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Technology and the Homebound High School Student: Creating quality learning environments
Jon Scott; Sherrie Pardieck
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 716–723
When students at the secondary school level miss school for any length of time due to illness or other temporary physical disability, they often have much work to complete upon their return. It can be very difficult for the students to complete this ...
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The Integration of Technology into Learning and Teaching in the Liberal Arts
Helen Scott; Jon Chenette; Jim Swartz
Liberal Education Vol. 88, No. 2 (2002) pp. 30–35
Asserting that students' need to understand and communicate in new electronic media parallels the necessity to know how to write, describes how Grinnell College implemented a long-range project to enable students to accomplish this new literacy. The ...
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A Mathematics Educators' Guide to Internet Gophers
Jon W. Scott; Elizabeth J. Teles
AMATYC Review Vol. 17, No. 1 (1995) pp. 48–58
Navigates through a gopher site and then describes some common ways to use different mathematical gophers to obtain desired information. These skills include finding, reading, and downloading text-based files, searching a database, and downloading...
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Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education Goals: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Scott Slough; Gregory Chamblee; Jon Aull
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2541–2546
Reform documents in mathematics, science, and technology increasingly call for meaningful integration of technology in K-12 classrooms. Simultaneously, schools are being held more and more accountable for increased content at lower grades by both...
Topics: Science, Schools, Middle School Education, Integration, Mathematics
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Development of an E-Learning Framework for Web-based Project-Based Learning in Science
Scott Slough; Jon Aoki; Brad Hoge; Larry Spears
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 957–962
HUNSTEM (Houston Urban Network for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) is a technology-based project that is rooted in a solid theoretical framework. Visualization tools, constructivism, informal science education, and project-based...
Topics: Educational Technology, Mathematics, Networking Technologies, Information Sciences, Engineering
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To Cheat or Not to Cheat? A Trial of the JISC Plagiarism Detection Service with Biological Sciences Students
Joanne L. Badge; Alan J. Cann; Jon Scott
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education Vol. 32, No. 4 (August 2007) pp. 433–439
In the UK, there is great concern about the perceived increase in plagiarized work being submitted by students in higher educations. Although there is much debate, the reasons for the perceived change are not completely clear. Here we present the...
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The Impact of simSchool on Teachers' Sense of Efficacy
Lucy Bush; Jeffrey Hall; Wynnetta Scott-Simmons; Jon Saulson
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 1755–1760
This proceeding describes a study of the online application entitled simSchool (Gibson n.d.), a classroom simulator that can be used to train pre-service teachers. Participants in the study were trained on the use of simSchool, completed numerous...
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Seeing Eye-to-Eye? Staff and Student Views on Feedback
Ruth Bevan; Joanne Badge; Alan Cann; Chris Willmott; Jon Scott
Bioscience Education Vol. 12 (December 2008)
Feedback on academic performance is of critical importance to students' learning, and in their perception of the quality of instruction they receive. Here we report the outcomes of a study comparing the views and expectations of first year...
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Synchronous Symmetrical Support: A Naturalistic Study of Live Online Peer-to-Peer Learning via Software Videoconferencing
Peter Scott; Linda Castaneda; Kevin Quick; Jon Linney
Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 17, No. 2 (June 2009) pp. 119–134
This paper reports on a naturalistic study of peer-to-peer learning, in a live, online video meeting context. Over a six-month period a group of international students of animation attended 99 live, online "study group" events amounting to around...
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e-Learning versus e-Teaching: Seeing the Pedagogic Wood for the Technological Trees
Joanne L. Badge; Alan J. Cann; Jon Scott
Bioscience Education Vol. 5 (May 2005)
Most Virtual Learning Environments are designed to be simple to use by staff and students alike. We report a case study where this feature has led academic staff to reject formal centralised training and teach themselves how to use the system. What...
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Assessing the Accessibility of Online Learning
Joanne L. Badge; Emma Dawson; Alan J. Cann; Jon Scott
Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 45, No. 2 (May 2008) pp. 103–113
A wide range of tools is now available to enable teaching practitioners to create web-based educational materials from PowerPoint presentations, adding a variety of different digital media, such as audio and animation. The pilot study described in...
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Building a Dynamic Resource Gateway on the Web: The HUNSTEM Learning Community
Bradley Hoge; Scott Slough; Larry Spears; Jon Aoki
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4706–4713
HUNSTEM (Houston Urban Network for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) is a technology-based project that is rooted in a solid theoretical framework. Visualization tools, constructivism, informal science education, and project-based...
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Creating a “Classroom of the Future” for P-12 Pre-Service Educators
Lucy Bush; Sherah Carr; Jeffrey Hall; Jon Saulson; Wynnetta Scott-Simmons
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 920–924
An ad-hoc committee at the Tift College of Education at Mercer University was recently tasked with designing a Classroom of the Future (COTF) for use on the Atlanta, Georgia, USA campus. This particular COTF will be utilized as a living laboratory...
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Learning about Learning Outcomes: The Student Perspective
Sara Brooks; Kerry Dobbins; Jon J. A. Scott; Mark Rawlinson; Robert I. Norman
Teaching in Higher Education Vol. 19, No. 6 (2014) pp. 721–733
Despite an extensive literature on how to frame learning outcomes, to date, limited attention has been given to understanding whether and how students actually use them. This study employed a questionnaire survey and focus groups with students in...