Developing an Online Master of Education in Educational Technology in a Learning Paradigm: The Process and The Product

Elizabeth Willis; Gary Tucker; Cathy Gunn

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 11, No. 1 (2003) pp. 5–21

The political process necessary for planning and implementing a new degree program at Northern Arizona University (NAU), The Educational Technology Master of Education (M. Ed.), began in the spring of 1997. The program was finally discussed and...

Topics: Educational Technology

A Comprehensive Formative Evaluation of an Online Master’s Program

Gary Tucker; Laura Sujo de Montes; Elizabeth Willis; Michael Blocher

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 910–912

This paper discusses the importance of conducting formative evaluations. The Master's of Education in Educational Technology at Northern Arizona University is a young online program in its second year of implementation. Because online degree...

Topics: Educational Technology

Contextually Based Professional Development

J Michael Blocher; Shadow W. Armfield; Laura Sujo-Montes; Gary Tucker; Elizabeth Willis

Computers in the Schools Vol. 28, No. 2 (2011) pp. 158–169

In this article, the authors detail a study of a three-year professional development project designed to increase in-service teachers' classroom technology integration. Participants engaged in learning activities that modeled technology integration...

From the Thinking Board to NCATE/ISTE: How to Grow an Online Graduate Program

Laura Sujo de Montes; Elizabeth Willis; J. Michael Blocher; Gary Tucker; Cathy Gunn

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 3157–3160

What happens when similar-thinking faculty provide a "shared intelligence" to create a new program? How is knowledge building impacted when it is designed to be technology mediated? This panel presentation brings faculty from a southwestern...

Technology in Arizona: A Summary of the Report to the Arizona Board of Regents

Jennifer LeCrone; Gary Tucker; Elizabeth M. Willis; Penelope Wong; Paul Rowland

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2459–2464

The significance of technology in today's society is self-evident. What is less clear is how to ensure that today's children, the workforce of the future, will have the technological literacy and skills to successfully function and support our...

Topics: Learning Objects, Schools

Shifting from Instruction to Construction: A Personal Meaningful Experience

J Michael Blocher; Jennifer Echols; Laura Sujo de Montes; Elizabeth Willis; Gary Tucker

Action in Teacher Education Vol. 24, No. 4 (2003) pp. 74–78

Presents a case study of one student's passage through an online M.ED. in Educational Technology degree program and her subsequent experience integrating her newly acquired knowledge, skills, and methods in the real world of her own teaching...