Online literacy and the trouble with information

Monica Elizabeth Bulger

(2009) pp. 1–168

In university settings, students are increasingly required to conduct online research to complete course-related assignments, yet often receive little instruction in the skills necessary to proficiently locate, evaluate, and use the information they ...

An Activity Monitoring System to Support Classroom Research

Hangjin Zhang; Kevin Almeroth; Monica Bulger

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1444–1449

More effort has focused on integrating instructional technologies into classrooms than has focused on assessing the impact of these technologies on teaching and learning performance. To evaluate whether computer technology is beneficial to the...

Topics: Classrooms, Computers

Knowledge and Processes That Predict Proficiency in Digital Literacy

Monica E. Bulger; Richard E. Mayer; Miriam J. Metzger

Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 27, No. 9 (October 2014) pp. 1567–1583

Proficiency in digital literacy refers to the ability to read and write using online sources, and includes the ability to select sources relevant to the task, synthesize information into a coherent message, and communicate the message with an...

Topics: Computers, Literacy

Discipline Matters: Technology Use in the Humanities

Ellen Collins; Monica E. Bulger; Eric T. Meyer

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice Vol. 11, No. 1 (2012) pp. 76–92

In recent years, many studies have highlighted the changing nature of scholarly research, reflecting the new digital tools and techniques that have been developed. But researcher uptake of these tools is strongly influenced by existing information...

Engaged by Design: Using Simulations to Promote Active Learning

Monica Bulger; Richard E. Mayer; Kevin C. Almeroth

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1770–1777

We test our hypothesis that student in-class Internet actions reflect their attention levels. We predict that an engaging learning environment will result in students performing a higher number of on-task Internet activities. To test our hypothesis, ...

Topics: Internet, Students, Classrooms, Behavior

Moodog: Tracking students' Online Learning Activities

Hangjin Zhang; Kevin Almeroth; Allan Knight; Monica Bulger; Richard Mayer

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 4415–4422

Many universities are currently using a Course Management System (CMS) to organize course materials and conduct online learning activities. However, most commercial or open source CMS software does not include comprehensive access tracking and log...

Topics: Instructional Materials, Learning Management Systems, Students

Measuring Learner Engagement in Computer-Equipped College Classrooms

Monica E. Bulger; Richard E. Mayer; Kevin C. Almeroth; Sheridan D. Blau

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 17, No. 2 (April 2008) pp. 129–143

** Invited as a Paper From ED-MEDIA 2006 ** Although engagement and learning appear linked, quantitatively measuring this relationship is challenging. New technologies offer a window into studying the interactions among classroom activity,...

Topics: Computer Sciences, Virtual Environments, Research Methods, eLearning, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Computers, Interaction