eight essential practices. It begins by defining deeper learning and outlining a case for elevating formative, performance-based assessments over...
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SimSchool: A “flight simulator” for teachers
David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1213–1215
This poster session will provide people with an update on the research and development of simSchool, a "flight simulator" for teachers. Recent pilots have shown promise for the simulator in preservice and teacher development. A new FIPSE funded...
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Online Personal Learning in Teacher Preparation
David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 189–194
Work by the National Institute for Community Innovations (NICI at http://nici-mc2. org) is leading to new web-based tools for enhancing preservice education and supporting increase use of technology, especially in Professional Development Schools. ...
Topics: Community, Educational Technology, Learning Outcomes, Schools, Professional Development
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Elements of Network-Based Assessment
David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 65–71
ABSTRACT: This article presents an introduction to elements of a network-based assessment system based in recent advances in knowledge and practice in learning theory, assessment design and delivery, and semantic web interoperability. The envisioned ...
Topics: Networking Technologies, Assessment
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E-Portfolio Decisions and Dilemmas
David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 92–99
The definition of "e-portfolio" covers a wide spectrum of approaches to documentation and assessment, with a correspondingly wide array of differing audiences and purposes. In addition, the unique role of technology in the mediation of action and...
Topics: Portfolios
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Functions of an Online Mentoring and Professional Learning Portal
David Gibson
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 1513–1516
How does online collaboration work when a learner is in complete control of the dialog with advisors? How can remote advisors provide high quality feedback on work samples and artifacts? This paper discusses the online Professional Learning Portal...
Topics: Community, Professional Development, Educational Technology
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Learning to teach with a classroom simulator
David Gibson; Stacy Kruse
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1143–1152
A classroom simulator – simSchool - offers a new paradigm for teacher education based in self-direction & personal validation in a complex but repeatable practice environment, supported by emergent interdisciplinary knowledge concerning the unique...
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Directions in Electronic Portfolio Development
David Gibson; Helen Barrett
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 58–64
This article explores the advantages and trade-offs of two paths to the development of electronic portfolios - using generic tools and using customized systems. The analysis assumes that the goal of electronic portfolios is to stay focused on the...
Topics: Portfolios
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Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2017
Leping Liu; David Gibson
(2017)
It is a pleasure to present the 2017 edition of the Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education, now in its ninth year of publication. This collection of peer-reviewed articles represents the outstanding scholarship and notable work...
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A Case Study: The Rural School District and the Microcomputer
David McDonald; Karen Gibson
NASSP Bulletin Vol. 66, No. 455 (September 1982) pp. 75–77
Outlines the experiences of one small district in introducing microcomputers. Lessons learned concern a computer checkout procedure and teacher inservice training. (JM)
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Learning Through Exploration of an Online School: Characteristics of Preservice Teachers' Searches
Eric Riedel; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 1015–1018
This paper examines the use of data generated by recording the information preservice teachers access in online scenarios in which they are asked to make decisions about using technology in a fictitious schools (eTIP Cases). The data are reported...
Topics: Preservice Teacher Education, Faculty, Educational Technology, Teachers, Students
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The Digital Transcript and eFolios: Linking NETS-T at Four Career Stages of Teaching
Greg Nadeau; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 203–208
The proposed roundtable discussion would bring together portfolio assessment providers and teacher preparation institutions to discuss the preliminary findings of the ISTE's NETS-T Candidate Readiness assessment pilot. The roundtable would be...
Topics: Assessment
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Responsive Dissemination: A Data-Driven Approach to Change
Lorraine Sherry; David Gibson
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 13, No. 1 (2005) pp. 85–104
The Teacher Education Network (TEN), a 2000 PT3 Catalyst grantee, developed a model of responsive dissemination. In contrast to traditional information transmission, responsive dissemination incorporates feedback from its audiences into the ongoing...
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The SimSchool Project: Using Classroom Management Simulations to help Future Teachers Teach and Improve Student Learning!
Bill Halverson; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2624–2628
The SimSchool Project is creating a computer simulation where teachers can virtually go to practice their teaching and classroom management skills within a fun, realistic and safe educational simulation - game environment. This simulation will...
Topics: Students, Classrooms, Preservice Teacher Education, Teachers
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Semantic Web Applications for E-Learning
Joel Foreman; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 1932–1937
ABSTRACT: Web-based E-learning applications can take advantage of the Semantic Web's interoperability standards to effect more responsive interactions among teachers, learners and resources. This article outlines how the emerging capabilities are...
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Using Games to Prepare Ethical Educators and Students
Karen Schrier; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1372–1379
Teacher education that emphasizes the understanding and assessment of ethics can support the creation of an ethically aware and critically engaged citizenship. But how do we develop teachers who are reflective and critical thinkers of ethics? One...
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Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2014
Leping Liu; David Gibson
(2014) pp. 1–140
Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education is now in its sixth year of publication, and has become one of the most important publications of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). This series of books...
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Responsive Dissemination: A Data-Driven Approach to Change
Lorraine Sherry; David Gibson
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education
The Teacher Education Network (TEN), a 2000 PT3 Catalyst grantee, developed a model of responsive dissemination. In contrast to traditional information transmission, responsive dissemination incorporates feedback from its audiences into the ongoing ...
Topics: PT3
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Bridging the distance between research and practice: Creating a community of practice for piloting an educational simulation.
Melanie Zibit; David Gibson
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 1044–1057
Projects and organizations that want to deploy new e-learning tools find it helpful to bridge research, development and practice by piloting with users to learn what works, what needs adapting, and how to create support systems for full scale...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Technology Enhanced Assessment in Complex Collaborative Settings
Mary Webb; David Gibson
Education and Information Technologies Vol. 20, No. 4 (2015) pp. 675–695
Building upon discussions by the Assessment Working Group at EDUsummIT 2013, this article reviews recent developments in technology enabled assessments of collaborative problem solving in order to point out where computerised assessments are...
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Simulation as a Framework for Preservice Assessment
David Gibson; Bill Halverson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 3322–3325
The Vermont Institutes and Teaching Research, of Western Oregon University are partners in a preservice technology initiative that uniquely prepares teachers to improve student learning. The initiative documents growth in future teachers' results...
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Netseminars: A Strategy for Team-Based Action Research
Gary Obermeyer; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2907–2912
Professional Development School (PDS) partnerships offer a powerful leverage point for the improvement of student learning in the K-12 sector and a unique opportunity to experiment with new forms of online learning for the adults who work in and...
Topics: Teachers, Schools, Professional Development, Students
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The Path to Teacher Leadership in Educational Technology
Lorraine Sherry; David Gibson
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 2, No. 2 (2002) pp. 178–203
Educational technology adoption models have not traditionally incorporated either teacher leadership or the complex systems in which teachers work. This article presents two frameworks for viewing online technologies and implementation practices...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Leadership
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simSchool - Preparing Tommorow's Teachers to Improve Student Learning
David Gibson; Bill Halverson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 3318–3321
Western Oregon University and The Vermont Institutes will create a preservice technology initiative that uniquely prepares teachers to improve student learning. The initiative will document growth in future teachers' results-oriented abilities by...
Topics: Teachers, Classrooms, Middle School Education, Networking Technologies, Students
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Measuring Needs and Finding Resources: An XML-Based Responsive Dissemination System
David Gibson; Michael Knapp
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 1429–1432
ABSTRACT. New web-based methods for tagging digital resources provide a way to build applications that assist people in measuring their knowledge, strengths and interests, analyzing the patterns and meaning of the measures, and automatically...
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Inside SimSchool – A simulated environment to understand how students learn
Melanie Zibit; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 2897–2901
When you watch a chef cook, you can see the process, but when you watch a teacher, the decision making process is internal, making it difficult for an aspiring or novice teacher to connect what the expert teacher does and how students respond....
Topics: Teachers, Behavior, Classrooms, Students
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Directions in Electronic Portfolio Development
David Gibson; Helen Barrett
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 2, No. 4 (2002) pp. 556–573
Portfolios have been around a long time. Educators used them long before the digital age, which suggests that perhaps the new media and medium of electronic portfolios, in part, can be looked at through lenses from the past. For example, in the past,...
Topics: Educational Technology, Portfolios
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Game Changers for Teacher Education
David Gibson; Gerald Knezek
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 929–942
Ideas for a new framework for teacher education are introduced based on three sets of forces that may radically transform the way educational researchers and practitioners see their world: 1. Complex Systems Knowledge, 2. Global Flatteners, and 3....
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Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2016
Leping Liu; David Gibson
(2016) pp. 1–204
SITE is proud to present the 2016 Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education. This compilation represents some of the finest research presented at the 2016 SITE conference in Savannah, GA. Each article underwent two rounds of rigorous...
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Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2018
Leping Liu; David Gibson
It is a pleasure to present the 2018 edition of the Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education, now in its tenth year of publication. The collection of peer-reviewed articles represents the outstanding scholarship and notable work...
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Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2012
Cleborne D. Maddux; David Gibson
(2012)
This book includes 23 selected papers submitted by members of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). The book is available in both digital and hard copy formats.
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Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2015
Leping Liu; David C. Gibson
(2015) pp. 1–220
SITE is proud to present the 2015 Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education. This compilation represents some of the finest research presented at the 2015 SITE conference in Las Vegas, NV. Each article underwent two rounds of rigorous...
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Exploratory Analysis in Learning Analytics
David Gibson; Sara de Freitas
Technology, Knowledge and Learning Vol. 21, No. 1 (2016) pp. 5–19
This article summarizes the methods, observations, challenges and implications for exploratory analysis drawn from two learning analytics research projects. The cases include an analysis of a games-based virtual performance assessment and an...
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Teaching Ethics through Gaming Environments: Design, Development and Research Perspectives
Karen Schrier; David Gibson; David Shaenfield; David Simkins; Jose Zagal
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 2238–2241
How do we design and use gaming environments to foster ethical thinking and discourse? How should we use games in classrooms and informal educational settings to support moral development? Games provide an authentic content within which to practice...
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Addressing the challenges of a bilingually delivered online course: design and development of the Australia China Trade (ACT) MOOC
Nathaniel Ostashewski; Michael Thorpe; David Gibson
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1284–1289
This paper describes a design-based research program exploring a MOOC designed for delivery in two languages, English and Chinese. Learning resources, online discussions and activities, and live synchronous sessions with topic experts form the basis ...
Topics: Instructional Design, Implementation Examples & Issues, Social & Cultural Issues
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Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2019
David C. Gibson; Marilyn N. Ochoa
(September 2019)
It is exciting to present the 2019 edition of the Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education, now in its eleventh year of publication. This collection of peer-reviewed articles represents the outstanding scholarship and notable work...
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Information Technology Education for Health Professionals: Opportunities and Challenges
Syed S. Haque; David M. Gibson
Journal of Allied Health Vol. 27, No. 3 (1998) pp. 167–71
Describes surveys of potential health-care employers and health-care professionals to identify the need for biomedical informatics programs. Outlines a certificate program, master of science in biomedicine and nursing informatics, and a Ph.D....
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Creating and evaluating a portal for urban educators
Lorraine Sherry; Simone Conceição; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 3667–3670
The Teacher Education Network (TEN) PT3 Catalyst Grant, in conjunction with two of its partners, the Urban Network to Improve Teacher Education (UNITE) and the National Institute on Community Innovations (NICI), created an Urban Teacher Education...
Topics: Networking Technologies, Teachers, Community, Educational Technology
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Editorial: A Rationale for Incorporating Engineering Education Into the Teacher Education Curriculum
Glen Bull; Knezek Gerald; David Gibson
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 9, No. 3 (September 2009) pp. 222–225
Investment in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education has been identified by the U.S. Department of Education and other agencies as a pressing need. Although science and mathematics, and to a lesser extent, technology...
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Building Responsive Dissemination Systems for Education with the Semantic Web
David Gibson; Michael Knapp; Brandt Kurowski
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 1509–1512
There are numerous web-based survey instruments for educators that determine needs related to professional development, student results, and school performance. However, people receiving survey results also need simultaneous access to proven...
Topics: Library, Professional Development, Educational Technology, Community
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The Personal Learning Planner: A Learner-Focused E-learning System
Bruce Havelock; David Gibson; Lorraine Sherry
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 2185–2188
This paper presents the online Personal Learning Planner (PLP) project underway at the National Institute of Community Innovations (NICI), one of the partners in the Teacher Education Network (TEN). The Web-based PLP provides a comprehensive system ...
Topics: Standards, Community, Administrators, Learning Management Systems
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Informing learning design through analytics: Applying network graph analysis
Dirk Ifenthaler; David Gibson; Eva Dobozy
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 34, No. 2 (Apr 27, 2018)
Learning design has traditionally been thought of as an activity occurring prior to the presentation of a learning experience or a description of that activity. With the advent of near real-time data and new opportunities of representing the...
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Responsive dissemination: A model for scaling and sustaining educational innovations
Lorraine Sherry; Bruce Havelock; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 3671–3676
Reforms and innovations showing promise in initial test bed settings often founder when brought to a wider audience (Sabelli & Dede, 1999). The TEN Project, a 2000 PT3 Catalyst Grant, confronted the challenge of scaling and sustaining their work by...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Writing to Publish in SITE Research Highlights Book: Aids and Cautions
Leping Liu; David Gibson; Cleborne Maddux
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 2218–2219
In this panel, the editors of the SITE Research Highlights Book will introduce the submission and publishing procedures for this book, and discuss aids and cautions in writing quality research papers.
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Using Developmental Research To Design, Develop, and Evaluate an Urban Education Portal
Lorraine Sherry; Simone Conceição; David Gibson
Journal of Interactive Learning Research
The Teacher Education Network (TEN) PT3 Catalyst Grant, in conjunction with its partner, the Urban Network to Improve Teacher Education (UNITE), created an Urban Education Portal for its members that provided interactive and personalized access to a ...
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simSchool - Today's Preservice Students Prepare for Tomorrow's Classrooms
Melanie Zibit; David Gibson; Bill Halverson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 3130–3136
Forces are buffeting today's schools and institutions, impacting teachers' abilities in the classroom. Too many new teachers enter the classroom unprepared to make decisions and manage a classroom of 24-31 students, in part due to teacher...
Topics: Teachers, Classrooms, Students, Virtual Environments
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The Personal Learning Planner: Collaboration through Online Learning and Publication
David Gibson; Lorraine Sherry; Bruce Havelock
Computers in the Schools Vol. 23, No. 3 (Feb 16, 2007) pp. 55–70
This paper discusses the online Personal Learning Planner (PLP) project underway at the National Institute of Community Innovations (NICI), one of the partners in the Teacher Education Network (TEN), a 2000 PT3 Catalyst grantee. The Web-based PLP...