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Design-based research and doctoral students: Guidelines for preparing a dissertation proposal
Jan Herrington; Susan McKenney; Thomas Reeves; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 4089–4097
At first glance, design-based research may appear to be such a long-term and intensive approach to educational inquiry that doctoral students, most of whom expect to complete their Ph.D. degree in 4-5 years, should not attempt to adopt this approach ...
Topics: Educational Technology, Research Methods, Students
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Online Learning as Information Delivery: Digital Myopia
Jan Herrington; Thomas C Reeves; Ron Oliver
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 16, No. 4 (October 2005) pp. 353–367
** Invited as a paper from ED-MEDIA 2004 ** In business and commerce, the concept of marketing myopia has been a useful tool to predict, analyze and explain the rise and fall of businesses. In this article, we question whether the concept can...
Topics: Pedagogy, Constructivism, web-based learning, online learning, online teaching
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Computers and play in early childhood: Affordances and limitations
Irina Verenikina; Jan Herrington; Rob Peterson; Jessica Mantei
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 21, No. 1 (January 2010) pp. 139–159
** Invited as a paper from ED-MEDIA 2008 ** Abstract: The widespread proliferation of computer games for children as young as six months of age, merits a re-examination of their manner of use and a review of their facility to provide...
Topics: Developmental Stages, Games, Early Childhood Education, Children, Computers
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Authentic E-Learning in Higher Education: Design Principles for Authentic Learning Environments and Tasks
Jan Herrington
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 3164–3173
With many learners failing to engage with didactic and outmoded instructional methods, and unwilling to use technology that simply replicates the one-way transfer of information from teacher to student, authentic learning designs have the potential...
Topics: Educational Technology, Multimedia, Preservice Teacher Education, Leadership, Learning Management Systems
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Designing Authentic Activities for Web-based Courses
Jan Herrington
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 18–27
Influenced by constructivist philosophy and advances in technology, there is increasing interest in authentic activities as a basis for learning in both face-to-face and web-based courses. Whereas traditionally, activities have primarily served as...
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Using Situated Learning and Multimedia to Investigate Higher-Order Thinking
Jan Herrington; R. Oliver
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 10, No. 1 (1999) pp. 3–24
This paper describes a qualitative study into students' use of higher-order thinking as they use an interactive multimedia program based on a situated learning framework. The analysis of types of talk used by students as they worked with the program ...
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Child’s play: Exploring computer software through theories of play
Irina Verenikina; Pauline Lysaght; Pauline Harris; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4070–4074
The developments of increasingly sophisticated computer technologies, and growing access to computers in both homes and schools, have seen a proliferation of computer programs and games in children's play. Such programs are commonly used in Early...
Topics: Computers, Children, Software, Learning Outcomes
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Transfer of Online Professional Learning to Teachers’ Classroom Practice
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Garry Hoban; Doug Reid
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 20, No. 2 (April 2009) pp. 189–213
Professional learning is an important process in enabling teachers to update their pedagogical knowledge and practices. The use of online technologies to support professional learning has a number of benefits in terms of flexibility and scalability. ...
Topics: Schools, eLearning, Professional Development, Teachers, Information Communication Technologies
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Using Situated Learning and Multimedia to Investigate Higher-Order Thinking
Jan Herrington; R. Oliver
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 8, No. 4 (1999) pp. 401–422
This paper describes a qualitative study into students' use of higher-order thinking as they use an interactive multimedia program based on a situated learning framework. The analysis of types of talk used by students as they worked with the program ...
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The State of the Art of Design-Based Research
Rob Peterson; Jan Herrington
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2302–2307
Ann Brown (1992) and Allan Collins (1992) introduced the term design experiment in 1992 as an innovative approach to educational research. Today, commonly termed design-based research (DBR), the approach itself is still very much being designed....
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Standards for Educational, Edutainment, and Developmentally Beneficial Computer Games
Rob Peterson; Irina Verenikina; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 1307–1316
The results of a comprehensive review of the body of research concerning the developmental and educational value of computer gaming for children is reported. Based on the review, design criteria are proposed for educational and edutainment computer...
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'Cognitive realism' in online authentic learning environments
Jan Herrington; Ron Oliver; Tom Reeves
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2115–2121
The development of virtual reality and advanced computer applications have meant that realistic creations of simulated environments are now possible. Such simulations have been used with to great effect in training in the military, air force, and in ...
Topics: Cognition, Physical Education, Physical Environments, Virtual Environments
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Moving from an Instructivist to a Constructivist Multimedia Learning Environment
Jan Herrington; Peter Standen
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 9, No. 3 (2000) pp. 195–205
This article describes the transformation of a multimedia pro-gram, designed to teach research skills to business students, from one based on an "instructivist" model to one under-pinned with a constructivist philosophy. The revised program uses the ...
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Design-based research
Jan Herrington
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology Vol. 2011, No. 1 (2011)
Design-based research (also known as design research and design experiments) is a promising approach to finding solutions to significant educational problems. This session will explain the background to the approach, and provide a practical ...
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The affordances and limitations of computers for play in early childhood
Irina Verenikina; Jan Herrington; Rob Peterson; Jessica Mantei
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3091–3100
The widespread proliferation of computer games for children as young as 6 months of age, merits a re-examination of their manner of use and their facility to provide opportunities for developmental play. This paper describes a research study...
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Reflections on creating an international virtual benchmarking model for authentic e-learning: Crossing boundaries and breaking down barriers
Irja Leppisaari; Leena Vainio; Jan Herrington; Yeonwook Im
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 950–959
International virtual teamwork offers new opportunities for the professional development of teachers. In this paper, we examine the initial experiences in an ongoing international virtual benchmarking project coordinated by the Finnish Online...
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The Design of an Online Community of Practice for Beginning Teachers
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Lisa Kervin; Brian Ferry
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 6, No. 1 (March 2006) pp. 120–132
Beginning teachers face enormous challenges in their first year of teaching. High attrition rates of teachers within the first five years attest to the difficulties inherent in commencing professional life as a teacher. This paper describes the...
Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Mentoring, Preservice Teacher Education, Teachers, Community
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Authentic e-Learning in a Multicultural Context: Virtual Benchmarking Cases from Five Countries
Irja Leppisaari; Jan Herrington; Leena Vainio; Yeonwook Im
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 24, No. 1 (January 2013) pp. 53–73
Abstract: The implementation of authentic learning elements at education institutions in five countries, eight online courses in total, is examined in this paper. The International Virtual Benchmarking Project (2009-2010) applied the elements of...
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Design-based research: Implementation issues in emerging scholar research
Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1–6
Design-based research (DBR) (also known as educational design research and design experiments) is a promising approach to finding solutions to significant educational problems. This paper describes the background to the approach and a model, and...
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Authentic activities in language learning: Bringing real world relevance to classroom activities
Ildeniz Ozverir; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 1423–1428
Maintaining essential contextual conditions in TESOL classroom in order to achieve authenticity have been the target for many researchers. During this process, however, the difficulty and complexity of real life tasks have been disregarded. As a...
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Perceptions and reflections: Using Skype chat to build a community of learners
Jenni Parker; Dani Boase-Jelinek; Jan Herrington
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1599–1604
Abstract: This paper is a report on the preliminary findings of two on-going studies conducted on graduate level courses for pre-service teachers. A survey was used to gather student perceptions about using Skype and written tutor reflections...
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Moving from an Instructivist to a Constructivist Multimedia Learning Environment
Jan Herrington; Peter Standen
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 132–137
This paper describes the transformation of a multimedia program, designed to teach research skills to business students, from one based on an 'instructivist' model to one underpinned with a constructivist philosophy. The revised program uses the...
Topics: Instructional Design
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Mobile learning in higher education: Authentic tasks, assessment and Web 2.0
Jan Herrington; Anthony Herrington; Ian Olney
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1988–1993
Increasingly ubiquitous and smart devices have enabled learning opportunities away from established learning places, as students have extended the means and the spaces in which they learn. In this paper, we describe the evolution of a project...
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Design-based research: Learning Italian at university in a community of learners
Mariolina Pais Marden; Jan Herrington; Anthony Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2966–2972
This paper describes a study where design-based research (DBR) is used as a framework for the design and implementation of an online community of foreign language learners, in the context of learning Italian as a second language at university. An...
Topics: Community, Learning Objects, Learning Management Systems, Languages
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An effectiveness evaluation of an online learning environment
Shirley Agostinho; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3476–3481
This paper reports on an effectiveness evaluation conducted on a postgraduate course that was delivered totally online. The purpose of the evaluation was to determine whether the course was effective in terms of facilitating student learning, and to ...
Topics: Evaluation
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A whole-school approach to technological literacy: Mobile learning and the iPhone
Jan Herrington; Susan McKenzie; Robin Pascoe; Amanda Woods-McConney; Judith MacCallum; Peter Wright
Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 181–186
Mobile learning is not pervasive in higher education and yet its potential is enormous. This paper describes a project to instigate mobile learning in a School of Education using a whole-of-school approach to technological literacy and professional...
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online learning design for dummies: professional development strategies for beginning online designers
Jan Herrington; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1500–1505
Much of the conventional development of Web-based learning environments stems from design strategies that are based on providing delivery of the course content. Contemporary courseware delivery systems encourage teachers to see the design of online ...
Topics: Instructional Materials, Instructional Design, Professional Development
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Instructional Design Guidelines for Authentic Activity in Online Learning Units
Jan Herrington; Heather Sparrow; Tony Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 435–440
The current trend to use the World Wide Web as a vehicle for the delivery of distance education units has required educators to adopt innovative approaches to the design of learning materials for this medium. However, the temptation to place large ...
Topics: Instructional Materials, Distance Education, Instructional Design
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Workplace culture and accessibility of the Internet for professional learning
Madeleine Shanahan; Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 4423–4432
The World Wide Web is an important information source for professionals providing immediate access to the most current information and recent research. This study examined accessibility to the Internet within healthcare workplaces by utilising two...
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Authentic e-Learning in a Multicultural Context: Virtual Benchmarking Cases from Five Countries
Irja Leppisaari; Jan Herrington; Leena Vainio; Yeonwook Im
Global Learn 2011 (Mar 28, 2011) pp. 961–970
The implementation of authentic learning elements at education institutions in five countries, eight online courses in total, is examined in this paper. The International Virtual Benchmarking Project (2009-2010) applied the elements of authentic...
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Beginning teacher network: The design of an online community of practice for beginning teachers in Australia
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Lori Lockyer; Ian Brown
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3251–3258
The high attrition rate of teachers in their first five years of teaching coupled with an ageing teacher profile necessitates innovative approaches to beginning teacher support and professional development. This paper argues (and provides a...
Topics: Community, Teachers, Professional Development, Research Methods
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Developing Authentic e-Learning through Virtual Benchmarking
Irja Leppisaari; Leena Vainio; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2609–2618
The implementation of authentic learning elements in 12 universities of applied sciences online courses is examined in this paper. The Virtual Benchmarking Project conducted at the Finnish Virtual University of Applied Sciences in 2008 used the...
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Transfer of online professional learning to teachers’ classroom practice: An analysis of eight cases
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Garry Hoban; Doug Reid
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1383–1389
Professional learning is an important process in enabling teachers to update their pedagogical knowledge and practices. The use of online technologies to support professional learning has a number of benefits in terms of flexibility and scalability. ...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Classrooms
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The BEST site on the internet: An online resource for beginning and establishing successful teachers
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Lisa Kervin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 2646–2651
Beginning teachers face enormous challenges in their first year of teaching. High attrition rates of teachers within the first five years attest to the difficulties inherent in commencing professional life as a teacher. This paper describes the...
Topics: Teachers, Professional Development, Evaluation
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Developing an Online Community of Learners for Second Language Students Using Design-Based Research
Mariolina Pais Marden; Jan Herrington; Anthony Herrington
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1862–1867
This paper describes the design of a research project that adopted a design-based research (DBR) approach to create and implement an online community of second language learners of Italian. For one semester a group of sixteen intermediate and...
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Online Learning as Information Delivery: Digital Myopia
Jan Herrington; Thomas Reeves; Ron Oliver
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3582–3590
In the past, the concept of marketing myopia has been a useful tool to predict, analyze and explain the rise and fall of businesses. In this paper, we question whether the concept can be used to predict the ultimate downfall of online learning in...
Topics: Teachers
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A reality check: Taking authentic e-learning from design to implementation
Hanna Teräs; Marko Teräs; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 2219–2228
Tampere University of Applied Sciences has developed a postgraduate certificate program for teaching in higher education that is currently being implemented at Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates. In the design of the program,...
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‘Please switch off your (im)mobile’: The demise of immobile learning in higher education
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 3449–3454
Mobile devices are more and more becoming indispensible tools in everyday life. However, universities continue to rely on the provision of computer labs for ICT-based instruction where in many cases mobile phones would be a much more appropriate...
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Technology-supported collaboration on field-based authentic tasks
Gwyn Brickell; Jan Herrington; Barry Harper
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1961–1968
The traditional 'work-sheet' approach has long been a favoured method for the conduct of field trips and excursions for school students. Such an approach fails to capitalise on constructivist theory and more specifically, collaborative learning,...
Topics: Collaboration, Schools, Educational Technology, Students
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A Web-Based Resource Providing Reflective Online Support for Preservice Mathematics Teachers on School Practice
Tony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Ron Oliver; Arshad Omari
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 1, No. 2 (2000) pp. 117–140
I have come, over the years, in spite of all the reform agendas, to believe that the best we can do in teacher preparation programs, through a variety of courses and clinical experiences in intentionally selected schools, is to help academically...
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Teachers' perceptions of online modules to promote professional learning of ICT
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Garry Hoban; Doug Reid
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2229–2238
Online professional learning has the potential to be a cost effective, flexible approach that can reach large numbers of teachers. However, there are many factors that need to be evaluated in developing successful online approaches that impact on...
Topics: Teachers, Evaluation
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Supporting interaction and collaboration in the language classroom through computer mediated communication
Mariolina Pais Marden; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 1161–1168
This paper describes the design and implementation of a technology supported learning environment that enabled interaction and collaboration between a group of sixteen intermediate and advanced level university students of Italian and a group of...
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Design Principles for Applied Learning in Higher Education: A Pedagogical Approach for Non-traditional Students in an Online Course.
Jillian Downing; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) pp. 874–881
The profile of university students is changing, as a larger percentage of the population fill our online and on-campus classrooms. A new teacher education program commenced at an Australian university in 2011, with an explicit focus on applied...
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Describing and Categorising Online Professional Development for Teachers
Anthony Herrington; Evan Glazer; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1966–1969
The professional development of teachers is an important and necessary process in successful school teaching and learning. While there are varied approaches to professional development there is a widespread view that many have been problematic. The...
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Using Design-based Research to Investigate the Design and Development of an Online Community of Practice for Teacher Professional Development
Eunice Sari; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) pp. 121–127
This paper discusses how design-based research (DBR) has been used to investigate the development of OLC4TPD (Online Learning Community for Teacher Professional Development), an online learning community developed in 2009 to support ongoing teacher...
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Developing More Authentic e-Courses: Working Life Mentoring through Social Media
Irja Leppisaari; Markus Maunula; Jan Herrington; Tuula Hohenthal
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 1368–1377
Affordances of social media have not yet been fully exploited in the promotion of authentic e-learning in higher education. In this paper, we examine the planning and implementation of social media in five e-Learning of the Future project courses...
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Supporting Beginning Teachers: A Web-based Collegial Enterprise
Anthony Herrington; Jan Herrington; Arshad Omari; Ron Oliver
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 736–742
This paper describes the design, development and evaluation of a website designed to ameliorate many of the problems encountered by beginning teachers. The site allows new teachers, and preservice teachers on school practice, to communicate with...
Topics: Research Methods, Teachers
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University Strategies in the Online Learning Marketplace
Jan Herrington; Ann Deden
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 1403–1406
Universities worldwide are faced with enormous challenges as they decide on how the rapid changes in technology and the widespread availability of the Internet will impact upon their modes of operation. This paper examines the strategic planning...
Topics: Learning Outcomes
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Providing Reflective Online Support for Preservice Teachers on Professional Practice in Schools
Jan Herrington; Ron Oliver; Tony Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 166–171
The forms of support needed by preservice teachers in the practicum setting relate mainly to access to relevant information, resources, guidance and support through communication with university instructors and competent peers. Too often these...
Topics: Students, Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Future School research: A school’s response to the digital revolution, Part 1
Jasmine, Ah Hong Tey; Wen Chee Chung; Chiew Weng Hon; Jan Herrington; Choon Cheng Ang; Keng Peng Khoo; Cheng Wai Yip; Hsiu Leng Oon; Adeline Tan; Siew Hoon Ang; Hui Peng Har; Hwee Ngee Gwee; Sandra Tan
Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 1259–1263
This symposium will demonstrate how a whole school will potentially be re-invigorated by commitment to innovative practice using information and communications technologies. This symposium will share the strategies developed at one of the pilot...