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Neither the frying pan nor the fire: In search of a balanced authentic e-learning design through an educational design research process
Hanna Ters; Jan Herrington
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Vol. 15, No. 2 (Apr 01, 2014)
Teaching in higher education in the 21st century can be a demanding and complex role and academic educators around the globe are dealing with questions related to change. This paper describes a new type of a professional development program for...
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Developing More Authentic e-Courses by Integrating Working Life Mentoring and Social Media
Irja Leppisaari; Riina Kleimola; Jan Herrington; Markus Maunula; Tuula Hohenthal
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 25, No. 2 (April 2014) pp. 209–234
Studies show that affordances of social media have not yet been fully exploited in the promotion of authentic e-learning in higher education. The e-Learning of the Future project (2009–2011) has met these challenges through working life mentoring...
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Scaffolding Students’ Reflection in an ePortfolio-based Learning Environment: Interaction with the Technology
Pauline Roberts; Dorit Maor; Jan Herrington
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1339–1348
e-Portfolios have the potential not only to act as repositories for student artefacts, but to provide a powerful tool for reflection in learning. This paper details a study within a doctoral project that investigated the use of an ePortfolio to...
Topics: Instructional Design, Evaluation, Implementation Examples & Issues
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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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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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Using Preliminary Risk Assessment in a Formative Evaluation
James L Vesper; Thomas Reeves; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) pp. 407–412
Risk assessment is used to identify potential hazards and prioritize those that may be most likely to have a significant impact. While widely used in the aviation, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries, formalized risk assessments are not often...
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Applied learning in online spaces: Traditional pedagogies informing educational design for today’s learners.
Jillian Downing; Jan Herrington
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2013 (2013) pp. 236–246
The challenge to provide engaging, effective learning environments for university students is perhaps greater now than ever before. While the ‘anytime, anywhere’ online learning environment appeals, students also need a learning environment that...
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Augmenting learning reality: iPads and software as cognitive tools
James Oldfield; Jan Herrington
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2013 (2013) pp. 652–656
In the three short years since the release of the iPad, it has become the object of substantial investment in a number of areas of education. This investment is driving the need for significant research into mobile device related teaching and...
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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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nDiVE: The Story of How Logistics and Supply Chain Management Could be Taught
Torsten Reiners; Lincoln Wood; Sue Gregory; Natasha Petter; Hanna Teras; Vanessa Chang; Christian Gutl; Jan Herrington
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2013 (2013) pp. 734–744
Abstract: One major element of supply chain management education is helping learners to grasp the complexity, the challenges, and the efficient management of the multiple dimensions in supply chains. Each decision made can ‘ripple’ through supply...
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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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Considering Communities of Learners When Creating an E-learning Course
James Vesper; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 481–490
There are many definitions of the term community of learners, but regardless of which is used, it is important for instructional designers, instructors, and facilitators to understand how these informal groups can enhance – or thwart – a learning...
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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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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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The Application of Expert Review as a Formative Evaluation Strategy within an Educational Design Research Study
James Vesper; Thomas Reeves; Jan Herrington
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 973–978
This paper describes how expert review strategies were applied to the testing and refinement phase of an educational design research project being conducted under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO). The overall goals of the...
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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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‘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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Developing Expertise in those Handling Time and Temperature Sensitive Pharmaceutical Products: Applying the Early Phases of a Design Research Methodology
James Vesper; Jan Herrington
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 591–600
The storage, transportation and distribution of time and temperature sensitive pharmaceutical products such as vaccines and human insulin, within the proper temperature conditions is an important public health concern worldwide. The people...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Future School research: A school’s response to the digital revolution, Part 2
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. 1264–1269
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...
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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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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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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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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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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
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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Exploring the pedagogical foundations of museum exhibitions and their websites
Jan Herrington; Gwyn Brickell; Barry Harper
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 4143–4151
This paper reports in research conducted in two museums in Australia on the beliefs and pedagogies that influenced the design and development of educational materials on museum websites, both for materials that explicitly accompanied and explained...
Topics: Museums
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Design Methodology for the Implementation and Evaluation of a Scenario-Based Online Learning Environment
Shirley Agostinho; Jim Meek; Jan Herrington
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 16, No. 3 (July 2005) pp. 229–242
A constant challenge facing university faculty and academics is determining how innovative and authentic elements, based on constructivist philosophy, can be manifested effectively in online learning settings. In this article, we describe an...
Topics: web-based learning, Educational Technology, Evaluation, Constructivism, online teaching
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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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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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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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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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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 Technology Supported Visitation Program to the Sydney Olympic Park: Learner Challenges and Teacher Support
Gwyn Brickell; Lori Lockyer; Jan Herrington; Gordon Brown; Barry Harper
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4683–4689
This paper outlines the development and initial implementation of a technology-supported visitation program for the site of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Australia – the Sydney Olympic Park. The site is embedded with rich content and offers a...
Topics: Learning Objects, Games
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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